xtriple Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Went up to the garage to see 'Betty' the Fiesta. Was going to use her but not sorted insurance yet. God-damn wings are welded on, not bolt on. Started first time, sounds like a little Swiss watch. Aircon works (Betty didn't even know it had it so it's been unused for 20 years!) and as far as I can tell, everything works fine. I like the little heap, it's proper cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Have we seen pics of the fester? I can't recall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtriple Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 This is it! I bet you are REALLY impressed I took a load in the garage today, but each and every one came out utterl shit. Don't know why.... probably 'operator error'! Oh yes, in the boot was a BIG bag full of tins of food and stuff; pickled onions rice pudding, and best of all... Devon Custard! egg, Ghosty, Jim Bergerac and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Giffertastic pics for a giffertastic motor! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiltox Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 That looks ace. Didn’t know these came with air con Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave21478 Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Fucking drivers window mech failed on the MGF a few days back which resulted in me booting in the door in a tizzy. Since the weather is forecast for "scorchio" for at least the next two weeks, I decided to sort it, despite my resolution to run the car into the ground with no maintenance and scrap it at the end of summer.With the doorcard off I could pop out the worst of the foot-related damage and wrestled out the mechanism. Turns out that inside the motor gearbox is a metal worm gear driving a plastic cog, which had unsurprisingly worn out. I chugged down to the scrapyard knowing full well that they wont have any MGFs but the motor itself is probably shared with other Rovers and since the motor just unbolts from the sliding gubbins it should be easy enough.Right enough, first Rover was a 400 of some description with the door card already off. The motor was the same although it had 4 wires rather than the two of the MGF. I bagged it anyway and spotted half my old fleet on the way out. *sadface* Anyway, back home some prodding with the wires on a battery revealed the red and blue do the job and I could just cut off the other two which are probably position switches for one-touch opening or something. All back together, which as usual is like fisting an angry crocodile, working inside the door cavity with all the grease and sharp edges, and window function seems to have been restored. Christine, Asimo, Tickman and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drum Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Does that scrappy remove all the wheels of every car as a matter of course? Aston Martin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave21478 Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Yes. To stop assholes rolling them into the pond at the bottom. Asimo, Tickman, Aston Martin and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 IMG_20180508_152239.jpg This is it! I bet you are REALLY impressed I took a load in the garage today, but each and every one came out utterl shit. Don't know why.... probably 'operator error'! IMG_20180508_152239.jpg IMG_20180619_143722.jpg IMG_20180619_143733.jpg IMG_20180619_143736.jpg IMG_20180619_143740.jpg IMG_20180619_143807.jpg IMG_20180619_143822.jpg IMG_20180619_143835.jpg Oh yes, in the boot was a BIG bag full of tins of food and stuff; pickled onions rice pudding, and best of all... Devon Custard! Looks like you might have had your finger over the flash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcyonecorporation Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Xtriple: congrats on smol dollop. xtriple 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 I have collected my curate's egg Land Rover 90, photos will follow, if it ever stops raining. It drives quite well with a 200 TDI, Hopefully I will have time at the weekend to remove some of the unwanted fittings (side steps, winch, cb radio, chequer plate, extra gauges, etc.) It really does need PAS, I can drive it but have got lazy. Sigmund Fraud, drum and Tickman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clayts450 Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 £30 eBay 12v impact wrench arrived today, runs off the ciggy lighter. Delivers 300Nm allegedly One of these bad boys https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VonHaus-12V-Impact-Wrench-Driver-Kit-Vehicle-Car-5000rpm-1-2-Square-Drive-Set/272592091753?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 Had a practically welded on wheel nut on the PTSD - shifted it within seconds. Job jobbed Will now be able to have rear brake fun* at the weekend DeeJay and Lord Sterling 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 I've just lobbed some V-max (or whatever it's called) in the Audi then erm, drove it like an Audi driver probably would. Potentially upset some bloke in a van (my fault) and as I was waiting to turn left at some lights I think he shouted PISS OFF at me. clayts450, Pillock, Lord Sterling and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clayts450 Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 There is an image to maintain, Billy. Well done DeeJay, Brodders, Cavcraft and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy18s Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Live in a 4th floor flat?Fancy brewing your own wine?But you need freshly grown grapes to