Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - a Workshop Day Today

[3VOM]

31 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

This time Mrs6C said what do you want that for!

You say that like it is unusual.

[Six-cylinder]

3 minutes ago, 3VOM said:

You say that like it is unusual.

Ok, ok, she doesn't often agree with my buying choices!

[richardmorris]

10 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Ok, ok, she doesn't often agree with my buying choices!

Which reminds me of my gran saying “who’s she, the cat’s mother?”. No idea why, just a reminder about grammer?

[beko1987]

My stepmum had an S reg one of these in green for a spell (when it was new) ! 

Remember the back being fucking small with me, my stepbrother and stepsister in and the front doors being huge! 

[Six-cylinder]

2 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

My stepmum had an S reg one of these in green for a spell (when it was new) ! 

Remember the back being fucking small with me, my stepbrother and stepsister in and the front doors being huge! 

Mrs6C has already remarked it is too small to fit a scythe in.

[richardmorris]

Just now, Six-cylinder said:

Mrs6C has already remarked it is too small to fit a scythe in.

Well one has priorities in a new vehicle.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

15 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Mrs6C has already remarked it is too small to fit a scythe in.

I didn't know she was part of the local Neighbourhood Watch Alliance....!

#hotfuzz

[hairnet]

mrs6c 1 - six cyl 0

christopher you are nuts

 

[Six-cylinder]

11 minutes ago, hairnet said:

mrs6c 1 - six cyl 0

christopher you are nuts

 

Why would you not want such a thing of beauty!

[bezzabsa]

how close to car saturation point are you @Six-cylinder ???

and scythe?? new part time job??

is Binky included and do you have to speak like THIS?

[Crackers]

The field mower Saxo has at least 1 of those wheel trims if you ever find yourself needing a spare! 

[Six-cylinder]

10 minutes ago, Crackers said:

The field mower Saxo has at least 1 of those wheel trims if you ever find yourself needing a spare! 

One of the rear trims does have some edges bashed away.

[Noel Tidybeard]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Mrs6C has already remarked it is too small to fit a scythe in.

Mrs6C would!🤣

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Mrs6C has already remarked it is too small to fit a scythe in.

Roof bars are available. At least there's no leaky sunroof.

[Ghosty]

Out with a mate of mine today, and as we're sitting in Wetherspoons having a burger and a pint he's browsing Facebook on his phone. 

'hey, a Manta for sale, pretty fair price too' 

'Is it in a field in Buckingham?'

'Yes...' 

That threw him for six. 

[CaptainBoom]

I was going to do a collection thread, but the distance involved from getting it from RobT was so short (compared with some of the astounding journeys that are shown on these fair pages) that a poo count would have been a struggle to have got past zero and Nicole's/Papa's Renault didn't need petrol for two days after the collection so a pez shot would have been difficult, but here are some edited highlights:

As it was the summer holidays, I had my, 'We've been following a splodge of ketchup on the map instead of the A224' manual navigator unit and dropped tool retrieval device with me. 

Armed with car seats, we hopped onto a Southeastern Railways grafitti strewn cattle cart for a journey to meet RobT, who is a true gent and took great pains to explain to me where the fuel pump wire had been fixed (in case it un-fixed itself on the journey home).  The Clio started and the tailights disappeared into the busy traffic of South East London, so that was the warranty expired.  It got home without any issues.  I had a pile of tools and length of wire with crocodile clips (as well as two obliging volunteers children that can be coerced) just in case.

 

 

 

 

 

That night at work during a 'lunch hour' I had a tickle with the fuel pump wiring.  The back of the fuse terminal had been a bit French and broken off, leaving a tiny stub of metal and a loose wire.  Naughty Renault!   A bit of solder, a new length of clean (thicker gauge) wire and some heatshrink produced a strong repair.  RobT had laid the foundations of this repair, as he had cut down the plastic sheath off the fuse box, all I did was Pritt Stick it together.

I drove the Clio a fair bit in the days in between, I really enjoyed it's simplicity and honest 'an-car'ness.  It does the job it was set out to do admirably.  All of the controls are to hand and logical, it seats four without fuss, the four speed automatic is competent and will change up promptly if you are gentle with it.  It's a much more mature 'package' than the Mark 1 Clio that I used to have.

I guess I'll have to find another one now!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also received complaints from the rearward fitted navigator that there was a grating noise coming from the exhaust and banging going over bumps.  As the roads where we live haven't seen Tarmacadam in many a year and the locals will nick even the dressing off the road, I figured it was happening a lot.  The exhaust mount was a bit past its best.

A new one was procured and changed and looked like this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After a quick hoover up and a rub down with the Sporting Life , I then took an actual satnav and the elder dropped tool retrieval device with me and we made the journey to Buckingham.  Other than a belief that lane change indication isn't needed any more and pitiful lane behaviour on the M25 (nothing new there) the journey passed without incident and I was having a chat with the Cylinders less than two hours after starting out.  After a good chat where we received valuable information on harvesting apples from @Mrs6C we got a lift to the station from @Six-cylinder in the floaty delights of the fleet's XM which wafted along, well, as you would expect an LHM Citroen to do.  Thank you to @RobT for making the collection process as smooth as possible (149/10 would collect again) and to Mr & Mrs Cylinder for their hospitality and to North Western trains for being much nicer than Southeastern.

[RobT]

Thanks for saving this as overall it's a decent car.  Hopefully it won't need much for a new ticket in October.

