Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - a Workshop Day Today

[beko1987]

If you can get some more pads for your polisher, I'll buy the Menzerna and we'll have that looking much better* next year! 

[Zelandeth]

Doesn't usually take much to get these old beasts running.  Glad to see things moving forward.

[Six-cylinder]

Just now, beko1987 said:

If you can get some more pads for your polisher, I'll buy the Menzerna and we'll have that looking much better* next year! 

I have bought some already! 

Just I could not face carting the generator up there.

[beko1987]

9 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

I have bought some already! 

Just I could not face carting the generator up there.

Have you got enough hose to get water to the hard standing at the FOD? The generator would run my little pressure washer

[Six-cylinder]

Just now, beko1987 said:

Have you got enough hose to get water to the hard standing at the FOD? The generator would run my little pressure washer

No, you would need a very long hose. One day the plan is to lay an under ground pipe to the yard.

[LightBulbFun]

yay happy to see its moving once more  

nothing like a good old Rover V8!

[LightBulbFun]

2 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

No, you would need a very long hose. One day the plan is to lay an under ground pipe to the yard.

*gets electric vehicle delivered to the FoD*

*talks about laying plumbing to the FoD*

[beko1987]

3 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

No, you would need a very long hose. One day the plan is to lay an under ground pipe to the yard.

Get it road legal then and we'll do it at the house

[Six-cylinder]

13 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Get it road legal then and we'll do it at the house

I have been to Meguiar's demonstration on how to use their products a few times and I am sure first step was to wash the car. I skipped that step although where the moss and lichen was too big I did find a bit of water in a puddle to soften it up, where were you when I needed you!

[hairnet]

patina maaaaan dont lose the patinnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

 

[Mrs6C]

@ianbmw Many thanks for getting Baggy running again! He's a lovely old thing and great for trundling around and doing useful stuff, liking climbing the sides of mountains, navigating bomb holes in woodlands, pulling lorries out of snowy ditches and towing large trailers on larger trailers...

 

 

 

 

 

[ianbmw]

[mention=20781]ianbmw[/mention] Many thanks for getting Baggy running again! He's a lovely old thing and great for trundling around and doing useful stuff, liking climbing the sides of mountains, navigating bomb holes in woodlands, pulling lorries out of snowy ditches and towing large trailers on larger trailers...

 

 

 

 
 

I'm struggling if I'm honest......I find it difficult to stray away from originality.....lots for me to correct, best it doesn't come to my driveway!

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[Six-cylinder]

11 minutes ago, ianbmw said:

I'm struggling if I'm honest......I find it difficult to stray away from originality.....lots for me to correct, best it doesn't come to my driveway!

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So here is your target, how we bought it in 2002 or are you talking about how it left the factory Left hand drive and manual!

[ianbmw]

Needs 3 spokes!

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[Six-cylinder]

3 minutes ago, ianbmw said:

Needs 3 spokes!

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Great, but it does not need converting back to LHD and manual!

[ianbmw]

Great, but it does not need converting back to LHD and manual!

That may be more costly than a chocolate biscuit and a coffee

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[Six-cylinder]

You are welcome to return him to as we bought him spec. 

From memory I had to change the wheel nuts when I went from alloys to steels, the alloy wheel nuts may be in the compartment in the boot on the right.

[Six-cylinder]

42 minutes ago, ianbmw said:

I'm struggling if I'm honest......I find it difficult to stray away from originality.....lots for me to correct, best it doesn't come to my driveway!

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So does that mean the rusty coat hanger aerial has to go!

[ianbmw]

So does that mean the rusty coat hanger aerial has to go!

I'm not even going to acknowledge the existence of that!

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[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I have been to Meguiar's demonstration on how to use their products a few times and I am sure first step was to wash the car. I skipped that step although where the moss and lichen was too big I did find a bit of water in a puddle to soften it up, where were you when I needed you!

That needs a "Strange Rover" decal to replace the oul one.

[Noel Tidybeard]

3 hours ago, ianbmw said:

That may be more costly than a chocolate biscuit and a coffee

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not necessarily if you know a sweary, plum-gob, ale drinking bloke in Devon ?

[richardmorris]

20 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

So does that mean the rusty coat hanger aerial has to go!

Was it the Gaffer  that had one for his jacket in a fight?

[richardmorris]

Ps like the colour, my parents had a matching avocado bathroom suite in the 1970s.

[Six-cylinder]

13 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Ps like the colour, my parents had a matching avocado bathroom suite in the 1970s.

Balmoral Green I will have you know.

[richardmorris]

10 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Balmoral Green I will have you know.

What, all of it? Or just the bits you’ve polished?

[Six-cylinder]

24 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

What, all of it? Or just the bits you’ve polished?

Oh I thought you had found out the front wings were Lincoln Green!

[Mrs6C]

53 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Oh I thought you had found out the front wings were Lincoln Green!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_green

[bezzabsa]

I did the Autoglym Valeting course in Oxfordshire............what a waste of 3 days..Never even got any "samples"

on the plus side Lovely sandwiches and the Tea was 9/10 would drink again!! (Not a patch on Mrs6C's Tea though).......and I had shortbread....

Nothing better than an early 5 door V8 Wooffle.....

[Six-cylinder]

@richardthestag What should this nozzle be connected too, you can feel it sucking air?

The engine is from a 1988 3.5 EFi with ZF Auto gearbox.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

On 11/17/2019 at 7:44 PM, Six-cylinder said:

Oh I thought you had found out the front wings were Lincoln Green!

That car is halfway towards becoming a 4-wheeled Robin Hood.  It steals from the rich, but hasn't quite got around to giving it to the poor yet....