Pete-M

Names, cars, 
I tried to get everyone to say their username but i largely forgot and became confused!
I'm Tim, (Formerly Tim_E here) and had one of the million Volvos, mine was  the dark blue 740 saloon with the hammock and bagpipes. (And two kids)
It was totally awesome to meet you all!

It did take 9 hours
But I stopped 3 times so maybe 8?
Filled up in holyhead yesterday did maybe 30 miles in that and it still has one square left
Sainustys next door so fk frog petrol
 
 

Quick roundup for the weekend.
As usual, Shitefest is always a fucking tremendous activity even if your only activity is sitting about drinking tea. Seeing loads of friendly faces old and new it's always a a fucking hoot. As everyone else says, big thanks to @Sunny Jim for organising it / conversing with Ted the site owner and helping out with the brekkie on the Sunday morning. And bringing a Shitefest doggo!
I wanted to convoy for the simple reason that heading around Manchester / Wigan / Warrington / Lymm / Chester at any time after lunch time on a Friday afternoon is grim. Noone else was up for leaving at "Railway time" (I suggested 0630 meet at Cairn Lodge services) so I ended up making my own way.
0620 departure from the parents' house 'cos that's where the trailer lives...

A Tebay breakfast was had and the next stop was the British Commercial Motor Museum. It's a cracker wee wander about and it's only about 5 mins off the M6 at J28. Well worth the £8 to get in.

There was lots to see from horse drawn stuff to steam stuff to petrol stuff to diesel stuff to modern hybrid stuff. I'll post a miniscule selection...
                
They had a few engines on stands which always catch my attention. This Cummins L10 is a truck variant (you can tell by the way that it is) but it's the same engine my bus had. Mines was 180bhp and this one is either a 180 or 215bhp just by looking at it. The ratings plate was missing. For more power you need an intercooler which would designate it a LTA10.
       
Then there was this. Something quite special.

A Gardner straight 8 diesel engine. I'm personally guessing it's an 8LXB although one of the volunteers at the museum said it was donated recently by a random person who had it in their garden and they reckoned it came out of a boat which would more likely make it an 8LW. Thing is, though, 8LWs have individual cylinders and individual priming pumps for each cylinder on the injection pump. This one does not. The other thing that makes me think it's an 8LXB is...

...it's fucking turbocharged! Which would make it an 8LXBT or 8LXCT. Rare enough seeing an 8 banger never mind one with added windy pops. Oh and it's also got a radiator fan and a compressor mounted to it. You don't get those on marine engines.
Anyways onwards to Shitefest. I took the wiggly road toward Wrexham then Llangollen then the A5 to Bethesda then the REALLY wiggly road straight over the hill to the site. It was quite nice...

And onwards to the festivities.
As the first to arrive I was tasked by the other Scotoshiters to set up "Scotch Corner"...
  
@juular and WOMAN_juular were the next diciples of Scotoshite to arrive before being joined by messyrs @320touring, @jaypee, @Supernaut, @cms206, @aldo135 @sdkrc and @captain_70s(very laterer on)...

And then the rest of Shitefest happened (Not all the photos I took)...








@binhoker668 even had an art gallery installation set up at the bottom of the field...

@cms206 turned up a couple of hours later than most of Scotland in what can only be described as a mobile mansion...

And in typical, hundred year old buildings, it wasn't 100% structurally sound...

Nice view though from the roof

Once it was shunted up to Scotch Corner, we rolled out the welcome banner. @Ghosty has been custodian of the banner for a few years now. I've heard through the rumour mill it may have accidentally made it's way to Scotland in the back of said mobile house...

@cms206 also bought me a present!

Fucking ace! Disappointed though as the 205 has a tape player. Will need to get it on to the computer and in to MP3 format before I can listen to it.
Next day a railway and slate museum happened...





 

To be honest, I couldn't be arsed taking any photos in the museum because I was too busy looking at stuff, it was hot and I was tired. So have a gratuitous photo of a dog instead...

I think that's everything. Oh aye the 205 shat a fuel leakoff pipe on departure from SF22 on the Sunday morning so it was leaking to outside the car rather than back to the tank and I reckon I lost about a litre. It was replaced with a section of newer hose from between the injectors and the old hose was long enough to be swapped in to that position.
Even pissing out as much fuel as it did, I still managed 46.8mpg on the way back to Scotlandland at a steadyish 60mph towing the trailer. We used the A55 rather than the wiggly road this time. On the way south I only* got 41.7mpg.
Right, I think that about covers everything.

 

Enjoyed it, especially catching up with a few of you I've not seen for about a decade. 
Great fun. 

Enjoyed it, especially catching up with a few of you I've not seen for about a decade. 
Great fun. 

Enjoyed it, especially catching up with a few of you I've not seen for about a decade. 
Great fun. 

Enjoyed it, especially catching up with a few of you I've not seen for about a decade. 
Great fun. 

Enjoyed it, especially catching up with a few of you I've not seen for about a decade. 
Great fun. 

so much nuts in the first pic and
CELTIC SOUL BRUTHAS  in the second
 

Enjoyed it, especially catching up with a few of you I've not seen for about a decade. 
Great fun. 

Enjoyed it, especially catching up with a few of you I've not seen for about a decade. 
Great fun. 

Enjoyed it, especially catching up with a few of you I've not seen for about a decade. 
Great fun. 

Enjoyed it, especially catching up with a few of you I've not seen for about a decade. 
Great fun. 

Enjoyed it, especially catching up with a few of you I've not seen for about a decade. 
Great fun. 

That’s the Cornish back . Myself and brother were pretty smug having Ac today that’s for sure . Not that we mentioned it much to my young employee Dan in the matt black focus with a non operating ns window . The focus is now nicknamed the toaster and him the pop tart . 
 
Many many thanks to all that made it happen and especially @Sunny Jim for organising it and a cracking informative walk on the Saturday . 

Another cracking AS weekend, thanks to all who came but particularly @Sunny Jim
Weather was glorious although a bit hot for some.  I only found it too hot in the train as one of the windows was taped shut.  Otherwise it was best dealt with by a combination of sitting in the shade, eating ice cream and drinking lots of beer so I can't think of a better bunch to be with (apart from a few of you who couldn't make it).  Even had a swim in the river this morning which was a little scary as it's 14' deep by the campsite but ideal for jumping in once we were feeling more confident.
I came back via Beddgelert for a slight change of fantastic scenery which took about 3 hours.

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Midge bastards

Thanks to Jim for the organising and to everyone who turned up.
Aircon  Inside 18C outside 30C 😁
Only bad news is I've just found out that it's a bumper off job to get to the fan and a new one is a bit short of £300. 😳

Thanks everyone for a great weekend! 

Made it bigger

Sorry to miss this, but currently around 600 miles away having a rubbish time in France.

Hope you all have a great weekend in my home country - I'm genuinely gutted not to be able to make it this year.

I'd have been there by now but the timing chain tensioner on the Mini just failed. Obviously it chose to do it just after I'd put £50 in fuel in. 
 
Will be there in a bit... not in Mini, obvs.
 
 
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I'd have been there by now but the timing chain tensioner on the Mini just failed. Obviously it chose to do it just after I'd put £50 in fuel in. 
 
Will be there in a bit... not in Mini, obvs.
 
 
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