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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!

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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'!

 

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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! :)

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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*

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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.

 

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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'!

 

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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. :D

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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.

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£30 eBay 12v impact wrench arrived today, runs off the ciggy lighter. Delivers 300Nm allegedly

 

One of these bad boys

 

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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

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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.

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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:

 

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Once at work, I turn into this guy:

 

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I even look a bit like Dilbert, same build and style albeit with darker hair.

 

Still, you gotta look on the bright side :lol:

 

At least my car is with its own like:

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Some power has arrived.

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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.

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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.....

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bugger.....

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well 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.)

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a 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....

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Fancy taking on Marvins' angry little brother?

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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.

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A rusty merc, yesterday

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Some power has arrived.

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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. 

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