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[JJ0063]

1 minute ago, High Jetter said:

We've moved house a few times, but never taken the fence with us! Respect!

 It was just two trellis panels around the oil tank, still very good condition and saves us buying again. I have spent a fortune on this rental house stock fencing 150ft perimeter and fitting 5 bar wooden gates that we are leaving so a couple of bits of trellis I’m definitely keeping to save £60 😂

[High Jetter]

Fair enough. We've transplanted some plants a few times too.

[timolloyd]

12 hours ago, Mally said:

Came across this today in Fuengirola Port. Must have passed it many times before.

It made it here, but I don't think it's going anywhere else.

 

I saw the very same back in April. In your photo it looks like some of the surrounding detritus has been cleared, and the tyres now have air.

[Zelandeth]

Aaaaand we're back in England.

Had someone kicking the back of my seat every couple of minutes for the last eight hours and my brain currently thinks it's 4am.

...And we now need to deal with Heathrow traffic, the M25 and an hour or two drive home.

[brownnova]

Doing some tidying up of things and found all the Yugo documents, I was picking through a couple of things when this fell out of the service wallet.

Had no idea that was tucked in there, So that’s now on the keys! 

[RoverFolkUs]

10 hours ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

I'm planning to swap injector 3 and 4 around and see if the problem jumps with it, will rule that out.  Not totally given up on it, but I am being realisitic with the rust, and other issues plus the plan regardless to shop for something more modern in early 2023 it was always on it's end with us.  Got an interested neighbour who plans to take it on a as project should the afformentioned plan fail.

Personally I'd compression test it first, much quicker than swapping injectors around. Although that would depend on you having access to a compression tester. Or buy one, they're not that expensive and a useful thing to have for DIY tinkering

[HillmanImp]

On 10/13/2022 at 11:15 PM, HillmanImp said:

The Jag is still not playing ball. Its smoking from the n/s exhaust and is occasionally barely running at all. 

Theres smoke coming from the dipstick too, so I'm wondering if its the oil breather separator? I can see that from the top of the engine, just need to figure out a way to get to it by removing all the fucking shite above it. 

Although it might be just a hose or something in the same area, there was a little smoke on startup today coming from that area. 

Will start removing stuff this weekend, weather depending, to see if I can find a likely culprit. 

In good news, maybe the oil leak thats made a mess of the street outside my house is nothing. The oil filler neck wasn't on right. Upon looking, it comes off if you overtighten the cap. Some proper crappy design there. 

I was hoping that it was meant to create enough of a vaccum to let the car run properly and not being seated was the cause of all my problems but alas no, it's still shite. 

MOT is out soon and its not got any off road parking so I'm gonna have to figure summink out fast... 

Dragged myself out today to look at the Jag. Spent ages removing all the plastic shit covering everything so that I could see down the back of the engine and then started it up to see if anything looked odd or was leaking. 

It ran absolutely fine. 

No smoke, idling fine. Absolutely spot on. 

Fucking wanksocks. Typical. 

Ran my hand around and couldn't feel anything blowing or owt either.

I did think about taking out the oil separator and cleaning it etc but its only £50 for a new one from JLR main stealers so will try and get one from Guiseley tomorrow. 

So I've put all the plastic shite back on it again. 

No doubt when I swap it round with the Nissan later it'll be running like shite. 

[wesacosa]

decent turn out at Ace Cafe Red Oktober meet this morning 

[andyberg]

Oops, I may* have done a buy...

[richardmorris]

3 hours ago, brownnova said:

Doing some tidying up of things and found all the Yugo documents, I was picking through a couple of things when this fell out of the service wallet.

Had no idea that was tucked in there, So that’s now on the keys! 

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

59 minutes ago, andyberg said:

Oops, I may* have done a buy...

is it just me or does that can look too long

nice trumpet tho

[andyberg]

50 minutes ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

is it just me or does that can look too long

nice trumpet tho

I thought that, but it's a genuine triumph can. I think if it was angled up more it would look better? However I think they are that low for the panniers boxes, which I have acquired some of. So I'll put them on and see how it looks. 

Failing that a free'er (louder) shorter can my be required 😁

[Cookiesouwest]

2 hours ago, andyberg said:

Oops, I may* have done a buy...

Well done

[andyberg]

1 minute ago, Cookiesouwest said:

Well done

Thanks mate. Been a while since I had a proper bike but it was the right price and my Chinese scooter has become a bit troublesome 

[Ghosty]

New dampers, top mounts and spark plugs for the Type R this weekend. The difference is significant, it's running better and sounds healthier, and the suspension is vastly improved. The offside damper would have served a better purpose as a slide whistle... 

 

 

The spark plugs had a decent innings to say the least...

[JJ0063]

Got a quote for a skip today, thought it’d be easier than a load of trips to the tip

 

£220 for a 6 yard skip, Jesus fucking Christ 

 

Maybe not!

[Rustybullethole]

8 minutes ago, JJ0063 said:

Got a quote for a skip today, thought it’d be easier than a load of trips to the tip

 

£220 for a 6 yard skip, Jesus fucking Christ 

 

Maybe not!

