Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - a Workshop Day Today

[Six-cylinder]

Nice thought of the Day

 

Two of my cars are going to be FREE road tax as from 1st Jan 2019

 

Lancia Gamma - currently badly broken

 

Citroen GS - ready for action

[hairnet]

fix that sucka

 

and yay!

[Six-cylinder]

1967 Herald 1200 Convertible with 13/60 bonnet, I can’t remember where we got it from but it went to a friend who gave it to his 14 year old son as a Christmas present.

 

1985 Range Rover 3.5 Auto.The 300TE 24v had a head gasket go so I needed another stopgap urgently for Monday morning and decided a series Land Rover would be fun as it was summer time. I only had the weekend to find one and couldn’t so bought a Range Rover. It is a long and mainly happy story and I still have it. I learnt to off road in it and have been astounded what it can do. Broken at the moment but I am hoping I will have it running again 2019.

 

I sold Visas new and always liked them  so when I needed an antidote for driving a petrol auto Range Rover I seeked out this 1986 Visa 17D, it made the combined average 30+ mpg!

 

I had gone to Milton Keynes Auction with a car dealer friend looking for cars for his used site and I stood in the door as a smart 205 GRD was being auctioned and the biding stalled at £120 so I put my hand up, the auctioneer just saw me in time and the next thing I knew was I owned it for £130. I did not set out to own a Peugeot that evening but was pleased with what I had bought on the spur of the moment. I had no real need for it at the time so a friend of my neighbour was pleased to take it from me.

 

1982 BMW 1982 525i manual. Bought with a short MOT at the end of its life to race around my friend’s field in, which is where it ended its days.

 

Time for a new car, 1997 Audi A6 2.4  (was supposed to be a posh car with reasonable running costs but an Auto gearbox fault cut short my enjoyment)

[Six-cylinder]

KIF_3108.AVI

I found this Video of me giving my green Range Rover hell!

 

Can you see it? I am much better at beating up Range Rovers than loading computer stuf

 

[mrbenn]

Ha, brilliant video! You're not sparing the rod there!

[Mrs6C]

KIF_3108.AVI

I found this Video of me giving my green Range Rover hell!

 

Can you see it? I am much better at beating up Range Rovers than loading computer stuf

 

Video Screen shot RR green.jpg

I took that footage! Think I had finished reading the Sunday paper by that point so got out to film you instead...

[dollywobbler]

Violence! And nice noise.

[Guest Hooli]

That's a gentle drive in the country!

 

Giving it stick is when you end up with a snapped prop shaft & bent rear radius arms failing an uphill cross axle...

[Six-cylinder]

After 5 weeks the Silver 156 has returned home fully refreshed! 

 

Supply and fit new cam belt

Supply and fit 6 new spark plugs

Supply and fit new Front anti roll bar

Supply and fit used ABS pump

Supply and fit radiator elbow

Weld rear floor

MOT

[flat4alfa]

Good news. -ahem- Can I buy LAE soon then Chris?

[hairnet]

so how about alfa (old one) mrs6c give him a poke ffs

[Six-cylinder]

so how about alfa (old one) mrs6c give him a poke ffs

 

The Alfa specialist who has done the rear struts on the black 156 and now all the work on the silver 156 is primed and willing to take on returning our 1983 Giulietta to the road. The problem is that it is stuck in the field with the inboard rear brakes seizes on.

[Zelandeth]

The Alfa specialist who has done the rear struts on the black 156 and now all the work on the silver 156 is primed and willing to take on returning our 1983 Giulietta to the road. The problem is that it is stuck in the field with the inboard rear brakes seizes on.

Don't I remember seeing a tractor around there last time I was there? Sure that can deal with dragging it out of there despite the brakes...

 

...whether the car would remain in one piece during such an operation or would need to be swept up with a dustpan and brush...is another matter.

[320touring]

I am very much enjoying this amble through your motoring history - a fair variety, and some stories of a similar "oops" nature to situations I find myself in far too often.

 

Cheers!

[Mrs6C]

These and a few sheets of wood...

https://www.sgs-engineering.com/garage-equipment/wheel-dollies/wd4000-450kg-wheel-dollies-set-of-four

[Six-cylinder]

These and a few sheets of wood...

https://www.sgs-engineering.com/garage-equipment/wheel-dollies/wd4000-450kg-wheel-dollies-set-of-four

 

It will need to roll freely to load it on a trailer and more importantly unload in the street and be pushed into the workshop which is 5 cars long but only one wide, with no outside parking.

[Six-cylinder]

I am very much enjoying this amble through your motoring history - a fair variety, and some stories of a similar "oops" nature to situations I find myself in far too often.

 

Cheers!

 

Thanks 

 

We have only just entered 2004 so quite a bit to go!

[Slowsilver]

These and a few sheets of wood...

https://www.sgs-engineering.com/garage-equipment/wheel-dollies/wd4000-450kg-wheel-dollies-set-of-four

 

Only two needed hopefully as IIRC someone* managed to free both front wheels, assuming they haven't seized again!

Would be good to see it beiing revived.

[Zelandeth]

It will need to roll freely to load it on a trailer and more importantly unload in the street and be pushed into the workshop which is 5 cars long but only one wide, with no outside parking.

