Austin Princess 2200 HLE | MOT time, and a little fix gone wrong.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- I went to the MOT in the Princess! How did that go?
Does the car now work?
So many unknowns when a car is reborn.
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I don’t care what cars you sell. As long as you keep the Princess. You do not sell royalty! :-)
Found a set of bolts with cam and retainer/carrier, sent over to you on Patreon!
Thanks! Hope to find just the bolt! Its a bit much to buy the whole assembly :)
One other thing, you need to keep and sell whatever will make you happiest. Your cars, your choice, your smiles or heartaches.
All us viewers can do is hope you continue making great content!
But its so hard to decide! ;)
@@SeasideGarage Then put your pros and cons onto paper and let statistics help your decision making.
Great video. Would it scare you to know that at that age here in the UK it would be MOT exempt 😳 - not needed at all - although it is still the owner’s responsibility to ensure the car is roadworthy.
haha MOT was only mandatory in denmark from 1994... before that, the streets where pretty dangerous!
This car is the British Citroen and Lancia all in one! Its a unique masterpiece! I prefer it over any Jag or Aston Martin.
Very true! Quirky yet refined!
@@SeasideGarage Like a synthesis of Citroen and Lancia and BL :-) In my eyes a Wankel engine would also work fine in this car.
I can sympathise with the notion that those fiddly little jobs invariably turn into much more involved ones 😁 The joys of working on old cars 👍
Thank you so much for sharing this! Everyone I knew in the UK called them the "Austin Princess", including myself... Even the local Mega dealership, which sold everything from the Mini, Austin Allegros, Morris Marina & Ital, Rovers, Land Rovers, Range Rovers, Jaguars, Daimler, Rolls Royce, Bentley's and everything in between, in the days, called them the "Austin Princess".... They were listed in all the car accessory shops catalogues as Austin too... Probably also listed under BL in those same catalogues too, I'm sure, but they were all under the same company anyway... No need for a special tool when taking the cam shaft off, I've done it several times and there's nothing special, just need to take notes... OMG! I feel for you there, with the broken cylinder head bolt. I have never had that happen before, and absolutely no one I knew over the many years, had ever had that happen to them... not a known problem, from where I am in England.... Best of luck pal....
Ah good to know!
I am sure someone has overtightened this bolt in the past.... 2.8kgm is not a lot! And it had snapped once before.. :)
P.S. If the heater is not working, and the hoses are hot in and out, it could be one of the flaps that direct hot and cold air to the cabin not working correctly....
@@SeasideGarage Indeed! Not your fault at all. Someone else had broken it before...
It always someone else! ;)
@@SeasideGarage I know, I'm constantly correcting someone else's faults too, and it drives me crazy LOL ;-) especially being an ex- bang and olufsen tv engineer
The broken screw, a horror, you might have thought "Damn, I would have kept my hands off it" I hope you can get a new screw all the best Ed
Gutting to see that bolt fail. =(
The greatest Austin I had must have been a "managers special" Allegro Equipe. Manager of a dealership in Dorset had this Allegro with "options" like a full webasto vinyl roof, uprated suspension, power steering, large twin SU carbs and some uprating on the camshaft and modifications to the valvegear. Bought it off the chaps widow who was too frightened of the thing to drive it. Inside it was all black vinyl including the roof and the seats were finished in the same black and red tartan found on TR7's, had six 52mm Smiths auxiliary gauges plus the standard quite extra Equipe gauging, the only nause was the valve stem seals were blown so when putting the foot down it became like a passing cloud behind, thing could eat XR3 Fords and had longer legs than the Escort XR3i, even won a pullaway with some Porsche bloke well up until 40mph then whatever he had kicked in and vroomed off. Great motor. I was minded of this as the old lady had told me how she had scrapped another of his cars, a Princess 4R as she was told it was worthless... what a shame it ended in the crusher esp as likely it would have been in as good nick as the Allegro as handy being the manager of an Austin-Rover dealership with all them apprentice trained mechanics on his paycheck :D
The only one of the era I never owned was a Princess. I had landcrabs, Maxi's, even a surprising Ambassador which I bought as scrap for £10, put on some new tyres and did some fluids right on the sellers driveway and took it to an MoT station to cover me for the drive home and apart from some very minor advisories it flew through the test O.o Tester noted it had been "Ziebarted" which prob saved it from Leyland Rouge eating in, a day with a washer and T cut and it looked like a brand new car. Swapped it for a very nice metallic burgundy Rover SD1 VDP, the Ambassador was still motoring around Bournemouth 5 years ago so still alive :D
.....Mopeds....
