The Lotus Grand Tourers

Our horn stopped working. Turned out that the cigar lighter had shorted (Same fuse). Disconnected it and problem solved.

In our pre-SE, I could remove both switches by just dropping the under dash panels. I then dismantled the switches by drilling out the rivets and cleaned them up. Reassembled with small screws and all was then fine. Having said that-remove any redundant alarm. I didn't even know our car had one unti...

Marina and Allegro...

RRIM is a version of GRP-not like the later rubber. It isn't really possible to repair it, unlike conventional GRP. Used in 1985 MY only as far as I'm aware.
Please see
:http://compositeslab.com/composites-man ... ding-rrim/

It won't be RRIM- as far as I'm aware they were 85 model year only. I fitted a later SE bumper to replace our RRIM one and it was flexible plastic.

Pete Boole wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 23, 2020 15:07

Good result John! Well done.

Pete

Thanks Pete-easier than I thought. Quite why it had ATF in though.......

Reporting back as requested. All drain and filler plugs came out without issue. Gearbox was full of red ATF ! (I think thats what it was anyway.) Diff oil WELL past its best. Drained both thoroughly and even then only got a combined 2.2 litres of old fluid-more than a litre has gone missing somewher...

Guys
I see lots of Toyota clutch slave cylinders for sale that look identical to our Excel one. Does anyone have a Toyota part number I could use for cross reference?
Cheers

Thanks for the advice guys. I think as a first step I'm going to change gearbox and diff oils (Uncertain age)-recommendation for both is Castrol Syntrax 75w 90 full synth- sound OK?

Thanks guys

Two questions:

What oil do you suggest, and
how easy is it to change?

Cheers

No idea Pete-it's on the list to be done soon.

Guys Unusual gear selection problem yesterday. Background is that master cylinder failed in France last year-replaced with new, all fine since. Went for a long drive yesterday, car was brilliant. On the way home we got snarled up in traffic for 30 mins in real heat. The car didn't overheat however. ...

Hawaiis0 wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 18, 2020 16:46

The latches at the beam end, are of triumph ilk IIRC.

Modified Triumph Dolomite rear door latches.

DavidOliver wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 14, 2020 11:14

Has anyone installed on an Excel a single Winking headlight, strictly illegal I suppose, but what other car can do it?
Could even be remote operated.

Dave the cog.

Ours does that occasionally as standard!

Thanks guys
Turned out to be much easier than I thought. The switch does just clip in but some idiot had glued it so I had to remove the panel. Our car doesn't have the fibreoptic system at all.

Cheers