Good morning the pipes on my 86 GTL RHD drop straight down from the m/cyl one goes round the back of the engine on top of the chassis lip another goes down the side of the chassis under the right sill not easy to explain but had to do them when the engine was out all held in place with strange plastic clips your picture looks nothing like the original you would need the original pipes to be able to replicate the system as Renault did it hope this helps a bit. Gerald
Hello Gerald, Many thanks for this useful info, so it looks like the previous owner routed the pipes in the wrong place completely after restoring the car. So I will remove them and look for the original route over the chassis. Cheers.
Hello, Many thanks for this useful info, I will remove the pipes that the previous owner installed, and look for the original route over the chassis. All the Best. Kevin
OMG ! It looks virtually impossible to fix the brake pipe on top of the chassis with the engine in ! So I can see why the previous owner routed the pipes like he did. I have some nice metal double brake pipe clips, so I will do a neat modification and fit them on the bulkhead. Not original but it will be a good mod.
I am not sure Andy ? although the car is a real 'Bitsa' made from NOS parts ! It's a post 1983 car with the rear handbrake cables, Front discs, and the 688/D7 1108cc engine. Seats with head rests the later dashboard, and a full Sun roof, Amil alloy wheels. The numbers are all matching in the logbook, yet it says it's a 1978 847cc 4L (but then this is Cyprus !). I am converting the car to the early dashboard with parts from Edwin, although I am still interested in buying your nice early dashboard in the New year as well. If you don't mind packing it well in a thick cardboard box with bubble wrap and posting to Cyprus ? Regards Kevin
If the front-to-rear brake pipe runs along the nearside of the chassis, it was probably a LHD car - that might explain the unusual underbonnet pipe routing.
Thanks for the info Malcolm, my car is a real 'Bitsa' but solid with no rot.
Yes it does, so it was probably a LHD car as you say. I have just been having a PM conversation with Angel about changing over to the early dashboard, and its not an easy conversion, and with many parts required from the early cars. So I will forget about that dashboard for now.
Yes you are correct Angelos ! And I just found a body number stamped on the righthand side of the crossmember as well R1123 5809492 which is the same as the bulkhead plate, so it's a 1978 Renault 4TL RHD body, with a post 1983 bulkhead (later dash) and LHD chassis (brake pipe on L/H side) with a rear handbrake, disc brakes, Amil alloys, 688/D7 1108cc engine and a sunroof ! AMEN ! So all I need now is a decent RHD post 1983 dashboard. Thanks.
