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    colino reacted to St.Jude in Toyota RAV4 GX "Jack" - Scrapped 20th August 2021 // Final Video To End 2021   
    I'm quite impressed with myself, given the bit if sill I fixed today took half as long as the other side. Obviously I've not done the sheet of steel in the middle, as it isn't needed, but I managed to get a repair panel done and on the car in a day.
    I decided, given how much I hate welding upside down, I thought I would try and make the panel on the bench, and then weld it on the car.
    It worked more or less.




    Quite proud of the last image, my welding has come on leaps and bounds.
    Then I do this.

    The left has a big glob, as it kept burning through and I was fixing the hole. Other side is better though, but it's all there.
    All of that sill though, if it wasn't cut and welded, has been Vactan'd on the inside. So I've a bit to do on the outside, obviously, but I can do that in the morning if it's dry or Monday lunchtime.
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    colino reacted to cort16 in eBay tat volume 3.   
    Looks alright for 850 sheets  even though its a diesel.

     
    https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/864860430794262
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    colino got a reaction from Sheefag in Absolute horse shit™ The official thread of Railton Heavy Industries Limited and it's subsidiaries.   
    Well done and best of luck in everything that you do, but don't for one second think that someone who was an administrator at HMRC knows anything about successfully starting and growing a business.
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    colino got a reaction from chadders in Absolute horse shit™ The official thread of Railton Heavy Industries Limited and it's subsidiaries.   
    Well done and best of luck in everything that you do, but don't for one second think that someone who was an administrator at HMRC knows anything about successfully starting and growing a business.
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    colino reacted to chadders in Absolute horse shit™ The official thread of Railton Heavy Industries Limited and it's subsidiaries.   
    Fair enough. I hope that you are getting professional advice though as, although it can be expensive, an early review can save far, far more than it costs. Their experience can be priceless at times.
    There's good reasons why CEOs regularly call in PWC et.al..
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    colino reacted to BorniteIdentity in Absolute horse shit™ The official thread of Railton Heavy Industries Limited and it's subsidiaries.   
    Right.  Guess nobody wants to answer that question then, despite me asking it nicely.
    For those wondering, my post said "Why stop at three" (Stollies).  The OP clearly has money on the hip, wants to run a business and I suggested that he use his money to purchase more.  There was nothing more to my post than that.  (If anyone wishes to claim otherwise, please bear in mind there's a screenshot of my original post)
    It would seem that I'm now quietly on pre-mod, without anyone actually having the courtesy or courage to tell me so.  If I'm not welcome here any more, I'd appreciate just being told - rather than having an undemocratically elected anonymous figure decide what the internet can see and what it can't.
    What a sorry muddle we've become.
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    colino reacted to RichardK in RichardKs wanderings: PT Cruiser or SLK? The MOTs are passed, so... dilemma!   
    An interlude:
    This car was described as someone’s pride and joy:

    These clips are Jaguar’s shame and misery.

    I mean, really, who the fuck clips an accessory wire plug (not socket) to an extension of the washer bottle.

    Cable ties and smashed plastic and rusted broken pennies clips. There’s pride for ya…

    Letting the end one soak. That piece of undertray ahead of the arch is missing so scrapyard hunting for the whole lot will be underway.

    Not sure what removing the grille achieves but I feel like I did something since the fan pack still won’t come out.

    I mean the whole undertray is just a mess.

    Goodnight Jaguar.

    I am determined to fix this damn thing, without breaking more things on it, and the subframe will be getting a lot of Jenolite gel while this is all apart, but I really am unimpressed with Jaguar’s fixture and fittings approach.
    And still baffled how the utterly shagged radiator could have been missed before I got it.
    Going to get a set of ramps to make fixing underneath this doable.
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    colino reacted to Snake Charmer in Mercedes E320 CDI S211, Shite or Shiteable?   
    The car landed here today, I only had a quick look around. Scruffy appearance outside as it is very dirty, some lacquer peel from a rear quarter repair, scabby alloys and budget tyres, some rust showing in the arches and doors. Everything seems to work and the interior is a very nice place to be. 7 seater with an electric boot and load cover, parking sensors etc.,  Nokia phone ready to use in the console too!
    I will give it a wash over the weekend, have a fiddle then run it in for an Mot and a mooch underneath on the ramp. I quite like it compared to the Vectra, then again, who wouldn't? 
     
