Maserati Khamsin

Hi Bal
Is this what you are looking for?
http://webstore.citroenpages.com/product_info.php?products_id=31

Graeme

 

Hi Graeme

Can you post some pics of your car as it is now?

I am hoping to get mine back from the trimmers on tuesday after some leather repairs to the front seats. Been away for two weeks so missing it. Still need to do a few other minor repairs to it.

When i was down at a Ferrari garage a few years ago, one of the old mechanics had what appeared to be a digital carb tuner, which appeared to be a gauge he placed into the intake of the carb before adjusting. Does anyone know of these products? Not sure if it was digital, or an analogue vacuum gauge.

Paul

 

Hi Paul
Which pictures would you like?, as there are few on this thread but they are mainly details of parts.

I have added some and yes it does have rear seat belts as it need to for Australian Regs!

Digital balancers there have been some on Ebay but I cannot find them at this point in time.
There are plenty of analogue guages for bikes on ebay at reasonsable prices.

Graeme
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Paul,

The only 'tuning' you do with a vacuum-gauge is the synchronizing of the carbs. I use an old S.U. gauge for this, which just sits atop the throat, and shows the level of vacuum by means of a small ball in a glass tube. It works great.

 

Can someone tell me what this is for I found it tucked under the coolant tank

Cheers

Mark
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A very nice car. But yes, they could at least have taken some compressed air to blow off under the hood. A low paid guy wiping down for an hour or two would have made a huge difference. It looks as if absolutely nothing was done in the engine compartment.

But still, it looks to be a nice car and should fetch a good price.

 

Hi Mate that is the neck, looks exactly the same as on the Khamsin, except the price. I paid £84 recently, which probably comes close to $140.

So if this is the same item then the locking ring shown on your parts diagram (item #12) should be the same. I'll have too see if they do it or someone who does Citroen parts.

Bal

 

Bal,

Correct me if I'mwrong, but the only function I can see for the white plastic ring is to lock the rubber neck onto the tanl.

Any piece of pipe of the right diameter with a small lip at the top, so as to prevent it sliding down, would do the same thing perfectly.

Does anyone have a measurement of this part?

 

f308jack,

You are right the only function is to lock the filler neck to the reservoir, and it does it good. It's almost impossible to get the filler neck off the tank without splitting the rubber, bit the shape of the nylon ring is easy to replicate in a lathe.

By late this week or early next one I'll know, and will post it here.

Kind regards
Marius

 

Hey Marius,

That would be really useful.

Bal

 

Yes Marius, that would indeed help. I am just thinking out loud, but I'm thinking a piece of pipe with a little flange at the top, and 2 smaal holes in the pipe so as to enable it to be retracted from the neck should you need to separate the neck from the tank.
Seen as a few of us are missing the plastic ring, could it be that these deteriorate over time and are in pieces at the bottom of the LHM resrvoirs? An aluminium or steel item would avoid this as well.

My reservoir is out of the car right now, but I didn't empty it yet. I'll go do that later and see what I find inside (or not)

 

Hello all I don't want to disturb your tech discussion so will keep it short: Graeme that first shot of your car in motion from down low wow...I just had a braingasm!

Do you have the same from rear 3 quarters? I have been wanting to get that shot done with leaves blowing around for ages.

Great job!

best regards,

Marc

PS: Am sending the book photos with captions to my publisher this week, the cover is stunning, everything is under control so I can definitely shave Monday morning after Villa d'Este, will find a "Barbiere"!

PPS: Anybody going to Villa d'Este? I will be there all day Saturday for Autoweek and Ferrari Market Letter as well as Sunday at Villa Erba, PM me for cell phone exchange.

More importantly I hope all our friends and beloved factories in Modena in nearby are safe and sound after the earthquake and aftershocks...

best regards,

Marc

 

Hi Marc

Sadly no I dont have any pictures taken down low from the rear.
The only issue with some pictures I have is that they were professionally done for a magazine. I can use them for my own use only but the technicques used I can remember. my avitar picture was taken with about a 5 second exposure with camera mounted on the car. The car was driven up close to a rock wall the shutter pushed and the car rolled backwards at about walking pace.
The result was what appears to be a fast movong picture, very clever.

The low moving one was just that camera mounted on another car and a remote shutter control or it might have been continious and the two cars close together at 60 Ks.
I have others so I will check what I have.

Regards
Graeme

 

Whatever the case may be Graeme, great pics and a great looking car you have there!

Sorry chaps, can't get into the garage to empty the LHM-tank, my wife took my key with...

 

Thanks Graeme,

Actually I went today to order two posters for the KHAMSIN QUARANTA desk in the lobby of the hotel where the event will be based: one of the protoype AM120.004 (off a slide given to me by Bertone a few years ago when they were about to shut down) and one poster of a photshoot done for my book with two Khamsins near Zurich 2 years ago, both in motion following the car carrying the photographer: awesome shot, love it

Jack I think a wife that deprives you of your bella macchina by way of confiscating the keys...hmmm...are you in touble for any reason?

best regards,

Marc

 

Anyone got a rebuilt Hydraulic pump they wish to sell ?

Cheers

Mark

 

Hi Mark

The pumps are relatively common and originate from the Citroen DS series.
There are a number of companies that sell exchange units.
an example
http://www.citroenclassics.co.uk/.

Regards'
Graeme

 

Emptied my LHM-tank, nothing inside, so no idea where the locking-ring of the filler-neck has gone.

What do you guys use to wash the LHM-components? I'd like to clean it out, been sitting in the car for 30 years. Can't use thinners with the plastic components.

 

I believe there is an official flushing/cleaning solvent for this but I don't know what it is.

Keep digging Jack.

 

Yes there is, saw it today on a web-site linked in an earlier post. It seems a bit silly though to start shipping a container with some detergent from 6.000 miles away. I'll have a look at what Prepsol does with LHM, it doesn't harm rubber or plastic, and it's widely available: it is commonly used to wash any impurities off of panels in preparation of painting.

 

Yeah I get that you're sort of isolated from the world where you are for stuff like this.

You must be nuts to try and run a Khamsin there!

Check with any local aircraft equipment repair/supplier places.
If there's a product for doing this on airplanes I'd be very surprised if it wasn't OK for the LHM system.

I don't recommend Coca Cola ... Pepsi is OK!

 

The correct aviation cleaning fluid for cleaning components that use mineral oil is a product called Naptha. whic is one of the basic's of petrol. and therefor some use petrol.

Regards
Graeme

 

Try the simple stuff first: I hadn't even considered using petrol, and found that diesel usually works well to clean parts as well (modern petrol is nasty stuff to work with)

Bob, you're right, but aren't we all a little nuts? Generally it's not too difficult for normal supplies, and I can even get LHM within a 10-mile distance, so it's not all bad. The thing in shortest supply at the moment is time!

 

What would the duty tax be for that?

 

One day, Bob, you will be taxed on non-availablity. We're not quite there yet, fortunately