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[fatharris]

So adorable! Congratulations!

 

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[Steve79]

Is that Eddys Rover??

I've got it off a deceased estate. Family bought it for the old boy from somewhere up north back in january last year but he passed away in may and has been pretty much unused since then.

[Brodders]

Nice!

 

This past week of Rover ownership has made me pencil in one of these as the next crusier when the 200 inevitably fails it's next MOT. Or a plush 600. Dunno.

Ha ha, you're one of us now.

 

A whole new world of pain awaits you, but you won't care because the intoxicating blend of wood, chrome and leather makes you believe it is worth it.

 

Welcome to Rover ownership.

 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations by the way Fatharris.

[vulgalour]

Keep finding pictures of basey 90s Holdens and I shan't lie, a wagon like this has STRONG appeal.

 

[Shep Shepherd]

Managed to get my ancient Pure Highway DAB car adaptor working after a long period of being in my box of discarded tech, due to it deciding not to pick up any stations one day; it simply needed a factory reset:

 

 

Should go well in the waggins, especially as it has a mag-mount aerial

[MarvinsMom]

further mini tinkering..... and another fruitless day at the unit.

 

finally got both front hubs are finally off, we are going to fit new ball joints and bearings, but i think Goliath or Geoff Capes fitted the old ones.

 

with the ball joint splitter on it, the ball joints did not want to come apart, but some how we managed it. we have found that the outer cv boots are shot, and the track control arms are less than clever. great......

 

the previous owner had bought the car a moulded carpet set. i've trial fitted it, and while the colour is nice, it don't come anywhere near fitting properly cos its intended for an MPI,

 

so the carpet has a cut out for the fuse box next the the drivers door, cut out for the seatbelts in the wrong places and a mouded lump for the airbag ECU that my '74 doesn't have. so new carpet needs to be added to the list of stuff needed. along with drive shaft boots and new track contol arms, and i've no idea how on earth we are going to change those.... 

 

fuck.

 

you know those ideas you have that which seemd to be a good idea at the time,but infact are not?

 

yeap, buying that friggin' mini was one of those......

[panhard65]

Had a succesful day yesterday selling stuff. I sold a mobylette that I brought back from France for a nice little profit then sold my lads MG Midget. It had sat around for 6 months when his insurance ran out. I have also got rid of the big heap of spares I had for the Midget and hopefully the bloke who bought my 204 is coming back today to collect all the spares that went with it. It will be nice to have some space in the workshop again. I must try not to fill it up with more crap though.

[Christine]

Excited! A whopping  8 cylinders     ,and less than 3 litres ... And i'm  and the only bidder ,  I don't think anyone else has seen it 

3hrs to go  and i'm still the only bidder @ 99p      fingers crossed no one else has seen it  due to crap title !! My wife ain't at all happy...

[Angrydicky]

Registered 500 miles away in Maidstone 18 years ago so quite long odds, I would say.

GA on the old registration system was Glasgow.

[Angrydicky]

I've driven past John Childs Perodua dealership, which is out in the Kent countryside not a million miles from Ashford. It's a fantastic looking old place, with lots of signage and lots of knackered Peroduas out back (and decent ones in the showroom). I reckon he would be a good source of hard-to-find parts.

[Six-cylinder]

3hrs to go  and i'm still the only bidder @ 99p      fingers crossed no one else has seen it  due to crap title !! My wife ain't at all happy...

 

Ferrari do a  3 litre V8, but so do BMW!

[egg]

I've driven past John Childs Perodua dealership, which is out in the Kent countryside not a million miles from Ashford. It's a fantastic looking old place, with lots of signage and lots of knackered Peroduas out back (and decent ones in the showroom). I reckon he would be a good source of hard-to-find parts.

Not sure if I have or not, it's vaguely familiar, I'm sure me or other Kent shiter's would happily have a nose for our Perodua fans!

