Getting the Reliant Ready for LMMons - What's Broken Now Spotlight
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Hello everyone,
Today we start a new series, What's Broken Now Spotlight, having a look at a project from start to finish, rather than our normal flitting between projects.
We start off with Lawrie's Reliant, in this episode we have a look at what was wrong with the car when it arrived.
A video featuring:
Presenter - Lawrie excited to have a look at his new car,
The help - Trev, roped into helping with another lost cause.
A video edited by Lawrie.
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The first 6 minutes where Mr. Bean level comedy :D
only to bad that Lawrie not painting in baby blue style 🤣
100% needed a gag track!
Glad you enjoyed it
Actually I preferred the last few minutes, pure comedy gold!
It does kinda need a fresh coat of paint with blue emulsion, even though it's not a Fox.
Loved how you kept on closing that door even though it would probably stick again.
It wasn't the door itself sticking, it was the latch failing to release, I guess force of habit?
What hard work to unload a 3 wheeled car. Now we know why Trevor disappeared because he knew that these videos on the Reliant were due to be broadcast. Come back Trevor!!! I do hope that he is ok???
It was a bit of a challenge.
I suspect we'll never know what happened to Trev
We use a Yuasa battery on ours. U1R Specialist & Garden Battery. What I love about this car is the fact that as you go down the road everyone smiles at you haha.
Excatly! It's a little smile machine!
This was absolutely hilarious. Loving this new series. Keep up the good work.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
3:00
Am i evil for wanting Lawrie to have forgotten the middle plank?
Take a running leap at it?
that was quite a skillful accomplishment to have the unloading go that smoothly .
Hello @@lmm
Those Rialtos with the little boot are quite rare now. Should have a "yellow top" engine fitted designated with the "E" stamp after the engine number inscribed on the top of the block, below cylinder head on the drivers side. You need to take off that engine cover in the car to see this and a torch would help. These go really well when properly sorted. Looks like a decent, fun project. I'd flush the block out of coolant and start afresh. These alloy blocks are known to fur up around cylinder #4 if people just used tap water. Make sure to use deionised water with blue antifreeze. There's a drain plug on the passenger side near the back of the block. But don't force it... work it gently. It can strip the thread easily, but if it does it's easy to tap a larger thread for a new bolt to act as drain plug. But access is an issue as you will find doing anything on one of these. :p
Yep it's a yellow top, shifts well enough too!
A red one was the first Reliant I ever saw, I don't think there's more than a handfull of them in Austria. I saw that in an Aldi car park of all places. As it sped out of the car park, the front wheel lifted clean off the ground! I saw one for sale local-ish last year but it was quite a lot more expensive than Lawrie's (I think somewhere in the 3k range).
Ooh I really enjoyed this episode. You two are living the dream I reckon
It's better now it's running!
I love how dash board just slowly breaks as Trev takes it apart
It was already broken, but kind of tragic
Rialto's, and pretty much every Reliant 3 wheeler model made are becoming very rare now. One of my uncle's owns a Rialto estate that has been sitting in his back garden since about the mid 1990s covered in mould. What's rare about this, and sad really given it's been abandoned since he gave up driving it due to a clutch problem, is that he is the original owner of the car since about 1982. Hopefully one day I'll be able to take a look at it and see how many miles it's done since he stopped driving it. Such ashame it was left like that, but so many owners just neglect them.
My clutch packed up on mine!
4:54 that cat knows what's coming
Very interesting. This brings back memories. My late parents used to drive cars like this
They're super fun
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Sorry Lawre, couldn't help myself when at 4:58 on the vid I noticed a cat disapear at a rapid pace screen right! Just after you said "Don't understand that at all" Then rolled the Reliant with somewhat Epic success down the ramp. I think it didn't want to risk one of it's nine lives but then cat's have no understanding of mechanical things. Seriously mate I'm loving the new "What's Broken Now Spotlight" edition to the vlog. 👌🏿
It was so close to not being a success!
@@lmm. But the God's of mechanical tinkering decreed otherwise Lawrie my friend. Personaly I think you and the team are being watched over by the Jedi of Back Street Mechanicing , if only for the laugh. I'm sure considering your love of steam Lord Dibnah would approve. 😉😉
@@stevewareing8525 I like to think that he would!
She deserves a full restoration ❤
It's getting there!
So funny, especially getting it off the ramp! As others have said it felt like a Mr Bean episode!
Glad you enjoyed it
My door developed the same Issue on my Rialto, I had to use my key whenever I wanted to open the door. It's pretty easy fix.
Took me ages to figure it out, but so simple!
1 minute online? Instant like!
Thank you very much!
Slaps roof of Rialto:
This baby can fit so many faults into it.
It was easier to list broken things than working functions!
@@lmm well, naturally, it's very difficult to list a single item ;)
Yewsss new content! Thanks lawrie!
You're most welcome
Cat thought better of keeping too close! 🐈⬛🏃♀️
Wise cat
1:35 Nice work with the scaffolding boards, I was wondering…
Do your neighbours know how many subs you have?
17:50 Ah - the Andrew Camarata school of dash repair, without the chainsaw.
I hope Trev is enjoying his well earned break - very wise to disconnect his phone.
Worked well enough! 😂
I don't think so, I don't really mention it to people unless they already know 😂
Once I've told You, that I like trains more than this collection of scrap metal. Yes, I do. Meanwhile, it doesn't mean, that some pieces of your collection are awsome. Firetruck is very cool. That gardening helper is very nice. When I was kid, I so one very similiar in my neighbourhood, where was huge vegetable company. This three-wheeled tiny shopping bag is also very nice.
