The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

Yes Steve, I did notice that when I got home i carried on playing with all the instruments, as you do, and i had noticed that the rev counter illumination light was not working so this could explain the reason why the rev counter stopped when i turned the lights on?? So will tackle the dash out ...

By the way Tony are you still having the meets at the Elephant pub this month if so might tag along, good drive out from Telford

Don't want to give up Tony as I'm using the car for my brothers wedding in a few weeks so want to be reliable if you know what I mean, so anybody out there that could pin point the problem as i want to post pictures in the club magazine too

Hi its been a while since I've been on here anyway my 1850 has been off the road for 18 months so after someone rear ended me🙄and now all fixed by myself I now have an annoying electrical issue with the volt gauge and instrument cluster, what's happening is the volt gauge drops and at the same time ...

Tony Burd wrote:The wiring that goes down the gear lever probably has broken causing a short circuit when you flick the switch, check it out.

. Yep I can agree ;this happened to me only I was getting a small shock every time I switched the over drive!!

Many thanks. will have to turn it the right way up then, was put in wrong then, not by me

i suspose i would have to mark the splines going into the knuckle so that it goes back in the the same postion, keeping steering wheel straight and wheels straight ahead

are you saying the bush is upside down? in other words should it be pressed downwards from inside the car and not put in from the engine side?

just to be brief, the lower steering bush has popped out, :? since replacing all of my subframe bushes as doing a pair at a time (front then back), well pleased with job i had done, when moving onto my next job i had noticed the steering wheel had a lot of up and down movement!
Realising what had ...

cheers for that, i will pass this on, mart.

Seen my brother tonight and he owns an audi convertable and he has asked me or you good people here on the club is there a good product on the market (cleaner/protector) suitable for the soft top material as it is now showing signs of mould. many thanks mart.

I use "metal polish wadding" or "liquid metal polish" by the makers of "Harringtons" web site = http://www.mpmconsumerproducts.com . i only paid £1 per tin :) dont remember where i bought it from though, somewhere like "b & m" or poundland probably . comes up shiny for me!

hope that helps, martin.

thanks for your replies, wont be till the w/end before i have another go :) Just a quick word about that rear mount from the pic and how perished it looks , that has been like that from when i bought the car back in 2006 so should it have passed the m.o.t like it was each year?, :? its just bugged ...

Thanks for the tip ian, :) today was my day off, so firstly i put the headlamps back together, all clean etc then checked out the indicator lenses new seals, all fine, then tackled the subframe mounts, well made a start :) jacked the car right up on the sills supported on axle stands+large chocks of ...

I will be as brief as possible! Not had any posts lately, as in Feb 2011 i was made redundant after 10 years service :x fortunately found another job in 2 wks as a delivery driver for wiltshire farm foods, not as good money, but its a job, so as a result could not afford to run the dolly, so time ...

In the tester's defence he just gave an advise...not a fail.
Yes quite true, me thinks they have to cover there own "back sides" at the end of the day!
i will try and sort out the wheel bearing tonight by backing it back off, hopefully the drone noise will go but me thinks it wont, anyhow i will ...