make wine,Shirley?How will you manage with No garden?Simples.....Just run a hose down to the little ornamental hedge,and let the vine climb all the way back up!!Easy! D Spares & Tyres 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy18s Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Live in a 4th floor flat?Fancy brewing your own wine?But you need freshly grown grapes to make wine,Shirley?How will you manage with No garden?Simples.....Just run a hose down to the little ornamental hedge,and let the vine climb all the way back up!!Easy! richardmorris, loserone, Lord Sterling and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 My new job has opened up so many doors for me. However, as a BMW owner/driver who now works in an office, I have also realised and have to accept that at times, I look like this: Once at work, I turn into this guy: I even look a bit like Dilbert, same build and style albeit with darker hair. Still, you gotta look on the bright side At least my car is with its own like: Conrad D. Conelrad, purplebargeken, spike60 and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Some power has arrived. Seeing as I've mostly broken or sold my cars, or acquired new ones that don't have engines, I blagged this Impreza from my publisher for a bit. It's an absolute hoot, though the rev counter and fuel gauge seem to be linked somehow. It has a very stupid exhaust, which is a bit much, but I did enjoy making the Welsh hills reverberate to the bark of a flat-four Subaru lump once more. drum, Lacquer Peel, Aston Martin and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy18s Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Will anyone notice if the running gear makes it's way into a Reliant? Aston Martin, SiC, DeeJay and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy18s Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 after our success on saturday, sunday we failed in our quest to get both mini's to murton park. getting within 50-odd yards of the lock-up containing the orange mini, we ground to a halt in th eblack one. no mire drive, though the speedo was still registering speed even though we weren't moving, along with a horrid clunck from the car when the clutch was disengaged. looking under the bonnet, i found that the n/s drive shaft was spinning happily away but not actually moving the wheels..... seems we broke a cv joint, and probably shagged up the drive shaft in the process.....DSCN7590.JPGbugger.....DSCN7591.JPGwell nothing for it but get cocopop, run across to the FiL's and get the "thunderbird" (or is t Blunderbird, maybe Chunderbird, whether or not you care for a metro.)DSCN7592.JPGDSCN7593.JPGa quick turn of the key, and marvin burst (a bit grumpily) in to life. well we have ignored him for an age, or at leat a month or so. poor marvin....DSCN7594.JPGFancy taking on Marvins' angry little brother? MarvinsMom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 The shabby chic* merc is currently sat at my welders having it's rear subframe attached back to the car with actual steel rather than thin air and hope. It's going to cost a bit more than I'd hoped but it was a question of binning it for spares or export or having it fixed. Of course it's still far from perfect but it's going to be safe to use at least. I'm due to collect it tomorrow.A rusty merc, yesterday Lord Sterling, Sigmund Fraud, DeeJay and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy18s Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 As I had some time to kill today I went for a wander and did some spottagesApart from the vines that Tarzan would be proud of,these caught my eye Edit...no idea why some pics have fallen over,all were taken in the same orientation so go figure.... catsinthewelder, Nyphur, Exiled_Tat_Gatherer and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Is that a mobile sewage works attached to the Land Rover? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy18s Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 See if this works....20180619_133043.mp4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy18s Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Is that a mobile sewage works attached to the Land Rover?Could be a milking machine tbh.....But yes,Eko Toi are the local portaloo suppliers so it will be their shit-sucker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcyonecorporation Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Some power has arrived. Seeing as I've mostly broken or sold my cars, or acquired new ones that don't have engines, I blagged this Impreza from my publisher for a bit. It's an absolute hoot, though the rev counter and fuel gauge seem to be linked somehow. It has a very stupid exhaust, which is a bit much, but I did enjoy making the Welsh hills reverberate to the bark of a flat-four Subaru lump once more. Nice car that Turbo 2000, had they not paid JDM coupe money for it back when values were flat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 some modern ferrari. Plus I've just seen over the road a Ferrari F50 - it's done 147km in the las ten years of MOTs, egg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 any ideas on the cargo? It's an italian registered renault truck. the grey was a alfa, yellow not made an appearance yet, but helpfully the driver has brought the truck closer. edit. here is the little beauty, whatever it is. drum, egg, catsinthewelder and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 pagani mercedade 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 Now that looks mad enough to be a super car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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