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Jimbob McGregor

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  1. It is rather conclusive. I drove it 8 miles back to the workshop without needing to brake, with a certain 1989 Renault Express (Extra) van tailing me! Just splashed some considerable cash (c. £200) on bits for the BX. Genuine brake pipes for both sides at the front, genuine strut return pipes with the clip for the NS, steering rack gaiter and a rear suspension dust guard and clamps as the OS one is all split and exposing the piston and balljoint. Got this lot from Garage80 in the Netherlands. Needed the 3.5mm LHM pipe seals also so got a few bits for my Dyane along with them from ECAS. In the workshop (once I’d cleared out a pesky Peugeot 207 that had a multitude of issues) I checked the car over and tweaked a couple of things, including adjusting up the alternator belt tension to rod the car of the squeal every start up when the glow plug were drawing power. I’m in for a penny, in for a pound with it now so I want to get it fully tweaked into reliable action so it’s able to cope with regular full use without succumbing to silly issues.
  2. One of the suspension strut return pipes has split on the NS too, so need those.
  3. So these are the main MOT failures. The OSF brake pipe is most definitely leaking! I’m looking to see if I can get hold of both front pipes quickly. I don’t have the flaring tool for 3.5mm Citroen pipes.
  4. @Stinkwheel@vulgalour that thought did cross my mind re: the brakes. The Dyane is a standard 1979 V plate. I was given two in about 2002 after the owner died and I enquired about buying one. I didn’t know there were two, and the owner’s son was having to pay to get them removed, so offered them both to me. One had shite mechanics and reasonable body, one had a rotten body/floor/chassis and good mechanics, so I combined the two. I have had it off the road since 2005 and plan to resurrect it asap. My first car was a red1986 2cv Spécial and I’ve had a few.
  5. Not bad at all. As is common, it’s failed on stuff other than what @SmokinWaffle thought (and the corrosion at the rear of the sills is either not bad enough or outside of the prescribed areas, although still demanding of attention, of course). Will get it back up here shortly and get a look at it.
  6. So… ‘BX17RD - the further adventures of PBO’ then?
  7. To be fair, I rarely pass there and it could well have been years ago that they closed for business.
  8. I edited that strangely. Meant to say: This bunch were in Stocksfield, Northumberland and later became Thornwood Cars, always a Volvo specialist. Possibly still there but I didn’t look last time I passed.
  9. And check @loserone’s barnet back then.
  10. First time @loserone was copilot was in 2020…See moonlit shot at 2000ft above sea level at near midnight. That car will be resurrected within 6 months from now.
  11. Some of us thrive on jeopardy, you know!
  12. Arrived back to a cold night in Weardale. You can just make out the chimney on my Ducato in the starry shot. BX bunged in for test on Monday to give me somewhere to temporarily stash it, give me a list to get it through test and the incentive to get it through within the ten working day retest window.
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