markcoopers Posted September 17, 2004 Posted September 17, 2004 yeah it is common on older cars, but it is not right. The addage they all do that is not the case Andy is right, or another possibility is poor earths, either way a few hours in the garage and a few quid spent ant it will be A1 again......welcome to westfield motoring. Quote
jimthedrummer Posted September 17, 2004 Posted September 17, 2004 thanks andy - but was led to believe it was more complicated than that and a common fault with early westfields? ps will check my spelling in future - too much friday night stella!! Quote
adhawkins Posted September 17, 2004 Posted September 17, 2004 Don't take my word for it, I'm not all that knowledgeable. However, Mark above seems to agree with me. Either way, I'd get it looked in to, and don't just accept it as 'one of those things'. Andy Quote
jimthedrummer Posted September 17, 2004 Posted September 17, 2004 another quick question - on this car the gearstick was quite `forward` apparently there`s a mod to bring the gearstick closer to the body - is this easy ?? Quote
markcoopers Posted September 17, 2004 Posted September 17, 2004 It was called "Westfield Shift extension" and guess what it did? However I have no idea if they still sell them. The kit basically moved the linkage and pivot back towards the driver, I think it was only really needed on the 4 speed boxes, and did involve a few spanners and cutting a new hole in the transmission tunnel. The other solutions, often seen, is a long but angled shift stick, so that it's closer, or a swap to a Type-9 5 speed. Personally speaking, and it is only my opinion having never seen that car in question, there are lots of cars out there for your £5-6K budget, so be patient and find the one that suits you, or haggle hard. Good luck. Quote
felters Posted September 17, 2004 Posted September 17, 2004 The gear shift extension is worth doing. Mine is an '89 car and it all works as it should with or without the lights on. Could be a duff battery or a number of other things. If the car is otherwise sound and you like it then make it a bargaining point... if it's a xflow then it won't be tricky to fix. Quote
Blatman Posted September 18, 2004 Posted September 18, 2004 *Look out*.... You *CANNOT* fit a Westfield gear extension to a narrow bodied car without having to chop out and move a small chassis rail that runs laterally at the top front of the transmission tunnel, just to the rear of where the current gear lever is. Quote
Blatman Posted September 18, 2004 Posted September 18, 2004 all the guages decreased in readings whenever anything like lights or wipers were switched on! Apparently this is common - anyone come accros this?? Andy's answer is wrong. It's a voltage regulation/earthing issue. Older clocks don't have built in voltage regulators, so as load in the loom is increased when you switch on lights, the gauges move. I ignore it... If you can't ignore it, then I believe you can buy voltage stabilisers to fit on to the clocks you have... Quote
adhawkins Posted September 19, 2004 Posted September 19, 2004 Andy's answer is wrong. It's happened before Luned will be pleased, I think that's getting close to 5 times this year... Andy Quote
RobC Posted September 19, 2004 Author Posted September 19, 2004 Hi again! Visited the factory on Saturday as mentioned earlier! WOW! better than I thought it would be, driving the car that is... If a little wet. Visitied the caterham showroom aswell seeing as how we were up that way, one word expensive! but nice. Anyhow budget is higher at 8K and I have decided to build rather than 2nd hand. Much to the shock/disgust of my wife. But ebay is looking up. :-) Looking at either the zetec 1.8 or 2l will have to see how things progress on that one. But what do you guys think... I am busy for the next couple of weekends so no time to run around scrap yards looking at shiny engines and other stuff plenty of time for that though, need to safe the further 6.5k that I need to build it... This is going to be a long build I can see it now... Thanks for all the help and advise of the last week. Really helped If you have any more advise keep it coming. Quote
Blatman Posted September 20, 2004 Posted September 20, 2004 Looking at either the zetec 1.8 or 2l will have to see how things progress on that one. But what do you guys think... 2.0l every time... Quote
Mrs Westy Posted September 20, 2004 Posted September 20, 2004 Luned will be pleased, I think that's getting close to 5 times this year... You really should be careful making statements like that. People might quote them out of context and everyone will wonder what on earth has happened only 4 times this year, and nearly once more Quote
adhawkins Posted September 20, 2004 Posted September 20, 2004 Luned will be pleased, I think that's getting close to 5 times this year... You really should be careful making statements like that. People might quote them out of context and everyone will wonder what on earth has happened only 4 times this year, and nearly once more Na...in the context you're insinutating, everyone knows I get nowhere near 5 in a year. Andy Quote
welsh wizard Posted September 20, 2004 Posted September 20, 2004 Na...in the context you're insinutating, everyone knows I get nowhere near 5 in a year. You talking about the amount of times you shave? Luned Quote
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