No drama, collectorama (CAUTION: shonky Lotus content) Now with OMG HGF!

[richardmorris]

I made up a short wire with spade terminals to fit in case of a failing rad temp switch on my cx's. Can you do something similar?

[holbeck]

The fans are members of ASLEF and the manual override switch is in the RMT.  They'll start working again on Friday morning.  

 

Unite in struggle, brothers.

Ahem, I am in ASLEF and we were not on strike!

 

Fans however, work to rule brothers!

[Guest Breadvan72]

One fan has seized, the other one is running.  The two Johns in Corsica Street, N5, have done some sortage.  They are going to hold on to the car for a bit and attend to some other niggly items.   It is in their shed for the weekend next to a rather good M red 944 Sport (not a turbo, and grey not red), that does, they tell me, about three miles a year between each MoT, lives outdoors, gets shat on by every pigeon in Highbury, but isn't all that rusty. 

[dieselnutjob]

you can stop at Ruislip for a break (and use of tools  ) and look at the 604 if you are doing the M40.

[skattrd]

One fan has seized, the other one is running. 

 

It sounds like the seized fan might be causing the fuse to blow then ...

[Skizzer]

Ahem, I am in ASLEF and we were not on strike!

 

Oops, my fault for skimming the email I got from TfL, as I'm not in London this week.  I withdraw the accusation and apologise unreservedly.

[holbeck]

Oops, my fault for skimming the email I got from TfL, as I'm not in London this week.  I withdraw the accusation and apologise unreservedly.

^^ No need, all light hearted banter.

[New POD]

Is it comfortable in the back ?

[Guest Breadvan72]

Lotus muchly vroomy lately.  Finally in today for new fan and other fixes.    It is hella fun to drive.  

 

 

[skattrd]

I'm glad to hear it's not been forgotten about in the wake of recent acquisitions.

 

I'm promising myself something interesting (possibly with a 907/912) once my current financial status relaxes. We'll have to catch up for a beer sometime whilst I'm working in that Londun.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Parked up next to Hondamerican car of brotherage - two rather different approaches to a Coupe type of thang.

 

Beers = Yeppaz

 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

The Lotus now has a new fan and new coolant hoses and various other bits and bobs, but this morning on the M11 its ignition switch gave up the ghost, so it is currently running via a hotwire. This is very Grand Theft Auto, yo bitches!

A well used DeLorean stopped by at the Fourwentways Shell Garage where the AA dude was setting up the hotwire. Lovely thing, not at all Back to the Futured, driven by a cool dude who also has a Norton or two back at home. I had never had the chance to look over a Delorean closely before - fun machine, especially when no flux capacitator fitted. 

[richardmorris]

Excuse me if I'm stupid and ignorant, but are they Sd1 rear lights? They do give it something of a fat behind. A colleague of my dad had one in the late 80's. Apparently it rarely left the school car park without a push. Once he was late because the windscreen had fallen out (but not broken).

[chaseracer]

...are they Sd1 rear lights?

 

Yep - mounted 180^o to the squiff.

[garethj]

Also fitted to the Esprit S2, although I prefer the back of the Esprit S1 with its X19 tail lights.

 

Failing electrics on the Lotus is nothing to worry about, it's just part of the ownership experience like being told about Princess Anne when you've got a Scimitar or being called a cunt when you've got a BMW X6.  Compared to those two options I'd take the Lotus any day.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Every tossa comes up to yer at a garage and says loads of trouble, usually serious when when the thing is working just fine.  When I had Lancias, every fuggah would say "they all rusted at the dealers, they did", whilst looking at a 30 plus year old non rebuilt car that has visibly not fallen to bits yet (bloocoop of doom excluded).

[Guest Breadvan72]

OMG HGF!
 

Lotus head gasket popped the other day on the M25 (partly triggered by fan relay failure and traffic, although was prob on way out anyway). I limped in to South Mimms services. All alloy engine, so fixing it not likely to be a biggie. That ain't the actual story.

 

AA rubbish. I told the call centre that the head gasket had gone and asked for a tow. They insisted on sending a patrol dude to have a look, who, to be fair, arrived rapidly. Competent dude, as they almost all are, immediately confirmed that the head gasket had gone. He wanted to tow me home, but his database overruled him. Lotus Excel impossible to tow, says database (bollocks, of course: there is a section on how to tow the car and tow with the car in its handbook).

 

Then I waited 4.5 hours for a low loader. Driver utterly incompetent sub-contractor in rusty and shagged out truck. Low car, long overhangs, hard to load, got damaged (see above re towing - the car is easily towable). Picked me up at an actual fuel station, drove off onto M25 .... realised about to run out of fuel. Drove around Hertfordshire after midnight trying to find open station. When eventually fuelled and back on Mway, truck struggled to go 50 mph. Noisy, drafty, bumpy (modern ones are fast and smooth).

 

AA didn't get a Christmas card.

[Asimo]

"Unlike"

[Felly Magic]

Sounds like they sent an utter cowboy chimp to recover you (same firm as Fred Transit ended up being fecked by possibly?)

[Cheggers]

14 & 27 please

[Guest Breadvan72]

New Year, new head gasket, also a new fan and clutch master cylinder plus some other bits.  It all makes work for the working man to do.

[stuboy]

Ud got home quicker by pushing the car..lol

[Skizzer]

Breadman's Lotus hits the skids by Skizzer on Toonacy.com

[Guest Breadvan72]

Ud got home quicker by pushing the car..lol

 

I may well have made that very point to the tosspot truck driver and to the phone controller.

[Des]

Weirdly, I usually embrace HGF happily, by the time they let go we're at the point where a decoke and valve lapping will have the engine running nicer, but I strongly urge that the cam followers, those upside down buckety things that turn rotating knobbly cam into up and down valve movement, are checked very carefully for fatigue, if any are found bad the HGF would become a blessing.

And correct any boring grubby pleb quoting the lots of trouble mantra, it's Lots Of Toyota Usually Supra.

[RoadworkUK]

Not a failure, more a hiccup. Call it character.

[Guest Breadvan72]

 

And correct any boring grubby pleb quoting the lots of trouble mantra, it's Lots Of Toyota Usually Supra.

 

Not the engine, though, or the chassis, or the body, or the electrics, or, or, or ....

 

How is the silver one?  Much nicer than my red one.  The interior on the red one is well shagged.