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I have one like that I bought with a manifold from Le Palace de Ancienne in France, as a Solex 32 off an R4. It looks bloody complicated! Was going to overhaul it and replace the zenith 28 but not so sure now...

When you say warm a little warm is fine. Better to be warm than cold, but not hot enough to fry an egg on or noticeably slow the car down. The whole drum brake system has lots of extraneous play otherwise.

Rodeo looking well tasty by the way.

There is a fine art to adjusting with the manaul adjusters and it takes practice, but a useful trick is to treat them as if there is a lot of lost motion in the adjustment. I.e. when you back them off, by the time they free up you've gone too far. Practice backing off just a little so they still...

Hi Angel, if you are still enthused can you give me a price for a 77-82 speedo needle, set of ventilator ratchets, and parcel shelf bobbins? Also did the speedo needles have an indexing feature on the shaft/spindle to hold them in the correct position? The parts all look great! Cheers Pieter

You need something like this...

Noice!

Glass will be OK but wiring probably needs a relay and power via fuse from the battery to save the dash harness, ignition switch, instrument panel etc

By the way meant to say a great little van, it should be worth a bit to somebody- if I was in the UK I would be keen!

I seem to recall one of the European countries- it might have been Belgium- always used RHD F4 post vans because it made collecting mail from street post boxes way safer and easier.

I have swapped the window surrounds on my '68 car from metal to plastic. All the glass is the same with the exception that the sliding elements in the two rear doors are the merest fraction shorter, so earlier windows will stick and not slide. I had to get two panes off a GTL. I think if you...

Hi, a '79 m0del won't have self-cancelling indicators. They came with the new shape dashboard in the early eighties. There is a light in the instrument panel, you may have a bad connection or blown bulb. The same green light is for left and right indication. Old style flasher cans (the...

The gendarmes have arrived to take away the creepy mime that was terrorising Mme Truffaut the postmistress. He of course has the right to remain silent.

Are you sure you have the same type of suspension parts on each side? Suspension geometry changed slightly for the '69 model and if you have a different upper or lower wishbone or stub axle from one side to the other (ie if wrong secondhand spares used for a crash repair) it will throw it out...

Small Servo on the front circuit only Angel. If it hadn't been enough my next plan was to add another small one to the rear circuit, and if that wasn't enough to replace the front one with the larger servo. But a single small servo turned out to be plenty in my opinion, bearing in mind I have...

Yeah but that's namby-pamby F1 horsepower, not proper R4 horsepower

Hi Edwin- my thoughts- The best way would be to get someone to stitch in new rubber. An auto upholsterer ought to be able to do it. Alternately as a student I repaired the seats in the R4 I had then with soft rubber webbing wrapped around the frames from side to side under the covers to take the...

Yes, hence my comment. I put a dual circuit cylinder in my 68 model, and a PBR remote booster on the front circuit. The booster sits under the bonnet on the RHS just in front of the radiator, about where the battery goes on later cars. On a later car you would put it in front of the firewall on...

They are comfy. Is this an early car or one of the special models that had them like the Safari? Either way worth keeping.

The wire to the tank goes between the rear floor and the top of the tank. You have to drop the tank to access it. Not a terrible job but best avoided by testing as you propose. When did the gauge shoot up? During/after starting and getting some battery charge on? Sometimes it shows low with...