Sorting the Niggles - Metro Gearbox Rebuild, Part 7
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- In this one, we're tackling some clutch issues, refitting the cooling system, then readying my Austin Metro for its MOT!
Part 1: • Pulling the Engine Out...
Part 2: • Austin A-Series Gearbo...
Part 3: • Rebuilding the A-Serie...
Part 4: • Performance Exhaust an...
Part 5: • Engine and Gearbox Mar...
Part 6: • Will It Start? - Metro...
Part 7: This Video
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We need a part 8. Love to see it going for a spin all tuned up.
Well done, sir. It's great to see your Metro back on the road where she belongs. All involved should be proud as it's quite the undertaking for the home mechanic.
I'm about to embark on a bit of mini project myself. My Dolomite has come off the road to have some new brake hoses, which has increased in scope to now include replacing all the brake pipes and the subframe bushes having found that one is severely deteriorated!
Well done again!
I've got to say, as someone who grew up at a time when a Metro was synonymous with a poorly looked after shitbox, I've always been a little biased against them. But boy does this one look cracking. It just goes to show what TLC will do. It's utterly lovely and I hope you can get all the things you want done soon.
Good comment. It can be difficult to understand the value of something without a certain passage of time. .
Fantabulous! I have so such admiration for your determination and patience. Well done. There seem to be a lot more young bucks jumping onto your motoring bandwagon but in every respect none have come close to you intelligent, researched and cheering presentations, whether repairs as with Melody, or your road tests which always are utterly brilliant and enjoyable, mainly due to your obvious bubbling enthusiasm. Long may you remain the No1 UA-cam car expert!
Rob
My first car was a 1.0 Metro City on a B plate, in glorious Champagne Beige. Over time, I upgraded the City spec, adding plastic bumpers, one piece headlights, digital clock, MG exhaust and carb, and even fitted the clocks out of montego to get a tach... the Montego clocks just plugged straight in and the tach worked, with no fiddling. I love the tach clocks on this era of Austin products, and I think tach clocks would look great in Melody, certainty with the MG interior!
You tube may not like your content but i personally really enjoy your work especially the fixing videos, two lovely metros you have there a credit to you
Thanks Graeme :)
Wonderful job Ed so pleased Melody is back on the road. Good for you doing all that work yourself, it will boost your confidence for further projects.
Good job Ed. It feels amazing when it all goes back together again. Even better if you don't have any bits left over. There are always some bumps in the road, doesn't matter haow many times you've done jobs like this, there will always be hiccups. Well done.
You must feel a great sense of achievement. Not many people would tackle such a job and you must have learned so much along the way. Big congrats. 🏆
Personally I like these type of videos. Car reviews aren't really my thing. But please, take us out on a drive so we can hear that new 'box. Thanks and well done on the rebuild.
I'd love to make more videos like this. If I had the money to fund car parts and a decent unit to film in, I'd do these more than the reviews! :)
In the next one, we'll take her out for a drive.
I have a lot of experience working on these engine/clutch/gearboxes over many years and if I remember correctly the Metro clutch adjustment was meant to be measured by the amount of free play you have when pulling the pedal back towards you and not by the more common way of measuring the free play before feeling resistance in the pedal. It is many years since I worked on these cars but it came back to me as soon as I saw your description. Hope that this might be of some use to you.
Ooh I did not know that. I’ll do some research!
Great series, Ed. I feel like I might avoid some pitfalls when I start mine, so thanks for that. And thanks to
Paul for sharing his knowledge. I shared and hopefully may increase your views, as I want to see more stuff like this.
You taught us all that the harder you faff, the more you're chuffed.
Well done Ed, an amazing achievement. Can't wait to see a full road test.
In the next one, following some carburettor fettling, we will be. In fact, that video’s already available on my Patreon!
I had a similar battle with my 1970s Riley Kestral after renewing the thrust bearing . Getting the correct throw was a right pain . But a least the clutch was hydraulic. Top marks for patience and perseverance. Cheers DaveH
Ed it don't matter how long it takes, you did it alright with your mate as well, but you did it and you should be proud of yourself.
nice one with the mot and getting it back on the road. now to get a nice sports tune on that a series
Good video again Ed. The gold minilite style wheels look great with that red body. Used to have a silver MG Metro years ago. Was never a cool car at the time compared to the other hot hatches. But it never bothered me and I wouldn't think been cool is a priority to you either lol. And I mean that as a term of endearment to you 😊
The passage of time is funny - I’m 23, and a *lot* of my similarly aged mates have Metros, and they’re the coolest thing in the world now. That’s what 35/40 years does to cars!
The joy when it works after all the frustration and cursing 😂
Been there, bought the tee-shirt many times 😊
Congratulations! Job well done!
Well done. Great job.
Great job Ed!!
My mum owned one, great little family car.
Our neighbour traded her very battered Triumph Hearld estate for a new Metro back in 1981.
It was delivered to her and off she went on its maiden voyage.
Only for Mrs Jackson to return with it and it's first dent.
Don't know where that came from she said . 😅 enjoyable video 👍
Well done Ed. Those of us who have worked on the Metro A series who are not mechanics have made similar errors. I never had the engine out of my 1.3L or done a clutch but you have completed this and much more and she runs with a full MOT. That should be commended. Nice one and thanks for sharing.
Thanks Anthony :)
Well done Ed. That’s sense of achievement at the end shines through in the video. Great stuff.
Thanks Andrew :)
Nicely done Ed,when you tune the engine use some atf in the dashpot it's slightly better at dampening the piston ,also with the replacement air filter fitted it will be running leaner than it used to,check the emissions data from your mot check and take the mixture screw in about half a turn to start with.
