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In case someone has forgotten, this is work on the throttle part of the diesel pump since it turned out earlier that some parts were installed incorrectly. Today, something has finally happened with this one again. The new/used rear part of the diesel pump arrived today from Greece. I have also received a gasket set for the diesel pump. So this means I can finally make an attempt to fix what is wrong. And there is a difference between the cam on the part from Greece on the left and the one I have on the right. The one on the left is also mounted as we have assumed is the correct way, so then the manual is correct. And after checking where this bit is bolted to on the pump There are also other differences, the part from Greece on the left and my part on the right again. And after checking the manual, the part on the left is correct, so the one I have is mounted wrong. So it's not just the cam that was mounted incorrectly, the part it rides on is also mounted incorrectly. So someone really messed things up on this one. So I chose to use the new parts and after a thorough cleaning, this was put back together and mounted on the diesel pump. And after a little adjustment on the throttle linkages, I started it and it runs perfectly. So it was backed out to let the engine run a bit. And the throttle is much more responsive now and I feel I can increase the revs much more than before. So I think this is fixed now. And I didn't give it full throttle in the video below. 20221021_133318.mp4

Check this out for £500!! It's only a 1969 RHD R4! Yes, 1969 means it has the semi-translucent steering wheel and NOB It's a bit battered, but doesn't actually appear to be too fundamentally fucked. There's a bit of work there, sure, but that's got to be virtually unique over here I'd have thought? Looks like the paintwork will even come up nicely. New bonnet and wings and away you go! https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/537191434831321/ EDIT: it's clearly 1967, apparently I don't know the alphabet

Very thick fog again this morning driving to work in the T25 - I was doing 35mph or so which really is plenty quick enough but I'm very familiar with the roads. Despite this I had a car following me a bit too closely for a few miles. I got to this junction, usually you'd turn left but straight over is an old gravel road that 4x4s go down I decided to take the scenic route so I just went straight across (the road is closed to the right so there's no need to slow down to give way), and the Mondeo behind followed me

My local classic auction house has some interesting low mileage shite coming up in their next sale. Catalogue 29th October - WB & Sons (wbandsons.com) 64,000 Pug 306 1.4 petrol £1000-£3000 51,000 '95 Punto 1.2 £500-£1000 39,000 '83 Astra 1300S £3000-£5000 42,000 '88 Maestro 1.3 £1000-£3000 49,000 '96 Chinq SeX £1500-£2500 23,000 '97 Pug 306 XLdt £3000-£5000 14,000 '90 Renner Compost £4000-£6000 26,000 '04 Rover 75 Diesel £1000-£3000 How much!

Hi everyone,A couple of weeks ago this car was driven for the first time since 2008. But bad, but a lot of work needs to be done:

W00t! The Laguna went and passed! So proud.

That'll do, pig. That'll do. I'm collecting rear brake pads tomorrow.

That's actually a rebadged blower motor from a mk2 astra

A blast from the past for me with this one that turned up in the week: First built one about 40 years. Didn't do a great job, but it was one of my first kits. Only the wheels and instruction sheet have survived. Monogram offered this one as part of a range of basic kits with low parts count, but they did a pretty good job on the basic shape and I think this one nicely captures the look of a TR7. I believe there was a special edition 1:1 in the USA that had those stripes and white wheels (although they're plated in the kit). Got lots of others in the queue, but I'm tempted to start this one soon.

https://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/222901/1981-austin-mini-1000-4000

Thanks everyone. And I would like to know why this was put together wrong, but we will probably never know. I just hope that idiot hasn't been inside the rest of the diesel pump. And it will be exciting how this behaves now that this has been fixed. And I hope that I'm lucky and the weather cooperates so I can drive it one last time before the road salting starts. But I am very surprised at how well liked this and the thread are, I would never have imagined this. So this is just great, so thank you all for that, I just hope that I manage to keep the thread interesting.

