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35,304 · July 17, 2021

Finally found a filter that fits the Cav, a Mann one.

Cav is happy again.

7,974 · July 17, 2021

The clutch judder which I thought had been eliminated on the P6 has returned, although perhaps not as bad as it was before. I'm convinced it's something to do with heat soak as it only seems to happen when the car has got warm on a run, then been switched off and left for a while, then driven again. Either that, or motorways - a long, relaxed cruise on A roads seems fine - I did well over an hour on Wednesday without any problems, but the judder seems to come back in after a 70mph blast. 20 mins each way to the Amberly meet today and when I got home it started to judder again.

Very odd.

Anyway here's a photo from this afternoon alongside Fumbler's BX.

24,938 · July 17, 2021

2 hours ago, cort16 said:

I always thought cans of Juice exploding in hot cars was a bit of a myth. It seems not !

im sure the electrics under the cup holders appreciated being drowned in hot 7up

Back in the early eighties whilst on holiday with the parents in the south of France, there was a huge bang from the boot of the brand new ( two days old) GSA. A glass bottle of sparkling water had exploded.

15,089 · July 17, 2021

CX ignition key snapped. No warning that the key would fail like that; it just did.

Dismantled ignition barrel with help from AA and got started. Now need replacement ignition barrel and keys.....

24,938 · July 17, 2021

20 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

CX ignition key snapped. No warning that the key would fail like that; it just did.

Dismantled ignition barrel with help from AA and got started. Now need replacement ignition barrel and keys.....

I had a key snap in the door lock on my series 1 Pallas. Luckily was at work so had some fine tweezers and forceps to hand. Plus a spare set of keys of course!

stan plats can probably help with keys and barrels. I got my replacement from Citroen , but this was twenty-two years ago.

15,089 · July 17, 2021

26 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I had a key snap in the door lock on my series 1 Pallas. Luckily was at work so had some fine tweezers and forceps to hand. Plus a spare set of keys of course!

stan plats can probably help with keys and barrels. I got my replacement from Citroen , but this was twenty-two years ago.

Not too worried about the door locks. It's the ignition barrel that needs replacing, plus the keys.

For some reason the flasher relay has also failed. Might be the heat.... All very weird.

24,938 · July 17, 2021

11 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Not too worried about the door locks. It's the ignition barrel that needs replacing, plus the keys.

For some reason the flasher relay has also failed. Might be the heat.... All very weird.

Sorry, completely forgot that they are separate keys! Again. Try Stan plats - pm me if you don’t have his number.

6,740 · July 17, 2021

Today I are been mostly at Amberly

PHWOOOOAR! It truly did look lush. I stull can't get over how good the vinyl roof and brightwork are on it- it's fanstastic!

5,355 · July 17, 2021

20 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

There's something familiar about those colours...

5,355 · July 17, 2021

Right, back off holiday on Kintyre.

Twas lovely apart from the clegs and midges, but you have to accept those wee critters.

Sea mamals, dive-bombing birds, crystal clear water, green mountains, no light or sound pollution, no signal, nae bother.

And a whole lot of shite on the roads, my Passat looked positively de-rigour.

7 hour journey home, it actually took us about 12 hours with stops.

Right, bedways is bestways.

July 17, 2021

The fact that the weather is amazballs, I brought home the flat tracker from the workshop for a bit of early Sunday morning hooliganing..

CFD

15,089 · July 17, 2021

3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Sorry, completely forgot that they are separate keys! Again. Try Stan plats - pm me if you don’t have his number.

I have sent Stan an e-mail.

First time I have ever had a key snap like that. A bit of a comedy moment when I was left holding the key stub.

89,808 · July 17, 2021

1 hour ago, Cord Forteener aka Tim_E said:

Right, back off holiday on Kintyre.

Twas lovely apart from the clegs and midges, but you have to accept those wee critters.

