Project Domes shonky autos - Car that lived by the sea in Scotland in rust shocker*

[dome]

And we're off. Corolla deposited at chrain station.

 

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[dome]

First train achieved.

I'm sure some deviants on here will be able to tell far too much about the train from this picture

 

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[The Moog]

Good luck Mr Dome. Please include photos of butteries

[loserone]

I hope they're not lead acid butteries

[Tayne]

Let me know if you have any delays, I’ve got someone on at 11.

[dome]

Let me know if you have any delays, I’ve got someone on at 11.

Will do. Second train achieved on time.

 

 

 

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[dome]

Some reading material for the trip. Can thoroughly recommend this book

 

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[dome]

Standard breakfast shot

 

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[Tayne]

[dome]

I think I'll leave them there for the journey home. If I can't see the temp gauge then I don't have to worry about it

 

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[dome]

Aberdeen achieved.

 

Last time I was here I was picking up the roffle Lexus from Supernaut. Which was also £3 a ticket from memory.

 

Half an hour or so and i meet the object of my desires.

 

Which are sitting on the dashboard of a broken funny looking Audi

 

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[Tayne]

Dome has just left in the Audi, he should make it as far as the filling station.

[The Moog]

That will be the warranty expired

[dome]

Diz shot

 

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[Lacquer Peel]

Does it use less diesel than water?

[gm]

no point in keeping an eye on the temp gauge, it has a very part time attitude to working

plug your odb scanner in if you wish to be worried by coolant temps.

 

have a safe journey home

[cort16]

Good luck dome. Are you carrying more water then a fully laden fire engine?

[dome]

Forfar achieved!

[gm]

a nice steady run or regular stoppages ?

[Tayne]

There’s a good chance that dome could have done the run to his house in one hit, I reckon it’s expelling about 100ml of coolant per 4.54litres of diesel.

And there was a good 5 litres of mixed /concentrate and water supplied with the car.

 

Dome did suggest going full roadkill and driving with the bonnet removed...

[dome]

Fin.

 

I released the pressure in Forfar and cracked on. I stuck to 60mph and it seemed to behave, I had the heaters on all the time and the highest I saw on the coolant temp was 94. Will let it cool and check the levels.

 

The most worrying thing is something is fucked in the steering area, it feels quite wayward sometimes. Will investigate.

 

Now, I've earned a couple of butteries...

 

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[Tayne]

I think the tyres might be shit, you can get extreme torque steer booting it off roundabouts in the wet.

[dome]

Most importantly, these are safely back in Fife!

 

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[dome]

Pupper gives his seal of approval

 

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[bigfella2]

What's the plan with it?

[M'coli]

Hopefully dome's plans will be something like this: fix it up, get bored with it, re-roffle it with the lucky* winner being a Yorkshire-domiciled Scottish Peugeot-fondler...

[dome]

What's the plan with it?

 

So from a brief prod after getting home the plan is this.

 

Fix the coolant temp gauge as it's totally dead. I'll need to see if these run 2 sensors as Torque was giving me a reading for the whole trip, it may be one sensor with 2 feeds.

 

Jacking up the front shows the drivers side lower front arm has play which explains the wayward steering. It's pretty new so I'll see what the score is there, may have to press a new bush into it though. It was a novelty not having to worry about rotten jacking points BECAUSE ALUMINIUM

 

Then I'd like to press it into service to see how it behaves before I strip it down. I'll swap the Corollas insurance on to it when I get my finger out and rip it's engine out.

[hairnet]

Hopefully dome's plans will be something like this: fix it up, get bored with it, re-roffle it with the lucky* winner being a Yorkshire-domiciled Scottish Peugeot-fondler...

How many pies bribes would that take

[M'coli]

How many pies bribes would that take

59

[bigfella2]

Well if you do decide to keep it and work your way through its foibles, there is a cheap/free way of sorting the headgasket without resorting to k-seal or steel seal. It's not guaranteed to work but worth a try.

 

Never seen it done on a three cylinder pd, but a 1.4 is essentially a 1.9 with a cylinder lopped off, so can't see why it wouldn't work. Deffo worth trying before resorting to taking the head off.