March 21, 2021 – Spring Driving Event – picture time!

Each year for the past 10 years, the Northwest Citroen Owners Club has sponsored a spring drive. This year it fell on the Spring Equinox. It was a 110 mile drive from my house to the start of the event. We started from the parking lot of a grocery store where the following two pictures […]

March 5, 2021 – Added a Starter Relay

When Citroen designed the SM, they followed the then-current practice of powering the starter solenoid directly from the ignition switch. The downsides to this are two-fold: over time, as the switch (and wiring) age, resistance increases in that circuit resulting in lowered power getting to the solenoid. In a worst case scenario, power can be […]

February 2021 – Exhaust Replacement

Towards the end of 2020, I noticed the exhaust was getting louder and louder each time I went for a drive – particularly under load. Moreover, the noise wasn’t coming from the tips of the exhaust system – it was coming from beneath the car :-(. So, in early January I pulled the exhaust system […]