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[Dyslexic Viking]

After a lot of work, I have finally removed all the sound dampening mats in the Mercedes, now rust work is next.

[HillmanImp]

On 9/9/2022 at 4:33 PM, trigger said:

Thanks, I did think about it but I decided it was a lot of effort when people don't seem to be as interested anymore on here

Say you're changing your pronoun to it/that or something or you're identifying sexually as a duck. Your thread will get hundreds of replies. 

[Mally]

On 9/9/2022 at 6:49 PM, Spurious said:

I've been seconded from my current trust to assist teaching in university, teaching new Paramedics. Wonderful. Looking forward to it. Was a bit down and out thinking I was getting slightly pigeonholed in my role but this a good chance to build up a route of of here. 

Sad thing is that I've to commute to city centre Manchester which I've not planned on the right way to do it. 

Still a few beers are in store for the weekend. 🥳

Can't you borrow a 'works van' and leave the lights on until you finish?

[Spurious]

48 minutes ago, Mally said:

Can't you borrow a 'works van' and leave the lights on until you finish?

I had thought of that, we've a spare ambulance car at our station that's never used... 

[Fumbler]

The PCV system has been playing on my mind so I had a look under the plug cover.

Spurty spurt. Oil in the webbings and the spark plug holes. I ran the engine with the hose off and both the hose and the rocker cover were chuffing nicely. I suspect a blockage on the pipe to the intake or in the oil catch can itself. I've no intention of pulling the intake manifold off so I've devised a (reversible) cunning* plan.

 

[reb]

2 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

The PCV system has been playing on my mind so I had a look under the plug cover.

Spurty spurt. Oil in the webbings and the spark plug holes. I ran the engine with the hose off and both the hose and the rocker cover were chuffing nicely. I suspect a blockage on the pipe to the intake or in the oil catch can itself. I've no intention of pulling the intake manifold off so I've devised a (reversible) cunning* plan.

 

I tried to get parts to renew the PCV on my 2.5 10V and the Volvo dealer were like "We can get you the parts i you give us exact part numbers, we don't offer a kit" so I decided to ignore it because it was a £500 car. Glad I did because later that year a taxi smashed the driver's door in

[Fumbler]

Just now, reb said:

I tried to get parts to renew the PCV on my 2.5 10V and the Volvo dealer were like "We can get you the parts i you give us exact part numbers, we don't offer a kit" so I decided to ignore it because it was a £500 car. Glad I did because later that year a taxi smashed the driver's door in

Yeah, when I looked at a kit online, the sellers wanted an arm and a leg for it. The engine starts puffing smoke from the dipstick and oil cap from a cold start and starts chuffing for England when it gets warm. I imagine the system's choked up because there's lots more blowby than normal, so my plan is to bypass the system at the rocker cover and run a hose to the filter box.

[Ghosty]

Found a potential daily on eBay, called the seller up. He's on holiday til Friday so no chance he'll sell it to anyone else before I see it - he said to call again on Friday afternoon when he's back to plan further. He's offered to pick me up at the nearest train station - in the middle of York, and let me drive the 8 miles back to his place as a test drive.

Could be on to a winner here, it seems tidy and cared for. The car in question is something of a sleeper, too. 

 

[omegod]

19 hours ago, Barry Cade said:

Neighbour and local car dealer/property dealer/coach company owner/Budweiser drinker just picked up a mint genuine 190e 2.6 Sportline for a grand. Properly dry stored for 15 years.. started with some fuel and a jump. Why do I never find these things.😣

In other news, the Focus passed its MOT today, no advisories. Thank ****as I'd forgotten all about it until yesterday that it was due today..

 

 

I've been patiently waiting for a guy to sell me his 2.0 sportline for 10 years, I painfully have to drive past it daily as it's sat on his drive having not moved for the entire time  

 

[Bradders59]

Speaking as an ex 190 owner - if its been stood on his drive for 10 years, its more than likely that the only thing holding the rust together will be the paint.

I would still love another one though. Lovely old cars. 

[omegod]

8 minutes ago, Bradders59 said:

Speaking as an ex 190 owner - if its been stood on his drive for 10 years, its more than likely that the only thing holding the rust together will be the paint.

I would still love another one though. Lovely old cars. 

Yeah had one myself and they do like to corrode ,it'd need everything likely but i'd do it just for the cosworth style checked interior

[Bradders59]

My 190D also had that interior, although it was badly worn. Also had the AMG alloys. I got complacent with filtering my WVO and fucked the fuel pump.

Sold the car as a non runner, three years ago for £375 !

Yes, Im a fuckin eejit. 

[Cavcraft]

Let's see if this loads....

Eureka! 

It's running on 3 and has some mad exhausts, so does sound a bit rough. Weather/time/CBA-ness/not fixing broken mopeds permitting, might try and actually drive it later, just for the LOLs.

[Essex V6]

On 9/9/2022 at 2:57 PM, trigger said:

I spent a few hours on Wednesday attacking the bodywork of the Crapi to wash the 19 years of spider shit off it, I'll let the photos do the talking. 

