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[N19]

Just now, Tamworthbay said:

Tell me about that! Having rebuilt mine on the drive I have learnt all about the John player brooklands 3 litre injection specials that people ‘used to own’. I guess folk remember them and want to talk about them and that’s all they know.

I don't mind the people who are genuinely a bit ignorant or ill informed, who are probably just wanting a chat, and who have a little misguided knowledge. In fairness, I'd probably be similar talking about say british leyland stuff. The annoying one is the people who tell you absolute 'facts' and insist they're right...

[Tamworthbay]

55 minutes ago, N19 said:

I don't mind the people who are genuinely a bit ignorant or ill informed, who are probably just wanting a chat, and who have a little misguided knowledge. In fairness, I'd probably be similar talking about say british leyland stuff. The annoying one is the people who tell you absolute 'facts' and insist they're right...

Same here, one bloke tried to convince me that Mk3s were MK5 Cortinas underneath. Even when I showed him the leaf springs he was adamant. But most people are just genuinely pleased to see a bit of history being preserved.

[N19]

By transplanting the Bluebird oil cap to the Mondeo, I have one happily driveable modern. Hurrah!  Etc

[wuvvum]

I sold the Merc today, not without some misgiving.  I'd more or less reached the conclusion that it wasn't going to sell and I'd even ordered a new front caliper and flexi for it, but I had a 'phone call this morning from a chap who actually owned the car a few years back and had himself regretted getting rid, so he was quite keen to have it back.  He made me a decent enough offer and had paid via bank transfer within a couple of hours - he's sending a recovery chap up to collect it at some point soon.

That's put a bit more money in the kitty to get the rest of the fleet sorted, which is good.  I've ordered the new headlight mounts for the Innocenti, and I'm going to buy it an exhaust as well - I've found a place in Germany that does them, but they have a delivery time of about a month and ideally I'd like it to come a bit sooner than that.  I might even finally get around to getting the brakes sorted on the 164.

Not got too much done today due to the shite weather, but I did get the new expansion bottle fitted to the V70, and I fitted new caliper slider pins (which have cured the annoying rattle) and one front drop link to the CRV - I'll do the other drop link tomorrow if it's dry.  My Chinese replacement fuel tap for the Spacy arrived on Thursday so I fitted that too.  Then while scrabbling through a box of assorted tools looking for my nut splitter I found another brand new Spacy fuel tap, which I must have ordered years ago and completely forgotten about.  Oh well, I've got two now...

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Good quality interior.

Wasted ages and half a tube of glue trying to glue it back on before giving up and using duct tape, which will work perfectly until the next time the car gets hot inside (in about twelve hours). If it does fall apart again, it's getting some self tappers or cable ties and the next owner can splash out the £50 for a new door if they want one. 

[doug]

Start a new job on monday so needed a cheap car quick. Got this for £275. Needs a battery, brakes freed off, exhaust blowing. I ran out of daylight tonight to give it a good check over. Busy day tomorrow. No panic.

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[Split_Pin]

17 minutes ago, doug said:

Start a new job on monday so needed a cheap car quick. Got this for £275. Needs a battery, brakes freed off, exhaust blowing. I ran out of daylight tonight to give it a good check over. Busy day tomorrow. No panic.

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Looks like a 2 litre going by the wheels? Nice colour too,  I have the Bburago model.

[brownnova]

Went for a drive this evening to settle the baby... rare thing happened on Rhos on Sea prom...

I found another 9000

[doug]

31 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Looks like a 2 litre going by the wheels? Nice colour too,  I have the Bburago model.

Aye 2 litre. 

[cort16]

54 minutes ago, doug said:

Start a new job on monday so needed a cheap car quick. Got this for £275. Needs a battery, brakes freed off, exhaust blowing. I ran out of daylight tonight to give it a good check over. Busy day tomorrow. No panic.

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Nice one one  on the job! Remember to put the flower in the vase,

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just now, cort16 said:

Nice one one  on the job! Remember to put the flower in the vase,

A Venus Fly Trap should do it.

[doug]

Just now, cort16 said:

Nice one one  on the job! Remember to put the flower in the vase,

Cheers ,not worked since the end of March so it will be strange getting back into it.

The car came with a wee teddy, you can just make it out on the dash. Think I will keep it there just to wind my daughters up as they are not very impressed with my latest purchase!

 

[mitsisigma01]

1 hour ago, cort16 said:

Nice one one  on the job! Remember to put the flower in the vase,

I thought that was to hold a circuit tester, no point putting it away in the toolbox, you'll be using it regularly ??

[davidfowler2000]

Last train to Wemyss Bay tonight - 2236 off Glasgow. The joys*
Inverclyde young team were out in force but thankfully not on my train. Got held at Port Glasgow 'cos the train coming off the single line was 27 minutes down after needing police assistance at inverkip.

Ended up 15 mins down at the worst. By the time I got to the bay, changed ends and pedalled the utter fuck out this poor bastard, I was only only 1 minute late back to Glasgow...

