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[Split_Pin]

I tried some Renovo on the Audi roof last night, the last 3 pictures are before.

It needs another pass but I'm happy that it looks a lot better than before.

BTW the stuf absolutely HUMS! A combination of shite and landfill.

[Six-cylinder]

10 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I tried some Renovo on the Audi roof last night, the first 2 pictures are before.

It needs another pass but I'm happy that it looks a lot better than before.

BTW the stuf absolutely HUMS! A combination of shite and landfill.

I gave mine a good clean with soapy water and a scrubbing brush before hood dye and water proofer, it came up great.

[stuboy]

14 hours ago, Amishtat said:

Just had the first legal trip out in this.  Still runs like shit, but fun notwithstanding. 

hope hes called 'chris'

[Split_Pin]

I think these are stains of some sort as they don't want to shift. The dye has definitely subdued them, I reckon another pass and it will look grand!

[Amishtat]

14 minutes ago, stuboy said:

hope hes called 'chris'

No.. She's called Di. R. 

[beko1987]

9 hours ago, loserone said:

Yeah, Henry has always been shit at dog hair ?

 

Reckon a nice day out in the sales for it tomorrow, though I'm struggling to get the kids' seats tight enough in the back

I didn't bother with the hair, but just putting the nozzle near the carpets under the front seats pulled an inch thick layer of dust out and away! 

Please post some after pics once it's had a proper clean, the outside might be amazing as it is, but the interior will clean up really well I think, apart from the small hole in the drivers seat it looked pretty mint under the grime

[loserone]

Yeah, I bet it was pretty rancid, thanks to everyone's efforts making it more habitable!

I currently think I have to sell it, as it's not got the "drive of your life" steering I really want, and I can only afford to run one toy car and I like the MGF too much.  But fret not, I have three potential plans and no matter which comes to fruition, it will still be on the forum (and one keeps in my street)

[Cavcraft]

Transit is misbehaving, again.  It ran quite badly (limp mode and blowing exhaust) which was cured by tightening up an exhaust stud and taking it to another garage to have the EGR properly deleted, ie on a computer. Made a big difference, pulled better loaded and unloaded and although no ball of fire, it was an improvement. Then, halfway home yesterday, the exhaust started blowing again and it seems to be back in limp mode.  

I think it's time with me is going to very short lived.

[brownnova]

On 6/13/2019 at 9:48 PM, Brodders said:

And the final Frontera produced

Isn’t that Mr Spock’s car... The final Frontera... 

[SiC]

Did some more waterproofing fiddling on the MGB last night (will write up later) and I think I've got it sorted. Biggest problem was that Toms Knob wasn't blocked up, but the rubber has gone all hard. So water wasn't draining quickly at all from it. Tempted to cut it off. 

Went for a drive this morning for petrol and a potter. Started up ok but it felt incredibly grumpy. It ran however rather low down on power and a tad lumpy. Was wondering if with all the rain we've had, water has got into somewhere electrical it shouldn't have. Pulled up into a nearby car park and popped the bonnet for a quick check.

Err yeah that'll do it. Quite surprised how well it ran on 3 really!

You can also see in that last picture, the best solution I have to stopping the dipstick moving around... Turning it so the handle pushes against the heater valve. Almost as if it was designed like that! When I was fiddling with the dipstick, I removed the cap and must have forgotten to put it back on. Oops.

[dozeydustman]

This popped up on a facebook group. Is it @Zelandeth‘s car?

 

[robinmasters]

Hire car delivered just now. It's a beautiful sunny day; who in their right mind would want to travel inside this? 

 

[MikeR]

the local petrol  cartel seems to be under cut by a good 5p by a new local'ish Esso garage that is on 99.9% of the commute route for the Liverpool bound traffic ..

123.9p a litre !!! 

[LightBulbFun]

1 hour ago, dozeydustman said:

This popped up on a facebook group. Is it @Zelandeth‘s car?

 

tis Zels car indeed

im personally waiting for TPA to get papped by one of those groups, mind I know when TWC was papped, the comments where not very nice in some regards!

[Ghosty]

305 getting sold again, oh dear once I got it home I had a slightly more involved go at dusting out the interior. It came out well but the vinyl and plastics need a properly good scrub.

[bramz7]

Ah damn I would have loved a chance of a 305....ah well. Guess the 309 will do.

[loserone]

Sold yes.

 

To Mrs L1.

[SRi05]

Celebrating the Honda's return with a good old hoon today 

[brownnova]

Took the 2CV to the zoo today. 

[strangeangel]

Spent the day starting wiring the camper up for solar charging...

