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Preping Series 2A for Summer....Help.

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Robbiellewellyn:
I have sadly just sold my baby (the 90 in my display pic) and so am now left with my Series 2A, Beatrix. Now she's my one and only, im looking to make her a little more economic and more reliable for pretty much constant use in the summer/spring, because at the moment i daren't take her for more than 20 miles. Any help on what to do or buy to make her a little more fuel efficient and reliable in general would be greatly appreciated. Cheers in advance guys.
Rob

Devon-Rover:
servicing...

walk around every week and check all is well. rock the wheels to check for loose wheel bearings.
Check engine oil, washer, brake fluid, and water everyweek.
Check the axle, swivels, Steering box, gearboxe's levels, grease Prop UJ's every month.

Give the fuel system an overhaul and makesure all the pipes are in good condition, run a bit of fuel cleaner through and that'll hopefully flsh out any rubbish and let her run well.
Check and if nessacery set the points, clean the rotor arm and contacts with a bit of emery paper. If the plugs and leads haven't been changed for a while (few years) then it might help by changing them.

A good road / AT tyre will be more efficient to run on the road than a MT pattern and correctly inflated helps too.
If there is any slack in the steering then removing that will help when driving it.
And going over most of the electrical connections with emerypaper / wirebrush will prevent the corrsion build up that casuses electrical probs.

Nice seats help too.  :)

That's a starter.

Maybe popping over to the Series 2 club forum. will help a lot as there is a huge amount of technical help availble from those who do use their series 2's daily.

Pete:
Best thing I ever did with mine was fit an overdrive, makes a hell of a difference if you use it for any trip over a couple of miles. cuts noise, and fuel consumption.
 Pete.

Robbiellewellyn:
yeah, i was considering getting an over drive and have heard lots about them. What exactly would it aid? Does it kind of give me a 5th gear? Cheers for all the help so far.
Rob

Devon-Rover:
an Overdrive gives a 26% increase in gearing.

So you can either go faster with the same engine revs.
Or keep the same speed and reduce the engine revs.

This allows a good crusing speed to be kept and also the engine will not be screaming. so makeing it a little more fuel effiecient and little less noisy.

Have you got a petrol or a diesel?

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