Re: (C-Car) Shocks
I WENT TO A LOCAL AUTO STORE WITH THE OLD SHOCKS AND THEY MATCHED
THEM UP WITH A GABRIEL GAS SHOCK THAT WAS ONLY ABOUT A 1/2 INCH
TALLER WENT IN FINE AND A MUCH BETTER RIDE . WILL LOOK AROUND AND
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carl.zajac@...
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Re: (C-Car) Shocks
Steven Evans wrote:
Hi Steve and all,
As far as I know, the original shocks on the C-cars were Gabriel S717-5 P9113. These were old stock from some other project, probably a golf cart, when they
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Mike Chancey <evtinker@...>
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(C-Car) Shocks
What are the correct shock absorbers to use on my 76 Citi-car? I just
realized the ones on the car bottom out with only about 3" of travel.
No wonder it rides so rough. Any parts nos. or shock length
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Steven Evans <se55757@...>
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New poll for C-Car
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the
C-Car group:
How do you use your C-car?
o Daily driver
o hobby/recreational
o not currently operating
To vote, please visit
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C-Car@...
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New poll for C-Car
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the
C-Car group:
If you own an EV an it is a C-car,
which kind fo you have? (check all you
have)
o Citicar
o Comutacar
o Citivan
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C-Car@...
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New poll for C-Car
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the
C-Car group:
Do you currently own an EV?
o Yes
o No
To vote, please visit the following web
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C-Car@...
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Re: New web page to promote your C-car group
Thanks Bruce
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HOLLAND,MIKE (HP-USA,ex1) <mike_holland@...>
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New web page to promote your C-car group
I built a web page
http://geocities.com/sebring_ev
to point people to your group.
Its goal is to draw people of the Sebring-Vanguard
EV heritage. Since Citi/Commuta car/van and zzipper
use common
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Bruce EVangel Parmenter <brucedp@...>
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Re: c-car wiring diagram
Anthony,
I can't email you the diagram since I don't have access to a scanner but if
you give me your fax number I can send you the diagrams tomorrow. My
personal email is
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Tech Man <techman@...>
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c-car wiring diagram
Hello
Anybody have a source for a citicar wiring diagram? Or even a complete
service manual. I will be installing a ss speed controller would like
a diagram to help me with the changes that will
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anthonyluiz@...
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Testing and repairing your C-Car motor (or motor rebuilding 101)
After first discovering that my car would not go, and smelling a
nausiating burning fiberglass smell, not to mention the sound not
unlike bacon sizzling, I discovered my motor was sick. Upon further
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anthonyluiz@...
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Re: Citicar motor
Anthony,
Here is a place that looks promising for motor rebuilds and armature
repair. I haven't used them myself. But they did say that they could
find or make a field coil set for my
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Scott Hull
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Date of Manufacture.
Tim, and Scott
Thanks for the VIN info. My VIN # is 1111BIC28FS000009. With the
information I have now, and my #000009 this sound like maybe 1979.
If anyone else out there could send me the last
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Don Morin
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ABS repair.
Anthony & C-group,
I found a web site a short while back that has a lot of information
on plastic repair, materials, and tools to do it. I bought ABS
welding rods,and a foot with a hole in it that I
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Don Morin
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Re: Citicar motor
Hello Mike,
Thank you for your help in finding info. on getting my dead c-car running agian.
Anthony
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anthony luiz <anthonyluiz@...>
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Re: ABS body weld or bonding Ideas
Anthony,
I bought a plastic welder from Eastwoods with great expectations of
quickly learning ABS plastic welding. Well, it has worked great for
thawing frozen pipes. Some people say welding is
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Steven Evans <se55757@...>
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Re: ABS body weld or bonding Ideas
For advice on repairing the body panels on C-cars I would suggest you ask Steve Evans. He did a fantastic job of bringing one back from the dead. You an see both before and after pictures in the EV
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Mike Chancey <evtinker@...>
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ABS body weld or bonding Ideas
I have a 1976 citicar that is nice shape but like ALL citicars and
commutacars have little cracks and chips in the body. I also have
about 3 small places
were I need to patch the body where a small
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anthonyluiz@...
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Re: Citicar motor
Hi Anthony (and other fellow C-Car owners),
I don't know it the following will help you or not but it's from "The
Citicar-Commutacar Service Manual" Pages 6-1 thru 6-7.
I've also attached the only
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HOLLAND,MIKE (HP-USA,ex1) <mike_holland@...>
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Re: Year of Manufacture?
I checked some but it is impossible to tell the mfg. date since the
registrations only show the date first sold. The earlier Comuta-cars
used a numbering system similar to the Citicar. My older
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Scott Hull
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