I used the junk chisel method to remove a hex head bolt from a Puch E50 case, a few years ago.
That is bad luck and a big delay to progress. Previous ownership bodges can add hours or days to that one hour job. Not just previous owners of course, but those entrusted to look after and maintain the cars. It is far from rare in the professional environment. Over the past five decades, I have been buying and investigating problem but still nice cars previous owners have been frustrated by and given up trying to get right. That has revealed many professional failings and downright bodges. I have images of those my investigations have revealed. Invariably the poor car, engine or Head Gasket gets the blame when the real blame lies elsewhere.
You're taking this set back in your patient stride is admirable. There is an even nicer car in that Princess when you have completed your checking and maintenance. That will be your reward.
Bad luck Seppo but at least you have found it and can do something about it. Hope you can find a new bolt, not likely to be down at the local spare parts shop. The nostalgic connection will make parting with this one difficult.
Fingering is definitely a word lol...but it's nothing to do with cars 🤣🤣
Even today, we in the UK have to put up with bonnet release catches on the left side, especially French cars.
That sucks about the bolt, given welding can mess up a metal's hardness, it doesn't seem like a good idea to weld that one back together as it would be more brittle which of course made it break, it'd need heat treating to anneal the metal to make it more "stretchy", but that's one of them dark arts that metal forgers know, and I wouldn't know where to begin to get this sort of thing right given it's a critical component... :S
Needs the 2 litre turbo four engine from the 820 Vitesse.
Was doing this job on your bucket list?🤔
I used to have dohc kawasaki fours that had bucket under shim set up, never needed adjusting. My current toyota has same set up, after 30k miles there has been no difference in valve lash. Hopefully you won't need to do them again for a long time, they stay in adjustment a lot longer than screw and locknut.
Yea but I did not adjust anything really... I dont have the shims! But swapping one around might change it a bit.. we will see.... they are hard to source (the shims)
Kvinder og gamle biler.... tsk tsk tsk.
Wonder if the owners clubs of either the princess or the landcrabs can help acquire some bolts, if you could get a set it would be worthwhile as others you have may be weak.. heater matrix likely clogged up try reverse flow with hose pipe plus a new thermostat.
The one that broke was already welded.. and at 2.8kgm I dont think the bolts are under a lot of force, But yea, a whole new set would be nice!
Oh no!! I think it makes sense that the weld on the bolt might have cuased the problem... (said by just someone who never worked on cars)
By the way I think the Dutsun should be the ne to go (if you can't keep it) the Lancia has a lot more meories with you and bought it back so Dutsun is one to go, and the Princess also a lot of memories even if from different Princess lol
Its so hard to decide....!
Nothing is ever simple.
Nooooo! Fingers crossed you can find a new bolt :)
Was nice to meet you and the princess in Fredericia!
And nice meeting you AND the mini automatic!
Lancia is a keeper, så du kal kun vælge mellem Lada’en, Datsun’en og Austin’en og der ville jeg gå med Lada’en…. Men Lancia’en er ikke til diskussion ;-)
Tror også det ville være meget svært at gå af med lanciaen... det har jeg jo gjort en gang allerede! men købte den tilbage...
Følger dig meget her på TH-cam og instagram, og holder ofte øje med om der er nyt fra dig. Fede videoer du laver. Du viser meget godt, hvilke problematikker man kan komme ud for som mekaniker. Fortæl endelig mere, om dine tanker omkring at gøre din interesse til levebrød - som du har nævnt tidligere i en af dine videoer.
God vind!
