A JRS project thread - 1968 Citroën ID19

Imgur mobile is such a pain! I have to copy the link into chrome, display the site in desktop mode, then open the image in a new tab, then copy the link from there....... :mad:

Nice work on the old gal! Having to figure out how to unlock a door from the outside like that is a skill lol.
 
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This cover had been missing since we got the car. I figured it was long gone, but the other day I was topping up the LHM tank (suspension and brake fluid) and dropped the cap down into the front of the engine bay. Jammed my arm in to recover it, came back up with both the tank cap and the cover. You can see the wire that holds it loosely on the car, that and the way the front valance folds under the car saved it from being lost for good.

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First time I've been glad to have dropped something in a while! I'd never have found that if I hadn't let the LHM tank cap go skittering out of my fingers.
 
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Yes, I did remove the carburettor. It did need a faintly serious clean and service as you'll see in the next couple of photos. First though, the air cleaner:

Taken off and taken apart

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Pa has since taken a bunch of the old paint and the remains of the maintenance instruction sticker off it so we can get a fresh coat of black on and get it looking nice. Then he washed out the air filter element itself and got that back to reasonable. Then he set about cleaning out the carb...and boy was it a mess inside:

Lovely...

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Yep, that gasket is indeed hot trash

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This dish is maybe half of what he washed out of the carb

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Other minor weirdness:
  • No gasket between carb and manifold. No evidence of there ever having been one. Hooray for vacuum leaks! :rolleyes:
  • The base of the carb was also rough as ****. So we've faced it back flat with some fine paper and a flat surface.
  • Carb looked for all the world like it had been backfired through a few times.
Weather permitting I'll refit the carb this weekend. Think we'll shove mum's car out of the garage and paint the air cleaner housing in there if we can get the garage warm enough. Otherwise we'll be covering the spare bedroom in old sheets and doing the painting in there!
 
Stabbed the carburettor back on (pics to follow when I'm not on mobile). Haven't plumbed the fuel line back on yet, because I want to add an extra (read: better) fuel filter to the line into the carb and I haven't got any hose clamps that are even vaguely the right size :rolleyes::mad::p
 
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Got appropriate hose clips now. Put the fuel filter in (fancy washable one that we've had for ages, was bought for the Landy). Tightened everything up, felt okay. Then thought "hmm, been here before, juuuust gonna crank it over without the ignition on first".

Wheeeeeee, fuel leak! :eek::mad:

Not so much an inline filter as a sort-of sieve that spills clean, filtered petrol straight onto the exhaust fannymold then, the casing must not be sealing right 'cause the barbs are fine. Okay, scrap that. And is anywhere with stock of a correctly sized and functional inline filter that doesn't cost eleventy million pounds open in Burton today? Are they buggery. Will have to pick one up from the Euro Car Parts branch on my way into work on Monday.

Rain has stopped play now anyway. Bloody uncooperative climate.
 
Got a filter on that actually manages not to pour fuel out of every seam it has. And the car runs well on the rebuilt carb. But we haven't quite hit 'good enough' IMO yet, not enough to be at the point where I'd be perfectly happy for pa to use the car as a daily driver.

No-one (not even Powerspark) appears to make a conversion kit to electronic ignition for the Ducellier diistributor in the car (earlier ones for the 1911cc engine yes, ones with vacuum advance yes, this one no). And a 123 complete EI unit is faintly serious money. So we're going to make the current setup as good as can be, with a view to going to a 123 dizzy for pa's birthday in a few months. To that end, other other day I stuck in an order for a new cap, rotor arm, points, extensions for the spark plugs (old ones were pretty crusty). Also ordered replacement rubber isolators for the air cleaner mount (they were long gone and it vibrates a bunch) and a replacement sticker for the top of the air cleaner housing to finish it off.

New cap, rotor, plug extensions, isolators and sticker are all on the car now (I had a break in the weather during the rugby half-time so I got after some stuff :cool:). When pa gets back off his hols we'll do the points. I suspect I might need to go the whole hog and verify static timing from scratch as well, which I just know will be a ball-ache...
 
