1967 Neptune Blue Deluxe

sparkywig · Jan 25, 2025

Sliding door card, part 57.
After breaking yet more of these damn clips, I've finally managed to get them all lined up and ready to fit. I decided that the probability of having to remove the door card is minimal, so I'm going to stick the middle section to the sliding door frame.

All fitted and glued, with a little weight to help with the grab.

Seems to have worked OK, although there is a small mark on the the door card where one of the clips has pushed back through the ply.

And refitted. Thanks to @Fortunate Son for the assistance, it's certainly easier with two people especially when the sliding door track cover is still in place.

sparkywig · Jan 25, 2025

The next job is to refit the 44's and sort out the throttle linkage.
For some reason on this engine case I can't get full throttle movement from idle, although the same linkage was fine on the old engine.

wklail · Jan 25, 2025

It looks amazing.

sparkywig · Jan 25, 2025

Thanks

milfredo · Jan 27, 2025

It looks lovely. The colourway of your bas is probably my favorite all round.

creationblue · Jan 29, 2025

That does look fresh

sparkywig · Feb 8, 2025

Right then, where were we?
Off with the 40's and manifolds retightened back to heads.

44's back on, I'm glad there's an access hatch.

After quite a lot of jiggery-pokery with the carb linkage rod length, changing the spindle levers a couple of times and refitting the alternator strap due to interference it's running again.
Not brilliantly, but that's down to tuning.

And time for a drive around the block.

Now it's driving again, I can finish the cab door cards and get some miles before Ninove.

gas1man · Feb 8, 2025

Just looking awesome and will only get better over time.
Awesome job.

J & P

sparkywig · Feb 16, 2025

No pics taken this weekend.
It's very cold and damp at the lockup first thing in the morning, and I was feeling unwell so just wanted to get a couple of things done and get back home.
Still haven't fully sussed the 3/4 cylinder valve cover breather connection and route back to the breather box. It's cost me around £60 in AN-8 fittings so far.

But I did solve/repair the rear air shock leaks for nothing, and it's starting on the button now.
Just need to sort the horn again, fit the ducts to the door cards and think about curtains.

sparkywig · Feb 18, 2025

After faffing around for ages with different fittings and pipe routes from the 3/4 rocker cover to the breather box on the fanhousing, I've taken the shortest route, straight up and through the engine rubber seal.

Part of the problem was the engine raise, as I had to trim a bit of the engine bay seal metalwork to get the AN fitting to screw onto the rocker cover outlet.
All this will be sorted when I next drop the engine and Teddy tidies the engine bay metal after my previous measuring mishaps.

sparkywig · Thursday at 10:19 AM

A few short drives and a trip to CJ Motors for the use of their ramp for a full nut and bolt check.

Need to drop the pressure in the rear shocks a touch.
Teddy's Ghia looks the nuts with the new interior fitted.

The deluxe is still not running right, so booked in for a carb tune and rolling road session.

Ben72Bay · Thursday at 11:53 AM

sparkywig said:
A few short drives and a trip to CJ Motors for the use of their ramp for a full nut and bolt check.

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Need to drop the pressure in the rear shocks a touch.
Teddy's Ghia looks the nuts with the new interior fitted.

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The deluxe is still not running right, so booked in for a carb tune and rolling road session.

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your bus is looking lovely! must be great to be driving it again in this sunnier weather?!

What's the deal with yellow lenses in the UK? is the law a bit grumpy about them or are they fair game for vehicles of this age?

sparkywig · Thursday at 2:16 PM

Yellow headlights are road legal in the UK & Europe.

Ben72Bay · Thursday at 2:17 PM

sparkywig said:
Yellow headlights are road legal in the UK & Europe.

didn't realise that - surprised not to see more classics doing it in that case!

sparkywig · Saturday at 5:45 PM

One photograph does not portray the 8 hours of pure torment that went previously.

sparkywig · Saturday at 5:46 PM

And I still have to fit the door pull, and then start the other door....

Ben72Bay · Saturday at 5:47 PM

looks brand new! lovely job!
reminds me I must get some opening quarter lights fitted in mine!

sparkywig said:
One photograph does not portray the 8 hours of pure torment that went previously.

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Ben72Bay · Saturday at 5:48 PM

sparkywig said:
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And I still have to fit the door pull, and then start the other door....

love the idea of that armrest aswell! bet that's perfect on a long drive

sparkywig · 2025-03-09T17:28:32+0000

OK, time to start the driver's door.
I've documented most of the stages here so you can see what an absolute pita it is.

Drill a couple of 7mm holes in your nice fresh painted door vents so you can fix the armrest.

Then drill some 4mm holes in your nice freshly trimmed door cards to allow you to screw the vents and support bars on.
Be aware that as these are repro parts they don't fit each other without a struggle.
Then you have to trim all the upholstery foam away from the holes so the screws don't bind up.

Oh, I forgot to mention that the repro door cards have holes that are too big for the original fixings screws and washers.

So now you need some screws that are longer and washers that prevent the screws pulling through, but with heads that don't push the door card away from the door frame.

Remember what I said about the foam binding the screws.

OK, so the vent is now attached to the door card. Next trim the vinyl joins where they're folded around the edge of the card.

Now insert the rubber bungs into the holes in the door for the clips. Apparently these stop water coming through and damaging the door cards.

Now fit the fixings clips to the door card, trimming vinyl where it interferes with the clip.

Now you can fit the door card once all the clips are lined up with the holes in the door.
(I started on the door card this morning at around 11am and then started adjusting the clips at 1pm, the door card was actually finally installed at 3.25.)

sparkywig · 2025-03-09T17:34:16+0000

Final shots (apart from the door pulls, which are another struggle).

I'm glad I wont be doing these again, who's idea was it to fit stock style trim cards?

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