somewhatfoolish

Someone linked to it(shitty buyers trick thread I think?) and like a spod I didn't read the date. [tugs forelock, bows head and shuffles off] I'm nearish the naval ghetto of Helensburg so in the sticks but not so far that my mother is also my sister and aunt.

Jings, that reminds me of getting lifts to the pub from a local farmer years ago; he used his old dear's shopping trolley, which was whatever the local garage had for cheap, but it also doubled as the farm hack so you had to fight for space on the back seat with bags of feed, fertiliser, bales of hay and on more than one memorable occasion a dead sheep. Seats and carpets were invariably caked with mud and shit. Cheaper than a taxi though, so more beer!

Many a happy day passed in the 1990s, choking on exhaust fumes in the old meat market; it beat going to boring lectures anyway. A particular memory was a 4 year old giffer spec Metro in hearing aid biege, 12,000 miles and every one of them driven by a blind dodgem pilot judging by the fact the only undented panel was the roof. Immaculate interior and yours for £20. Presumably the meat market's been turned into yuppy flats by now. I've not been to a car auction for a decade or so, I'd probably not be interested in any of the modern chod going through now; it might make for an interesting shiter meet though, we could egg each other on to bid on the worst wreck under the hammer.

My google fu tells me that Cooper's Garage is indeed an independent renner speshulist and their phone number is Cleckheaton 872354, so they're in the people's republic of west yorkshire.

Pfft; where's the fun in that?

Tempting; how spendy/unpossible(haynes book of lies spanner rating preferred) is gearbox surgical intervention to fixerate the suspected vibrating bits?

LPG just makes different sized particulate, it doesn't get rid of smut altogether. Electric motors (should) employ regenerative electromagnetic braking for most stoppery, with discs just for handbrakes ultimately(or for when it all goes tits up and the smoke escapes).

Wobbly-at-speed landroverness can be caused by the bearing preload on the swivels being incorrect; IIRC you've had a swivel replaced so perhaps it wasn't set quite right? The steering damper may also be fritzed. The Bentley is/was superior 1950s choddery, much win and really ought to be/have been accessorised with slightly frayed cords and a pair of decent brogues.

20-odd years ago I used to get a lift to work in one of these; it was definitely proto-autoshite as there was very little damping action left at all, so it bobbed about for quite a while after bumps and the undulating surface of the M80 used to set the car pitching in a way guaranteed to give non-sailors the bowk.

Great film that, a lost Glasgow from before the arsehole developers bribed the council and build a load of concrete and glass horrors along the river.

I have a hankering for some complicated french chod in the form of a Xantia Activa, although a boringly non-shitey one only as the landrover is enough of a project to be going on with; are there any tidy good runners out there in need of a new owner? There was one on shitebay but the ad vanished after it piqued my interest.

If it's the Isuzu 1.7 dizzler they're more or less indestructible when normally aspirated, even the turbo ones last forever provided the oil's topped up. I had a Corsa B and put 40k very dull miles on it before it died of terminal rust at 175k.

You've got a snotty nozzle/shroud/tube thing; time for a new one as well as a new contact tip. Ceboras are sound bits of kit, I had one for 20 years until I went all posh and bought a Lorch.

A yes; senior moment responsible for trunnion/kingpin transposition!

Quite reminiscent of this magnificent beast;

Hehe The cold war would have been much less fraught if the red team had been run from the Black Country. great thread! The wear at the trunnion; is it the hub that is worn or the suspension arm? Given the trunnion is a press fit in the arm I would think that it could be sleeved somehow, the same should apply to the hub although neither would be easy to set up for machining given their awkward shape.

Proper ShiteRail would be BR vintage 1985 shirley? You can have anything you like as long as it's late and comprises Mk2 slam door coaches with splodges of primer, a Class 37 with duff ETH and a buffet car with a full stock of desiccated sandwiches and stale kitkats.