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  1. 1 minute ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

    That's the kind of car that would help unravel the Secrets of the Motorway or possibly you could visit every single service station in the UK in......

  2. 17 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

    High mileage (216,000) Saab estate , 11 months MoT, what could possibly go wrong? 
    (I feel drawn to this one for some reason)

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    I like 95s but this one has the 2.2 Vauxhall/Opel lump which is normally a horribly unreliable/gutless nasty pile  of toss of an engine. A bit amazed its got such high mileage I guess there is always an exception! If you can find a 1.9 Fiat diesel propelled 95 I think that would be a better bet.

  3. Fleshing this out a bit more - pics from Mrs Marina Door Handles phone from the first collection...

    Black shadow before  we had a massive fight to get it off the bike lift/ramp thing (which was jammed in position 3 foot off the ground!).

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    Oh and that engine in is/was his spare Honda Goldwing flat four... Which was another slight issue in that he had spares for bikes he no longer or had never owned making things a tad confusing.... What does this go with? Who knows!

    The Elsinore... Sweet little bike American import rather rare over here.

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    Suzuki 150

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    Sadly no pics of the Norton international cause it was just a frame and a big pile of parts!

     

  4. This is one for the bike pervs!

    My sort of Father in law (I am not actually married to his Daughter but its close enough!) liked motor bikes and didn't really like selling them. He also had a bad habit of taking them apart and then he would get distracted and start working on the next bike and then the next bike. This habit/hobby interest started in the Sixties but fortunately he was fairly selective and as a ships engineer would spend a good 6 months or so at sea unable to purchase more bikes! 

    Fast forward to January 2024 and sadly he left for the great race circuit in the sky, leaving behind a collection of 12 motor bikes, only 2 were properly complete. He didn't label anything as " he knew were everything was", this meant in the shed and garage there were piles of parts, draws of carburetors and gear sets etc but with no clues as to which bikes they belonged to! This isn't a dig at him, like most of us he hadn't spared too many thoughts about dying!  But it has inspired me to actually label up my various car parts for my 3 project cars, so should I get run over by a number 42 bus, my other half will find off loading all the cars and bits that bit easier! 

    After talking to the Mother in Law a decision was made  that it all bikes and bits needed to go, she suggested scrap! We suggested auction as it might help towards her care home fees especially as one of the bikes is a none matching numbers Vincent Black Shadow! 

    Anyway after a bit of shopping around My better half got Bonhams to agree to deal with all 12 bikes. A couple of weeks ago the first batch of bikes got collected they were the Vincent, a Norton International, a little Honda Elsinore scrambler and a Suzuki 150  - photos to follow as my other half has those...

    Today the rest of the bikes and bike frames went... Including a Moto Guzzi, Norton Rotary,  Yamaha Vmax, Honda Gold wing (early 4 cylinder) Honda CB750 and a Sunbeam.

    Guzzi and Goldwing (the Goldwing looks like a bobber, its not its just been stripped back to its frame).

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    V-Max, Norton and CB750, plus a spare Honda Engine....

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    A Sunbeam in a shed...

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    A van's load bed of mostly bike parts and bits...

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    I'm not really a bike person but it was nice to have a proper (and last) look at these, I can certainly appreciate the engineering and they are all quite interesting in their own ways.  It was sad to see them go a real end of an era for me. I believe most of them will be auctioned as reasonably complete projects, I hope they find good homes! 

    More pics to follow hopefully, thanks for reading!  

     

  5. 56 minutes ago, Andrew353w said:

    I'm sure, as a Subaru expert, you're going to tell me there's an easy way to do it, but I've just spent 4 hours changing the spark plugs on my 2010 Forester & I feel I deserve a medal! Taking the air box from the offside, disconnecting the MAP sensor and removing the battery from the nearside is really easy, giving one a false sense of ease regarding the rest of it, but blimey, that's some job! Fortunately I have quite small hands, which helps, but the job's still incredibly fiddly! No wonder Subaru only recommend a plug change every 60,000 miles! In fact, my Forester is at 90,000 miles, so I've jumped the gun a bit, and I'm sure it'll be a (tiny) bit easier next time! 

    Ha ha - no the plugs are awkward buggers! I suspect as yours is more modern (multi valve heads?) the plugs might be in even deeper than on my older model.  When I did mine I removed as many things on either side as possible, including hoiking the screen wash reservoir up a bit. Mind you, do make sure they are in nice and securely - having a plug unwind itself and pop out of the head whilst driving makes the most amazing racket, I thought I had blown a hole in the exhaust manifold or possibly worse! 

  6. 4 minutes ago, N Dentressangle said:

    Completely with you on a pragmatic approach - you can always tidy things up later if you feel the need.

    Are they the ubiquitous Marina door handles, or just very similar? 🤣

    I am disappointed that they are not Marina Door handles 😪 . I did test drive one of these along time ago, went really nicely, made a great noise for a four cylinder - possibly because of the intake noise courtesy of the big Dellortos. 

    Yep I liked it a lot and then I went and bought a Reliant Scimitar, sorry........

  7. Had a bit of spare time, so I have been attempting to turn the Subaru filler into a Rover one.......

    Firstly weld up the hole on the back for a random valve/breather thing that only later Subarus have and remove the flange that bolts to the body....

