Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - a Workshop Day Today

[Six-cylinder]

2 hours ago, DeanH said:

Ah, don't think I have that but I will have a dig through and let you know if I do.

Thanks for looking. Mrs6C has just found it in the underfloor storage compartment.

[Six-cylinder]

Suppose they had a show locally you were excluded from because you didn't have a Ford!

@Slowsilver to the rescue with the loan of his Mondeo.

A good day with 30+ Fords and my Car of the show was the MK3 Zodiac. Only just though, I loved the Model T and XR2 as well. 

[hairnet]

On 14/03/2024 at 09:28, Six-cylinder said:

 Mrs6C has just found it 

see - sod housework - much more important

[hairnet]

zodiac yoink

did ya burn the fiat

[Six-cylinder]

3 minutes ago, hairnet said:

zodiac yoink

did ya burn the fiat

There were some "fix it again tony" comments!

[MorrisItalSLX]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

There were some "fix it again tony" comments!

Did they come back with “fix or repair daily” or “found on rubbish dump” ?

[AnthonyG]

X registered Mk2 Escort seems a bit unlikely. Maybe it’s living under the identity of a Mk3. The v5 doesn’t distinguish between FWD and RWD!

The Zodiac is lovely though. 

[Shite Ron]

5 hours ago, AnthonyG said:

X registered Mk2 Escort seems a bit unlikely. Maybe it’s living under the identity of a Mk3. The v5 doesn’t distinguish between FWD and RWD!

The Zodiac is lovely though. 

X reg Escort is not that unlikely as X reg is 1981/2 The Escort could have been unregistered for a year after production stopped which is not too unlikely but more likely is that it was re-registered. If a car was written off and rebuilt it got the latest registration until 1984 when the Q plate came out.

[EyesWeldedShut]

6 hours ago, AnthonyG said:

The Zodiac is lovely though. 

It is isn't it? Rather lush
I thought it a Zephyr so was going to make a Z-Cars/Brian Blessed joke but, instead, have a picture.

[Six-cylinder]

First FoD 2024 announced for 20/21 April.

[Zelandeth]

I have put it in the calendar.

[Six-cylinder]

@wuvvum Here we have a drone that inadvertently left earth's atmosphere last summer and has only just returned and hung itself carefully in a hedge!

[Six-cylinder]

Not all went well today with the Volvo V70!

Turns out it had blown the 15 amp ignition fuse, I don't know why.

I took a picture of the AA van and thought I had transferred the picture to my desktop albam but it turns out I had transferred a 480 photo instead. I then deleted all the photos on my camera.

[hairnet]

sausage fingers?

[Mrs6C]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

@wuvvum Here we have a drone that inadvertently left earth's atmosphere last summer and has only just returned and hung itself carefully in a hedge!

Hopefully it will have retained the images on its SD card! Glad it has been found at last.

[Six-cylinder]

A little local car show this morning with the 480 but the weather was very mixed, cold, windy with showers.

The Yamaha was the bike I wanted to buy when I turned 17 but my dad persuaded me it would be better if I bought a car because he could help me look after that!

[Six-cylinder]

After my failure with pickled paint on the 2nd Manta wheel a friend Julian from the Triumph Sports Six club took pity on me and came over this afternoon. He stripped the pickled paint and rubbed down the rest before spraying silver wheel paint. We baked then in the front of our Rayburn but decided the silver needed to harden for a day or two before the black is applied.

[hairnet]

So much tart

[Six-cylinder]

Well that didn’t go well!

On the way back from Flowers Farm the Sigma temp gauge started rise but as I was on a dual carriageway with no hard shoulder I carried on the 2 miles to the first layby. When I stopped there was steam wisping from under the bonnet.

The AA arrived and diagnosed a split water hose to the oil cooler. He had the right size hose and soon fitted a bit. Unfortunately when I went to restart the Sigma it simply pushed water out of the radiator and the diagnose was head gasket. He towed me to FoD on his dolly.

