Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - A change of flavour today

[richardmorris]

59 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

You have always looked down on my cars, Japanese Mazda, Australian Sigma, junk to you. Then you want to save an under nourished, basic Mk3 Carlton saloon with DIY gearbox!

Biting the hand that feeds you, or don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

[Six-cylinder]

3 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Biting the hand that feeds you, or don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

Really!

We have a Citroen CX, Range Rover Classic, Discovery one, Alfa Giulietta, Saab 95, Renault 4GTL that need help and you choose this!

[richardmorris]

9 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Really!

We have a Citroen CX, Range Rover Classic, Discovery one, Alfa Giulietta, Saab 95, Renault 4GTL that need help and you choose this!

Well, I wouldn’t, but anything that gets helpful hands on the premises….

[hairnet]

42 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Really!

We have a Citroen CX, Range Rover Classic, Discovery one, Alfa Giulietta, Saab 95, Renault 4GTL that need help and you choose this!

oofatron

please fiddle with it

[Mrs6C]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I doubt it has been converted, but for the small leisure mileage I will do I will take my chances.

You could treat it to a few litres of proper 4 star now and again...

[mintwth]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

Really!

We have a Citroen CX, Range Rover Classic, Discovery one, Alfa Giulietta, Saab 95, Renault 4GTL that need help and you choose this!

Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends.

Choose a Carlton

[hairnet]

i read that as choose a starter motor oops

[Six-cylinder]

2 hours ago, mintwth said:

Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends.

Choose a Carlton

Not entirely true!

My boss choose my first Carlton for me in 1993, after I slid my few month old Cavalier CDi off the road backwards into a ditch and damaged it.

Up to then I had had a fairly free choice choosing my own company cars. After the accident my boss said he would be choosing my next company car. I worked for a Vauxhall dealer so my guess was I was going to spend some time in a low spec Astra as punishment. My boss would not tell me what he had planned, my sales administrator and the service manger had been sworn to secrecy. The day came and he took me and some staff outside and had the Carlton bought around the front. I was handed the keys with the words "I thought you would be safer in this". 

[richardmorris]

25 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Not entirely true!

My boss choose my first Carlton for me in 1993, after I slid my few month old Cavalier CDi off the road backwards into a ditch and damaged it.

Up to then I had had a fairly free choice choosing my own company cars. After the accident my boss said he would be choosing my next company car. I worked for a Vauxhall dealer so my guess was I was going to spend some time in a low spec Astra as punishment. My boss would not tell me what he had planned, my sales administrator and the service manger had been sworn to secrecy. The day came and he took me and some staff outside and had the Carlton bought around the front. I was handed the keys with the words "I thought you would be safer in this". 

Were you safer?

[Six-cylinder]

2 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Were you safer?

Slower.

[High Jetter]

7 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Unfortunately Mrs6C needed to go out 

Did you allow this, and in what? 😀

[ianbmw]

18 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

You have always looked down on my cars, Japanese Mazda, Australian Sigma, junk to you. Then you want to save an under nourished, basic Mk3 Carlton saloon with DIY gearbox!

That’s an incredibly long and complicated way to say….

 

i want to fix the superior car.

[hairnet]

carlton fixed yet?

[Six-cylinder]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

carlton fixed yet?

He is banned from touching the poverty spec Carlton until my luxury Sigma is running!

[Six-cylinder]

A change of flavour today. I could have collected my Rolls Royce from service, but when @ianbmw said he could spare me some time today for the Sigma I jumped at the chance.

More reassembly is completed and the first test start. It turns over but unfortunately did not have a spark. With the distributor plugged back in we had a spark and could smell petrol, our reward was only a couple of pops though. The battery seemed weak so we need to jump it to get oil pressure to fill the hydraulic tappets. Also just check the distributor is not 180 degrees out. Somebody switched the sun off before we were ready and we had to give up for today.

The Manta was pushed down from its staring role today, to just being my transport!

[ianbmw]

This I love in life…… Japanese cars……..reassembling cars I didn’t take apart and I have no idea where it all goes.

 

*touch of sarcasm! Hope that Carlton appreciates the sacrifices I’m making for it to live!