Sea mamals, dive-bombing birds, crystal clear water, green mountains, no light or sound pollution, no signal, nae bother.

And a whole lot of shite on the roads, my Passat looked positively de-rigour.

7 hour journey home, it actually took us about 12 hours with stops.

Right, bedways is bestways.

Looks really nice, any sign of Paul McCartney?

17,692 · July 18, 2021

8 hours ago, Crackers said:

The clutch judder which I thought had been eliminated on the P6 has returned, although perhaps not as bad as it was before. I'm convinced it's something to do with heat soak as it only seems to happen when the car has got warm on a run, then been switched off and left for a while, then driven again. Either that, or motorways - a long, relaxed cruise on A roads seems fine - I did well over an hour on Wednesday without any problems, but the judder seems to come back in after a 70mph blast. 20 mins each way to the Amberly meet today and when I got home it started to judder again.

Very odd.

Anyway here's a photo from this afternoon alongside Fumbler's BX.

Try bleeding the clutch?

4 hours ago, Cord Forteener aka Tim_E said:

Right, back off holiday on Kintyre.

Twas lovely apart from the clegs and midges, but you have to accept those wee critters.

Sea mamals, dive-bombing birds, crystal clear water, green mountains, no light or sound pollution, no signal, nae bother.

And a whole lot of shite on the roads, my Passat looked positively de-rigour.

7 hour journey home, it actually took us about 12 hours with stops.

Right, bedways is bestways.

Oooh, I know where that is; very nice.

29,407 · July 18, 2021

9 hours ago, cort16 said:

I always thought cans of Juice exploding in hot cars was a bit of a myth. It seems not !

im sure the electrics under the cup holders appreciated being drowned in hot 7up

Mate of mine had that happen with an aerosol can. Of contact adhesive. In the driver's door pocket of their Skoda Estelle. It exited the car via the sunroof.

The interior looked like a scene from an alien horror movie...sadly the incident wrote the car off. Especially as we only discovered it had happened several days after the event as the car wasn't in regular use so everything had set rock hard by the time we found it.

18,563 · July 18, 2021

Reminds me of when I was working on a country cottage renovation. Joiner tidied out his van and threw cardboard packaging and wood scraps on a little bonfire next to his van. Shortly afterwards there was a loud bang and stuff spraying and splattering everywhere and all over the van. It was a full plastic canister tube of expanding foam which had fallen in amongst the cardboard and the stuff was sizzling boiling hot. Guy had it all over his clothes and had to have a haircut to cut out the sticky bits, could have been blinded. Absolutely no chance of the mess cleaning off the van which was still quite new.

40,714 · July 18, 2021

13 hours ago, Crackers said:

The clutch judder which I thought had been eliminated on the P6 has returned, although perhaps not as bad as it was before. I'm convinced it's something to do with heat soak as it only seems to happen when the car has got warm on a run, then been switched off and left for a while, then driven again. Either that, or motorways - a long, relaxed cruise on A roads seems fine - I did well over an hour on Wednesday without any problems, but the judder seems to come back in after a 70mph blast. 20 mins each way to the Amberly meet today and when I got home it started to judder again.

Very odd.

Anyway here's a photo from this afternoon alongside Fumbler's BX.

Boiling off the (brake) clutch fluid in the heat?

30,770 · July 18, 2021

For those of you who follow Cold War Motors and have not heard it, Scott announced in yesterday's video that he and I think Tim and 1 or 2 others will have a live stream today at noon mountain time.

July 18, 2021

As promised (to myself that is!)

Blast across the Wicklow mountains for an overpriced shite cup of coffee. Totally worth it.

Flat. Out.

CFD

14,294 · July 18, 2021

Popped along to the scaled-down all ford show. Was good and it was bloody hot..

35,304 · July 18, 2021

Many thanks to @320touring today for his guidance and help with the Audi exhaust.

We found it was blowing in 4 different places. 2 from the bottom of the downpipe and 2 further back at either end of a small silencer.