Not gonna lie, I spent a lot of money today. But we're so badly served in the UK when it comes to diecasts, you either pay through the nose online, or grab stuff when you see it

So the gearbox is all back together and ready to be fitted. So the first thing I had to do was repair the sack trucks. They live outside and the end caps had rusted and fallen off leaving the wheels free to follow suit. So I had to drill holes through the axles and put big split pins through. Not pretty but it works. The sack trucks are an essential tool in Triumph FWD gearbox swaps. Laid horizontal as such... And then lift the gearbox on. This is just about the limit of how far I can lift it on my own. You will also note the trolley jack. This is then used to get the gearbox level because when filling it there is no dipstick, you just fill it until it reaches the level of the filler plug. So I put the first litre in and went to get some more, official figure is 1.3 litres, when I noticed it was already leaking. I tried tightening the bolts and there was a little movement but not enough to make any difference. So I went back indoors to consider my actions and drink coffee when I remembered the gasket betwixt the centre and back plate was an odd shape at the bottom, and of course it was leaking. You can see here it doesn't follow the line of the mating face. But the packet said 1300 and 1500 FWD so I thought oh well and put more Wellseal on the missing bit. But consulting the book does show the 1300 centre plate is slightly different. I knew the aluminium casting of the back plate was different as the 1500 has a beefed up gearbox mount but I assumed the centre plate was the same. Well apparently not. So I whipped the back plate off again (meaning all the oil falls out again) and used part of a spare gasket that was roughly the right radius and stuck it on It's just tacked on here, it fitted better once I'd smeared it in Wellseal and flattened it out. Then put lots more Wellseal on the corresponding bit of the backplate and stuck it all back together. I've left it to set overnight. Tomorrow I will refill it with oil, but not a whole litre at once this time. A bit at a time and keep checking. Then I'll be ready for the swap. Everything on the car is undone and the rope is attached ready for the lift so I may get it done tomorrow but I won't hold my breath.

Bit of a whistle-stop one this morning - unfortunately I have a conference to set up so can't be getting into too much detail until later... Dark mornings. But some decent tat today. Solido Yanks might tickle someone, but they're not quite my bag. Shell promo Maistos were being offered out at £2 a throw - one of the other stallholders came and bought the whole box, though. Assorted Corgi/ Lesney/ Lledo stuff was also going at £2 a pop. Otherwise clean VW camper tempted me, as replacement barn doors are available, but I didn't in the end. Lots of Corgi Juniors cartoon character vehicles, some better than others. Boxed Corgis for a fiver are always going to get my attention, and this wasn't bad. Older boxed stuff was also in evidence, but presumed spendy. 1980/90s vintage commercial releases maybe not in such high demand these days. Still some BP promo Corgi Juniors. Not many new buses or other OO gauge items- I think we've seen most of these before. A few other buses were lurking in boxes behind, but they were mostly pre-war items except these two: I did find a couple from @Cookiesouwest's list - two Darts and an Olympian - but I haven't photographed them yet! There was also this Code 3 Dart, which I left. So I wasn't able to linger for long, and a cursory glance round the rest of the market indicated very little of interest, unless you want to pay £2 for some old-box Hot Wheels (£4 for the MB Opening Parts) Dunno if I'll get a chance to get back over in the early afternoon, but hey - some tat's better than no tat?

Right. Unpopular answer time. B5-generation Audi A4, pre-facelift (1994-1998). Particularly with the 20v 1.8 pez engine, or the turbocharged 1.8T version. Post-98 they cheapened out a bit on build. I have the 1.8T. Bought it when it was 10, to tide me over. 14 years later, I still have it, because it's been utterly trustworthy and there's absolutely no point in getting rid of it. Some people on here have had bad times with them, I know, and perhaps it's a 'your mileage may vary' thing, but mine has soaked up 100,000 miles during my ownership. It's just approaching 150k all in. It's A Modern Car, really. Has four airbags, plenty of power, 35+mpg, rides quite well (better than virtually any current Audi, anyway), handles neatly (if rather short on involvement), The every-60k cambelt job is a bit of a faff, requiring all the front end to come off for access, but it's all relatively straightforward Halfords socket-set stuff (like, even I can do it, and have done, thrice). It's a twin cam engine, but the cams are chain-driven, so there's only one belt plus auxiliaries to change. I had a strange issue recently where it forgot how to tick over, but the full version of VCD-lite (what once was VAG-COM) is less than £100 and enables all kinds of freaky laptop voodoo. I recalibrated the injection system with it and all is well. I also had suspected head gasket failure at one point; the cooling system was full of mayo, but it turned out that the oil filter heat exchanger was leaking, mixing oil with coolant. Replaced that and flushed the system, right as rain. Only 'take it to a man' fault I've had with it is a sheared driveshaft, which seems pretty major but I think it was about £250 inc parts and labour at a trusted garridge. I still think it's a fairly sharp looking machine, and just about from the era that an Audi didn't immediately identify you as a complete pox on society. I like 'em.