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    colino got a reaction from wuvvum in eBay tat volume 3.   
    If a Simca 1100, "purrs like a kitten", he doesn't know how to adjust tappets.  That one looks suspiciously like the same colour as mine was - after I'd hand painted it with Parsons Repaint.
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    colino got a reaction from Skizzer in eBay tat volume 3.   
    If a Simca 1100, "purrs like a kitten", he doesn't know how to adjust tappets.  That one looks suspiciously like the same colour as mine was - after I'd hand painted it with Parsons Repaint.
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    colino reacted to St.Jude in Toyota RAV4 GX "Jack" - Scrapped 20th August 2021 // Final Video To End 2021   
    More going on.
    I haven't quite finished with the one sheet I bought, but decided for speed I'd cut the strip from the fresh sheet.

    Made a new panel, and tacked it together, then checked it again. This time, thankfully, it was a good fit. Ish. Got a little to fettle but will do that when it's complete on the car.




    And the violin - that's et viola isn't it? - another section offered up and welded on (not in this photo).

    Tacked one bit on the underside of the arch. Light was crap and I needed to do a bench.
    The rust is from the flash rain we had at the weekend, when I was drunk, and didn't even think I had left that unprotected. I'll Vactan in when I grid back the welds. All of that panel, by the way, is welded. 
    I'm so used to the panels flexing, now it's solid. Even the bit above, although I have warped it slightly. Nothing the filler won't sort out! 
    Or a hammer.
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    colino reacted to RichardK in RichardKs wanderings: PT Cruiser or SLK? The MOTs are passed, so... dilemma!   
    Just the little things:



    This makes me very happy. One of those things that tidies it up /and/ helps prevent rust.

    Decided on the plate.
    Checked the lights at night and I have maybe the only E36 I’ve seen in years with four equally-bright and shiny tail lights…
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    colino reacted to fraser.innes.3 in New unit   
    Finally something good has happened to me. This is ours from Monday Plenty of car storage space, and room for my 2 post lift, and all of my tools. CCTV security, 3 phase and running water!
     
    Sent from my EML-L29 using Tapatalk
     
     
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    colino got a reaction from mercedade in Dollywobbler's Consolidated Tat Thread   
    First of all that monotonous, "Wizard", yes that incompetent tosser has worked magic, by grabbing on the coat tails of a YT star.  He is a typical technician where big lumps are unbolted and sent off to someone skilled to repair and he makes another drudge of a recording explaining how he did it.  For some more unwanted advice, I would have no more than 4 cars in that shed,  too easy to make clutter your enemy/excuse.   You have a great channel, so that shed is your studio/money maker so it should be a comfortable workplace.   Why not do a crossover with that masochist who loves to roll around in cold, wet driveways replacing clutches?   You would both get new followers in that great Venn diagram of subscribers: You would get a new lease of life in that family car/business parts chaser at a discount too. 
    Feel free to ignore, that's what the tinternet is for. 
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    colino reacted to dean36014 in The new news 24 thread   
    Threw some paint on the van as I got fed up sanding. I'll never make a bodywork man but at least it's one colour. Hopefully in a few weeks I can flat it back and polish it up. Considering it was a twenty quid spray gun and painted outside I'm pretty happy with my first attempt at painting a whole vehicle. 


