Toyotally Fixerating Bitz 'n Bobs.. A Diary

[tooSavvy]

First 'leg stretch' @85 for the new year....

Carvery lunch @Inn at Brough.

Yes.... Have mentioned this place before

Yes.... It is DEFFO worth a visit  mmmmm

[tooSavvy]

Err, nothing to see here...

Being 'a car' >> but so competently

[tooSavvy]

Ahhhh.... FCUK

.... been a bit blowy, of L8

yep, chunk of chimney cement flashing (cheese wedge shape) sitting on roof yesterday.

upsides? Didn't land on rear glass/moonroof....

nah.... Fuckking Pissed TBH grrrrrrr

[Jim Bell]

Can barely tell man. It's just more character. 

[Isaac Hunt]

Suffered some ‘Offside Bin Laden’ damage to one of our cars.   TBH I think it was from the brick to keep the lid shut on a fully loaded recycling bin that the wind whisked along the path until the wheels dug in and it tipped, launching the brick at the side of the car......... Just another brick had to fall...

[beko1987]

Kick it out from inside, it'll be alright! 

[tooSavvy]

Cheers, all...... "Lucky it isn't a new one" as the old lady has it.

Some barsteward will have put his P&J in the garage last night (nae fuckkin bricks on mah cah!) to come out today to no garage/roof

..... matter of degree ....

[tooSavvy]

Coming up to 30yo, now basking in the raucous rust bath which is 'the NE' ? , I can see some scabbiness on the rear suspension arms (well sprayed with corrosion resisting gloop notwithstanding)... I'm just saying...

48710-20060 & 48720-20050 .... Different sides.

Anyone have a crocked 87 - 91 Carina/Camry/Lexus = all same part

I think a clean/sound pair 'on the shelf' might be good strategy >> on the car, even better!

answers on a post card to usual address.

[Asimo]

Spares in your shed is a good thing. They probably don't make those anymore.

[tooSavvy]

Well.... At this 'tiresome juncture', it is difficult to organise anything particularly involved around tinkering with ToMM©

My back lane is still fenced off [the Great Metro Fire scene] and that means no convenient spot by the back door for servicing/tinkering ?

I made myself feel less 'redundant' therefore, by doing my oil-level check @Tesco [observing automotive self distancing = leaving atleast two spaces between your car and others...]

Yupp.... At the mark  

*not really a worry tbh

[tooSavvy]

In response to the 'throwing off of the chains' regards social journeying....

...... a soujorn to the coast was felt not to be 'overdoing it'

*seals weren't overdoing it either, in the warm sunshine!

**stopped off @Morrisons and squeezed in £15 worth u/l 99.9P

 

[tooSavvy]

^ ^ ^ ^ ....... and after some totally boring 'round the houses' shopping trips >> no family 'garden chair' encounters here! >> yesterday I squeezed in £20 @99.7p.

I had pointed out hawking a full tank was, like, a bit 'overkill' but SWMBO insisted it was 'a bargain'..... F F S ?

[paulplom]

Did you go to the top of the lighthouse or was it closed?

[tooSavvy]

On 6/8/2020 at 7:37 AM, paulplom said:

Did you go to the top of the lighthouse or was it closed?

Err.... Just on the flagged path. But fair to say >>> looking a bit bleak on the Ice Cream front ?

S.H.U.T

[tooSavvy]

I have a 'new friend'.....

timrussia

https://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/209018/toyota-carina-executive-plate-1988?page=4

..... we will see what he is getting up to in the Land of MadVlad

[privatewire]

From timrussia
air conditioning.Complication GLI

Love a bit of air conditioning complication !

[tooSavvy]

On 6/15/2020 at 7:13 PM, privatewire said:

From timrussia
air conditioning.Complication GLI

Love a bit of air conditioning complication !

Yes..... Possibly more used to Carbs on Auld $#ite, just like us

[tooSavvy]

Further to my *post, enquiring about Mitzie bootlids....

Forget that

#SOMETHING IS COMING#

....... muahhahhahhaaa

[tooSavvy]

#Ebay.... Your item is consigned eta 9th July

Yo Baby.....

EDIT >>> it has arrived! SoopaKwikk

[tooSavvy]

..... and 5 mins dremmel cut-wheel action + soldering iron = 100% improvement over 'Ebay description'

Boogie on...

[egg]

Need moar pics m8!

[tooSavvy]

Alrighty........ *no, not ALL of it

IMG_20200704_052324 by tooSavvy, on Flickr

[tooSavvy]

Not too shabby (laid on look-see)

Needs LED wiring & painting

[loserone]

Would like to see what it looks like from lower down, but that might work out alright!

[tooSavvy]

43 minutes ago, loserone said:

Would like to see what it looks like from lower down, but that might work out alright!

It has locator pegs sticking out >>> looks like a milking stool!

Dunno whether to drill 4holes (2bolt + 2peg) or just use the bolts.

The footprint will be fully flat on the lid so a black silicone/jelly mat will suffice (cut to shape) as a gasket

The ad said "led not working"... One wire had come adrift on the circuit board = I cut an access slot around the wire access gromit, to make room for my soldering iron, blobbed the board/wire end + flowed solder then araldited a square of placcie back over the two wires to keep the weather out....

LED_resoldered by tooSavvy, on Flickr

Works fine now. 12V 4W is stencilled on the casing so no wiring issues likely

[tooSavvy]

I believe these Jap cars are 'switched earth'... ?

The brake light wiring is 'permanently live', from Battery +V, and the other wire at the rear cluster [earthing] runs back through the loom to the brake switch/is earthed on switch.

This being unlike other UK cars where the loom is essentially dead wire until the brake switch makes a live connection, from Battery +V, and the power earths through the loom at the bulb end...

This means I need to 'tap' both wires, on the Carina loom and NOT go Black >> direct to an earth.

???

[tooSavvy]

Having mounted/loose posed the spoiler some factors have come to my attention....

The Primera boot has a greater 'up-bow' and the feet are showing some gap on the innermost edge = a tapered gasket will be made up to effectively make the pressure footprint flat!

Also this bowing makes the centre foot too short to touch down onto the bootlid.... I'm going to make a stub to remedy this

...... Watch this space (or no gap,actually)

[tooSavvy]

*update...

At our local poondies (OneBelow actually) I scored a highdensity foam gardeners 'kneeling pad' + a pack of vinyl stickkie floor tiles = top/middle/bottom of foot wedge.

Scored some random bit of tat to repurpose into spoiler centre mount.

£3.... investment return 100%

[paulplom]

I see your car quite regular at tescos. Very smart. I always park next to it.

[Out Run]

9 hours ago, paulplom said:

I see your car quite regular at tescos. Very smart. I always park next to it.

NXT time a door ding appears [mild steel vehicle skin] you know who to throttle @tooSavvy The man, not his car. ?