Three wheeled shopping bag! 😂 😂 😂
@@lmm watch this. We've had three-wheeled shopping bag too. It was clasified as compensation vehicle for disabled persons. engine 350ccm from Jawa motocycle. No revers. You had to shut down engine, swich ignition timing and start again. That made engine turning backwards. And then You had 3 speeds back and no forward. Made from steel tubes and syntetic leather. Back wheel powered, between front wheels was "luggage place" big enough just for crate with 20 beers. :)
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4:58 good sign
Gotta love that legendary British reliability.
It did at least run!
@@lmm Is it leaking oil?
I’m sniggering so much watching this that my fellow commuters in the train to Lyon are giving me funny looks 🤪
Pleased to be of service 😂
@@lmm
This reminded me so much of my first experiences with Rita the R4 with no brakes.
I’m still getting funny looks.
Fortunately we’re just arriving in Lyon so I’ll be able escape before someone calls the railway police.
@@robinforrest7680 ah perfect. Enjoy the rest of the train trip - just blame it on the English
You guys are crazy. I love you.
Well thank you!
The Internet has ruined me, the entire time you were trying to turn the Engine over I was just hearing "AMONGUS AMONGUS AMONGUS AMONGUS AMONGUS AMONGUS"
somebody save me from this torment.
When when?
Oh dear 😂
A Reliant Rilato? I've heard of a Reliant Rialto but not this. Is that a new model?
Pardon?
@@lmm Yep! At 0:27, you definitely said Rilato! But thankfully NOT Robin Reliant! 🙂
It's what happens when you drive your Rialto to Italy and eat Gelato inside.
That was better than an episode of Mr Bean, unloading it from the trailer...
It was... An experience
you seem to mispronounce the name of your Reliant. Its Rialto ( Reealtoe_) Some one nicked your wiper motor assembly ? at least these cars used the Standard Lucas Wiring Colour codes.. Lets hope you dont have to do the king pin.. Just grease it once a month though..
Apparently so. It was early days
The wiper wasn't installed when I got it.
The wiring is pretty simple!
It could be a nice little car with some TLC.
It's getting there!
Hi folks
Evening
So you fitted a Ford battery to it ;)
I fitted whatever I could get at the time
Fun fact, classic mini's have their battery's in the boot
Oh really?
@@lmm yep, in its own box in the spare wheel tray in the boot.
So do new Vauxhall/Opel Astras, it's underneath the boot floor. My ex had a 2018 and when we used it so jumpstart someone else's car I opened the bonnet and was like "OK, here's a massive positive terminal next to a beefy earth post but where on earth is the battery?"
Fun fact: the owner's manual doesn't bother to mention where the battery is! I had to search online to find out!
Funny, funny, funny, but the custard on the pie, was the dinky drop down tailgate. I already thought it was compromising the integrity of the shell, having two doors, but why does it need a tailgate? The space it’s accessing, is right behind the seats! Just reach back with your arm. More to come, I hope? PS Must apologise, just realised its got a back seat! The modernity of it. It’s all too much. You’ll be telling me it has a windscreen wiper next.
Could all the problems be attributed to the missing grille badge. Was this vehicle in fact having an identity crisis?
I think all its problems came from the missing badge.
I love the fold down boot. It's so cool!
Hello
Hello
Would you ever consider fitting a rev counter?
I don't think they ever had one. I don't really see the need for it in truth
@@lmm im planning on fitting one mainly becuase everyone say something else about the revs. specifications say it has a max rev range of 5500rpm, and owners say it goes up to 8000rpm. i just wanna know the revs when on the motorway.
@@mrjed6912 8000 rpm is screaming generally . If yours is just loud and annoying its probably the 5500 range. I had a modified chevy 350, we yanks call 'em strokers, 388 c.i. and bordering on 11:1 compression.
It would turn 7200 rpm, but it loosened and stretched belts, advanced the timing no matter what you tried , worked top 2 water pump bolts out, ad infinitum. My point being you would know it turned 8000 rpm just from the sheer violence involved. Oh and my stroker destroyed itself at around 18,000 miles, fun while it lasted.
Soundproofing or ant farm?
Once was soundproofing I think
That has got to be the most frustrating car.
It's not. It's just not
@@John-ci2sd Ok, I did have a Ford upright Prefect which needed a 12V battery to start and a wheel (rear off side) fell off on the way back from work one day.- that was a broken axle/half shaft.
Oh it's no where near! Engine is at least in the front.
@@lmm Yes, but with the transverse leaf spring it might as well be in the back.
@@johnbarham7718 There is a reason why they didn't do that. The front starts to lift past 70mph and it gets pushed around by the wind. Imagine trying to go around a bend in the snow with the engine being in the back.
3 wheel car ramps for 2 lol what could go wrong?
I see no problems with that 😂
@@lmm who am i to cast dispersion's lol you obviously managed and thats all that matters. you might want to think about a center panel for the ramps.
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Lawrie and a Rolls-Royce...
No, that doesn't really work...
Lawrie and a faulty, hearing aid beige plastic pig covered in spots of red lead primer, despite the fact the body is made of fibre glass and, therefore, doesn't rust...
This could be the achievement of peak LMM...
It will take something really quite special to beat this, certainly...
I thought it was pretty much as good as we get!
It's re-al-to
not relato lol
The first few minutes of video is just classic comedy. Should be called one man struggles to unload a Reliant.
It shouldn't have been that challenging!
Sod that I wouldn't be letting you both touch me reliant
Cheers, I don't need another one to look after!
This is more like it......go back to basics!
Glad you enjoyed it!
...and of course _Lawrie_ buys the biggest piece of shit for LMMons, AND blows the budget doing so!
But it's so cool!
O lawrie and his flying circus very schey and very not reliable equipment 😉
It certainly was!