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[plasticvandan]

Handed my notice in last Tuesday,last day to be this Wednesday.got called in lunchtime today," I've had a word with the company and you can go at 12.30 and we will pay you til weds" to be honest I'm surprised they kept me there the rest of last week lol

[wuvvum]

5 hours ago, cort1977 said:

I'm not a handy person (far from it) but one trick I was shown many years ago was taping the chuck key to the cord on a mains drill. 

There is actually a rubber dooberyfirkin on the drill cord which is designed to hold the chuck key.  Evidently it doesn't hold it quite firmly enough though.

6 hours ago, Stanky said:

@wuvvum - what brand of engine is it? If it's a Briggs and Stratton then I have several spare top housings including pull cords here, I can parcel one up for you gratis?

Does the priming bulb for the carb work ok? Sounds like it might be old and perished and not holding vacuum to draw up new fuel.

It is indeed a Briggs & Stratton - XC35 to be exact.  That's a very kind offer re the pull start.  The primer bulb seems to be working fine - in fact I think I may have initially flooded the thing by pumping it too many times (it's quite sensitive to the number of pumps - get it right and it goes first pull, overdo it and it's a pain in the arse).  It's also burning a bit of oil which isn't helping as the plug was quite badly oiled up when I took it out.

13 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Why not just service the mower? plug>carb blockage>stale fuel in order of declining likelihood.

It's probably due a new plug to be fair, although it doesn't look too badly worn.  Fuel was fresh from the pump yesterday though so shouldn't be an issue.

[barefoot]

20 hours ago, HillmanImp said:

 

And the road outside:

Yeah, thats bad. Just letting it all run out now, will have to look tomorrow and not smoke or light fireworks near it etc. 

Mine did exactly the same thing. I'm pretty sure that its done it twice now. The last time I wrote E10 resistant fuel pipe on a pice of paper & gave it to the bloke at the Porsche specialist, but I don't think he understood...

[bunglebus]

7 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Going to look at this little beastie today, Suzuki Ignis 4x4. Anyone got any experience/know of common problems to look for?

Well the FIL bought it. I was a little disappointed to be honest, it has general giffer damage to both sill trims and the whole interior was scuffed from carrying toot to the tip (probably). Still, ran nicely enough and apparently drives well too. Very odd seeing a live axle and diff under the back!

One previous owner from new although it was a dealer sale, wound me up a bit that it had clearly been run prior to us turning up,

I might pinch it off him one day and test out its four wheel drive capabilities

[wuvvum]

I'll be curious to see how he gets on with it.  Those have been on my radar as a potential winter beater for a while.  I'd imagine with a decent set of winter tyres they'd be pretty much unstoppable.

[Stanky]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

It is indeed a Briggs & Stratton - XC35 to be exact.  That's a very kind offer re the pull start.  The primer bulb seems to be working fine - in fact I think I may have initially flooded the thing by pumping it too many times (it's quite sensitive to the number of pumps - get it right and it goes first pull, overdo it and it's a pain in the arse).  It's also burning a bit of oil which isn't helping as the plug was quite badly oiled up when I took it out.

Just tied to PM but I think you're inbox is full. You are welcome to the bits if you want them? Give it an oil change and it should help the consumption quite a bit, they don't like old manky oil as much as people think they do!

[wuvvum]

5 minutes ago, Stanky said:

Just tied to PM but I think you're inbox is full. You are welcome to the bits if you want them? Give it an oil change and it should help the consumption quite a bit, they don't like old manky oil as much as people think they do!

Sorry, space now cleared.  It could probably do with an oil change - what grade do they prefer?

[Zelandeth]

Halfway back home after dropping off medication for a friend, throttle cable either has snapped or detached itself from the mechanism (again, this seems to be a recurring theme).  At least the last two times it happened it did it on the drive immediately after fitting rather than waiting several months.

Didn't have the tools I'd need to sort it properly with me... calling breakdown recovery for something so trivial would be ridiculous.

Time to improvise.

It's not a breakdown of you drive home under your own power.

Guess that's a job for tomorrow again!

[vulgalour]

We had the Lanchester out of the garage for the first time this year and attempted to fit the door cards.  Easy afternoon's work thought I.  We got two doors cards mostly installed, it was what you might call a palaver.  Called it quits for today and we'll pick it up another day, probably not tomorrow.  On the plus side, they are looking rather nice now though you'll have to take my word for it because I failed to take any photographs but one rather blurry on of some screws.

[N19]

Bluebird electrical fun continues. Every single bayonet lamp in the rear clusters is corroded in place - probably as a result of the perished seal. Most of them have sheared off on removal, so crimp-tastic there as new holders have to be fitted.

Hopefully, replacing this will sort out the issues with the brake lights. Then it's just a case of replacing the window regulator, when the part arrives (should be Saturday).

It's parts for this that cause hold-ups, so difficult to get hold of or only from a bloke on ebay. Capris are far easier!

[richardmorris]

I think this is a real shell, as the engine was on a pallet elsewhere. Interior and wheels looked to be in several large crates.

[richardmorris]

I’ve no idea what this ( probably mclaren) is though.

[richardmorris]

And more Sunday lunches arrived over the weekend.

[richardmorris]

On 2/27/2021 at 8:26 PM, wuvvum said:

Seems slightly odd to buy a new car two days before the plate change...

Hadn’t occurred to me before you mentioned it.  Sales targets and probably pre registered or ex demo and want it off the lot ( guy salmon in ascot).

[Split_Pin]

Now that my windows work I can put the hood down whenever I want. Did the school run like this today!