Quarantine-induced boredom, eh?

Dashboard off

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All manner of wires, some of which are buggered

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Main job was to sort out the wiring for the cabin fans, which was trash (someone in the past had done a number on them) and try to get the wipers working even halfway well. Then paint all the major dash panels while they were removed.

Meanwhile in the engine bay...

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The energiser's bypassed like a Christmas tree, so don't give me too many bumps.
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Then some off-camera work (I know, I'm lousy at documenting stuff). Leading to...

Bit better

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Still need to do some detail painting around the speedometer, but the rest of it is much better than it was :)
 
JRS said:
I've been guilty of a lot of random wiring-around to get stuff working over the years ;)
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I feel that... Fortunately I've only had to fiddle with wiring on a couple of my cars, but both times it was the whole shibang with new fuses, relays, signal wires, earth and live. :p

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The E30 will need some wiring fettling at some point, but nothing too major fortunately.
 
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Did some more spiral wrapping today. Also changed the points in the distributor. So at least when all this lockdown crapola is done with we'll have a car that can be relied upon to drive vaguely serious distances.

Electronic ignition is still on the cards. But at least this way we'll have a ready-to-run conventional distributor to either keep for emergency use or sell.
 
Got another job sorted during lockdown. The DS/ID dashboard vents are supplied by fan units on either side of the engine bay, which have hoses that duct air from front of car to fans and fans to cabin. The ducting from fans to cabin had deteriorated to being beyond saving.

Now, we could have bought replacement Citroën parts. But where's the fun in that? ;)

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Neoprene sheet cut to size, and shoe repair glue to stab it together. Dirt cheap and works beautifully.
 
Just driven the car to an upholsterers on the outskirts of Leicester to get the front seats sorted and a headliner in. Not the nicest of days for it, but she bowled along quite happily :)

I'm pretty good at being able to jump between driving wildly different cars in one day and being immediately comfortable, but it really is a bit weird coming from a DS/ID to anything else - you appreciate just how far ahead of the game in some respects these cars still are even now.
 
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If I may be allowed to shout out these guys on here - Auto-Trim Systems. They do excellent work, those seats are transformed from what they were. The camera makes the colour difference on the new panels stand out more than it does just to your eyes, and they would have coloured the panels closer if we were in any way bothered! Besides, we can always Gliptone it sometime down the line if it ever did start to concern us.

Headliner is also in, which makes the whole car feel a touch less...agricultural at speed ;) I wound her up to :eek: RIGHT ON THE SPEED LIMIT HONEST OFFICER :eek: on the way home and she was perfectly happy. Idle is still a bit on the lumpy side, which with the more I learn about the carb on it (Solex 34 PBIC) the more I'm realising is probably down to the idle/slow running jet being just plain worn out. Going to grab a new one and see, since it'd be an inexpensive fix.
 
Agent_Smith357 said:
What did they do to the seats?
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The left side bolster of the drivers seat was split in several places, they replaced that panel. Also replaced right-hand leather panel on drivers seat cushion. Stitched new centre panels in both seats on cushion and back - the stitching had pulled clean through and torn them, also on the drivers seat there was a hole in the panel on the back. And they re-worked/plumped up some of the stuffing which was pretty much flattened after 52 years.
 
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The new ones are the ones that appear all taut and brand new. :p
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In all honesty, that picture is making those panels look more over-stuffed than they really are. But they certainly are very obviously new, even without the colour difference being exaggerated by my phone!

First jobs when the bloody weather dries up for a day or two:

Rotate rear tyres to front (fronts are currently a wider size, 185/80/HR15 instead of the stock 155 or 165 width).
Put a new slow-running jet in the carb.
Verify static timing.
Properly sort the wiper motor.
Finish cleaning up the power to the headlights.
Repurpose the switched power currently going to a useless rear fog light and use it to power a rear demister fan.
 
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