Dutton Kit Cars and their owners

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Added by Steve Kerry on February 23, 2011 at 20:19 — No Comments

The Northern Duttoneer's Now have a Website

http://thenorthernduttoneers.auto.officelive.com/default.aspx

The Northern Duttoneer's now have their own website, don't panic there's no forum. It is basically to kepp us all up to date with runs and meets.

Check it out and let me know.

Dave

Added by The Northern Duttoneer's on February 13, 2011 at 21:16 — 2 Comments

The Northern Duttoneer's Next meeting

The next Meeting of The Northern Duttoneer's is this coming Thursday 3rd at the usual place, The Bludell Arms, Chorley Old Road, Bolton / Horwich. BL6 6PY.

We'll be there from 8pm, the quizz starts at 9. Come along everyone welcome.

Added by The Northern Duttoneer's on January 27, 2011 at 10:05 — 2 Comments

Paul thomas dutton s3 1.8 turbo

Hi ! to all my fellow enthusiasts, I would like to thank you all on your comments about my dutton. The original plan was to buy 1 dutton and 1 nissan 200sx and put the 2 to gether. Best laid plans rarely work and only the engine and gearbox was used as at this time I wanted a quick project. The dutton was striped to a bare chassis, the chassis then had 2 x box member replaced, The engine was put in place so engine mounts could fabricated, The gear box cross member was made removeable and…

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Added by Paul Thomas on January 22, 2011 at 23:04 — 3 Comments

Project Hunk of Junk - Don't know my own strength (or cheap tools)

This evening after painting the diff casing with Hammerite. I was looking for a quick little task, I decided to fit the new metric wheel studs that had recently arrived from eBay. With my wheel nuts being blind nuts rather than open nuts, I thought I would press them in using the vice and a deep socket. Turning the vice handle, all was going well, the vice got a little stiff to turn, so I grabbed a length of tube to slip over the handle and then continued turning, the stud was progressing… Continue

Added by Dave Price on January 19, 2011 at 21:09 — 2 Comments

Project Hunk of Junk - Christmas Presents

My wife gave me some Christmas presents for the project. She did not get me the 4 point harnesses. She got a new radio for the garage and a new pair of overalls. She is either supporting the project or just wants me out of the house.

Added by Dave Price on December 29, 2010 at 20:29 — 1 Comment

Merry Christmas and a happy new year 2011

The best Christmas wishes and a Happy New Year

from the German Dutton Club and all its members

to the English friends and their families.

Thank you for our wonderful hobby, "Dutton"!

We don`t have this Hobby without the good english guys.…

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Added by Tom Ger_Phaeton S2 on December 26, 2010 at 11:52 — No Comments

Project Hunk of Junk - Veg Rack

Now that we are in the Festive Season my wife has decided that the empty engine makes a good place to store the Christamas veg. Currently placed on a plywood sheet in the engine bay is a collection of spuds, carrots and other fesitive veg. So suppose it is s vesitile car

Added by Dave Price on December 23, 2010 at 13:49 — 4 Comments

Project Hunk of Junk - Phaeton rear

Spent the morning of my day off sorting the garage. When I had got the hundreds of eBay parts and boxes out of thw ay I had a good look at the rear of the Phaeton. It has always looked a little lower on one side than the other (lower on the drivers side rear). Checked various dimensions under the chassis, axles, bodywork. The final conclusion is that the rear tub is loose and sitting lower on the drivers side rear corner. You can easily see this as the overrider hangs down a lot lower below the… Continue

Added by Dave Price on December 8, 2010 at 12:30 — No Comments

Project Hunk of Junk - parts tidy up

My garage is starting to overflow with eBay sourced car parts (my wife says more rubbish for the Hunk of Junk). I am now in a position of not really having any working area to carry out any work on the car. Given that my father-in-law is due to arrive in a fortnight to stay for 3 weeks over Christmas and that he is a retired vehicle engineer. I need to have a tidy garage so I can utilise his labour and skills to progress the engine rebuild and the diff rebuild. I have decided to take next… Continue

Added by Dave Price on December 2, 2010 at 22:01 — 6 Comments

I've been thinking about the end of summer run

It's never good when I think, but I have just watched the Best British Drives with Richard Wilson (No I didn't watch it with Richard Wilson, He presented it) He has been to The Trossachs driven from Callener to Loch Lomond. Stunning roads and scenery.

It's 234 miles from Bolton to Callender.