[MorrisItalSLX]

Keep finding pictures of basey 90s Holdens and I shan't lie, a wagon like this has STRONG appeal.

 

 

Apoligies in advance for pouring petrol on your desire fire 

 

 

 

 

 

[Skizzer]

Excited! A whopping  8 cylinders     ,and less than 3 litres ... And i'm  and the only bidder ,  I don't think anyone else has seen it 

  

3hrs to go  and i'm still the only bidder @ 99p      fingers crossed no one else has seen it  due to crap title !! My wife ain't at all happy...

Two Vauxhall Corsas?

[dollywobbler]

I've driven past John Childs Perodua dealership, which is out in the Kent countryside not a million miles from Ashford. It's a fantastic looking old place, with lots of signage and lots of knackered Peroduas out back (and decent ones in the showroom). I reckon he would be a good source of hard-to-find parts.

 

I did enquire about service parts when I first got the Nippa, but they seemed to be about twice the price of Ebay, so that was the end of that. Hard to justify splashing out on expensive bits for a £300 car.

[Six-cylinder]

  

Two Vauxhall Corsas?

 

Be carefull or you could end up with a 2 litre 6 cyl!

[fordperv]

It's a boy!

 

Austin Michael Raymond Harris was born at 2352 last night and home by 0400 this morning.

 

He's bloody ace, as was MrsH during the entire process and the entire staff of the Birthing Centre at Treliske hospital.

 

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Congratulations

[DodgeRover]

Keep finding pictures of basey 90s Holdens and I shan't lie, a wagon like this has STRONG appeal.

 

Good news there is/ was at least one in the UK and it's in white too. The V6 isn't as bad on fuel as you would imagine either.

[Jams]

Had a lovely lie in this morning! Got up had breakfast saw it was a nice morning and decided to refit the interior on the civic.

 

Newly acquired front seats in all clips back went to pop back seat in and I got a wiff of what I’m trying to get rid of!

 

Two Alsatians that must of smoked 40 a day! Ha so back out with the seats soaked boot carpet rear seats and matts in cleaning solution and scrubbed them. Yuk

[Tayne]

3hrs to go  and i'm still the only bidder @ 99p      fingers crossed no one else has seen it  due to crap title !! My wife ain't at all happy...

Well?

[Christine]

Still leading....trembling and smoking a lot of fags  . ...  Having second thoughts , If i win can someone help me load ?  I'm not looking at ebay site until 1pm ,too nervous

[Christine]

Fuck , i just had to look.....I'm still the only bidder and winning 

[Christine]

I lost ! by a £..  

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sold-as-a-pair-for-spares-project-2-Allett-36-in-Cylinder-Mowers-1967-1975-/222814002211?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&nma=true&si=t%252BGNbK3WAzitwFgd5OBXu7dCZTU%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

[fatharris]

Congratulations/commiseratuons!

 

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[dollywobbler]

Actually isn't raining, so I emptied the garage.

 

As I want the 2CV back on the road, that meant getting the Invacar out of the way. I cleverly* bodged the broken transmission mount back together with cable ties to allow me to move it.

 

Then I had room to manoeuvre the 2CV and get it jacked up, so I could adjust the handbrake. Now much better. I also made a bracket for the tiny li-ion battery, so that's now actually bolted in. Thought the MOT man might prefer that to tying it in with baler twine...

 

Also greased the kingpins, before finally losing my rag with my utterly shit grease gun. For every few squirts of grease you get, there's about ten minutes of pissing about trying to bleed the sodding thing. I need a better one.

 

Then rolled the 2CV outside. Had to resort to chucking a bit of fuel into the carb, but when I took the top off the air filter, I found this...

 

Seems I likely did bring some little mouse friends back from Sussex then, and they've transferred vehicle...

 

2CV has now had a driveway test run to clean the brakes up. Will get it booked in for a test...

