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[bub2006]

If you see a bright yellow Luton sprinter give me a wave

[xtriple]

Some top shite going on round these parts (I mean this site), I wish I had more space/money/physical ability and I'd have a load of more cars that you lot keep tempting me with. I have never had a Rover R8 of any description, nor a 75 (nearly did - 1.8 turbo - but got scared so ran away!) never had an XM (nearly did but realised I was being ripped off so ran away)  and so it goes on and on...

 

Oh, and in other news, yes, I am paranoid, OCD to an extreme and it does control my life to an unreasonable extent but I love the big green dollop now. It is all sorted and drives like new (I suppose) and it really is a rather special place to be. I really want to keep it this way! But, I also think the viscous coupling on the fan is faulty and am now considering removal and electric fan install instead. Or a new Viscous coupling, I should ask Panhard where he got his from.

[Bren]

Sciatica is bastard killing me

[panhard65]

Some top shite going on round these parts (I mean this site), I wish I had more space/money/physical ability and I'd have a load of more cars that you lot keep tempting me with. I have never had a Rover R8 of any description, nor a 75 (nearly did - 1.8 turbo - but got scared so ran away!) never had an XM (nearly did but realised I was being ripped off so ran away)  and so it goes on and on...

 

Oh, and in other news, yes, I am paranoid, OCD to an extreme and it does control my life to an unreasonable extent but I love the big green dollop now. It is all sorted and drives like new (I suppose) and it really is a rather special place to be. I really want to keep it this way! But, I also think the viscous coupling on the fan is faulty and am now considering removal and electric fan install instead. Or a new Viscous coupling, I should ask Panhard where he got his from.

I fitted a secondhand fan but it took 2 attempts to get one that worked and it was still £100 (£300 for new). I think the later models use a different coupling that was a lot cheaper than the one for mine. Flying spares is best really as the guy I used has given up now.

[SiC]

Booked Astra in for an MOT next week. Fingers crossed it'll pass. No reason why it shouldn't, but you never know.

 

Garage guys rolled their eyes and laughed when I said I bought something else...

[dean36014]

Might be mad but ordered a towbar for the citroen ZX last friday. It was coming from Poland and turned up today, pretty impressed with that. Now got to find the time to fit it and then look for a suitable cheap trailer tent for adventures next year.

[egg]

I have been treating the rear under tray of my Fusion with some Kurust this afternoon, it has surface rust along by the exhaust and rear hook. Pictured below conversion in action. What should I paint over the Kurust with in this area? Thanks.

 

[danthecapriman]

I have been treating the rear under tray of my Fusion with some Kurust this afternoon, it has surface rust along by the exhaust and rear hook. Pictured below conversion in action. What should I paint over the Kurust with in this area? Thanks.

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If it's converted and gone off properly I'd just paint some stone chip or underseal over it. Or some of that spray on aerosol wax from Bilt Hamber. Anything really just to give it some protection.

[dollywobbler]

This morning, I saw the Rover for the last time. It was dragged away for scrap while I was out on bus duty, so there was just an empty space where it had been when I got back. Feeling a bit glum, which suggests I liked it more than I thought I did. I know it was generally a bit rubbish, but it wasn't very far from being a working car. I guess stuff far more road ready gets scrapped every day though. I think this is why I don't usually scrap cars. I'd rather sell them on and dream that they're still running around joyously somewhere. Apart from the Sirion. Conrad's cartoon still haunts me.

[Bren]

Purchased today for the focii -

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£15 the pair from my local factor. I will fit them tomorrow.

 

I gave the car a wash as it had'nt been cleaned for weeks

Despite its advancing years it was miles better than the shite we viewed to replace it.

[Bren]

 

Picture of clean focii which I should have attached to earlier post.

[crapcarcollector]

Might be mad but ordered a towbar for the citroen ZX last friday. It was coming from Poland and turned up today, pretty impressed with that. Now got to find the time to fit it and then look for a suitable cheap trailer tent for adventures next year.

Cheap trailer tent you say?

 

I might have something right up your street.....

 

 

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[scaryoldcortina]

Purchased today for the focii -

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£15 the pair from my local factor. I will fit them tomorrow.

 

I gave the car a wash as it had'nt been cleaned for weeks

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Despite its advancing years it was miles better than the shite we viewed to replace it.

Odds of air filter being correct - 5/1

Odds of wet footwells after pollen filter change - evens

[twosmoke300]

Ha ha ! It's funny cos it's true

[HMC]

Took the puma for a hoon over the moors earlier, love the gearchange, steering feel and general scruff of the neck chuckability of it. It's all the more noticeable as the other vehicles are barges basically. Had a bit more of a prod about underneath, and it's generally pretty tidy with sone neat welding ( suprise suprise ) at the back of the sills. Current plans are an oil change and a dunk in some bilt hamber s50.