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    Made a slightly crap copy of the flange on the end of the filler that has the retaining bolts, I used the original  and pretty disgusting looking gasket to get roughly the right shape IMG_20240318_115014981.jpg.6424479f5f251d0bad6a7b37a5b50865.jpg

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    Flange created, its scruffy but it will do (and it will tidy up a bit in due course).

    Trial fit....

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    Next was trying to trial fit the neck and the flange in place in the car, this resulted in cutting off a slightly bent end from the filler neck and welding in a straighter 4 inch section, so it lines up with the original hose.  

    Kinda works, excuse the blur (frikin camera phone doesn't like focusing on things more than 5 inches away!) but it demonstrates what I am trying to do hopefully!

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    Top end in place and yes the hose clamp will be going and the tabs will be welded in place but for the sake of getting things to line up I need to trial all the individual parts first.

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    Fuel cap on....

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    Wrongness! Might have to amend that, what should it say in place of Subaru? RohvA! Or maybe Undeaded Petril Ownly....

    Thats all for now....

     

  8. A couple of months back one of my more pessimistic colleagues said "with the rate our company is losing money I do wonder if they will just give up and close the doors come the new financial year in April?"  Well he was pretty much spot on, its now March and it looks like I have about 40 days to find a new job, oh goody 😬!

  9. 1 hour ago, Peter C said:

     

    Thank you for looking this up.

    I've taken a photo of the part number from my tail light.

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    That's the same number as the one listed on the advert: 87BG-13A603-AA

    However, I wonder whether that number relates to the inner grey coloured element and this part of the number: 6157282 relates to the outer lens, which is different on a hatchback? 

    I have had a quick look on Microcat (Fords parts system) the part number I am getting for the outer LH side lens for a sapphire is 6177669, hope that helps.

     

  10. 59 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

    If you look at the hundreds Facebook photos nobody pointed their camera at the Sigma. Also only one person spoke to me about the car while I was sat in it.

    I did notice your Sigma and was pleased to see it but mistook it for a Galant, doh! I think its sits in the same kind of area of as my Subaru Forester, rare but few people care..... Maybe you should have put the bonnet up, that always seems to draw a crowd regardless of what the car is.

  11. Faffage continues......

    The interior is slowly coming together, gone from this....

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    To this...

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    Yep  I have just pulled everything out, re fitted the boot carpet and sides, bolted the rear split fold seat backs -back in and gone on a massive hoovering/cleaning bash! So actually not got very far but it looks better.

    Next rear suspension..

    Re secure the NS trailing arm.....

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    Yes the big washer is missing, that was just to wind the bush in, I needed to get it so far in before I could then have enough thread to get the nut and washer on.

    That job done onto the rear anti roll bar issues, I had disconnected it so I could get full droop on the passenger side suspension arm for welding access. On re fitting the track rods, one of the threads picked up and jammed leaving it rattling about...

    No conventional spannering technique could free the nut, the shaft kept spinning and the little square section on the other side you secure with a spanner started to round off. Time to crack out the welder then! Firstly attempt to weld a sacrificial spanner to the square section.....

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    This went slightly too well fusing the spanner to the shaft of the drop link and the suspension arm.. On the plus side I managed to free the nut off! It just took some serious persuasion to get the drop link free from the spanner and the arm, leaving a chunk of weld blob on the arm..

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    Fortunately I could get my finger sander in the gap and clean it off... End result.

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    Not too bad and soon the area will look just as scabby as the rest of the suspension! 

    The downside of all this is that the drop link is pretty shagged and its one of those parts you cannot get a straight replacement for. Like the wheel nuts there maybe a work around but in the case of the drop link I cannot find a straight swap. So with that in mind I removed the entire rear anti roll bar and plonked it in the boot. This is a MOT friendly modification, broken ARB is a obviously a fail but no roll bar is no problem.

    On the subject of hard to find parts, I am still in two minds about selling the car without a fuel filler neck fitted. By a stroke of bad luck I am having fuel leakage issues with my Subaru and have managed to skillfully use what I thought was the original part number to buy the wrong filler neck but it may yet come in use full yet.......

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    The top half of it is a really close match to the Rover part a bit of careful cutting and this might well be the solution... The best part is this wrong part cost me £60, a hand made Rover replacement is nearly 4x the price....

    As you may have noticed the Rover pipe has some additional spaghetti, so I chopped it up to try and figure out what the pipe work was doing and if I can replicate it using the additional pipe work attached to the Subaru filler....

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    It just sort of loops pointlessly? Well that is easy enough to copy. 

    And that is were this post ends, hopefully this all makes sense? Thanks for reading! 

     

  12. On 08/03/2024 at 17:34, Sunny Jim said:

    I'll be there in my C15. (Thought about washing it after work but it's bloomin' freezing here so thought fuck it, it'll only get dirty on the run down there).

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    Pretty sure you followed my silver Honda Accord out of the event onto the M40! 

    Anyway didn't manage to speak to anyone so here are some bad pictures....

    The none event parking spots..

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    Rather glad I didn't park in the display areas as I would have missed those gems!

     

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