Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - a Workshop Day Today

[Slowsilver]

5 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I'd bring that up with the executive management !

I did, but they just told me to get back to work.
 

[Six-cylinder]

11 minutes ago, Slowsilver said:

I did, but they just told me to get back to work.
 

He deliberately cut the drive belt on the mower so he didn't have to do any more grass cutting!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

14 hours ago, richardmorris said:

@Slowsilveris doing his best you know. He’s likethe faithful old retainer kept on for sentimental reasons  

 

36 minutes ago, Slowsilver said:

Except that the faithful old retainer usually gets a tied cottage and a wage, but not in this case 😀.

[Floatylight]

10 hours ago, Slowsilver said:

Except that the faithful old retainer usually gets a tied cottage and a wage, but not in this case 😀.

I'm sure the caravan is available with en-suite facilities....

[chaseracer]

59 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

I'm sure the caravan is available with en-suite facilities....

Stevo, the caravan doesn't even have a FLOOR...! 

[Floatylight]

1 hour ago, chaseracer said:

Stevo, the caravan doesn't even have a FLOOR...! 

@slowsilvers getting all picky now is he, when I was a lad etc, etc...

[Six-cylinder]

45 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

I'm sure the caravan is available with en-suite facilities....

 

[beko1987]

9 hours ago, Floatylight said:

@slowsilvers getting all picky now is he, when I was a lad etc, etc...

Poor man's only 35 too, all that hard work etc... 

[eddyramrod]

On 8/11/2021 at 11:25 PM, Six-cylinder said:

For those who thought that just getting the CF2 recovery truck started and then earning lots of money working it may need to think again. They will need a whole roll duck tape!

WHOA THERE!  HOLD THAT BUS!  Have I missed something here?  What CF?  What spec?

[Six-cylinder]

51 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

WHOA THERE!  HOLD THAT BUS!  Have I missed something here?  What CF?  What spec?

Not your object of desire, this one is a 1987 CF2 diesel dually with a beaver tail recover body.

Bought as part of a collection of eight Vauxhall/Opels. 

 

[Slowsilver]

12 hours ago, chaseracer said:

Stevo, the caravan doesn't even have a FLOOR...! 

Maybe the hole in the floor is some sort of primitive en-suite facility?
 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

21 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Not your object of desire, this one is a 1987 CF2 diesel dually with a beaver tail recover body.

Bought as part of a collection of eight Vauxhall/Opels. 

Sir, could you please explain your intentions for the angel of the North? Do you feel strapping it to the bonnet of a mk1 Cav on the back of your transporter is an appropriate method of securing it? 

[Six-cylinder]

35 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Sir, could you please explain your intentions for the angel of the North? Do you feel strapping it to the bonnet of a mk1 Cav on the back of your transporter is an appropriate method of securing it? 

It's mine now, I bought everything that was on and in the cars!

[eddyramrod]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

Not your object of desire, this one is a 1987 CF2 diesel dually with a beaver tail recover body.

Bought as part of a collection of eight Vauxhall/Opels. 

 

Oh thank you!  I hadn't noticed that one joining the fold, but as you say, it fails me on too many points.  What's the plan?  Fettle-up and use?

[catsinthewelder]

Presumably with that towing a trailer you could enter 3 vehicles in a classic car show with only one driver.

 

So long as there weren't any hills on the way 😂

[Six-cylinder]

47 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Oh thank you!  I hadn't noticed that one joining the fold, but as you say, it fails me on too many points.  What's the plan?  Fettle-up and use?

It only joined a week ago and there is no plan yet. The prize was to get this 1976 Manta 1.9 auto Coupe, but I had to buy the package of 8 cars. Next weekend we are holding an open field event for shiters and I hope we can clean out and assess what we have as I was not allowed to inspect them before purchase and then formulate a plan.

Initial thoughts were to sell the CF2, but Mrs6C has taken a liking to it! She has invented a new rule where by it is ok for me to bring home random cars but if she likes it can take possession of it!

[beko1987]

Should lend one to @4wheeledstool each year! Soon have a fleet of minters

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

.... this 1976 Manta 1.9 auto Coupe .....

Opel fruit: made to make your mouth eyes water

[Six-cylinder]

This week I have been looking for a new mower V drive belt, the one from the engine to the transmission. I would have thought a visit to George Brown our local agricultural dealer would have made it an easy purchase, but no. They have no listing for an old Westwood W8 mower so took the belt to the workshop  stores and came back empty handed saying he would ask his more experienced college to help. I waited around and eventually the college became free and again took my belt to the stores and returned empty handed. This time he said we don't have anything that matches the profile of your belt! I explained I believed it was a standard V belt badly worn and was met with a blank expression. He did offer to contact Westwood for a part number but I have heard no more from him.

I hope I have had more success with eBay belt purchase and while the W8 model was not specifically mentioned, Westwood of the size and time period were. It has arrived today and appears to be an inch shorter than the old one. I am hoping being shorter is just the old one has stretched and this will take up the slack that stopped it driving anymore. @Slowsilver

[Dobloseven]

I'm repairing a Countax ride on mower for my elderly cousin. It had FTP due to a drive belt twixt engine and transmission giving up. There's another belt to a take off point for a collection thingy that looked a bit worse for wear as well. Got both off the shelf from a random local bearing type place for 17 quid all in. 

[HMC]

Glad the cf2 is being looked favourably upon, it’s fantastic!

[HMC]

Was the Vauxhall collection from the north west? The NE Cavalier and NA (Chester?) cf2 have registrations that remind me of growing up (in the north west)

[Six-cylinder]

Just now, HMC said:

Glad the cf2 is being looked favourably upon, it’s fantastic!

Not by me, I see it as money pit that will test the patience of a saint.

I am old enough that these were still on van rental fleets and have suffered when others have rented one for me to drive when they could have got me the 10 times better Ford Transit.

[eddyramrod]

2 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

the 10 times better Ford Transit.

No such creature existed until the CF2 arrived (kind of like the hare stopping for a nap), and even then the Ford tortoise took a couple of generations to catch up.

 

NA and NE are both Manchester combinations.

[Six-cylinder]

31 minutes ago, HMC said:

Was the Vauxhall collection from the north west? The NE Cavalier and NA (Chester?) cf2 have registrations that remind me of growing up (in the north west)

The owner of Custard Cavalier before the one I bought it from lived in Wideopen, Newcastle Upon Tyne. I believe the Photo with the my Angle Of The North was collecting it in about 2007. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

42 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Not by me, I see it as money pit that will test the patience of a saint....

...and thus perfect for @eddyramrod, who can then plead proper poverty(-spec) once he has possession of it!

[Six-cylinder]

Today I have collected the two replacement wheels I bought for the Peugeot 504 Cab. I have had them refurbished by a one man in a shed operation, fronts look good but backs are just cleaned. It feels I have paid less and got less, which is fine.

I will have to get some new tyres for them now.

To progress this car I now need some front brake disks. I have ordered them twice from two different suppliers and have been refunded because computer says they have stock, but they didn't.

 

[hairnet]

Mmmmm

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

.....To progress this car I now need some front brake disks. I have ordered them twice from two different suppliers and have been refunded because computer says they have stock, but they didn't.

 

There must be brake discs somewhere. Otherwise it would be Renault 30 woes all over again. 

[chaseracer]

4 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Not by me, I see it as money pit that will test the patience of a saint.

And this, from a serial Range Rover botherer...! 😉