Joelle is an absolute treasure, and an absolute sweetheart of a gal, bud. She was definitely the bright spot that has been making it possible for you to more than bear up through all those difficulties you’ve been going through so far!
I saw your van parked up the other day, by the train station with the same name as your home village, hope you have got it running ok now for your journey.
I avoid motorways when driving my old cars, I set the satnav to "shortest route" and aim for key places that avoid the busy roads, much more enjoyable driving experience and usually less traffic! Good luck with the next leg of your journey! Thanks for sharing.
I used to do breakdowns and your issue with your camper sound to me like the carb is freezing which is prevalent at night due to the air being damper. We all know about the wind chill factor and air rushing into a carb have a large wind chill factor so the moisture in the air freezes in the carb blocking jets of course as soon as it cuts out or you slow down the wind chill is reduced and it melts and runs fine again. This is why older carb cars had hot air intakes on the exhaust manifold. They were often controlled by flipping a lever or something like (somewhere automatic) some older vehicles you could change the position of the intake pipe from facing forward to facing backwards which helps. I don't know what the setup on your camper is but if you can find away to get hotter air into it, it may fix your problem
I agree with this - it's the right weather for it. My old peugeot suffered from it - the right fix would have been to fix the warm air inlet for the winter - but as it only happened infrequently I just used to pull over and turn the engine off - the carb would warm back up a bit and off we went.
Joelle is so cheerful even with powdered milk! Have you replaced the coil? Sounds like when hot the coil is breaking down. Maybe. All the best from Australia.
Don't you have breakdown cover with your insurance? I used to pay the RAC every year, but now I have cover through my insurance, both for the modern daily driver, and my two classic/vintage cars.
Joelle is an absolute treasure, and an absolute sweetheart of a gal, bud. She was definitely the bright spot that has been making it possible for you to more than bear up through all those difficulties you’ve been going through so far!
That is the sort of service that had me tell the AA where to stick their membership.
Oh no, this reminds me of my family’s experience with RAC. Very similar to what you went through. Hope you’re ok.
I saw your van parked up the other day, by the train station with the same name as your home village, hope you have got it running ok now for your journey.
Hello, that was probably when I was doing the exuast pipe, and yes it's running a lot better now
@@forwardtothepast2411 hope it went well, I thought maybe you were at the bakery. Safe travels.
@@allanmansfield1169 ah that one, yes I was
I avoid motorways when driving my old cars, I set the satnav to "shortest route" and aim for key places that avoid the busy roads, much more enjoyable driving experience and usually less traffic! Good luck with the next leg of your journey! Thanks for sharing.
I used to do breakdowns and your issue with your camper sound to me like the carb is freezing which is prevalent at night due to the air being damper. We all know about the wind chill factor and air rushing into a carb have a large wind chill factor so the moisture in the air freezes in the carb blocking jets of course as soon as it cuts out or you slow down the wind chill is reduced and it melts and runs fine again. This is why older carb cars had hot air intakes on the exhaust manifold. They were often controlled by flipping a lever or something like (somewhere automatic) some older vehicles you could change the position of the intake pipe from facing forward to facing backwards which helps. I don't know what the setup on your camper is but if you can find away to get hotter air into it, it may fix your problem
I agree with this - it's the right weather for it. My old peugeot suffered from it - the right fix would have been to fix the warm air inlet for the winter - but as it only happened infrequently I just used to pull over and turn the engine off - the carb would warm back up a bit and off we went.
Thanks guys, very helpful, I'll look into it, cheers
How often do you eat the Weetabix box, as you seem to know what it tastes like 😂. Glad you made it home okay 👍🏻
well, we all have an idea of what cardboard tastes like
Joelle is so cheerful even with powdered milk! Have you replaced the coil? Sounds like when hot the coil is breaking down. Maybe. All the best from Australia.
Don't you have breakdown cover with your insurance? I used to pay the RAC every year, but now I have cover through my insurance, both for the modern daily driver, and my two classic/vintage cars.
I do have breakdown, but at night the shifts are swapping from night to day, and it can take a while to get recovered