We’ve got a big arse tipper trailer on my (building) firm. Hardcore and dirt are a free tip at our local place though have to pay to dump the other crap. Saves a bundle on skips mind and also avoids the permits required in some places. Where are you? The trailer is mainly always in use though could work out.

[Split_Pin]

That's about the going rate. 

When we had a huge clear out, it unexpectedly filled the skip right to the top.

So that would have been van hire for a weekend as none of our cars are particularly big , fuel and what would almost certainly have been 20 runs to the tip, loading and unloading and most importantly, having to deal with the truly awful local recycling centre, where we would have had to queue for 20 minutes each time, and the same again inside just to get to the relevant skips. There would also probably some sort of fee payable to the council as we were bringing a van.

I'm sure some on here would pretend to be heroes and do it in a van borrowed for free but I'm not one of those and would rather cough up and give someone money for a skip. As such our clear out was very therapeutic. 

[Lacquer Peel]

4 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

That's about the going rate. 

When we had a huge clear out, it unexpectedly filled the skip right to the top.

So that would have been van hire for a weekend as none of our cars are particularly big , fuel and what would almost certainly have been 20 runs to the tip, loading and unloading and most importantly, having to deal with the truly awful local recycling centre, where we would have had to queue for 20 minutes each time, and the same again inside just to get to the relevant skips. There would also probably some sort of fee payable to the council as we were bringing a van.

I'm sure some on here would pretend to be heroes and do it in a van borrowed for free but I'm not one of those and would rather cough up and give someone money for a skip. As such our clear out was very therapeutic. 

For household waste in the Falkirk dumps you can get a free permit to use a van. 

Agree that a skip saves messing about if you have loads to shift. 

[JJ0063]

4 minutes ago, Rustybullethole said:

We’ve got a big arse tipper trailer on my (building) firm. Hardcore and dirt are a free tip at our local place though have to pay to dump the other crap. Saves a bundle on skips mind and also avoids the permits required in some places. Where are you? The trailer is mainly always in use though could work out.

It’s ok, it’s one of those things that as @Split_Pinsays does actually compute if you break down the cost and cost inconvenience of a million tip runs. 
 

I just didn’t think it was that much for some reason! 

[cobblers]

Aye, skips aren't that awfully priced all things considered. I did the "9 million tip runs" job when we did loads of work on our old house, the tip was only 2 miles away. My best count was 18 trips in one morning getting rid of hardcore.

I'd have bloody loved to get a skip, but it was a terraced street so we'd have ended up with the skip halfway down the street and the bloody thing would have been filled up by the neanderthal neighbours by the next morning.

[JJ0063]

I could in theory do it by trips to the tip but it’s the type of shit I need to move that makes a skip easier.

For example when we moved in, we made a compost bin out of 7 wooden pallets, I need to dismantle it and get rid of the pallets plus the contents of garden waste/soil out of it. That would be a nightmare by car. 
 

Then there’s 3 sheds of random stuff I need to sort, plus the house. The idea of having a skip I can just lob stuff in makes things way more convenient. 
 

I don’t know how long you get a skip for though, I’ll have to ring and ask. Ideally I’d want it a few weeks so I can sort on evenings and weekends but I guess it’s more like 7-10 days. 
 

Once we get an exchange date, I’ll try and book a skip for a couple of weeks before then. 

[cobblers]

They're not usually in a rush for the skip back, a few weeks is no bother

[Noel Tidybeard]

41 minutes ago, cobblers said:

They're not usually in a rush for the skip back, a few weeks is no bother

indeed getting them to go away can be a lenghthy process

[cobblers]

Just now, Noel Tidybeard said:

indeed getting them to go away can be a lenghthy process

Yup! Mate of mine hired a skip, filled it with stuff and the company just stopped answering the phone and all the doors were locked at their premises. 3 months later companies house showed they'd gone bust, so he rang another skip hire company, told them the story and they happily came and collected the skip FOC. They'd collected dozens in the same situation and were happy for a free skip.

another 2 months after that, one of the original directors of the skip hire place came belting on my mates front door angrily asking "what have you done with my fucking skip?"

 

[JJ0063]

59 minutes ago, cobblers said:

They're not usually in a rush for the skip back, a few weeks is no bother

Just checked and the one I enquired with said up to 10 days, if I can get it delivered at the end of a week and get 2 weekends with it that should be doable 

[reb]

I start my new job today.

I'll let y'all know how it goes.

That is all.

[paulplom]

Good luck Reb.

[paulplom]

My stepson starts his new job today. He's been back from his masters in aerospace engineering about six weeks and I was sick of him hanging around the house and not contributing. The graduate jobs don't come out till next summer apparently.

I was at my mates yard pricing up a wood burner and radiators for a bar that he built on site. I asked him if he had owt going stepson went for an interview with him on Saturday morning. He's put him on the ground works team.

http://www.hffce.co.uk/

[New POD]

Graduate jobs?  You need to be applying 6 months before you graduate. I'd suggest that if he wants to get ahead in Engineering, he tries to get any role in any manufacturing company.  There are  loads of temp shop floor level jobs available at the moment.