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    colino reacted to Talbot in Dollywobbler's Consolidated Tat Thread   
    Says the man with two OltCits. 
    My 2p's worth:  You need to get properly stuck into some of these projects you have.  Like 6-8hrs a day of work.  I don't know if you treat your video making as if it were a "normal" full-time job, but the *impression* I get from your videos is that you spend just a few hours at the unit each time before running out of steam and running away to do something else.  The car review stuff is interesting, but I do think you need more of the core "dicking about with old cars" content.
    I may be wide of the mark here.  You might be putting in a lot more time at the unit on these than I think, but that's just how it feels.  Certainly compared to the engine-out and major work videos that you had for things like TWK and Foxanne, you've not done anything that "adventurous" for a little while.
    However, that's just me, and I like indepth technical content:  With something like Hoovies Garage, I'm far more interested in what happens down at the Car Wiiiiiiiiiizard rather than watching a pillock with more money than sense barreling about in his cars.  It's just a shame that the wizard's own tube channel is as dry as the sahara, hence is quite hard work to watch.
    Getting back to the C5.  Even with a 6hr book time, you'd be looking at 2-3 days of solid work to get that done in the unit with jacks and swearing.  It would be an interesting couple of videos that you could release over a couple of weeks, meaning you've got 2-3 weeks of content generated in 2-3 days.  I know it's *massively* more complex than that.  Editing takes up a lot of time, so maybe double the content generation time, but that's still not a bad content release Vs content generation ratio.
    I'm just very much looking forward to the video "I pulled the engine and gearbox out of the OltCit to assess it properly" or "I stripped the wiring out of the Yugo to get it running" etc.  Even just a "I pulled the engine out of the Charade in order to strip it down and fit new piston rings".
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    colino reacted to timolloyd in Dollywobbler's Consolidated Tat Thread   
    I’ve always assumed there’s a certain amount of YouTube economics influencing HubNut’s decisions. Perhaps new car intro videos net more £ and it’s better to keep turning over the fleet?
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    colino reacted to Motown in Rovervitis   
    Symptoms include: Divorce. Multiple Rovers. Empty bank accounts and hoarding of parts from years 1977 to 2005. 
    My Rovervitis is so bad i am now buying back cars i previously sold...
    So a few years ago i rescued this Rover 45 Saloon it was a 1.8 CVT of which they were only known to be three of on the road with this colour and interior. I remember at the time a chap called Craig Cheetham had the V6 model and he wrote an article on the car. it was one of the first cars off the production line and was a press car for its model. It had the rarest of the personal line interiors catkin green valour and an exterior colour celadon green pearl of which only featured on Rovers 45s for the first four months of production making it quite rare in its own right.
    It had been sat in a yard in Birmingham for a few years and was in a very bad state mechanically so when i bought it i had a partial restoration done just to get it back on the road. However on the way home from Birmingham the engine blew up pistons one and four if i remember rightly straight through the block. Once the RAC got it home after a four hour wait on the hard shoulder i spent the next few months fully restoring it new engine box the works i did the lot below is a picture of the car when it was finished.

    When it was finished i drove the car regularly and in that time it earnt the name Christine due to it giving my wife static shocks when getting in and out of the car and it not starting occasionally whenever she decided to drive it. The car also decided to spin out on a roundabout once at 40mph for no apparent reason but never caused me any issues and was a very comfortable reliable and enjoyable car.
     