Best pictures I've ever seen

I've been looking for a car that's insurable for my daughter to drive, a guy I know has a suzuki splash 1.0 that's had a bump at the back, he's fixing it ( very slowly) but it's 40 miles away I've been trying to find one to show my wife, scouring car parks for weeks to no avail Then this afternoon, there's one, in front of us at the lights, a red one, turned into lidl and there's a white one parked, went in came out and there's a blue one next to our car At this point I'm starting to think someone is taking the piss and arranged a suzuki splash meet at lidl

I'm going to try and give you an idea of the few hours I had today to walk around Berlin and pop in to a few shops looking for toy cars. I didn't even find a branch of Muller, my usual favourite - just a couple of branches of Smyths, and a TK Maxx. Starting with the TX Maxx I showed earlier Then we found this place If you want a die cast Trabby, this is probably the place to go The museum has dioramas visible through the windows with loads of tiny ones I wished I could have looked around the museum but I only had a few hours available after finishing a job Onto the first of two Smyths Some nice stuff on the shelves but not enough to make me part with my money. Last stop before getting in the van was this Smyths, which was a much better prospect But what did I buy?

https://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/2240395575.htm 1 600 €

To be fair, that's all Harry Dunn's family wants - for her to be held accountable and face up to what she's done in a court of law. They have no desire to see her locked up for a lengthy period.

I haven't yet found this thing fail to cope with anything I've thrown at it. Load-lugging, motorway driving, mobile skip, fording flooded roads... it just gets on with it, no drama. Only 1300cc but goes well enough. All it's needed so far has been tyres and a couple of bulbs. It even has cup holders and central locking. Not exactly outstanding at anything, but good at pretty much everything. Would recommend.

It is possible but I doubt it. What I think happened is that someone who didn't know what they were doing worked on the pump. I can add that I didn't know what I was doing at the diesel pump at the start either, but I wanted to learn and check that I did things correctly and the person who had done things wrong could also have done that.

Win in the supermarket car park.Needs an engine. £1500. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/490332543024960/

My Scirocco has returned from the garage this afternoon, all welded, MOT'd and with a horn that now only honks when you press the button. Huge bill to follow.

I bought this as a winter beater from Ged after he won it in a raffle I did and fitted a new pair of front drive shafts. I really need to get the original bumper refitted because I think it looks daft with what's currently fitted. It's a 1.8 non turbo petrol, constant 4wd with switchable hi/lo. I've been using it for the last couple of days and it's starting to grow on me a little, it's not particularly fast but makes the typical Subaru boxer burble which makes it sound fast. I swapped that Simson moped for it before and the previous owner had made absolutely no attempt to clean it out, it was full of tip run debris, fag ash, old roll ups and crumbs. I cleaned it out last week but it still reeks of cigarette smoke and weed and there's some stains on the seats, I think I may need to enlist a professional to freshen it up but concerned it might still be too revolting inside.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-63296814 A reasonably old lorry and a very old driver.

