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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Jul 25, 2023 8:30 pm Old Jags are similar. I always wondered if there was a clever way to change the discs until someone told me (think it was on here) "nope, just gotta take it all apart!".

There is a clever way....it involves an angle grinder and some self tapping screws.

ChrisW wrote: Wed Jul 26, 2023 6:22 pm

dern wrote: Wed Jul 26, 2023 2:47 pm This is the way the chassis and engine look without the bodywork...


2cv chassis.jpeg

I swear that looks just lilke an 80s Tamiya RC car chassis!

I think it's more that the Tamiya chassis looks like a 2cv one....

David wrote: Wed Jul 26, 2023 7:58 pm

ChrisW wrote: Wed Jul 26, 2023 6:22 pm

dern wrote: Wed Jul 26, 2023 2:47 pm This is the way the chassis and engine look without the bodywork...


2cv chassis.jpeg

I swear that looks just lilke an 80s Tamiya RC car chassis!

I think it's more that the Tamiya chassis looks like a 2cv one....

That's fair!

Skateboard architecture innit, beat Tesla by a decade or six.

Some basic work today…

The windscreen wipers were making a hell of a noise so greased those and they seem quieter.

I was missing a manifold bolt which caused the exhaust to blow when hot so ordered some copper plated ones, cleaned the thread up and bolted it up. There seems to have fixed the problem but I think I’ll order some new studs and change them all over as there is a mix of bolts and studs and none of it looks good.

The choke kept coming on so I added some slack and I’ll see if that works. If it doesn’t I’ll try and add some more friction at the knob end (huh huh) and if that doesn’t work I’ll just heavier cable.

I added some adapter plates that allow the seats to move back further. I didn’t need them to go back any further but as I was on the rear most notch there was a lot of seat runner hanging out the back of the rails and seats moved while braking etc. this was always a problem with my old car that I just ignored after a while but it seems that a solution is not available and so I fitted it and the seat feels way more stable now.

dern wrote: Wed Jul 26, 2023 3:04 pm Why not make it mid engined?

The opposite of the 'bicephale' ?

https://www.lanemotormuseum.org/collect ... lica-1952/

Ah, cool. I read about those years ago. You could drive it down a fire track and then leg it back without turning around. Another twin engined 2cv was the Sahara that was 4 wheel drive with an engine in the front as normal driving the front wheels and another in the back for the rear wheels. Very capable car.

A2cv or a renault 4 have he advantage of weight (not a lot) over the driven wheels. low all up weight and ground clearance/suspension travel. They will generally go places 4x4's without lockable diffs can't.

As an aside, I got my first speeding ticket in my dad's Renault 4 van. The plastic covering the speedo had gone concave due to heat over the years I guess and stuck at 30mph and unstuck somewhere north of 40mph. So between those speeds you didn't know how fast you were going until a policeman pulled you over and gave you a ticket. Marvellous.

Always fancied a Mehari myself, but they are STOOOOOOPID money for a car you can drive 7 months a year.
As for Cheb and his diesel dream, get the motor/box out of a sans permis and slot that in. And buy some earplugs!

Demannu wrote: Mon Jul 31, 2023 12:10 pm Always fancied a Mehari myself, but they are STOOOOOOPID money for a car you can drive 7 months a year.

One of the old boys in our Languedoc village has one, in the original light sand colour. At least in the S of F it's not too far off a year round car.

Ah, the Mehari. If I could get one of those I'd go full on scene and get a Kübelwagen. And if I could get a Kübelwagen, I'd get a Schwimmwagen.

Years ago I test drove an Aixam Megavan, they do a tiny flatbed/pick up/tipper. It was like a listening to a pair of synchronised concrete mixers.

Slow and with unimpressive fuel economy, 2 seats, 50ish mph tops and still only did about 70mpg on diesel.

New fronts to match the rears today. Had some very worn mcc 125 tyres on the front and some 135 Toyos on the back so fitting new Toyos to the front so they ask at least match. Never used the Toyos before but the rears were virtually new. Main aim is to reduce the understeer in the rain but we’ll see how we go.

Drive the five miles home and even though they’re still new the understeer is much reduced and the ability to shift water is obviously way better… which is just as well at the moment.

Looks very tidy that.

I love this little car. It’s relatively straight forward to see what’s wrong with it at any given point and fix. The Vivaro told me to ‘check the anti pollution system’ last week and gave me no error codes so I just gave it to the garage. No clues, just went in to limp mode. Brilliant.

The 2cv reminds me a lot of the drz. Very simple, easy to fix. Ironically the drz makes more power though

I like this overland version with a bmw engine fitted that was at the local car show today…

Saw on Youtube there's a lecky kit for 2CVs. IIIRC it's not got much range.
https://2cev.co.uk/

Fairly theres a version for the tin sheeting sided ones as well.

demographic wrote: Sun Aug 06, 2023 3:01 pm Saw on Youtube there's a lecky kit for 2CVs. IIIRC it's not got much range.
https://2cev.co.uk/

Fairly theres a version for the tin sheeting sided ones as well.

I’ve seen that, it looks very well done. Way too expensive though and not really what I’m looking for, I think it would take away a lot of the character of the car.