Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[chaseracer]

12 hours ago, richardmorris said:

A bit like shangrila, the mystical city no one can find.

The 'centre' of Milton Keynes...?

[Six-cylinder]

For Saturday evening Mrs6C has prepared a pile of fire wood for the enclosed garden fire pit.

[chaseracer]

Small project on the Dyane, should anyone have an idle moment on Saturday and care to join me:

* fit new washer bottle/pump and jets
* fit bonnet hooks
* Araldite three press-studs for the canvas sunscreen

[Six-cylinder]

5 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Small project on the Dyane, should anyone have an idle moment on Saturday and care to join me:

* fit new washer bottle/pump and jets
* fit bonnet hooks
* Araldite three press-studs for the canvas sunscreen

Good point, Instead of drinking tequilero by the pool there are a few fixey things to keep you entertained!

• BMW 3.0 S E3 - fit fuel filter, points, condenser, plug leads, distributor cap and rotor arm.
• Mercedes 230TE - fit replacement drivers seat base.
• Citroen Ami 8 - fit new front shock absorbers

 

[LightBulbFun]

28 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Small project on the Dyane, should anyone have an idle moment on Saturday and care to join me:

* fit new washer bottle/pump and jets
* fit bonnet hooks
* Araldite three press-studs for the canvas sunscreen

I wonder if @Six-cylinder's Ami will be there? having driven a 2CV im quite eager to see what the 2 major derivative types are like in comparison  (although I dont know if the actual field portion is available? or if its full of lambs again!)

so I am more then happy to help* out, especially so if I can blag a drive around the FoD  not that I can claim to be any good at mechanical work, it took me about one and a half hours just to replace the ground strap on my car...

regardless I am pleased to hear the Dyane will be visiting once more I was disappointed in myself that I missed it the last 2 times, so hopefully 3rd times the charm!

same with @Crackers's in the Landy, after I missed @mat_the_cat's visit with his Landy! I am glad there will still be one there for me to look over  

 

[beko1987]

49 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

For Saturday evening Mr6C has prepared a pile of fire wood for the enclosed garden fire pit.

Shame your not insured as it wouldn't probably be more fortuitous to just set fire to that entire pile there then claim you don't know how it started... 

I'm starting to come round to the idea of maybe camping over now.

[Six-cylinder]

16 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

I wonder if @Six-cylinder's Ami will be there? having driven a 2CV im quite eager to see what the 2 major derivative types are like in comparison  (although I dont know if the actual field portion is available? or if its full of lambs again!)

so I am more then happy to help* out, especially so if I can blag a drive around the FoD  not that I can claim to be any good at mechanical work, it took me about one and a half hours just to replace the ground strap on my car...

regardless I am pleased to hear the Dyane will be visiting once more I was disappointed in myself that I missed it the last 2 times, so hopefully 3rd times the charm!

same with @Crackers's in the Landy, after I missed @mat_the_cat's visit with his Landy! I am glad there will still be one there for me to look over  

 

Ami will be there.

Bad news on the field, while there are no animals at the moment, where the heavy horses have been in the field it is very bumpy. I took the Mercedes 230TE out into the field the other day and it is so rough that I would not want any of my cars driven around it. 

Anybody with a 20 Ton roller please bring it with you!

[LightBulbFun]

6 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Ami will be there.

Bad news on the field, while there are no animals at the moment, where the heavy horses have been in the the field it is very bumpy.

so what your saying is I should bring with me a basket of eggs?

6 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Anybody with a 20 Ton roller please bring it with you!

gotta be careful what you say there as @Crackers might just be able to have that arranged!

[Crackers]

45 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

same with @Crackers's in the Landy, after I missed @mat_the_cat's visit with his Landy! I am glad there will still be one there for me to look over  

Not this time round boss. June weekend should be a goer.

[Zelandeth]

May or may not be able to drop by this weekend. 

Have a family work commitment tomorrow which is going to be a huge stressor for me so really can't gauge whether I'll be in the right sort of headspace to deal with socialising come the weekend yet.

Not even me that's involved, really does hit home how fragile my mental state is these days sometimes.

[BL Bloke]

Hopefully I'll be there Saturday. If I can be bothered to charge the Rover's battery I'll give it a run out otherwise it'll probably be the Saxo again. 

[Six-cylinder]

Today was supposed to be a regular workday 9-5, but I wanted to move some cars around and had to do that during normal working hours.

First car to start was 230TE just to move it out of the way.

Next was the E320 Coupe to storage partly as transport to get there and partly to ease the drive congestion. 

The 2CV was prebooked for MOT so after a jump start I drove it home and snapped a photo with my Ami. Then forward to my favourite garage who are dealing with the MOT, service and air filter we blew up.

For my return they had my MOTed, serviced and tyre replaced M3 ready for me. One the way back I had it cleaned. and while in was being done I popped into the garage in Winslow who had agreed to arrange another MOT and they asked me what I was bringing. I declined to answer! 

I manged to find a sports ground car park to take some fresh pictures of the M3 ready to advertise it more widely.

I then put the M3 back in storage to keep it clean and because I needed to get there for my next move.

Next was another jump start and a lumpy idle, this time the BiTurbo 425 I have been itching to drive again. It ran like a pig and I think the brakes were also dragging, but we made it. Even with it in front of the garage I was asked what is it?

For my next movement the MG Metro was ready so I got to drive it home with its new MG decals. I have kept it out for the weekend so it will visit the FoD and may do the high speed fish and chip run Saturday night.

