Pat Earrings

Just a note to say that my dad passed away this morning. He is at peace now. I will miss him terribly.

Doing a shitely pick up for @Pat Earrings, look what's in the garden

Bad news first.
Just before I closed my workshop doors yesterday, I sprayed some blue over the primed windscreen posts. The garage was warm and dry, the primer looked dry, all looked good but this morning I found this.


The blue / primer has wrinkled around the edges of the Rust Oleum base paint.
Along the bottom of the rear door, the primer also reacted with the paint below.

My plan was to rub down all the areas that I painted with Rust Oleum paint, apply primer and blow over with blue aerosol. This is not going to happen. Evidently, the Rust Oleum paint does not like to be primed and sprayed over. Sorting out these three patches will be awkward enough but redoing both sills would be a nightmare, especially considering the paint compatibility issues. 
I will rub down the windscreen posts and two door bottoms, remove the Rust Oleum paint and prime and spray over in blue. Tomorrow, I am going back to the paint shop and ask the paint man to mix up a fresh tin of matching blue paint, which I will brush apply to the non-matching blue along the sills and wheel arches. 
Slightly disheartened, I left the bodywork repairs for another day.
Now for some good news.
This arrived last night.

And this happened this morning.

I have now ordered a new water pump and thermostat, which should be with me by mid week.
I fitted the new exhaust. In the first photo, it looks like the exhaust hangs low but it doesn't, it fits nicely below the prop-shaft.

The tail pipe sticks out in the right place, all looks good.

Next, I cleaned up the front of the engine and marked up the positions of the three pulleys.

I removed the crankshaft pulley with a generic puller, it came off very easily. Starting this job reminded me of the massive problems I had with the removal of my R53's crankshaft pulley, something that @gm knows all about. Sorry mate.

Fitting the new cam belt was very easy.

The new cam cover gasket fits nicely.

This bit of metal art fits over the exhaust manifold and provides hot air for the air filter housing to inhale. It needed a good rub down.

Much better.

I also cleaned up some exposed fixings.

I reinstated the cam cover, the air filter housing and associated ductwork and all that is left to do is fit the new thermostat and water pump.

Almost forgot, the replacement oil filter has a smaller capacity than the old one.

But it fits just fine.

I also need to change the engine oil.
More next week. With the new thermostat and water pump fitted, I will be ready to fire up the Pinto. How exciting. 
 
 

Good news x2.
Neat paraffin removes overspray from plastics. I have cleaned up the front wheel arch liners that someone forgot to cover when respraying the Sierra.

Remember this?

I cleaned up the air filter housing cover and made a cardboard template of the area that needed covering up.

I then cut the lid off an Isopon P38 tin, the only black flexible plastic thing I had in the garage, into shape, fixed it into place with three self-tappers and, hey presto, job done.

The scratches were already there, presumably occurred during the previous repair.
Once re-installed where it belongs, nobody will ever know.

I think I'm winning.
 

Currently in Reims. Glad the French are holding the side up.
 

And she lives, or at least she seems to.  New Map sensor fitted this afternoon, codes deleted and so far no sign of any new codes and she revs happily past 3000 now.  So now we’ve got to try and get her ready for an mot and sort some new insurance too.  
Gave the headlights a polish as the first part of that. Need to replace a rear light as it appears the lens is coming away. Rather annoying as I’d already replaced it once a while back and this ones gone the same way!! 

Woollard

 
Pez

 
On my way back West, wish me luck!

Looks like I've bought a Tokamak... we've achieved FUSION POWER!
 

The MOT history is unreal. Never failed.

Or at least it feels like that now.
 
So, I was on a walk and I found something so good that I had to reinstall Tapatalk just to do this.

Absolutely no words, except for shite

Our Panda 4X4 we brought for my Sister gained it's 2nd Mot with us Today.😁
Got some advisories to take care of but honestly can't grumble at all. Still puts a smile on my face every time I drive it!

The MOT history is unreal. Never failed.

The MOT history is unreal. Never failed.

I haven't got a rattle gun so I bust out my biggest breaker bar and did some early morning Saturday swearing. 
Looks better with the trims off anyway. 

 
 

 

The MOT history is unreal. Never failed.

The MOT history is unreal. Never failed.

The MOT history is unreal. Never failed.

The MOT history is unreal. Never failed.

Don't refund it. This is the point of a deposit - in my opinion, it's your money if the guy has broken the terms of the deal.

I saw a red one today and instinctively looked at the driver to check if it was Ronnie Pickering

Although I've been quietly wandering around this forum as a guest for a while I though perhaps it was time to take the plunge and sign up.
At the somewhat advanced age of 74 and not being the fittest of individuals my days of crawling about underneath cars are behind me now  but I still dabble in things that don't require too much physical effort.
Over the years I've owned all sorts of four wheeled transport ranging from utter crap to almost decent. Perhaps the most interesting was a Clio 182 Turbo - all 240 bhp of it. Currently we have a 2016 Toyota Auris Hybrid and a 2017 Lexus IS300 Hybrid. Both come under the heading of "Not exciting but totally reliable".
Current project I'm involved in is the grey thing in the attached photo.

 See if you can read the badge and work out what it is. 

https://www.gumtree.com/p/daewoo/daewoo-lanos-low-miles-not-hyundai-/1474442677

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156057024453
 

There can't be many 'olympus' special editions left...
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/787324483216097/

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/305829352501807/