Arrived in central at 0028. Full shut down with walk through, dumped bag in my locker and changed shoes, hire bike most of the way home. I was in the flat for 0048 and on my second gin by 0100

[wuvvum]

Were you running empty back to Glasgow?

[davidfowler2000]

No.

11 mins down at Port Glasgow. Got the call to say they'd move me round to the last signal before the single line
15.5 mins down at Whinhill
12 mins down arr at Wemyss Bay
8 mins down dep The Bay
4 mins down at Port Glasgow
2 mins down at Paisley Gilmour St
1 min down at Central

I just horsed it's arse all the way. Brakes on it were outstanding. Was hitting platforms at 35 - 40mph and stopping no bother.

[Spurious]

47 minutes ago, davidfowler2000 said:

Last train to Wemyss Bay tonight - 2236 off Glasgow. The joys*
Inverclyde young team were out in force but thankfully not on my train. Got held at Port Glasgow 'cos the train coming off the single line was 27 minutes down after needing police assistance at inverkip.

Ended up 15 mins down at the worst. By the time I got to the bay, changed ends and pedalled the utter fuck out this poor bastard, I was only only 1 minute late back to Glasgow...

Arrived in central at 0028. Full shut down with walk through, dumped back in my locker and changed shoes, hire bike most of the way home. I was in the flat for 0048 and on my second gin by 0100

You need your own thread on this, 10/10 would subscribe. 

[paulplom]

+1

[Split_Pin]

7 hours ago, davidfowler2000 said:

No.

11 mins down at Port Glasgow. Got the call to say they'd move me round to the last signal before the single line
15.5 mins down at Whinhill
12 mins down arr at Wemyss Bay
8 mins down dep The Bay
4 mins down at Port Glasgow
2 mins down at Paisley Gilmour St
1 min down at Central

I just horsed it's arse all the way. Brakes on it were outstanding. Was hitting platforms at 35 - 40mph and stopping no bother.

Having got the train to work for the last 20 years, this is the kind of journey I like.

Would also subscribe.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

7 hours ago, Spurious said:

You need your own thread on this, 10/10 would subscribe. 

For the train driver in all of us.

[juular]

Count me in. Was this a 320 or one of the chopped 321s?

I remember the days when the 320s were new on the north Clyde, before TPWS was a thing and they were getting properly driven. 

Didn't realise they were on the inverclydes now.

[davidfowler2000]

All the 320/4s are the ex-321s. Been using them on Inverclyde for 2 years or so now

[High Jetter]

Confessions of a train driver thread please.

[holbeck]

5 hours ago, davidfowler2000 said:

All the 320/4s are the ex-321s. Been using them on Inverclyde for 2 years or so now

Does that mean they can't be called 'dusty bins' any longer?

[stuboy]

Stuboy junior car tyres are not the best, and few days ago I spotted a corsa wheel with new tyre for £20, well he moaned about spending money.. and did nothing about it , I couldn't miss this bargain so went got it myself..  bloody kids

[dean36014]

So I collected shonky the bx yesterday from the garage he was stored in for a year. Put away with a suspected head gasket failure. So today I used a sniffer test, left it in for half an hour and it stayed blue.

Pressure tested the coolant system to and pressure held. Ran it for an hour with the rads fans cutting in and out every couple of minutes (been on a drive prior to get him up to temp) and no blowing out the overflow on the expansion bottle. I've a horrible feeling I was over filling the expansion bottle causing it to blow out. Rad cap and thermostat were replaced when I laid him up. So I'm going to run him commuting for a week and see what happens. On the plus side the parking out front of my house looks good, and yes I know I need to sweep the stones up.

 

[somewhatfoolish]

6 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Confessions of a train driver thread please.

There is a general railshite thread in the non-car section.

[busmansholiday]

Saw my first "new" Land Rover Defender today.

"How fooooking much", it looks like Postman Pat's van on steroids.

[Zelandeth]

Ah, that's much more how I'd have preferred my commute.  I used the bus for about a year and a half before nearly losing my sanity when they changed the timetable.  After that the driver had to boot it through town in rush hour...then pootle along the next 15 miles of open country dual carriageway at about 25mph as there was massively too much time in the timetable there.

Was far nicer prior to that, especially when they still had the old Olympians on the run... nothing like getting to sit in the back a foot away from a Gardner absolutely gunning it down the A96...

[Daviemck2006]

Ah, that's much more how I'd have preferred my commute.  I used the bus for about a year and a half before nearly losing my sanity when they changed the timetable.  After that the driver had to boot it through town in rush hour...then pootle along the next 15 miles of open country dual carriageway at about 25mph as there was massively too much time in the timetable there.
Was far nicer prior to that, especially when they still had the old Olympians on the run... nothing like getting to sit in the back a foot away from a Gardner absolutely gunning it down the A96...

We had the same timetable problems on the 305. At busy times it was impossible to get to Dyce in the allotted 25 minutes, it was more like an hour and then the whole journey was late, but when Aberdeen was quiet and we did get to Dyce on time then it was about 35 mph all the way to Macduff.

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