There's a little hack you could try on the clutch cable. Pull the cable from the bulkhead and pack the gap out with penny washers . I've done this on 2 of my MGZR's. Glad to see the Metro back on the road, gotta love an A Series Metro
As it’s the way they all are, I’m not concerned anymore.
Congrats on getting Melody back up and running again, and those rims really go well with that color.
Thanks David 🙂
She's looking great mate, nice work!
Great.... Another interesting video... Thank you... Roger... Pembrokeshire
I'd think the tuning issue has as much to do with E10 fuel as the air filter, but know stage 1 kits (filter and exhaust) used to come to come with an SU needle.
Probably still do and worth finding out which one.
Haynes do a manual for SU carbs and detail the various needle profiles.
I have a one here somewhere and a scanner, if it helps.
It might be a fair point - if it had ever had a millilitre of E10 in it!
Extremely well done Ed!
Mike
It may be the rose tinted glasses but I would love to get a mk1 mg metro again mine had the stupid 315mm tyres (really expensive for the time ) but I learned the Michelin TDXE tyres stuck to the road but as they were a soft compound they didn't last but unbelievable grip and handling from the metro. Great memories I've had some really powerful cars in my time but I have fantastic memories of the metro.
Funniest one being my now wife of 30yrs one of my mates and his girlfriend had been at the cinema and headed back to the car to go home we got in the car and I started it looked in the mirror and asked my mate what had he done with the sheepskin rug from the back shelf ( a stupid but popular thing at the time) he denied moving it and we started arguing I was swiftly told by now wife to get a grip and behave I then put the headlights on and immediately realised what had happened. My own car was parked directly in front of me it turns out I had opened and started someone else's mg metro the actual owner of the car at this point turned up and started to argue and threaten me as he thought I was trying to steal his car but when I pointed to mine he stopped shouting and immediately calmed down and couldn't understand how my keys worked on his car so we tried his keys on mine and they opened it and started it as well. We all had a bit of a laugh about it but next day I installed a hidden kill switch and a battery isolator to stop it being stolen
This such a feel good video Ed! And well done for taking on such a big job, can’t wait to see you back on the road in the red rocket!
Another Metro back on the road! Love to see it.
Well done Ed, you gained loads of knowledge to take onto the next project. Had the same clutch issue on the mk2 I had. Pull the clutch cable through the bulkhead as you've already done and hear the pedal click up, you then slip washers and jubilee clip behind it, about 8mm from memory and that will keep the clutch pedal fully up. We'll done
As it's the way they came from factory, I'm not going to bother doing anything else.
Well done! Experience!!
Well done sir.
Another brilliant video. I've a Mk2 myself so it's great to see a nice one! Lovely work. Well done.
Thanks Arthur :)
There is something about all the BMC cars that make them likeable.
loving this series of videos... would recommend some acoustic panels on your garage wall, will help a lot getting rid of the harsh sound while recording
An oversight from me - all I have to do is wear my lapel mic rather than depend on the camera’s onboard mic 🤦♂️😅
Excellent, working up and running, great job. just make sure you get that rack and pinion sorted or it could be dangerous in my o pinion😁
Thanks mate, and don't worry, I already have a new rack sat in the garage. Though it wasn't even identifiable with the solid suspension, when I had the suspension done, it showed up the slop in the rack. This was all recorded a few months ago, so it'll be coming out in due course :)
I have only just seen this video, I have a 1994 rover metro nightfire 1.1 and the clutch is exactly the same
Great vid
amazing looking 👍
Congratulations,👍🏻
I like Faff.... can relate to a good old Faff.... we have all had many a Faff
I almost thought that was a mk3 escort when i first saw it with the bonnet off
‘80s cars 🤝 all looking the same 😅
I wonder why they went away from the hydraulic clutch that seemed to work fine on the Allegro. Cheaper?
The Mini and Mk1 Metro used a hydraulic clutch too. They switched to cable because it was cheaper and more reliable.
Is the clutch pedal level with the brake pedal? is there a missing stop at the pedal box?
Your lucky, the n/s headlight should have failed the mot, if you drive down a 'bumpy' road, the light will flicker about.
I secured it before the test for that very reason. It’s not exactly factory or permanent, but it wasn’t wiggling by the time of the test.
Impressed with what you have done with the car but lose the tacky air filter and put the original one back on. The cone filter only makes the engine noisy.
I'm not sure whether I mentioned it in this one, or it might be the next one that comes in a couple of weeks, but I can't fit the original!
The new inlet manifold is a different size to the original, meaning the factory airbox fouls on it. However, an MG Metro airbox will fit, and one is on the way so I can mix and match based on how I feel :)
@@TwinCam Good choice nice to keep it (near) factory
Have the clocks been changed then since you've bought the Melody or before you bought her? Says there's an 8,000 miles mileage drop on the MOT data base. Either a big job well done Ed!!! 😁😁👏👏
Different gauge cluster.
Have you / are you going to correct the hydra-gas to front to rear
No. While it would be the correct way of doing it, A-Series Metros don't have the facilities for its fitment. First of all, I'd need the whole suspension units and pipes from a K-Series, then I'd need to modify the connecting cone things on the back, then add the brackets to the body for the pipes to hang. A lot more work than it's worth.
@@TwinCam yes I see!
Sometimes UA-cam's advert placement is hilarious. "And then you get events like this..." followed by an advert for a sale at Curries.
Hahaha love that
No advisory for the gold wheels?
Oi ;)
On that note, something even more gold might be coming...
Happy 50th Wedding anniversary? 🤔@@TwinCam
Don’t you have another Metro too? How’s the clutch on that one?
The feel is totally different because it’s a K-Series. The only comparable point is it pulling out of the bulkhead, which I mentioned I’d cross referenced!