 

In shonky jag news I decided putting it onto pre 2001 font dealer plates for originality is a bit at odds with its scruffy well used feel. Instead I kept the noughties vibe by keeping the post 2001 font plates and had some of those cheapo cover labels that traders sometimes use to avoid the expense of a new plate set. I then decided as it was an east end car originally, it later passed through a dealer I've dreamt up that would be a bit of a diamond geezah with a fondness for dodgy old jags.

[Ghosty]

No car for me for a while.

Bastard.

 

I also need a job.

[dean36014]

Cheap trailer tent you say?

 

I might have something right up your street.....

 

 

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[barefoot]

This morning I have purchased a used but silent torque tube to replace the rattly one on the 944.

[BorniteIdentity]

My Mercedes 190e is running like a little sewing machine at the moment.  New ball joints have been fitted and I'd say it's running better than any other 190e that I've seen.

 

With this in mind, I'm actively looking to sell it at the moment and downsize.  This entails agreeing to buy something else not only to replace the 190, but doing so before the sale of the first car has even happened.  It's also larger than its predecessor.  Classic.

 

ALSO: I think I'm buying from the best vendor ever who, when I raised concern over surface corrosion, went and took the car for an MOT yesterday just to be on the safe side.  "I want to know what I'm selling is good" he says, and so he shelled out to the ministry for peace of mind.

 

Christ only knows when I'm going to be able to collect it, but it'll be in the next week or so.  Just trying to work out how to get there!

[Bren]

My Mercedes 190e is running like a little sewing machine at the moment.  New ball joints have been fitted and I'd say it's running better than any other 190e that I've seen.

 

With this in mind, I'm actively looking to sell it at the moment and downsize.  This entails agreeing to buy something else not only to replace the 190, but doing so before the sale of the first car has even happened.  It's also larger than its predecessor.  Classic.

 

ALSO: I think I'm buying from the best vendor ever who, when I raised concern over surface corrosion, went and took the car for an MOT yesterday just to be on the safe side.  "I want to know what I'm selling is good" he says, and so he shelled out to the ministry for peace of mind.

 

Christ only knows when I'm going to be able to collect it, but it'll be in the next week or so.  Just trying to work out how to get there!

I would have mentioned the paint chips and top end rattle - he might have it resprayed and the engine rebuilt.

[Angrydicky]

When you decide to spend your day off replacing the front lower arms on your Sierra base and you can't find your blowtorch to help release the tightest nut in history.

 

 

Eventually got the bastard off with a combination of the weed burner and a length of scaffold tube on the end of my biggest breaker bar. After 2.5 hours struggling with it, one new arm is on. 

 

What a fucker of a job! Still, it now drives much better with no more of that awful clonking under braking. Also found the cause of the rumbling over 50mph, there's a decent amount of play in the front wheel bearing on the passenger side so that will need doing at some stage (probably both sides to be fair).

[fordperv]

wow, was it the original arm? keep an eye on the big bush in the centre for the arb, on new arms the rubber is shite and ive had them fail less than 1000 miles. poly ones are available cheaply enough though, when you do the wheel bearings make sure youve got a torque wrench that does charles atlas spec as they torque up very high

[twosmoke300]

Arent sierra front bearings taper rollers? ie just nipped up

 

Edit they look like the rear ones on fiestas and old escorts - two taper bearings with a shoulder between them and therefore reamed up is correct

[fordperv]

they are taper but require iirc 310-350 nm

[Angrydicky]

They were both original Ford arms and didn't look like they'd ever been touched. Despite this, they did fail the MoT in 2006 but the bushes on these were so knackered I find it hard to believe that they were actually replaced at that time. The ones I'm fitting are NOS good quality ones (AP and Borg&Beck) so hopefully will last a decent amount of time? I've had plenty of issues with shit modern repro rubber parts so purposely bought NOS.

[Angrydicky]

Basically, almost every major steering, suspension or mechanical component on this car is or was original and completely worn out as it's a 152k, 33 year old Sierra that's spent most of its life crashing over London speed bumps in the hands of an owner who refused to spend any money on it.

[panhard65]

Just ordered the bits to sort the Porsche out £275 for a clutch kit and £570 for an IMS bearing and rear main oil seal. The old bearing had better be on its way out spending this much on it as it is supposed to be a weak point and should be done when the 'box is out.

[SiC]

I'd love to see a post about how you do an IMS bearing. Plenty of cheap Boxsters around where owners run away from them on IMS bearings.

 

Mid-engined German roadsters I thought would be very unfriendly to work on.

[DVee8]

MG production moves to China

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-37449289

[MarvinsMom]

MG production moves to China

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-37449289

 

 

well lets be honest, 99.9999%of the assembly was done in china anyway.... at longbridge they were just putting a set of alloy wheels on!