Tak ! det glæder mig at høre! :)
3:10 I will decide for you. Keep the Datsun and the Princess. You can thank me later! 😘😘
But I really dont think I can sell the abarth.. .AGAIN!...
@@SeasideGarage I will forgive you if you keep 3 instead!
One of the reasons I loved my RHD Amazon was that Volvo thoughtfully moved the bonnet release to the driver’s side. Not even Mercedes did that on my present W123 15 years after the Amazon.
That bolt looks exactly the same as the one on the 4-cylinder e-series engine. If you can't find it anywhere, I can send you one for free. Of course, it will take some time, maybe a week or so.
It's probably identical (let's hope so) since the 2.2 L six is the E series 1500 + 50%.
As you may know the Marina in Australia was available with the E series 1750 + 50% (2.6 litre).
Thank you! But I have found a NOS bolt locally! believe it or not!
Congrats on MOT! It's good you have found the cause of the issue without more drama ;). Hopefully you manage to get the right bolt.
Can you tell me the length of the bolt and what the thread pitch is please?
I can't guarantee I'll have one, but I still have some of dads old bolts about and there may be one somewhere amongst it.
I will try to measure but with the threaded head it is a very special bolt :)
@@SeasideGarage My dad was an Austin nut and had stuff from all of his cars left over as spares. I know have what's left of it all and one thing he always said was keep any spare bolts.
My brother and I used to play with our action man figures on the floor in the back of Pop's Princess 2.
What a great childhood memory you have provoked, thankyou.
Congratulations on the MOT. Shame that your attempts to improve opened a can of worms. Hope that you can find that replacement. There, I didn't give the game away.
Great video. The way you covered the engine with plastic sheeting reminded me of a surgeon operating on a Hospital patient haha 16:50
Good luck getting over this unforseen problem.
An old mechanical urban legend used to say that a quick blip on the throttle would spin those shims and reduce the tappet noise.
I dont believe that, but who knows! :D
Yeah, probably an old wive's tale. 😅
Too bad you don't want to keep the Commander.
I will keep the Commander! I am only talking about the 4 cars currently registered! :) So the Lada, Lancia, Princess and Datsun....
The rest of the fleet is not registered or road worthy yet.... (Mehari,c25,Ford escort,Metro,Saab,BX)
Good job getting the broken bolt out and good luck finding one👍 I would have thought somewhere here in the UK would have one.
Great, so glad you not only show the good times.. this is garage days, not always goes as planned.. keep it up🇳🇴✌️
Good you got it inspected. What happened with that bolt is common when working with old cars. I think you'll need that original bolt from somewhere. Thread and length could be find universally but not with that top thread hole.
Du må godt bande på dansk... 😅😅😅
Nå ja! det opdager ingen jo! ;)
Anyone from the UK who has a French car, especially a Peugeot/Citroen, will know they'll have to stretch across to the passenger-side to release the bonnet.
Pleased to see the Wedge is now roadworthy. :-)
Hehe the French are very similar to the British in that regard.... they could not be bothered...
Just discovered your channel.
I have a Lada Riva and I love Princesses and all British Leyland stuff.
Subscribed. 😊
Welcome! :D
You didn't say to yourself "this won't take long" did you? That always causes stuff like this to happen! Looks like someone is sending you what you need though. Well done that man.
haha.... I might..... A actually had a planned trip in the princess tomorrow. And I just wanted to fix a couple of things... it was almost meant to go wrong! ;)
Great day 🎉🎉👍🥳
well.... Yea Friday was a great day! ;)
Hvad skal den koste??
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Det forstår jeg godt!!@@SeasideGarage
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Hi!
Congratulations on passing the MOT! I'm sure they cause a lot of aggravation, but The Netherlands has cars that are mechanically safe to be on the road. In my State (California) only emissions are checked, so there are cars on the road with bald tires, worn-out steering components, bad brakes etc. Only commercial vehicles and busses are routinely checked for safety.
He is in Denmark 😁
@@Martindyna Opps! My bad.
@Ralph Reilly I know. The Cops I know don't want to pull over a car even with 4 bald tires and expired registration for fear of being accused of "harassing the poor people of color."