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[lesapandre]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

Chester to wrexham charity bus day.

No...You have just fallen through a wormhole in time and woken up in  New Year 1972.

[Ghosty]

3 hours ago, MJK 24 said:

Every shade of beige in the Algarve!  Sounded like a 5 pot clagger when it smoked away.

 

RAL 1015 light ivory, or as some people call it, taxi beige. Derv 124s were the go-to German taxi in the 90s, this will have been one originally.

[camryv6]

3 hours ago, sutty2006 said:

Well, technically I’d made it home before it started. THANKFULLY. Could have been a complete disaster. 

Especially straining to lift the seats 💩 

[sutty2006]

7 minutes ago, camryv6 said:

Especially straining to lift the seats 💩 

Oooo that could have been interesting. 🤣

[Cavcraft]

5 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Chester to wrexham charity bus day.

My daughter's boyfriend is a bus driver and took her to this. She had a great time.

[brownnova]

4 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

My daughter's boyfriend is a bus driver and took her to this. She had a great time.

A great time. In Wrexham???

 Can’t be right. 

[lesapandre]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/01/record-number-of-public-electric-vehicle-chargers-installed-in-uk-in-2022

Still does not seem a lot of electric car chargers to me.

[Cavcraft]

One's a slow, old fashioned way of getting about suitable for old duffers who smell of wee. The other is a bus.

20 minutes and maybe 4 miles later, it decided it was time to stop for the day. To be fair, it's the only time it's done that since owning it, so can't complain too much. A passer by (out with his family and they had the same dog as ours!) was a Honda CB250 G5 owner and helped to try and bump start it, but it wouldn't have it. CBA walking home to get the van to come back, so pushed it the 2.5 miles back. Wasn't much of an effort luckily. Anyhow, put a spare plug in (the one in it was sootier than a black labrador that'd been coal mining for the last 15 years) and it fired straight up. Lesson learnt: carry a spare!

 

 

Flushed with success at getting the Yamaha going again, I pulled the BSA stationary engine out and had a better go at starting that. Topped the fuel up, meddled round with the thing and after a replacement plug was found, it started first pull! No video (can't upload on here) but it sounded great

[richardmorris]

3 hours ago, brownnova said:

A great time. In Wrexham???

 Can’t be right. 

They were taking everyone to Chester!

[Ghosty]

9 hours ago, sutty2006 said:

He gets his money worth out of those actors!

 

Is it me or is old can of poo listing to one side? 

[High Jetter]

6 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

My daughter's boyfriend is a bus driver and took her to this. She had a great time.

She haz good taste!

[wuvvum]

This happened today.

Yep, I drove the Visa.  Only the 200 yards from the car park to the house, but it still counts - I've now officially driven it on the road.  I even got into second gear!  It's not even close to running right, the carb needs some loving and the ignition module is half-arsedly held on by two very undersized bolts, but my carb rebuild kit arrived on Friday so that'll hopefully sort one problem out, and the other will be sorted once the M7 tap I ordered arrives.

Other job today was to jack the 107 up and whip the drums off to check the state of the brake shoes, as it's occasionally been sounding a little grindy under braking recently.  The leading shoe on the offside is down to almost nothing at the bottom edge, so I'll order a new set of shoes as there's no way the existing ones will last out the MOT.  They're only about 17 quid a pair so not a major expenditure.  No doubt they'll be an utter twat to fit though, because drum brakes...

[Zelandeth]

10 hours ago, wuvvum said:

This happened today.

Yep, I drove the Visa.  Only the 200 yards from the car park to the house, but it still counts - I've now officially driven it on the road.  I even got into second gear!  It's not even close to running right, the carb needs some loving and the ignition module is half-arsedly held on by two very undersized bolts, but my carb rebuild kit arrived on Friday so that'll hopefully sort one problem out, and the other will be sorted once the M7 tap I ordered arrives.

Other job today was to jack the 107 up and whip the drums off to check the state of the brake shoes, as it's occasionally been sounding a little grindy under braking recently.  The leading shoe on the offside is down to almost nothing at the bottom edge, so I'll order a new set of shoes as there's no way the existing ones will last out the MOT.  They're only about 17 quid a pair so not a major expenditure.  No doubt they'll be an utter twat to fit though, because drum brakes...

Check the back of the front discs too. Mine used to rust up the discs something chronic and I had to change them a few times over the time I had the car.  Always seemed to be the inner face that ended up looking like the surface of the moon when the outside was perfect.

[reb]

One in.

[wesacosa]

[stuboy]

FiL called and said he'd fixed the jump starter, I'd forgotten about it, he's replaced the battery with slightly higher ah one and little of wiring... dunno how these compare to modern smaller ones..

