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What have you done to your Retro Renault today?

Ah yeah all the diesel wants is a bit of a clean, she's not been washed in a few months, once I get that fuel pump she'll be running veg oil and getting a lot more action on the road, the plan was to drive her for summer but an unexpectedly long NCT on my current daily means I'll keep driving her until that's up
 
Broke a torsion bar going over a speed-hump the other day. Fortunately I had a spare, just the small task of removing the broken one...

I cut the bar about 100mm from the block-end, and removed the broken section. A few hammer-blows to the stub left in the block, and it came out easily with mole grips. So far so good, just the arm-end to do...

A day of heat/hammer/penetrating fluid, and no result. As I was getting ready to drill it out, I tried using the drill on 'hammer only', driving an old SDS chisel shank. Result!! Ten minutes later, it was out, another ten and the new bar was in. Proper job!
 
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Indeed, silicone (specifically the high-temp variety) has served me well, just be very careful to ensure that none of it gets into the cat!

For this to work, the mating surfaces must be smooth and totally flat (eg. where Renault uses RTV sealant instead of a gasket).

I used it all last summer without further repairs. Got so used to it that I forgot all about the leak until the MOT in April. It failed due to the leak and high lambda on the emissions (amongst other things). The chap said the two were probably connected, so I applied some silicone, as suggested, and it passed the retest with flying colours.

I've never understood how a leak can upset the emissions, but seeing is believing I guess.
 
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It's the emissions testing that the leak messes-up, not so much the emissions themselves. The exhaust gas travels down the pipe in pulses, so air will be periodically sucked into a leak, resulting in a high lambda reading.
 
It's the emissions testing that the leak messes-up, not so much the emissions themselves. The exhaust gas travels down the pipe in pulses, so air will be periodically sucked into a leak, resulting in a high lambda reading.

yep.

I'm a tester and we aren't supposed to mess with exhausts but sometimes on big ones or twin exits I block off a pipe so the lambda will drop to pass.
 
not done much for a couple of years but finally got its respray sorted.some of you might have seen this on facebook but thought i'd post it on here as well.

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Got the old girl back on the road after a year. She has got a new timing belt, water pump, alternator belt, rocker gasket, oil & filter, battery and HT leads.

She started first time and idled perfectly after a year of sitting. I'm pretty impressed.
 
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