[richardmorris]

Lovely day today so I went for a walk round Farley heath. Car was steamed up when I got back so once home decided to check if the carmats were damp. Well they weren’t damp. They were drowning. Removed them, squeezed out about two litres of water and they’re now leaning against a radiator. Dried the floors and used some wd40 to clean up the oxygen sensor connections that are helpfully placed under the driver’s mat.

 

It’s the one thing I dislike about running an older car as daily.

[Skizzer]

Now that my horrible cough has calmed down a bit I’ve spent a bit of time in the sheds this morning.

 

The Lotus almost starts but not quite. First there was no sign of life from the fuel pump; after going away and coming back later that fixed itself, but still no starting. There’s a spark and fuel, and sometimes a bit of a cough like it’s nearly catching, but it never quite does. It’s cranking pretty slowly so I’m going to treat it to a new battery and see what that does. Could also be a dodgy earth, and the +ve terminal clamp will benefit from a clean.

 

The unyielding SD1 tailgate continues to fight me at every step. I’m inside the boot via the back seat now, and can see the latch bolts, but two are virtually inaccessible and the third is rusted and will need drilling out. The photo below gives some sense of the level of swearing required.

 

 

I’m searching online for the world’s tightest offset screwdriver to get at the inaccessible bolts.

 

The Vauxhall 2300S repeated its performance of starting and idling reasonably happily, so that’s good. If the Lotus hadn’t been in the way I’d have taken it for a run round the farm.

 

More happily, my shed neighbour Bob has got his 1978 Cavalier 1600L running sweetly and braking properly again after 10 years off the road.

 

 

It’s booked in for a respray shortly with a really good local guy, because it’s got some microblistering and surface rust on the roof from an earlier blowover when it got pogweaseled. It’s done 75k but the engine is newer because of some episode early in its life. The whole car drives really well and feels very together with no rattles or squeaks. The engine is smooth and surprisingly torquey.

 

Bob will be selling it soon to make room for more projects. I’m tempted to buy it, and I know he would like me to. It was his father’s from new and then his, and it’s a very sound car with just the right level of honest wear. But I have too many cars and I’m not sure I’d use it. Hmm. Anyone on here interested? Probably priced around £3k with fresh paint and MOT. PM me if keen.

 

Bob is the coolest guy I know and also let me drive his scruffy 1967 Mustang notchback to Mumbles and back. It’s flippin excellent - mechanically good but very DO NOT PAINT. (Bob is a hotrodder, so he won’t.) Sorry no pics this time.

[DodgeRover]

Actually isn't raining, so I emptied the garage.

 

As I want the 2CV back on the road, that meant getting the Invacar out of the way. I cleverly* bodged the broken transmission mount back together with cable ties to allow me to move it.

 

Then I had room to manoeuvre the 2CV and get it jacked up, so I could adjust the handbrake. Now much better. I also made a bracket for the tiny li-ion battery, so that's now actually bolted in. Thought the MOT man might prefer that to tying it in with baler twine...

 

Also greased the kingpins, before finally losing my rag with my utterly shit grease gun. For every few squirts of grease you get, there's about ten minutes of pissing about trying to bleed the sodding thing. I need a better one.

 

Then rolled the 2CV outside. Had to resort to chucking a bit of fuel into the carb, but when I took the top off the air filter, I found this...

 

 

Seems I likely did bring some little mouse friends back from Sussex then, and they've transferred vehicle...

 

2CV has now had a driveway test run to clean the brakes up. Will get it booked in for a test...

How are you handling the charging of the LiPo battery?

[dollywobbler]

Charges off an alternator no bother. You can't use a domestic 240v to 12v charger though, as they don't charge at a high enough rate. Resting voltage is a smidge over 13. That has been an utter pain in the arse, which is why I've had to hook up jump leads so often. Can't say it's worth the money really - they're fearsomely expensive.

[DodgeRover]

How does it balance the individual cells of the battery - that's the main issue with them?