Much mig welding and grinding later...

I think its still blowing...

Yep it is, arse.

It's better than it was but ultimately the exhaust is at the end of it's life. I am currently considering my options but a fabricated replacement is looking the most sensible way to a permanent solution.

Cheers also to @jaypee for the len of his big jack. Getting the car high enough was an issue before but now that it was almost level with the upstairs rooms in my house, there was much more space and light.

5,417 · July 18, 2021

Having a need to be nearby, I took the Capri to a famous filming location. No thrashing took place.

1,317 · July 18, 2021

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

Many thanks to @320touring today for his guidance and help with the Audi exhaust.

We found it was blowing in 4 different places. 2 from the bottom of the downpipe and 2 further back at either end of a small silencer.

Much mig welding and grinding later...

I think its still blowing...

Yep it is, arse.

It's better than it was but ultimately the exhaust is at the end of it's life. I am currently considering my options but a fabricated replacement is looking the most sensible way to a permanent solution.

Cheers also to @jaypee for the len of his big jack. Getting the car high enough was an issue before but now that it was almost level with the upstairs rooms in my house, there was much more space and light.

Nae bother dude, good work on the Audi.

The big jack is pure handy!!

5,251 · July 18, 2021

13 minutes ago, N19 said:

Having a need to be nearby, I took the Capri to a famous filming location. No thrashing took place.

Did it fire up ok when you departed?

16,796 · July 18, 2021

2 hours ago, N19 said:

Having a need to be nearby, I took the Capri to a famous filming location. No thrashing took place.

Could have made a fortune on ewetoob

25,128 · July 18, 2021

A bloody hot jaunt in the 2CV over to Capesthorne Hall today.

15 minute queue in and a 20 minute queue out notwithstanding (complete with several overheating MGBs) it was an excellent show, far better attended than I have ever seen any previous event at Capesthorne!

Have some prime AS fodder…

Complete with Hubnut sticker, the Corolla owner could be heard yelling power less is more at me as we pulled alongside one another at traffic lights on the way home.

Nice early Vectra!

pink it’s like red but not quite…

64,775 · July 18, 2021

Not got a huge amount done this weekend as the weather was too hot to be crawling around under cars, but I did have another crack at the Toyota's brakes - I think I've got the rears adjusted properly now, they're not binding anymore and the handbrake feels about right. The pedal still isn't quite there but it's better than it was. I've done as much as I can (I even bled them all again) so will just have to see what the MOT man says on Wednesday.

Today I dug the Mobylette out of the garage to take some photos to send to the cyclemotor club so they can do me a dating certificate. I gave it a quick rinse off first as it was rather dusty from its lengthy slumber. I tried kicking it over just to see what would happen and, once I'd remembered which way was "on" for the fuel tap, it actually fired up fairly easily. I definitely didn't* then put my helmet on and ride it back round the corner to the garage. It's odd that a 40-year-old French 2-stroke can fire more or less straight up after being untouched for a year, and yet the supposedly bombproof 4-stroke Honda doesn't want to know...

July 19, 2021

From a personal point of view, on Saturday, I decided it would be hot enough to change my shocks and drop links, so I did 🤣

I was a proper melting mess by the time I came in. Was going to do more work on the car yesterday, but decided against it so built a BBQ instead.

In proper autoshite tradition though, one of the members of my car group has got a particularly shit Dahaitsu Cuore AUTO. He bought it for £200 to teach his girlfriend to drive in.

Over the weekend, he took it off-roading and apparently, it did fantastically. FWIW, I have no idea why it has yellow lights.

He really does need to join this forum. As well as having an MR2 Roadster, his daily is a 22 year old Micra.

5,355 · July 19, 2021

When you go away for a week and your Volvo starts growing poppies.

9,918 · July 19, 2021

After a few weeks of mid 30's it's nice to see it cooling down a bit......

Ffs

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