Hmm...why do I get the impression from the look of it that this is the sort of establishment who probably know someone who knows someone who could make me a fuel tank...

[Six-cylinder]

Duston engineering shop is separate and I don't know what they do.

 

When I found my BMW E3 petrol tank that was leaking and had been fibre glassed to the rear quarter, Northan Rads welded in new metal for me.

 

http://radiator-repair.co.uk/repair-workshop/fuel-tanks/

[Six-cylinder]

Only two needed hopefully as IIRC someone* managed to free both front wheels, assuming they haven't seized again!

Would be good to see it beiing revived.

 

Yes, all I need is someone to lay under a precariously supported car and chisel out the stuck brake pads on the inboard rear brakes! 

 

Maybe a Moderator could use this as a punishment instead of deportation to the colonies for some crime or other!

[Guest Hooli]

The Alfa specialist who has done the rear struts on the black 156 and now all the work on the silver 156 is primed and willing to take on returning our 1983 Giulietta to the road. The problem is that it is stuck in the field with the inboard rear brakes seizes on.

Hitch every field moped to it and drag it out like angry huskys

[Six-cylinder]

Hitch every field moped to it and drag it out like angry huskys

 

The problem is they are all broken!

[richardmorris]

Yes, all I need is someone to lay under a precariously supported car and chisel out the stuck brake pads on the inboard rear brakes! 

 

Maybe a Moderator could use this as a punishment instead of deportation to the colonies for some crime or other!

 

Various peoples managed to get the burned out altcit rolling. Brute force and ignorance!

[Six-cylinder]

Alfas will be Alfas!

 

Driving into Milton Keynes this morning to meet some friends for breakfast the black Alfa cut out on the H8 duel carriageway and glided to a holt on the grass verge. It turned over, coughed but would not restart. I called the RAC who could not find where the junction of V7 and H8 was so the town planners wasted there time making the main roads V for vertical and H for horizontal in numerical order! Eventually they worked out where I was and said it could take 3-4 hours and they would call me when the patrol was coming.

 

Not to miss out on breakfast I got my friends to collect me and we only got six roundabouts away and I received a call from the patrol-man to say he had found my car where was I!

 

The patrol-man plugged in his diagnostic equipment and found the inertia cut out switch had been triggered, reset it and it restarted. I don't remember hitting a particularly bad pot hole but there are so many around North Bucks maybe I just don't notice them any more.

 

The Engine management light is now on and his diagnostic equipment says air flow meter. The car runs fine so that is something for another day.

[Isaac Hunt]

Are the MK Grid System, does take a few folk a while to get used to it.

 

I've passed that test but still find it well hard to establish where one is at any moment in time, feck me there are some roundabouts that all look the same.

 

I think playing battleships as a lad helped my MK nav ability.

 

Strange FTP on the Aplfer but it looks to have passed the the SMBD test.

 

SMBD, proper Autoshite acronym is that.

[Zelandeth]

We had that on a mate's Jag once!

 

The switch on that is on the inside of the offside front wheel well above the pedals, buried under the dash.

 

He lost a wheel balance weight, which managed to hit the exact location where the switch was (there's a witness mark there) and trip it.

 

Thing is, when that's tripped in the Jag it deadlocks the boot (presumably to stop the battery flying out in an accident).  Sadly in the boot was both his jacket and mobile...in the middle of winter in northeast Scotland.

 

Took a few days to work out what was wrong with the car when it was *eventually* recovered.

[Six-cylinder]

Now 2004 and Mrs6C returned from the USA and what car did she want, a 1990 Volvo 740 GLE Auto estate of course. We still have it, marooned in Wales with a suspected fuel pump fault.

 

Back to running my 1985 Range Rover as my everyday car I took it for service to Towcester Land Rover specialist who said would you like another one! A beautiful 1988 3.5 EFi Auto in black with black wheels and blacked out glass. It's the weird colour scheme that freaked me. Every time you tried to operate one of these weird black controls, which are labeled in black on a black background, a small black light lights up black to let you know you've done it!

 

It was good to own and the only car I have ever had where people declined to tangle with you. A year later I returned for a job on the green Range Rover and Towcester Land Rover said we have somebody who would like the black one so I duly passed it on.

 

I fell in Love with the Renault Fuego when it first came out and even tried to buy one new. 12 years later I finally got my hands on one, a very low mileage 1981 Fuego GTS that looked lovely. I was a bit disappointed by the drive as it was a 1650cc when I had really wanted a 2 Ltr and the lack of power steering, when Mrs6C became paranoid about keeping outside I passed it on. Great car to look at.

 

Next was a motoring high light for me a 1994 Mercedes E320 Cabriolet. A friend bought it when working on Guernsey he drove it to the UK and I fell in love. When he left Guernsey he specially imported it to the UK so I could buy it. Driving around Le Mans in it, on race weekend was something else. I keep it for over 6 years.

 

I had told Mrs6C that if I spent all our money on a Mercedes convertible I would not need another car because the hood was so good but when winter came I just had to have something else. I love driving W124s so what better than a 1992 300E saloon for the winter Blue Black and beautiful.

[hairnet]

You are Phillipa vale aicm5£

[hairnet]

Convertible - you handbag