A TCL First? '67 Rolls Royce project thread...

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luckily all the repairs proved effective. its much more sealed up inside moving down the road - no more weird drafts!

didnt have any need for hot air the few times its been driven since, but the hot air definitely comes out like its supposed to and the blower motors are whisper quiet. road test success

i was hoping to have some time this last weekend to take some interior shots with it going down the road, but didnt have a chance. on the list for the summer though

8-4-2015

i picked up some flash photo toys a few weeks ago. seemed worthwhile to give them a whirl on the RR... and this thread hasnt been updated with anything super interesting in a while

i didnt get the best shots of the evening, but ill see if i can get the much better ones posted in here as he gets them off his camera.












lots more practice needed with the flash - we also struggled to find a good backdrop - but overall fairly happy with the first time out.

5-4-2016

just realized its been over 6 months since this was updated! hopefully no one bought any sailboats in the meantime?


after i moved to my new place we had a rug that was destined for goodwill, so i re-purposed it into a large RR entry mat in the garage



and in the meantime it was also in the co-owners (who doesnt post here much) wedding!



on the mechanical/maintenance front its likely going to need an alternator refresh, as its having a kind of hard time keeping up with the headlights and blower motor going at night.
and id like to get a new set of tires on it, and refresh the wheels while theyre apart. the tires on it have always been somewhat iffy, but now that its getting more regular use theyre making me more and more nervous.
luckily summit sells the exact same white wall mastercraft ones for a very reasonable price.

the hot side hvac works great now that all the little actuators were rebuilt, but an ac system rebuild of some sort is in the cards eventually (i need to finish my new shop first).

5-9-2016

in case anyone was dying to know how the spare tire came out of a shadow:






that spare looked ooooold. and it was a dunlop with british sizing and "tubeless" written on it. perhaps original? at least very likely the original spec/model. it was also a hair smaller than the rest of the tires.



and id forgotten just how much of a pain it is to get one of these onto jackstands, so many delicate things underneath and no flat sturdy places to put a jack.

but, quite some time later, its in the air:

5-16-2016

this was in my inbox this morning...

1983 Rolls Royce Station Wagon TowRig

Don’t you want to be that guy who tows stuff with a 1980s Rolls-Royce station wagon? Of course you do.

incredible!

a little more oddly proportioned than the shadow wagon, but probably big enough to live in inside

and air conditioned ... sadly the shop will be neither of those things.

kind of a long story with that space, added some hiccups to buying the house, but it used to be a second living room.

6-3-2016

everything (mostly) went better than expected...
the wheels came out awesome. (most of) the tires look awesome.

also come to find out that the wheels previously hadnt been balanced.







3 out of 4 wheels on.

after taking the mold release off the whitewall on the 4th wheel, i noticed it looked like someone had chemically dissolved the whitewall in what looks to be a smeared hand shape - you can kind of see it at the top of the tire leaning against the wall in the 2nd pic.

called summit, they said call mastercraft. this should be fun!

after calling around and coming full circle back to summit customer support, they're sending out a tire for exchange.
happy to not have to put the car in the air again, bit of a bummer to have to re-mount/balance, but it could be worse!

6-21-2016

summit really came through on the tire, they had a new one at my place within a couple days and had ups come by and pick up the old one a week later.
for their customer service folks


looking at the calendar and realized the Portland ABFM is coming up labor day weekend, thinking we'll take this to the show.

....i guess ill have to attend the 16volt-school-of-detailing sometime before then

6-22-2016

luckily the fine folks are RR thought of how to fix this problem already!

7-26-2016

speaking of which... its safely off the lawn for the time being.

quick cellphone pic of the new tires. the weather was awesome today.




had some stuck float bowl issues before firing it up today.
which reminded me i need to keep an eye on the flexible portion of the fuel line that comes up toward the engine, seems like it may be about due for a replacement soon.