After all I have said about the service of Recovery firms the AA after a shaky start trying to contact them were great. The roadside patrol turned up in 40 mins was helpful and fixed the original problem. When that didn’t work he towed me to the FoD and then took the wheels I was carrying for @Flat4 and me home.

9/10 with the 1 point lost for the hard time trying to contact them 4 times, listening to all the spiel and press 1 for a long wait, 2 to be cut off..........

[RobT]

Oh blimey, not a good end to the day at all.  But at least it wasn't a 3 hour wait I suppose!

[High Jetter]

That's rough

[LightBulbFun]

5 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Well that didn’t go well!

On the way back from Flowers Farm the Sigma temp gauge started rise but as I was on a dual carriageway with no hard shoulder I carried on the 2 miles to the first layby. When I stopped there was steam wisping from under the bonnet.

The AA arrived and diagnosed a split water hose to the oil cooler. He had the right size hose and soon fitted a bit. Unfortunately when I went to restart the Sigma it simply pushed water out of the radiator and the diagnose was head gasket. He towed me to FoD on his dolly.

After all I have said about the service of Recovery firms the AA after a shaky start trying to contact them were great. The roadside patrol turned up in 40 mins was helpful and fixed the original problem. When that didn’t work he towed me to the FoD and then took the wheels I was carrying for @Flat4 and me home.

9/10 with the 1 point lost for the hard time trying to contact them 4 times, listening to all the spiel and press 1 for a long wait, 2 to be cut off..........

bugger! the Sigma really is being an awkward one aint it! glad you got recovered without too much trouble in the end tho  

[Zelandeth]

You're really not having the best of luck lately are you!  One of those cases where you have to wonder whether the system pressurised due to gasket failure and that cause the hose to let go, or the hose let go and the overheating saw off an aged gasket.  Hopefully it won't be the worst job to get it sorted.  If you're looking for someone to check, clean and if necessary skim the heads, I was really impressed with these guys when they did the ones for the Rover for me: https://www.headlinemk.co.uk/

[beko1987]

Now the carlton has a friend 😥

[Six-cylinder]

33 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

You're really not having the best of luck lately are you!  One of those cases where you have to wonder whether the system pressurised due to gasket failure and that cause the hose to let go, or the hose let go and the overheating saw off an aged gasket.  Hopefully it won't be the worst job to get it sorted.  If you're looking for someone to check, clean and if necessary skim the heads, I was really impressed with these guys when they did the ones for the Rover for me: https://www.headlinemk.co.uk/

The AA man though it was the oil leaking long term from the rocker cover had softened the water pipe and I tend to agree with him.

Headline is who I used for the Carlon head work.

[Tommyboy12]

Have you had RAC cover to compare? Im a bit at my wits end with RAC and contemplating a switch to the AA.

[Six-cylinder]

4 minutes ago, Tommyboy12 said:

Have you had RAC cover to compare? Im a bit at my wits end with RAC and contemplating a switch to the AA.

Yes I had RAC and had terrible experiences with them taking forever to turn up and just sending me messages to update how long it would take. With the Carlton overheat even to the point I got @Slowsilver to help me because sitting on the roadside for 3 hours with nothing to drink or a toilet when I was not very well was just too much for me.

I changed to AA in 2021 and did not need them. This year I have needed them twice 2 days apart and apart from the difficulty in getting though they have been great.

My AA renewal is due November and due to the high cost I will be checking if anybody else offers all the things I need for a better price, except RAC and they can get lost.

[beko1987]

Claire has a different name, can't you just flip between names and make sure your both covered each year? Register one at the FoD, have 3 then 😂

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, Tommyboy12 said:

Have you had RAC cover to compare? Im a bit at my wits end with RAC and contemplating a switch to the AA.

Having been with both in the past I can confirm that the AA are considerably less shit than the RAC.

[AnthonyG]

On 21/03/2024 at 06:59, Shite Ron said:

If a car was written off and rebuilt it got the latest registration until 1984 when the Q plate came out.

That explains the circa 1975 Marina Coupe on an ‘A’ prefix plate running around Tewkesbury then! 
It was perplexing me, I was considering having @LightBulbFun investigate the situation…