 

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

I’ve no idea what this ( probably mclaren) is though.

£1.4million elva speedster according to  Evo. And unusually they cut back production as they couldn’t sell them all. Plus for 1.5 million the windscreen is an optional extra!

https://www.evo.co.uk/mclaren/201626/mclaren-elva-production-run-reduced-to-249-units

[Slappy]

Ah dammit, my Aunt is sending her J reg Carina II GLi Executive to the scrappy. Lightly used as a hack over the past 15 years for the family business, it's done a good turn and far from mint. As it happens I went with her to go pick it up from Motorbase Canterbury (the family had purchased a good few cars through them over the preceding years, with one further Lexus and a Carina E to come before my Grandad passed). It's those little memories that flood back at times like this, haha!

I was thinking only last week that I'd quite like to get my hands on it as a first project especially as there are fewer and fewer of them about, but alas it was not to be.

If anyone finds a hatch GLi Exec in Blue Mist mica metallic (that one was my Dad's one), feel free to drop me a message...  

[SiC]

Pulled it out of storage earlier. Cold start video uploading.

[N19]

2 hours ago, N19 said:

Bluebird electrical fun continues. Every single bayonet lamp in the rear clusters is corroded in place - probably as a result of the perished seal. Most of them have sheared off on removal, so crimp-tastic there as new holders have to be fitted.

Hopefully, replacing this will sort out the issues with the brake lights. Then it's just a case of replacing the window regulator, when the part arrives (should be Saturday).

It's parts for this that cause hold-ups, so difficult to get hold of or only from a bloke on ebay. Capris are far easier!

Went to get a new bulb holder, discovered motorfactors shut at 6pm. At 6.30pm. Damn. Also discovered that a Mondeo left for a day with the interior lights on will still start. 

After some time spent with a chisel and a vice chipping away at a blob of glass and corroded metal... Behold, good as new. Celebrated by tidying up the bench. 

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

On 2/28/2021 at 4:43 PM, Cavcraft said:

Whoop-de-fucking-do, this 'best cars in the world' shit house wank mobile Poxwagen Touran doesn't start now.  It's probably karma for daring to start cleaning the inside, or perhaps that the boot deciding to start opening again yesterday spooked the car into refusing to fire up this afternoon. It starts for about 1-2 seconds, then dies again and won't be revved, so it must be fuel related imho. 

 

It's a horrible, rusty shitty twat of a thing. Aside from (grudgingly admitted) driving ok and pulling well, it is spectacularly  fucking awful and the ungrateful bastard couldn't even wait until there was just a few weeks MOT left before it shit itself. I'll try and get it fixed if it's cheap then run the wanker into the ground.

It was Salvage rebuilds UK, a red vivaro. Borked Cam position sensor, some loose plugz and possibly a blocked DPF where a pressure sensor cuts fuel.

[Ghosty]

1 hour ago, Slappy said:

Ah dammit, my Aunt is sending her J reg Carina II GLi Executive to the scrappy.

You have no excuse, tell her you want it. That's such a waste.

[cort1977]

Brake leak on the passat easily found and fixed today, flexible hose had come loose. Nipped it up and seems good. My own fault I think, I put a new caliper on in 2019 and presumably didn't tighten the union quite enough.

Flushed with this success I had a fiddle with the driver's door lock as it has taken to not latching. A good squirt of penetrating oil seemed to fix, maybe temporarily but easy to do again.

All good, and brings my working to borked ratio up to 2:5.

 

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, Slappy said:

Ah dammit, my Aunt is sending her J reg Carina II GLi Executive to the scrappy. Lightly used as a hack over the past 15 years for the family business, it's done a good turn and far from mint. As it happens I went with her to go pick it up from Motorbase Canterbury (the family had purchased a good few cars through them over the preceding years, with one further Lexus and a Carina E to come before my Grandad passed). It's those little memories that flood back at times like this, haha!

I was thinking only last week that I'd quite like to get my hands on it as a first project especially as there are fewer and fewer of them about, but alas it was not to be.

If anyone finds a hatch GLi Exec in Blue Mist mica metallic (that one was my Dad's one), feel free to drop me a message...  

STOP HER! I had  J-reg Carina Estate, solid car. My hand is up, or roffle?

[chaseracer]

On 28/02/2021 at 16:43, Cavcraft said:

Poxwagen Touran...  horrible, rusty shitty twat of a thing...  run the wanker into the ground.

Sounds like it's pretty much there, our Billy...

[barefoot]

After almost a year with a couple of SORN'd cars on the drive, it occurred to me that instead of filling the 944 boot with an old battery charger & an extension lead, I could wire it up to the CTEK that's fitted permanently into my bay for EHU duties. One very expensive bit of wire later & the Porsche now has just an elegant picnic basket behind the rear seats.

[somewhatfoolish]

13 hours ago, High Jetter said:

STOP HER! I had  J-reg Carina Estate, solid car. My hand is up, or roffle?

Exactly, even if you can't afford to keep it yourself that's sold gold roffle material.

[BorniteIdentity]

Phenomenal.  

[captain_70s]

Racing slicks m9

[goosey]

Fitted new rear discs and pads to the wife’s car last Saturday morning,

10 minutes ago I got a text from the wife to say the brakes are now making a squeaking sound and they were fine before I “messed” with it 🤦‍♂️

[beko1987]

13 hours ago, High Jetter said:

STOP HER! I had  J-reg Carina Estate, solid car. My hand is up, or roffle?

I've got a spare tenner I'd chip in to meet scrap price if it can be saved? Thats one heck of a story...