HillmanImp

ImpJr said it was gonna be a Rickroll. I was hoping it was going to be a link to some beautiful ladies.

'Twas brillig just in case anyone else wondered what the QR code was.

Sorry guys. I heard he ate too many baked potatoes, went to barf out the Toyota's door whilst driving, fell out and it ran him over before he could write out part three.

We can't be 100% sure he's got collecting a Maxus.

Ah, you off to get this?

I do wonder how many bees this kills off. They think it's warm enough to wake up and start a hive somewhere bumble around in the nice clement weather then get frozen when we get a spell of normal weather for the season.

Are you on a boat?

My Grandads 2nd World war flight log was on display at that Museum. He used to fly Wellingtons for the Canadian Air force (not sure why Canada TBH, he was from Carlisle).

Is there an update on the next Shite fest released? Seems to be trending on Twitter with GB news and disgraced Tory MPs.

Got out before the rain hit today and changed the oil on the Elgrand. The filler cap is comically far back so I had to use this to put the oil in. Nice touch on the Elgrand that I don't recall seeing on cars I've changed filters on before is under it, there is a bit of metal to catch the oil and direct it into the pan. This means that during the oil change procedure I managed to not actually spill any oil on the fucking driveway. Not a drop. Miracles never cease eh? Anyway, I then poured all the oil into my jerry can.... Fuxake.

Whenever I see a post by @blguy1975 I panic in case I've accidentally logged onto a swingers forum.

Mines arrived too, thanks.

One life, live it etc

Whilst quite new, I was surprised to see this bumbling along in Shipley yesterday. Also got a good shot of the driver.

I don't think that looks too bad TBH. Bit worn here and there but looks pretty honest. Probably better than most looked when they were just 5yrs old. Bit of tidying up as you go. Just a nice rolling summer project. I doubt you'd lose any money in the next few years.

Ta chaps, will check them before I start effing around with anything. Didn't get a chance to go out today as it was royally pissing down but will have a go tomorrow if I can.

Right, update time. Saturday before last, I managed to get to the oil separator and flame trap. Bit of a pain as its stuck behind the pulse air system which needed removing first. Once out, was very simple to replace with the whole new set I'd ordered as opposed to cleaning the old one. The one on there was metal as opposed to plastic like the new one. Put it all back together and the car ran okay. Result. So that's one worry out of the way, so I then took the front to bits to sort out the oil leak. Looking at all the oil, it wasn't apparent where the leak was from so I replaced the two top seals and then went to do the crank seal which is the one that I suspected was the issue as it had moved further back than expected when putting it in. 2 hours later and a variety of bent tools it still wasn't coming out and my enthusiasm was well and truly gone. Screwdrivers wouldn't do it, I tried putting some decking screws in, no joy, used some dental tools for scraping plaque that I found in a drawer buy they just bent. Nothing would get it out. Looked at one of these: But the seal would've been too far in to get at it. Messaged Volksy for any hints and tips and he suggested I get one of these: So one was ordered and the car was lobbed sort of back together waiting for the weather to clear to give it a go. This Saturday, the weather was nice so got up, put my new tool together and the oil seal came out in seconds. Halle-fucking-lujah. So the new seal was lobbed in, everything was cleaned up ready to be put back together. Volksy came ovet to drop off some oil and to do some work on the BIG, although part of the reason was probably to just check what I was doing to avoid me bothering him again. Started getting it sort of together, ran it, took it apart again, no sign of oil leaks. Result. Started putting it back together again, tightened one of the pulleys before releasing the tensioner and the belt slipped, so had to re time it. So put it all together again and fired it up. Was working fine. Took it for a short drive to the pub. No oil leak. Came back out of the pub. No oil leak. Drove back via the shop No oil leak. Also no rear n/s indicator. Okay, think I can relax. Yesterday, I popped to Halfrauds for a bulb. They were selling off their bulb kits for £2 each. Bought a few, replaced the indicator bulb got home and lifted the boot floor and found all this. Including 3 cambelts, fan and ps belts, lots of bulbs, Haynes BoL, which I'd bought myself in the last few weeks. If I'd looked here before it would've saved me a few quid. 😂 So the car is now running...... however it's now not idling right. Idle is fine when I start and I assume its on choke but when driving and pulling up to a junction its on the verge of stalling. Gonna start looking at the pulse air again and oil separator again in case something isn't right before I look at other things that could be causing it. Any obvious suggestions appreciated before I start adjusting it normally. I don't want to adjust the idle and upset a balance if its something else as it was fine before.

Wall calendar please.

Just remembered this.

I dunno, drinks a lot and quite often out of control? Probably quite similar.

Thanks. I might take it to bits and it could be from one of the other two but I suspect it's this one. Will have a look and see. I've got to wrestle off the pulse air system first though to get to the PCV and flame trap, which is gonna eat into my time a bit but hopefully I can get it all done.

Righto, the weather looks mostly bearable tomorrow so I'm gonna go out and tackle this. I suspect that the culprit for the oil leak is the crankshaft pulley seal. When I put it in, I'm sure it went a lot further back than the one I took out, which I thought was odd at the time but there was no way of me getting it out again without damaging it and I didn't have another, so it all went back together. Has anyone else had this on any vehicle? I assumed (probably wrongly) that you'd push it back until it was seated on something? Looking online at vids you can see that the ones people are putting in are pretty flush: So this time I'm just gonna lob the new one in about that far and leave it with a gap behind it?

On the Audi, the electrics are in the o/s cubby hole in the boot. They didn't work when I got it but I do remember getting them working. Whether they still do is another matter of course. Didn't now about the fuel leak. Hopefully nothing too bad? I do worry about selling cars to people on here with actual mechanical knowledge as unless its something thats happened to me before, with my limited skills and knowledge I only know somethings wrong when it actually blows up.