WANTED - RELIANT ENGINE SPEARS OR REAPERS

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Hey does anyone have a Reliant engine knocking about? Doesn’t matter which version, or if its completely knackered or missing a few bits. Can’t pay loads but I am not expecting it to be free! Why do i want it? I am going on another ‘date’ and I have this idea that a knackered Reliant engine would be much better received than a bunch of flowers in this case. If anyone has one, PM me… if successful (in acquiring an engine!) I will explain all!  or call me O78OO 123456.

[plasticvandan]

reliantspares.com.tell him dan sent you and you want a scrap engine,he usually has around 30+ engines in stock and islumbered with cracked blocks etc

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Winnar, cheers i'll give him a shout

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Could also accept a fiat 126 aircooled or 2CV engine though i suspect they might cost a bit more, or even a VW aircooled

[mat_the_cat]

I'm of absolutely no help, but your date sounds very intriguing! I don't suppose a Focus front seat with a broken adjustment knob would suffice as an alternative?

[Cavcraft]

Would you like to see my broken knob?

[vulgalour]

I've got all sorts of knackered crap you can have, some of it I don't even want anymore.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I’m not looking for general knackered crap sadly! Shame as I already have loads.

[vulgalour]

Well whoever it is I now have a mental image of you turning up at their doorstep with a fist of bent camshafts and pistons backed by a spray of sprockets and shattered gearbox innards welded together.  Of course it's all wrapped artfully in a sheet of tin foil with a gaffer tape bow.

[dugong]

BOL, 

Northwich Metals always have a few Reliant engines kicking about. The one behind the Lion Salt Works in Sproston. 
 

[cort16]

Nothing gets the ladies juices flowing like a Reliant Robin engine lobbed through their parents front window.

[cort1977]

^{Mr. Bol, you're teasing us with all this romantic chod activity, tell us more...}

[overrun]

Can I just ring for the craic?

[DVee8]

He is just teasing.

This is for the knackered Rover 75

[worldofceri]

I have a broken VW 1200 aircooled.  You'd have to come down to Cov and remove it from the car though.  I'd help, of course, in a making-tea and getting-in-the-way sort of fashion.

[tooSavvy]

Would you like to see my broken knob?

No! Don't play with it.... It might come off in your hand

 

TS

[Des]

I think I've worked this one out, I'm a little out of touch with the old dating game, but as I recall all too often a date would finish off as the backbreaking toil of digging a grave into the early hours. Now take an engine block along for ballast, find the nearest canal, easy peasy lemon squeasey and home in time for Corrie.

[tooSavvy]

^^^^^ you been practicing recently??

 

TS

[Cavcraft]

I suppose if it doesn't work out well, you could always syringe some of that Rover 75 gunk into your scrundaps and tell her it's too late as you suffer from premature ejackseriesulation.

Swallow a bottle of K-seal for max effect and tell her you'll go for a gypsy's kiss and be back next week. 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Yo ceri, sounds like an interesting option..... I need to get my four-stroke love token ready by a week on Friday. Is it at all feasible to whip this engine out on Sat am? Also does anyone know if a bare VW engine can feasibly be carried upstairs by one person? (don't ask)

[Sigmund Fraud]

Also does anyone know if a bare VW engine can feasibly be carried upstairs by one person? (don't ask)

 

Not unless you're Charles Atlas. I can't carry a DAF flat-2 up stairs, and that only has half the cylinders.

 

 

Edit : The internets tell me the VW long block is around 120kg, so even with the flywheel off it's likely to weigh more than you !

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Hmm thats mildly annoying if not a total surprise, i thought they were quite light those things, used in planes and all that??

 

I'm sure i have single-handedly picked up a Reliant engine in the past so maybe I should stick to that strategy.

[dugong]

Bol, betcha Northwich Metals would have a Reliant engine. Is it for some kind of art exhibit?

[vulgalour]

Maybe he's just making a dirty protest against someone that has spurned his affections by dumping broken small capacity motors on their doorstep.  We've all dreamt of doing this, Mr B is actually living that dream.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Dug, yeah you've rumbled me, its art based!!!! I will ring Northwich metals in the morning I think

[dugong]

Dug, yeah you've rumbled me, its art based!!!! I will ring Northwich metals in the morning I think

Watch them have eff-all now I've built it up. 

I had a cracked B18 block about a year ago but I weighed it in. 

[Sigmund Fraud]

I'm sure i have single-handedly picked up a Reliant engine in the past so maybe I should stick to that strategy.

 

59kg according to the internets, so half the VW weight. Still heavy enough to do your back in, though. If I had to carry any engine up flights of stairs I'd probably choose one out of a moped !

 

 

[scruff]

Take the flywheel off and crank out if it isn't required, sorted!! 

[vulgalour]

I'd choose someone else to carry it for me.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

59kg eh? Admittedly i think i would struggle to carry 2 Reliant engines at once. A K series is only about 90kg and I defo couldnt lug one of them up a staircase. Sounds like AH'M OOT on the VW front.