Cavcraft? Shadow? Get in the sea!

[Parky]

Urgh at that interior.

 

Can I suggest a stick of dynamite in a bucket of soapy water might be the best way to get that interior habitable?

[Richard]

The interior isn't that bad, it's just slightly more than averagely grubby with added mould from sitting unused. Most cars will grow mould if they are unused and a bit damp.

[Split_Pin]

My Corsa seats had more mould than that when it was covered. Cleaned off fine.

[KruJoe]

Can I get a rewind?

 

 

18 months or so ago, I found this for my (and Will's) younger brother Dan. It was keenly priced, local and had a new test. Was cheap to run and already a bit grim, so ideal for him. Collection:

 

 

It has occasionally graced* these pages previously, eg collecting Will's 106...

 

 

And after I got mine from Billy:

 

 

Cont...

[KruJoe]

So then it was thrashed mercilessly by Dan on and off road, on a variety of alternative* fuels for year, without an air filter natch. His rat-dog lived in it full time.

 

I did don my haz-mat suit to drive it last spring sometime. The clutch cable was AWOL, and Dan had been driving it for weeks without it, starting it in gear, changing on the fly, and stalling it to park up. 

A length of baler band (farmers' hairy yellow string) was then rigged up to be used as a hand clutch. That worked* for a while. Other than that, the rest of it felt utterly buggered. The rear end was flapping about over bumps, and the gearbox was equally slack. But the abused engine still ran sweet enough.

 

It was only abandoned on a farm near Ripon after the test ran out, it did bloody well to last that long.

[KruJoe]

By popular* demand:

 

 

More treasures.

 

[SiC]

Sell it to the BBC for them to use on the next topgear challenge. A car that might spice up the series a bit.

[purplebargeken]

I just hurled and now have a headache. Thanks.

[KruJoe]

I thought it felt a bit tight getting the straps behind the back wheels. Not much life left in this beam.

 

 

 

[KruJoe]

This'll explain the flappy back end:

 

 

(Cracked / torn boot floor!)

[KruJoe]

Let's get cracking.

 

Borrowed the BX's batt...

 

 

I've not seen these nifty quick-release clamps before:

 

 

I could feel diesel* in the primer bulb, so...

 

 

Well, it was trying on one. A bit. But slow, and howling. Top of the engine dry? Any oil in it?

 

 

That looks oily enough. Booster on to help it, and...

 

...how can a 20 second vid clip take an hour to upload? Welcome to rural Yorkshireshire.

[vulgalour]

If it was a race to the bottom you just won.

[Eddie Honda]

I've not seen these nifty quick-release clamps before:

 

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They aren't "nifty", they are shit and the work of Satan.

[KruJoe]

Oh?

Well this one works ok - certainly better than the usual green/red screw-top clamp* efforts from PSA.

 

Next try, it fired up!

It squealed like a pig when it first caught, then it started running away on itself (sticky throttle cable) but I scuttled to the front and pulled the lever back to idle:

 

 

The batt light stayed on, so I guess the earlier squealing was the swan song of the aux belt being killed by the seized alternator. It's done a Shitpeas.

 

Sounds well, eh?

[SiC]

What next for it? Going to restore or strip for parts and then scrap?

[Mally]

No! no! You can't break it.

Think of all the air pollution. I only live 40 miles away.

Cremation is the only safe way.

[M'coli]

What next for it? Going to restore or strip for parts and then scrap?

Breadvan72's just bought an MGF - buy some Metro diesel driveshafts if they're different, drop the engine from this in that and rock up at an MG owners' meeting to see them spew their rings?

[John F]

So... features more mouldy dog eggs than undented panels, the rear end is making a serious attempt to secede from the Union, the interior contravenes the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention 1972, value with a fresh MOT would be less than the cost of the paraphernalia in the glove compartment...

 

I predict a future for this that involves bean tins. </mystic_meg>

[Rusty_Rocket]

I do love a TUD

Buy a petrol 106 with a failed head gasket and let two become one? 

[SiC]

So... features more mouldy dog eggs than undented panels, the rear end is making a serious attempt to secede from the Union, the interior contravenes the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention 1972, value with a fresh MOT would be less than the cost of the paraphernalia in the glove compartment...

 

I predict a future for this that involves bean tins. </mystic_meg>

That would be the sensible choice. However this is AutoShite and KruJoe seems to have spent a lot of time on it since collecting it. More than I'd expect if it was off to be crunched up.

[Lacquer Peel]

KJ has an early 106 1.4 diesel with a Lucas pump. Engine swap?

[M'coli]

That's pump-of-darkness too, by the looks of things - which is an utter pain in the arse as I could do with decent photographs of how a Bosch pump's cold start cables and that are connected because they're not on the ex- explosive-cabbage 106.

[Lacquer Peel]

It does look like a Lucas pump, I thought some of these later 106 diesels used Bosch pumps.

The cold start devices rarely work anyway.

[Rusty_Rocket]

Yes, Lucas pump on that one, which is odd because I thought they were all Bosch by that age.  It has no immobiliser either?

 

I have a complete Bosch pump, injectors, pipes and bracket for a TUD5 if anyone wants to convert theirs.

[panhard65]

That looks quite tidy inside compared to some.