[Colin Smith]

Plastic trays were often lost during battery removal 🙁 It’s shown in the parts catalogue DS 531-60, you won’t find a new one of these either.

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Colin Smith

1973 DS23 Pallas in Beige Tholonet - Under restoration.
Citroën DS Restoration

[Colin Smith]

Hi Simon

The battery supports were susceptible to corrosion, Citroën in their wisdom created a water trap by placing a plastic tray between the battery and support frame creating a moisture trap. I would try and restore the original frame as they are not readily available. *gauntlet thrown down* Rebuild with plenty of Waxoil or similar.

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Colin Smith

1973 DS23 Pallas in Beige Tholonet - Under restoration.
Citroën DS Restoration

[Colin Smith]

Sean

Just out of interest Julian Marsh writes for the Citroënian and his own website Citronet, your car was shown in a page from the 2017 D Rally (there is more if you look around)

http://www.citroenet.org.uk/phototheques/ccc/2017-d-rally/2017-5.html

Kind RegarDS
Colin Smith

1973 DS23 Pallas in Beige Tholonet - Under restoration.
Citroën DS Restoration

[Colin Smith]

Hi Sean

Well done with Nigel having a look at your DS, apart from a few people on here you won’t get any better advise. Jamie will look after you and your DS and I am sure you will enjoy your driving experience after he’s fettled it!

Welcome to the club and looking forward to meeting you and your car sometime soon.

Kind RegarDS
Colin Smith

1973 DS23 Pallas in Beige Tholonet - Under restoration.
Citroën DS Restoration

[Colin Smith]

I used gris rose on mine (1973 pallas) which was not the correct colour. However, you don’t see much of the wheel with the full size wheel trims so I’m happy with that.

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Colin Smith

1973 DS23 Pallas in Beige Tholonet - Under restoration.
Citroën DS Restoration

[Colin Smith]

Sold… £2670

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Colin Smith

1973 DS23 Pallas in Beige Tholonet - Under restoration.
Citroën DS Restoration

[Colin Smith]

Hi Richard and welcome to the club.

Sorry for the slow reply but I don’t go on the forums as often as I should, you are definitely in the right place for any sensible advice, please feel free to shout out anytime. Good choice with the South African RHD I am sure you will have many hours of fun driving/tinkering/cursing/spending?

I use Google images to insert images in to the post use the IMG button above and enter the copied image url and voila…

Hope to see you and your car soon.

Kind RegarDS
Colin Smith

1973 DS23 Pallas in Beige Tholonet - Under restoration.
Citroën DS Restoration

[Colin Smith]

I have a 73 carb model manual box and use 180×15 xas Michelins http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WC2ozPbXkr0/VGX2PHRK7wI/AAAAAAAAFg8/MU8dM1zrHlQ/s1600/new%2Btyres.jpg

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Colin Smith

1973 DS23 Pallas in Beige Tholonet - Under restoration.
Citroën DS Restoration

[Colin Smith]

Paul Burridge wrote:

Common problems are sucking unwanted air in around a warped base. You can flatten the carb base, or use a little bit of mastic to fill out the gap.

As Paul mentioned this is the biggest problem with the Weber is ‘heat soak’ causing the bas to warp.

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Colin Smith

1973 DS23 Pallas in Beige Tholonet - Under restoration.
Citroën DS Restoration

[Colin Smith]

Mine neither. I like to keep the provenance of the original mark… But whatever floats your boat!

Kind RegarDS
Colin Smith

1973 DS23 Pallas in Beige Tholonet - Under restoration.
Citroën DS Restoration

[Colin Smith]

Hi Ben
These bushes are notorious for perishing and an easy job to replace, might be worth a look…
https://citroendsrestoration.blogspot.com/2012/06/gear-change-bushes.html

Kind RegarDS
Colin Smith

1973 DS23 Pallas in Beige Tholonet - Under restoration.
Citroën DS Restoration

[Colin Smith]

Hi Geoff
Do you have a front window glass green tinted?

Kind RegarDS
Colin Smith

1973 DS23 Pallas in Beige Tholonet - Under restoration.
Citroën DS Restoration

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