The number of breakdowns he's had vs the number of miles driven is pretty terrible IMO. Plus you have to take into account the amount of work he's had to do just to keep it vaguely mobile, and all the issues that have happened that were pretty serious, but didn't actually stop the journey. The very fact that these vehicles are starting to need the sort of specialist attention that needs lathe time speaks volumes about the sort of maintenance and reliability you're looking at. You simply can't ignore the fact that they are 40-50 years old and based on 60+ year old technology. Cars in the 60s and 70s were just horribly unreliable even when they were new, had service backup all over the place and parts weren't hard to come by. And no, that's not me being nasty or rude or negative or anything else. It's intended as a reality check. Watching someone else on youtube run an I*****r is one thing. Actually having to maintain one yourself is radically different, especially when you don't have a garage, driveway, appropriate tooling, experience, or (as you've stated yourself) the physical capability to work on it. If a belt shreds on you while driving up to the FoD, even if you've got a spare with you, will you be able to change it at the roadside? Even if you have AA/RAC cover, they're not going to have a clue what to do, and (it being a 3-wheeler) probably can't recovery you for several hours either. I consider myself fairly* mechanically competent, and very experienced at keeping tatty old snotters on the road, but I wouldn't even remotely consider driving an I******r further than I could walk back, or have at least 2 numbers in my phone of people with flatbed recovery vehicles who could come and rescue me when it all goes horribly wrong. You do not want to find yourself broken down in a dangerous spot on a minor road when it's pissing down with rain on a cold march evening and you can't get any mobile reception. Yes, that could happen with any car, but the chances of it happening in your I******r are orders of magnitude higher than if you were in a 2008 ford fiesta. tl:dr. DOOOOOM and GLOOOOM Edit: I'm genuinely not trying to be negative here. My real concern is that you have absolutely no experience of keeping an old car on the road and have slightly* underestimated the amount of time, effort, skill and backup you will need. It would be unfair of me not to make you aware of all this.

I really love coming to Germany. This is just a TK Maxx

This. If I had to sell the fleet and only keep one to do everything it would be my Saab. Comfy, reliable (mostly) and feels safe and well made too. I’d tend to disagree with that. The 940 would be a very capable daily as well, and they’re hewn from granite, very safe.

There's nothing around 2k that isn't 15+ years old and fucked, this is a 13 plate with 73k on it, she'll be fine with it for a first car

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i can crack a smile! i've only gone and fixed it! the cause? this joined them back up, now she starts correctly off the key! how very very wonderful indeed! i'm actually very very pleased about this, really pleased also a package arrived in the post today i suppose it was time to transfer the reg over online, rather easy too and costs £80 all i can say is, wow! doesn't it look absolutely fantastic

Saw this going through Dumfries on a trailer this evening. I believe there is only one in existence. (Not my photo obviously).

Leyland / Morris / BMC - FG | eBay They've got two others it seems; the pick of the bunch must be this one...

Another one for mk8 Civic; I have a 2008 Type R GT but you can't go wrong with any - look for a 1.8 Sport or similar in terms of sheer pragmatism. The petrols are chain driven, and have massive service intervals to boot - on the Type R, the chain interval is 130k and valve clearances (manual tappets!) at 100k. Great cars: comfortable and very well specced. The styling is an acquired taste for sure, but the ergonomics are absolutely fantastic, everything is laid out for the driver's ease of use and convenience. They're a great steer too. I'd also say literally any Corolla/Auris will do the job.

Acclaim sold today for £1500! I had a closer look at the visa tonight, it actually looks not bad underneath... Interior is horrible Crispy

Somewhere in Germany, in the services But what did I buy?

Yet again, another ill informed piece of advice just because its 'cool' to say that on here. Some are a bit more needy like the Vectra B but MK4 Astras are excellent and simple cars, have you ever owned one? I had one for 13 years, 1.8 petrol, the only issue was a cracked radiator at 6 years old. I know lots and lots of other people who have also owned one and had no major issues. Subframes and rear arches rust but it's rarely terminal. The fact that you still see examples of them in the road after 20 years is a sign that they are at least worth considering. It's like anything though, if you buy something that has been looked after and had actual money spent on it over the years, you will likely be fine.

Finally some good news. My wee sister just gave birth. Mother and baby doing well.