     
    After about two years of ownership i sold it to a chap down south and i never saw it again until last week when it popped up on FB marketplace it was listed as a non runner and its MOT has expired so i bought it back.
    It will now be restored for a third time only this time il be keeping the car and will no doubt use it for the 100 mile daily commute to work. Which i am currently doing in an 827 so off the top of my head il cut my fuel consumption in half driving the 45.
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    colino got a reaction from chodweaver in RichardKs wanderings: PT Cruiser or SLK? The MOTs are passed, so... dilemma!   
    On the ZF gearboxes there is whole lot of nonsense written about how difficult a filter and fluid change is, It isn't and I've done loads armed with no more than a trolley jack, ramps and/or axle stands to get it up and level.  Expensive Flir gun?  Nope, run it through the gears until the pan gets warm, not hot, to the touch. 
    But getting to the point, it will be cold when you change the radiator/condenser and you will want the front up in the air for access anyway.  Autobox wont be under pressure, you'll be armed with specially designed, manufacturers bungs (Clean, lint free rags) and you disconnect, plug them and zip tie them up the way until your ready to refit.
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    colino reacted to dean36014 in Absolute horse shit™ The official thread of Railton Heavy Industries Limited and it's subsidiaries.   
    Ok I'm going to get absolutely slaughtered here but so be it.  James, are you ok? I say this with the best intentions but I do find this thread very worrying. All the vehicle buying, house selling, it just seems very out of character.  I just want to know that you're feeling well, not having a manic episode and you've thought all this through. 
    Not getting into a slanging match with you and I'm not going to respond to any replies. I just want to know you are ok.
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    colino reacted to Snake Charmer in Mercedes E320 CDI S211, Shite or Shiteable?   
    I had a text after he went out for a drive to charge the battery and air suspension with a dash photo,  Mpg seems to be what I was expecting, closer to my Golf though. Local roads up to 60mph so probably similar to my commute. I may have it here a while for an Mot and a good coat of looking at.   🙈

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    colino reacted to St.Jude in Toyota RAV4 GX "Jack" - Scrapped 20th August 2021 // Final Video To End 2021   
    On the finest day of the year, when I fully expected to be in bed from the Pfizer jab I had yesterday...


    I've also been told to hurry up by the wife, as I need to do break the MG, get some wooden flooring, paint etc, as we are expecting our first born in November.
    I get to keep the RAV4 until the Lada is on the road. Which is good I suppose. It also means that the wife took it upon herself to get a Mercedes Benz C350e as baby can't be seen dead in any child I think is nice. The wife very much likes that car, and that car only.

    While I brokered the deal (as it was my gaffers old company car), I can't say I like it. I have to be careful with what I wear in it, how I drive it etc. So I need this RAV4 on the road so I can wear jeans while I drive!!!
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    colino reacted to Grumblespeed in 1988 Fiat Panda, minor update.   
    Got it running. Of all the daft things there was a tiny crack in the fuel filter. Pump on these pulls from the top so the pipe's never under pressure so never showed up as a leak but when the pipe had drained down and the pump was trying to prime all the way from the tank it was just sucking up air. Got a little vacuum  pump on there (that's when I noticed the bubbles in the filter) and primed the system, dropped some fuel down into the float chamber, new fuel filter (glad I took a spare) some cranking to wake it  up and it spluttered into life. Bit reluctant from cold but once it settled down and the choke was in it ran pretty sweetly. For whoever wins this too, there's a little part missing off the driver's door handle linkage for the internal release. I managed to get it back together enough it'll probably work for a bit but it's not terribly secure so be gentle/ fix it soon.
    Love these little cars - so easy to work with.  This one's a credit to @spartacus.
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    colino got a reaction from Snake Charmer in Mercedes E320 CDI S211, Shite or Shiteable?   
    I'm sure you can coax golf fuel economy out of it, but rust is real on w211s.  Bigger issue will be the shit SBC system. 
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    colino reacted to angle in Specially Adapted Cars   
    A lot of people probably will have seen this already, but this 911 is one of the best things on pistonheads, used for moving race car parts about when it's urgent. 
    'Built for commuting across Europe and the top end of Africa at speed it can carry 96L of fuel, generate it's own 240V mains supply, has three GPS receivers and one GLONASS receiver, a sat phone, telemetry, remote diagnostics, it's own specific lightweight Facom tool kit & spares package, 48hour emergency food and water, holds 10L of engine oil, can wade 0.5M of water, has BS5051 spec seal sealing tyres along with TPMS, a lot of underbody protection and a Tomtom!'
    https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t=1601182
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