by Richard | Friday, 19 September, 2014 | BGU 122G Diary |
Fitting Inertia Reel Seatbelts to a Rover P5 and P5B. Once I’d stripped the carpet, seats and console from the interior, the plan was to fit inertia seatbelts to make things more comfortable, and fit rear seatbelts as well so I can carry my 6 year old in some...
by Richard | Sunday, 14 September, 2014 | BGU 122G Diary |
Stripping The Rover P5 and P5B Interior. My wife had conveniently gone away for two weeks, so I made the most of the opportunity and stripped the inside of the car – seats out, carpet out. I started in the rear of the car – on my car the seat bases lift...
by Richard | Saturday, 6 September, 2014 | BGU 122G Diary |
Rover P5B Petrol Smells. You might think that a car that suffered a major engine fire 2 years ago would have had its fuel system pretty thoroughly checked and replaced. Hmmm, not so. An occasional whiff of petrol was turning into a more frequent thing. After several...
by Richard | Sunday, 29 June, 2014 | BGU 122G Diary |
Fixing a Faulty 10V Regulator on a Rover P5B. The fuel gauge and temperature gauge seemed to be possessed by some sort of ghost, with random movements of the needle. Sometimes the temperature gauge would rise to max, then sink down. After an initial panic I decided it...
by Richard | Thursday, 12 June, 2014 | BGU 122G Diary |
Restoring the Rover P5B Interior. Things have been pretty quiet on here recently, but there’s been no lack of progress on the car. I haven’t been using it much as there’s a small fuel leak from the left carburettor which, given the cars history,...
by Richard | Thursday, 17 April, 2014 | BGU 122G Diary |
Renovating a Rover P5B Centre Console. A major part of renovating the interior has been sorting out the centre console. This was in quite a bad state, dirty with worn carpet covering. So I set about stripping down the centre console so that I could everything...