It isn't entirely watertight though...in the next downpour you might notice a moist passenger carpet.  I sealed up the satanroof, but it could be the door seal that's the problem.  But at the end of the day who cares, so long as it runs!

[beko1987]

8 minutes ago, RobT said:

Thanks for saving this as overall it's a decent car.  Hopefully it won't need much for a new ticket in October.

It isn't entirely watertight though...in the next downpour you might notice a moist passenger carpet.  I sealed up the satanroof, but it could be the door seal that's the problem.  But at the end of the day who cares, so long as it runs!

I left both the shitty disposable wet vacs I was using in the carlton last week for future fod torture so that's easily solved, and keeps the carpets looking spotless! 

[beko1987]

9 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Out with a mate of mine today, and as we're sitting in Wetherspoons having a burger and a pint he's browsing Facebook on his phone. 

'hey, a Manta for sale, pretty fair price too' 

'Is it in a field in Buckingham?'

'Yes...' 

That threw him for six. 

Did you get it sold though? 

[Six-cylinder]

The Vauxhall collection is shrinking!

I have sold the Manta grass track car, no surprise there.

The odd one is I have sold the brown Cavalier 1.6GL MK1, the enquiry came from  seeing it in the background of a picture of my red Manta for sale. I had not looked at the car and told the buyer "I can't tell you anything other than it rolls. I don't have a V5C for this car, which is why I have not hurried to do anything with it." He just asked if it had an interior and I said "yes but condition unknown". Deal done, paid for and off to North Wales next week.

[hairnet]

@brownnova Alex FESS up

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

The Vauxhall collection is shrinking!

I have sold the Manta grass track car, no surprise there.

The odd one is I have sold the brown Cavalier 1.6GL MK1, the enquiry came from  seeing it in the background of a picture of my red Manta for sale. I had not looked at the car and told the buyer "I can't tell you anything other than it rolls. I don't have a V5C for this car, which is why I have not hurried to do anything with it." He just asked if it had an interior and I said "yes but condition unknown". Deal done, paid for and off to North Wales next week.

Presumably the proceeds of sale from the two Cavs and Manta will go some way to balancing what you paid for all eight? Any possibility that we might get to the point where the remaining cars are effectively free of charge? That must be a win!

[wuvvum]

I'll be a day visitor on the Saturday this time - got a work meetup on the Sunday morning and then will try to head down to the HubNut social at Shotley in the afternoon

[brownnova]

3 hours ago, hairnet said:

@brownnova Alex FESS up

The other Cav I’m tempted by… but not me guv… 

[beko1987]

5 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Presumably the proceeds of sale from the two Cavs and Manta will go some way to balancing what you paid for all eight? Any possibility that we might get to the point where the remaining cars are effectively free of charge? That must be a win!

You've not seen how much work the car they want to keep needs! The cash from selling the 3 for sale/sold might get it through the door of the welders 😂

[Andyrew]

With moving into the bigger workshop, came the ability to do other things an the VP was left to chill out for a while. But it really needs to be hitting the mean streets again so up we go

Where did we leave off? Well the front was welded and in need of painting. The rear needs plenty of welding but after hunting for some 2mm steel sheet in the workshop the other day i was reminded id used it on the carlton spring mount. Doh. So fresh steel was ordered and hopefully that arrives asap. 

With the wagon on the lift i got the seam sealer out and stippled it to match the original stonechip.  Then a splash of upol guard over the top then when dry a splash of supertrol wax.  The wing was rust treated and given the same.

The wing went back on whilst the wax dried out.

Fingers crossed for metal before the weekend. 

[richardmorris]

10 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

The Vauxhall collection is shrinking!

I have sold the Manta grass track car, no surprise there.

The odd one is I have sold the brown Cavalier 1.6GL MK1, the enquiry came from  seeing it in the background of a picture of my red Manta for sale. I had not looked at the car and told the buyer "I can't tell you anything other than it rolls. I don't have a V5C for this car, which is why I have not hurried to do anything with it." He just asked if it had an interior and I said "yes but condition unknown". Deal done, paid for and off to North Wales next week.

A Fozzy Bear skin interior no less!

[beko1987]

The kids asked to sit in it... We hastily said no, their utterly fucking minging😂 I only left them on as they protected the original fabric incase they say for a while...

It should survive a trip through the washing machine though, if the new owner decides

[mat_the_cat]

I'm hoping to get along to this, but not sure what to bring. Stellar is out of MOT and I'm not sure it'll be tested in time  Either way I hope to be there.

[Andyrew]

When two become one, 

Whilst waiting for the metal i decided to address the front corner light, the old one had corroded away and a fellow shiter had donated a slightly better unit.  

Old unit

Marginally less older unit. Seems the studs have snapped off and some point so some self tappers have been used to mount it. Ill probably just do the same. The bulbs however were and issue. 

Hmmmmmm

I didnt take any pics but i peeled the old bulb holder from the old light. Pulled what was left of the crusty bit out the new one and opened up the hole so i could bond in the other one in with some chemical metal. 

With the side light unit also fubard i popped the old one out, gently folded the tabs up one the other unit and fed that into the hole. I then needed to fold the tabs back so i placed a socket in the vice to support the housing and peened the tabs back over 

The unit is the earth for the side light and with the indicator being bonded i  the connection was lost so i made a wee cable and earth point through the backing. 

And the result?

Thats about 3 hours but im happy with the result.