And after... 

Quite a change, unfortunately I forgot to get a engine bay photo but that's cleaned up well although there's still a shit load to do under there as yet, once the parts start turning up. 

Wow - what a transformation 👍

[Essex V6]

On 9/9/2022 at 7:22 PM, andyberg said:

Cracking car there. Definitely deserves a lot of love. Must be time to start its own thread, unless of course I can't find it?

I second this!

[PhilA]

Tonight and the next few days through to Wednesday are unusual for this time of year.

We're down to 22°C overnight and I'll tell you this, it feels quite chilly outside right now.

[reb]

3 hours ago, PhilA said:

Tonight and the next few days through to Wednesday are unusual for this time of year.

We're down to 22°C overnight and I'll tell you this, it feels quite chilly outside right now.

The heat is long gone here, it's 18° today and that actually feels quite warm, it's been down around 13° over the past week. Also been pissing it down with rain.

[Lankytim]

Went to a car show in Biddulph yesterday,  I didn’t manage to snap everything but I did take pics of a few…

The Mk2 Golf was found in the local Sainsburies!

[Cavcraft]

That JPS Capri is utterly amazing.

[LabRat]

After all the fuck about with our landlord selling the house out from under us, we've finally been accepted on another house, subject to appropriate references. (That won't be a problem!)

The relief is almost bloody palpable! 

In car news, the 500x is going back to Fiat on Thursday for a new key coding in under warranty (had to wait a month for the key to be shipped from Italy). The Ignis is still being boringly reliable in the way small Suzuki's are.

 

[Split_Pin]

Excellent  news.

[Lacquer Peel]

The Lancia's control arms were so fucked. How did this pass an MOT in late May?

https://youtu.be/I3XMNJMgeNM

[Ged]

Hit a fairly small pothole in the 305 recently disintegrating a 35 year old bushing on the offside causing the arm to clatter against the subframe making all kinds of horrible noises.

The pothole didnt do this but I paid someone to press in new bushings at the other end and they must have supported it by the aluminium shattering it. Got a replacement off DodgyBastard's parts 305 thankfully.

[PhilA]

3 hours ago, reb said:

The heat is long gone here, it's 18° today and that actually feels quite warm, it's been down around 13° over the past week. Also been pissing it down with rain.

Won't be as low as that until about December here.

 

Still, the drier air we had was pleasant. Once the days cool off a touch I'll finish up demolition of the garage. It's still too warm in the sunshine to do it.

[Split_Pin]

I repaired the corrosion on the black 93s OSR arch today. It was actually a bit worse than I thought, it had gone through in a few places however it was all on the lip rather than up top so I just ground it down, applied Vactan, pylon paint and top coat. It'll obviously come back but better than doing nothing. Welding it wouldn't make sense at this stage.

2 top coats applied:

You definitely* can't tell.

But as with all my fleet, the ten foot test is a pass:

Later on I gave it a coat of wax:

The subsequent rain let me take a gratuitous beading shot:

[richardmorris]

Dad has said the insurance renewal for the x1/9 came yesterday. No change in details but £40 cheaper. £9000 agreed value the same.

[Jazoli]

37 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I repaired the corrosion on the black 93s OSR arch today. It was actually a bit worse than I thought, it had gone through in a few places however it was all on the lip rather than up top so I just ground it down, applied Vactan, pylon paint and top coat. It'll obviously come back but better than doing nothing. Welding it wouldn't make sense at this stage.

2 top coats applied:

You definitely* can't tell.

But as with all my fleet, the ten foot test is a pass:

Later on I gave it a coat of wax:

The subsequent rain let me take a gratuitous beading shot:

Nice to see it still getting some love, I've missed having a floppytop this year.

[Split_Pin]

Its been a great car for us. My wife absolutely loves it, well worth investing time in.  She's had a fair few nice comments on it when it's parked at the Pharmacy she works at. One of the pharmacists has a lime yellow one too!

[brownnova]

Local motoring venue had a classic tractor run departing from it today, so with my 2 year old loving tractors currently we couldn’t not go! Some great stuff there to be fair… 

One of the Marshalls had this to follow the run in… 

Which was epic!

Have a video of some of them leaving, longer video available at some point. 

Also spent some time washing and polishing the Saab! 

The paint looks nice on the photos, and from 10 feet… but close up its 210,000 miles are starting to show. The bonnet needs a re spray really, and there are a couple of deep scratches on the roof. 
The boot leaked in heavy rain yesterday and I think I’ve found one of the culprit places…

Shite… very rusty but under the boot lock, drains right into the spare wheel well. How does a bit like that even get rusty! Anyway, there are a couple more bits which are a little crusty too, it’s far from perfect, thankfully nothing structural. But… still the 9000 is the best all round car I’ve ever owned.

And… thanks to a tip off on the Hubnut fans group on Facebook (don’t judge me) I scored this piece of Citroen memorabilia for £2 from a local junk shop! 

Bargain! 

[hairnet]

enuff about the saab ffs

moar yank