Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - a Workshop Day Today

[hairnet]

We have a winner

@Slowsilveris god and helpers)

WANT

[Yoss]

It lives! 

[Crackers]

Result!

 

 

[Crackers]

Little bit tappety, but it does sound good. 

We have 2 headlights, 2 tail lights, 2 brake lights, wipers, and horn. 

All it needs now is some insurance and we'll get it out on the chippy run later. 

 

[MrDuke]

I like the way you didn't make any reference to the brakes. Or the front n/s tyre. 

It'll be fiiiiiiine 😉

[beko1987]

Marvellous! We'll get the inside cleaned out tomorrow then

[beko1987]

Has @Ghostymade it back yet? Should have done Oxford services back to the fod by now? 

[Crackers]

1 hour ago, MrDuke said:

I like the way you didn't make any reference to the brakes. Or the front n/s tyre. 

It'll be fiiiiiiine 😉

Don't tell anyone, it'll be fine! 

[R1152]

4 hours ago, HMC said:

I'm looking at that Herald and wondering if it's worse than the one that was under cover for over 30 years near my mate's home in Bromley. It was slowly crumbling into the ground but I noticed the other week it had gone...

[brownnova]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

Has @Ghostymade it back yet? Should have done Oxford services back to the fod by now? 

Yes… the result is… 

Not as good as any of our guesses… 

[beko1987]

5 minutes ago, brownnova said:

Yes… the result is… 

Not as good as any of our guesses… 

Ha, I can see why he wasn't sure about sleeping in it now! 

Looks alot more boy racer than the green one though 

[hairnet]

Brilliant

All of it.

Shame the weather was toss

Thanks Chris

Thanks to Alex for taxi in the fun bus and race chaser for lift to here in the toaster

my lyfe now

 

 

[hairnet]

And I was planning on the half hour walk to the station

Until I found the bus 2 mins walk goes into it

Woop

[brownnova]

An excellent day again, great company and really good fun. Great to see people I knew, people I had only met on zoom and people I didn’t know at all! 

Wedgy red things

Many pieces of old chod…

Cavalier running! 

Manta running! 

[brownnova]

Looking forward to the next one already!! 

[HMC]

I felt very British today.  I drove a slightly shabby Rover 75 across the Cotswolds, listening to radio 3, to stand in a field. In drizzle.

 

[Yoss]

Just got home. Good day out, weather turned out better than hoped. 

That only happened a couple of times, most of it was dry. 

[High Jetter]

I didn't realise the Herald was a coupe. Needs saving. Aerodeck looks mighty, a worthy opponent to that yank tank in a stand-off!

[Ghosty]

4 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Has @Ghostymade it back yet? Should have done Oxford services back to the fod by now? 

Ignis Sport I was delayed a bit cause he was running late and I stopped to eat. 

[brownnova]

6 hours ago, Ghosty said:

and I stopped to eat. 

How dare you delay out disappointment in your new purchase by seeing to your own needs first!! 

[beko1987]

Not supposed to rain until lunchtime! 

[Six-cylinder]

3 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Not supposed to rain until lunchtime! 

Met office says shower at 5pm

[beko1987]

Ah marvellous, I'll be at mums by then, 

[Six-cylinder]

We burnt the clouds away last night!

[Yoss]

Two things struck me on the way home. One is I didn't chip in for the fish and chips. I'm sure this can be redressed somehow. The other is I left my spare battery in the Manta. Maybe one can cancel out the other? It's not a great battery, it's only an 063 and may not last more than a week without use. I had trickle charged it for the last couple of days and it's fine if you do that. You can keep it for jobs like that, makes a bit more room in my garage, not that it looks any better. 

The Triumph went well. It's been a long time since it went that far. It does love a good A road punctuated by roundabouts, particularly the roundabouts.

Every time I use it I think the gearbox has got noisier but I think that's just where I've not used it and forgotten how whiny it is. It's been like it since 2008 when I fitted it. I have a spare but I don't know what that's like either and they don't exactly grow on trees so I'd like to keep this one as long as possible (visions of Triumph FWD gearboxes hanging from branches, it would have to be a bloody strong tree, I think they'd be more of a root vegetable). 

The only slight hiccup was at the bottom of the A34 where you join the M3 where it decided it didn't want to select either 1st or 2nd gear. As there was someone behind behind me I panicked a bit and tried pulling away in third which it managed but not happily and with much clutch burning smell. By the time I reached Southampton it was fine again. This makes no sense but anybody familiar with the Triumph FWD gearbox will understand. 

[Yoss]

21 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

We burnt the clouds away last night!

It was oddly foggy all the way back to Bicester when I left. Cleared on the A34, I guess the cars blew it away, it wasn't proper fog. 

[beko1987]

I'm going to eat breakfast and watch @Ghosty unfold himself from his car

[hairnet]

@beko1987

@brownnova

 

Bus wanker lyfe (c) @Crackers

T Technically coulda got a lift in funbws but first class train baby

[hairnet]

22 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

I'm going to eat breakfast and watch @Ghosty unfold himself from his car

Kinky mofo

[brownnova]

8 minutes ago, hairnet said:

@beko1987

@brownnova

 

Bus wanker lyfe (c) @Crackers

T Technically coulda got a lift in funbws but first class train baby

You left something in the magic wagon! 
 

Bonus donuts… no complaints from me!!