I never did get to start work today, cars are much more fun!

 

 

[BL Bloke]

That sounds like a lot more fun than work any day. 😀

The Rover's battery is on charge so it'll probably be making its FOD debut on Saturday.

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

 

 

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dont need horsepower. ❤️

 

[Zelandeth]

Given it's been sat for a while, my first port of call on the Maserati for the poor running would be checking the dashpot oil in the carbs - assuming I'm remembering correctly that it's running twin SUs...if not ignore me!

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Today was supposed to be a regular workday 9-5, but I wanted to move some cars around and had to do that during normal working hours.

First car to start was 230TE just to move it out of the way.

Next was the E320 Coupe to storage partly as transport to get there and partly to ease the drive congestion. 

The 2CV was prebooked for MOT so after a jump start I drove it home and snapped a photo with my Ami. Then forward to my favourite garage who are dealing with the MOT, service and air filter we blew up.

For my return they had my MOTed, serviced and tyre replaced M3 ready for me. One the way back I had it cleaned. and while in was being done I popped into the garage in Winslow who had agreed to arrange another MOT and they asked me what I was bringing. I declined to answer! 

I manged to find a sports ground car park to take some fresh pictures of the M3 ready to advertise it more widely.

I then put the M3 back in storage to keep it clean and because I needed to get there for my next move.

Next was another jump start and a lumpy idle, this time the BiTurbo 425 I have been itching to drive again. It ran like a pig and I think the brakes were also dragging, but we made it. Even with it in front of the garage I was asked what is it?

For my next movement the MG Metro was ready so I got to drive it home with its new MG decals. I have kept it out for the weekend so it will visit the FoD and may do the high speed fish and chip run Saturday night.

I never did get to start work today, cars are much more fun!

 

 

Sounds like you're retired!

[catsinthewelder]

On 5/11/2022 at 1:36 PM, Six-cylinder said:

 

Anybody with a 20 Ton roller please bring it with you!

How many laps will Dez need to do on the Jinling towing the little roller to get if flat?

[hairnet]

39 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Given it's been sat for a while, my first port of call on the Maserati for the poor running would be checking the dashpot oil in the carbs - assuming I'm remembering correctly that it's running twin SUs...if not ignore me!

once warm

italian tune up down the bypass obvs

 

[AnthonyG]

Oh good, the little Metro is back - it is a great car.

[wuvvum]

59 minutes ago, catsinthewelder said:

How many laps will Dez need to do on the Jinling towing the little roller to get if flat?

Alternatively if you can find a source of dark matter locally, you can fill the little roller with that and get it up to 20 tonnes easily.

[Longbridge Apologist]

14 hours ago, AnthonyG said:

Oh good, the little Metro is back - it is a great car.

Yep. I'm in love...

[chaseracer]

Annnnd AH'M OOT... 🙁

See you at the June meet, shiters!

[beko1987]

15 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Alternatively if you can find a source of dark matter locally, you can fill the little roller with that and get it up to 20 tonnes easily.

Could cut the ends off and fill the cylinder with railway sleepers? 🤔

[beko1987]

Car is half packed. Just the food to go in the morning! 

[Six-cylinder]

I have been asked if I could display my Jaguar E Type in Thornborough Village for the Platinum Jubilee celebration 3rd June.

This morning Talbot had a few minutes while Mrs6C prepared the barn ready for slating.

It gave Talbot and I the opportunity to take a look at my E Type, which was buried at the back of storage so lots of  moving cars. The E-Type has been spiting back though the rear carburettors. Turns out to have two reversed plug leads at the distributor cap. Then Talbot took it for a test drive.

That was when it all went wrong, thinking it was going very well he took a wrong turning. While tracing has steps back the E-Type cut out not to run again. I went out to rescue him in his Mercedes estate (I was driving the Ami). A check of the fuel system revealed nothing so we moved to the ignition and found the coil was dead. As it was parked on a quiet but 60mph lane we elected to tow it back to storage with the Merc.

I have found a new coil, but we did not have time to fit it yet to prove our diagnosis. 

 

[Andyrew]

At least the wheels didnt come off! 

[horriblemercedes]

I would've loved to come along but I'm already tied up. I'll do my best for the next one though - it looks promising at the moment

[beko1987]

3 minutes ago, Andyrew said:

At least the wheels didnt come off! 

Yea it's annoying when that happens 🤣

[Crackers]

Made in the Midlands with <brummie> proide. </brummie>

[Zelandeth]

59 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

I have been asked if I could display my Jaguar E Type in Thornborough Village for the Platinum Jubilee celebration 3rd June.

This morning Talbot had a few minutes while Mrs6C prepared the barn ready for slating.

It gave Talbot and I the opportunity to take a look at my E Type, which was buried at the back of storage so lots of  moving cars. The E-Type has been spiting back though the rear carburettors. Turns out to have two reversed plug leads at the distributor cap. Then Talbot took it for a test drive.

That was when it all went wrong, thinking it was going very well he took a wrong turning. While tracing has steps back the E-Type cut out not to run again. I went out to rescue him in his Mercedes estate (I was driving the Ami). A check of the fuel system revealed nothing so we moved to the ignition and found the coil was dead. As it was parked on a quiet but 60mph lane we elected to tow it back to storage with the Merc.

I have found a new coil, but we did not have time to fit it yet to prove our diagnosis. 

 

What is it with you and ignition systems this last month or so?