 

Took one look at the furniture and fittings and decided that I had the square root of feck all chance of running three cables from the back of the van to the front (where I want to plug the panels in) so decided to go outside. A hole in the floor was made, and the three wires pushed into some conduit for protection. In shot, but not properly sited, is the fancy German charge controller I bought for the job:

 

 

Then it was a case of cable tying the conduit to anything likely - fortunately, as it's already converted there are wires and pipes going everywhere underneath, so I just followed some of those. Across the back axle and along the side of the clean water tank, then over the front subframe, inside the inner wing and into the engine bay.

 

 

 

I'm going to mount the sockets in the unused foglamp recesses in the bumper, so you won't see them. That means taking all the front centre panels off, but that's not a bad job, as I know from replacing the radiator after the embarrassing levelling ramp catastrophe. Thankfully I remembered to branch off the second live wire to the van's battery; when the controller senses there's more leccy available than the leisure battery can safely handle, it will send some to the starter battery as well.

 

 

Yes, that is sand and, yes, I am a scruffy bastard.

 

[loserone]

Trying to clear some room in the garage for the 305.

Christ where did all this shit come from? 

[Tickman]

1 minute ago, loserone said:

Trying to clear some room in the garage for the 305.

Christ where did all this shit come from? 

But it will come in handy

[Split_Pin]

2 hours ago, SRi05 said:

Celebrating the Honda's return with a good old hoon today 

Love this car ❤

[SRi05]

13 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Love this car ❤

It's a cracker. I've had faster and more "fancy" cars than this, but the driving position and the handling makes it my favourite. you can chuck it into corners you'd have to brake for with other cars, feels planted to the ground. Had a blast with it today

[SiC]

10 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

Transit is misbehaving, again.  It ran quite badly (limp mode and blowing exhaust) which was cured by tightening up an exhaust stud and taking it to another garage to have the EGR properly deleted, ie on a computer. Made a big difference, pulled better loaded and unloaded and although no ball of fire, it was an improvement. Then, halfway home yesterday, the exhaust started blowing again and it seems to be back in limp mode.  

I think it's time with me is going to very short lived.

The problem is that you are doing it wrong. What you need is this: https//mathewsons.co.uk/auctions/auction-dates/vehicles/7962-1946-bedford-owsc-breakdown-lorry

[wuvvum]

11 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

Transit is misbehaving, again.  It ran quite badly (limp mode and blowing exhaust) which was cured by tightening up an exhaust stud and taking it to another garage to have the EGR properly deleted, ie on a computer. Made a big difference, pulled better loaded and unloaded and although no ball of fire, it was an improvement. Then, halfway home yesterday, the exhaust started blowing again and it seems to be back in limp mode.  

I think it's time with me is going to very short lived.

My old Iveco truck never went into limp mode.  #justsayin

[Cavcraft]

I found a cheap curtain side Iv*co and pointed it out to my mate. He's snapped it up and is turning it into a beavertail.

[New POD]

7 hours ago, MikeR said:

the local petrol  cartel seems to be under cut by a good 5p by a new local'ish Esso garage that is on 99.9% of the commute route for the Liverpool bound traffic ..

123.9p a litre !!! 

Same price as Asda at switch island. 

Esso only been open 3 days so obviously just an introductory offer.  You wait. It will be the same price as all the others by September. 

[hairnet]

broke far in excess of time for the light to come on

[sporty-shite]

59 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

I found a cheap curtain side Iv*co and pointed it out to my mate. He's snapped it up and is turning it into a beavertail.

Some mate you are!

Done  a rare bit of chod-fondling today. The 406 coupe I got off Bramz was painfully slow. I knew it should have been better, so I've been doing a bit of googling of late.

Had a look around it, and checked for anything obvious amiss. Found it had a big slab of metal tube stitched into one of the intakres, and a steel pipe on the end of the intake, just before the manifold. Though it had had a load of bodging in the past, so decided to get rid. Had a load of Gumtree messers (surprise!!!), so kept looking round for ideas to sort it. Found on 406 OC that all the pipework that I thought was a bodge, is a delete of air dosers and EGR. This got me wondering whether the low power was something fairly simple, and whether the car had had some previous fettling in the go-faster stakes.

Apparently, the 2.2 hdi is really picky about having a good MAF, so I hit Ebay, and bought the cheapest one I could find. £23 with next day delivery. In the meantime, a guy on 406oc had posted that he had used the same supplier for one, and had good results. 

Fitted it tonight, and FUCK ME, it goes like a scalded cat. I'm convinced it's been mapped, as it feels way faster than Mrs S's Alfa. Not sure how I can tell without a rolling road session, which I can't really be arsed with.

Suffice to say, I'll be keeping it for a while.