Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - Progress with the Mini Mayfair, if a little slow.

[Six-cylinder]

13 minutes ago, hairnet said:

Trevi hnng te Merc hnng

Can I dis your mx5 😄

I had to look up "hnng" as they did not teach me that one in school. says Or a greeting used by Tumblr users on Omegle to find fellow hipsters to follow.

One has to feel sorry for MX5s without popup headlights, they were short changed at birth!

[DoctorRetro]

On 10/14/2020 at 6:38 PM, wuvvum said:

Technically 4 1/2 if you count LBF's trailer thing.

Weeping angels are the only Dr Who monsters to ever creep the f*ck out of me.  Not sure why.

 

On 10/14/2020 at 6:48 PM, Six-cylinder said:

Don't remind me!

Don't worry, you have me. 😁

[LightBulbFun]

3 minutes ago, TheDoctor said:

Don't worry, you have me. 😁

I think @Six-cylinder was referring to the ever multiplying Invacars rather then the weeping angels! LOL

 

[DoctorRetro]

Just now, LightBulbFun said:

I think @Six-cylinder was referring to the ever multiplying Invacars rather then the weeping angels! LOL

 

It's fine, if we park them facing each other, they will be quantum locked and can't move. 😁

[hairnet]

20 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

I had to look up "hnng" as they did not teach me that one in school. says Or a greeting used by Tumblr users on Omegle to find fellow hipsters to follow.

One has to feel sorry for MX5s without popup headlights, they were short changed at birth!

Haven'ty you ever felt that way about [s]music[/s] cars'

Yours is a weird silver colour tho

[Six-cylinder]

15 minutes ago, hairnet said:

Haven'ty you ever felt that way about [s]music[/s] cars'

Yours is a weird silver colour tho

Come on, it is beautiful.

[Mrs6C]

30 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

I think @Six-cylinder was referring to the ever multiplying Invacars rather then the weeping angels! LOL

 

Just wait until the Nestene Consciousness discovers the Model 70...

[LightBulbFun]

8 hours ago, Mrs6C said:

Just wait until the Nestene Consciousness discovers the Model 70...

that sounds like the making of an Autoshite version of Christine LOL

although id like to think it would be like the Auton Copy of Rory where the copy switches to the good side due to cracks in fibreglass time

(would the flip down hand blasters thingies human auton copies have, be like the flip down indicator machine guns James Bond's DB5 has, on an Auton Copy of a Model 70? I should stop over thinking this now LOL)

[dozeydustman]

4 hours ago, TheDoctor said:

 

Don't worry, you have me. 😁

I’m watching you on the telly. Is this what you look like in real life?

[beko1987]

2 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

I’m watching you on the telly. Is this what you look like in real life?

Yep! We all had a ride in the tardis at the last fod weekend. Could still socially distance too! 

[DoctorRetro]

3 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

I’m watching you on the telly. Is this what you look like in real life?

I depends on what time line you catch me in. It's hard keeping up with this forum in order when I'm flitting through space and time. I was a woman the other week... 

[LightBulbFun]

14 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

I’m watching you on the telly. Is this what you look like in real life?

complete with a nixie tube clock, perfect

(really must build/get one of those for myself some day, I have a small collection of nixie tubes but nothing to purposefully drive em with)

[Mrs6C]

5 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Yep! We all had a ride in the tardis at the last fod weekend. Could still socially distance too! 

It's back in my study now, though could do with a wash and polish!

[hairnet]

9 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I had to look up "hnng" as they did not teach me that one in school. says Or a greeting used by Tumblr users on Omegle to find fellow hipsters to follow.

One has to feel sorry for MX5s without popup headlights, they were short changed at birth!

so youve never had an oof moment either?

you have multiples of either  - maybe youre immune

@wuvvum with the shitheaps you buy youve never uttered it

no idea what tumblr or omeagle are - are they 'special' websites or something

 

 

[High Jetter]

Reverse image, it's not really there, is it?

[Mrs6C]

12 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Reverse image, it's not really there, is it?

Er, yes?

 

[High Jetter]

But now, it's elsewhere. Maybe instead, maybe as well. Or you have a fab wardrobe!

[Zelandeth]

1 hour ago, Mrs6C said:

Er, yes?

 

I am slightly envious.

[Six-cylinder]

@TheDoctor I did not realise you had modernised to one of these!

[dollywobbler]

This is all reminding me of January, when I stayed with rather the Dr Who fan... 

[egg]

Stolen from Twitter.... where else to post it but here...

[Six-cylinder]

The Trevi is in disgrace as it is refusing to start. I thought it was just Italian temperament and if I kept trying it would eventually go , but no.

Today @ianbmw came to help me, we squirted easy start in but not a cough.  Next we tried for a spark and the HT lead from the coil gives a fat spark. From the spark plug leads we got the weakest of sparks. This evening I have ordered  spark plugs, HT Leads, Distributor cap and rotor arm.

[Mrs6C]

Do you need to add a third category to your signature line, of 'Not at home and broken'?

[richardmorris]

11 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

The Trevi is in disgrace as it is refusing to start. I thought it was just Italian temperament and if I kept trying it would eventually go , but no.

Today @ianbmw came to help me, we squirted easy start in but not a cough.  Next we tried for a spark and the HT lead from the coil gives a fat spark. From the spark plug leads we got the weakest of sparks. This evening I have ordered  spark plugs, HT Leads, Distributor cap and rotor arm.

If it’s like the Mercedes 300 engine, I’d suspect the distributor.

[Six-cylinder]

The green Range Rover is still not running and now I think it needs an autosparks to workout why there is no sparks.

Today @ianbmw bought over a gift of his old wheels and tyres for it because the tyres on it are are cracked and not going pass a MOT. This is optimism that one day it will run! 

[Six-cylinder]

13 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

If it’s like the Mercedes 300 engine, I’d suspect the distributor.

Speaking to a Gamma owner who also owns a Trevi he says check if the coil is 12V, his was fitted with a 12V coil but still had ballast resistor.

[Six-cylinder]

16 minutes ago, Mrs6C said:

Do you need to add a third category to your signature line, of 'Not at home and broken'?

Everybody would have to get 42 inch screens to fit them in!

[Zelandeth]

...If we've got a dodgy spark that may well be a contributing factor to why it seems to be impossible to dial the carb in to run smoothly across anything like a useful band.  Would also explain why there were brief periods where it seemed to run lovely for a few minutes before playing up again.

Have to confess to having got tunnel vision there and homes straight in on the carb (which does need a service kit, for the gasket if nothing else) and beyond clipping on one loose HT lead properly never really looked at the ignition side.  My bad!

[beko1987]

I did some cleaning tonight. 

First, using the v11 with the mini turbo head I got a bin full of sand out

Then each piece of carpet got a good spray with g101, scrubbed with a stiff brush by hand then extracted with my vax full of plain hot water

Rinse and repeat (ha) for it all and it came up quite well! 

They came up very well! They would have taken a drill brush, their in excellent condition but they didn't need it. No stains to speak of, but decades of grime washed out and they've brightened up no end! 

Its currently all behind pretty much every radiator in th e house waiting for the heating to come on in the morning and dry them, then I'll vacuum them again.

The drivers footwell mat needs re stitching though... It's held on by one side though

[Six-cylinder]

I bought the carpets from Bognor, please can you take them their beach back!