What about the Isle of Man, country roads without speed limits, Kippers, Laxey wheel...

It's out there now for discusion.

The Spring run is being…

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Added by The Northern Duttoneer's on November 21, 2010 at 20:54 — 6 Comments

Project Hunk of Junk - What type of master cylinder?

I have had a further look at my Phaeton master cylinder and can't establish it's origin. No manufacture's name. Anybody able to identify it from my photos?

Added by Dave Price on November 20, 2010 at 21:18 — No Comments

Project Hunk of Junk - The continued Essex strip down (Big End - big problem)

In an earlier blog I had mentioned that I planned a further strip down of my V6 engine. This evening I remove the nearside bank cylinder head. The observations are as follows -

Bores - look OK, much like the offside bank

Head - water ways look significantly bunged up

Pistons - some lateral rotational play in the pistons, as the was on the other bank. But with these there is a pronouced knock as you twist the piston crown.

Conclusion - given the knocking sound when…

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Added by Dave Price on November 19, 2010 at 21:04 — No Comments

Project Hunk of Junk - Opps

Following on from the posts about my eBay bargains. I have just learnt an expensive lesson. Always fully read the listing. I had stated that I had bought a pair of NOS cylinder heads for £50.99. Just received a message from the seller today to say my cylinder head was in the post. (Cylinder head singlular). I then re-read the listing, it only says cylinder head, not cylinder heads. Well it is still cheaper than buying a new set of valves for the head on the poor cylinder bank of one of my… Continue

Added by Dave Price on November 17, 2010 at 22:04 — No Comments

Project Hunk of Junk - Cost Update

Just had a update of the cost spreadsheet at lunchtime. Current quick update gives a total of £918 including the purchase cost of the car. So if I am not to exceed the £1,000 budget that gives me £72 for the remaining works. So it looks like the budget will be exceed as the following items still need to be purchased -

- Seats (or pads)

- Seat belts

- Radiator hoses

- Wipers

- Rear wheel cylinders

- A real roll bar

- Front dampers

- Full…

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Added by Dave Price on November 17, 2010 at 13:08 — 7 Comments

Project Hunk of Junk - Cost

When I bought the project I set a spreadsheet to monitor the cost of the project. Initial thoughts before the car arrive were that the grand project total would only be £500. Several months on and loads of parts bought (not to mention tools - tools don't count as I can use them for other purposes), The last update I did on the spreadsheet had a total around £450. I had been managing the budget by only buying parts that were less than £10 (except the engines). Having said that 10 items is still… Continue

Added by Dave Price on November 17, 2010 at 12:49 — No Comments

Project Hunk of Junk

In early January 2010, my Dutton Phaeton final arrived. As I helped to unload the car, I closely looked at my new purchase, it was great in my eyes. However when my wife arrive room and found a car with siezed wheels stuck at the bottom of the drive. I think her words were "It's a hunk of junk". My young daughter said "my car". My wife then said Daddy might just have it finished by the time you eighteen" (at that time she was two years old). Well to date progress has been limited and briefly…

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Added by Dave Price on November 16, 2010 at 21:24 — 3 Comments

Scumbags

I got home from work today to find two of the wheels down the drive had been stolen.

I wouldn't mind so much if it wasnt the pair I took of the legerra last week leaving me with two odd alloys on the front and two odd alloys on the back. Any number of other alloy wheels down the drive they could have nicked but no, they had to nick two out of the only matched set of four 15" rims I had.

If I ever find out who did it I will make sure they never steal anything ever again.…

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Added by Adrian Southgate on October 4, 2010 at 17:56 — 4 Comments

The Northern Duttoneer's next meeting

The next Meeting of The Northern Duttoneer's is this coming Thursday at the usual place, The Bludell Arms, Chorley Old Road, Bolton / Horwich. BL6 6PY.

We'll be there from 8pm, the quizz starts at 9. Come along everyone welcome.

Added by The Northern Duttoneer's on September 25, 2010 at 20:42 — 11 Comments

front suspension set up

My car will have a whole new front end on it next year, from the triumph front end (with ford adaptors) is going and will be replaced with a Ford Cortina set up ala Ron Champion's book. But i want to make the camber and the castor adjustable, the camber is easy to figure out but what methods has anyone out there used for castor adjustment?

I can think of several ways of doing it, but some seem overly complicated to achieve.

and if your wondering why i want to change a good working… Continue

Added by Dave Adams on September 14, 2010 at 11:04 — 1 Comment