[alcyonecorporation]

On 1/1/2023 at 12:11 PM, sutty2006 said:

I finally got the seats I wanted for the manta. Picked them up on the 27th but they’ve sat in the boot of my car until today due to me having 4 days of the shits.

 

monza GSE recaros. 🥰

do not shit in recaros 

[Ghosty]

On 1/1/2023 at 5:05 PM, brownnova said:

A great time. In Wrexham???

 Can’t be right. 

Hey, some people like having a good time in the wrexham! Who are you to judge 😛

[Popsicle]

As today was dry, sunny and cold I thought it would be the perfect day to swap my scabby front bumper on the couriering Caddy for a Touran one I picked up last October. As is always the case this involved faffing around with boring prep work first, painting the new bumper the right colour and bodging a few dents and scuffs first. With this all finished over Christmas it was time to fit it.

Old scabby bumper that had been poorly painted in the past.

Tada - new shiny bumper with chrome grill - not the best paint job in the world as I did it with rattle cans in the conservatory, I'm sure despite my best endeavors there will be some dog hairs stuck on somewhere.

Took me bloody ages! Hence the finished photo by torch light. A few screws were rusted solid, some had been played with before and butchered a bit - but got there in the end. Added bonus that the wiring loom for front fogs and temperature sensor were all the same so easy to swap over.

I think the joins by the front wings will need a little adjusting in daylight to line up a bit better, but it seems solid enough - I was too cold by the end and my gammy hand had stopped working altogether - the joys of getting older - I'll be as stiff as a board tomorrow!

[brownnova]

53 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

Hey, some people like having a good time in the wrexham! Who are you to judge 😛

I know, but if there is one place in the world which is not @Cavcraftapproved it is Wrexham. 
 

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenny love it though! 

[Barry Cade]

Grandad again here 🙂 wee boy this time, named Zephyr.. all doing well born yesterday morning. 

[horriblemercedes]

8 minutes ago, Barry Cade said:

Grandad again here 🙂 wee boy this time, named Zephyr.. all doing well born yesterday morning. 

Congratulations! 

 

In 2029 he will be Zephyr, 6.....

[stuboy]

13 minutes ago, Barry Cade said:

Grandad again here 🙂 wee boy this time, named Zephyr.. all doing well born yesterday morning. 

well done... more chance me growing hair on my head than my son getting a GF and even a child..

[Cavcraft]

1 hour ago, brownnova said:

I know, but if there is one place in the world which is not @Cavcraftapproved it is Wrexham. 
 

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenny love it though! 

The best way to 'have a good time in Wrexham' would be either just drive past it, or call an air strike and cause several billion pounds worth of improvements.

[wheel nut]

I did an oil change on my Mother’s Volvo C30. First time I’ve done it on this car so was delighted to find the oil filter in a really easy to access location at the front of the engine. Stilson was my tool of choice for getting the old filter off. 

[Barry Cade]

1 hour ago, stuboy said:

well done... more chance me growing hair on my head than my son getting a GF and even a child..

We thought that about this one too!

[Dobloseven]

2 hours ago, stuboy said:

well done... more chance me growing hair on my head than my son getting a GF and even a child..

Never say never. Modern folk are taking longer to do things. Not so long ago a woman over 30,having her first child would be called an older mother,for example. 

[chaseracer]

2 hours ago, Barry Cade said:

Grandad again here 🙂 wee boy this time, named Zephyr.. all doing well born yesterday morning. 

Congrats.  Should be easy to wind him... 😉

[SiC]

Drained and stripped the scrappy Dolomite some more today in preparation to pull the engine. Wanted to get more done but Mrs SiC and I went out with her spending far too long trying on clothes in the shops!

Debating how to get the engine out. I could crane it out the top but I might just cut the front off and pull it out that way. Or could just drop the subframe and bring it out the bottom. Need to get the engine on a pallet ready to ship out to its new owner.

[brownnova]

The poor 2CV had been evicted from its garage to give me space to work on the other 2CV in situ. It was looking a bit sorry for itself so rust being sunny and after a good rain I thought the ideal time to get it out and use it!

 When I got inside I found that it was very very damp in there. The small hole in the roof has become a split, and the mats were sodden and there was mould on the inside of the roof and the doors… not so good. Best way to sort that was a damn good run. So one jump pack (and a few damp cloths) later.

An old ruin, and a Welsh Castle. 

Two sleeping children in there too, the 2 year old takes any opportunity for a ride in the CeeVee!

It has now been restored back to its rightful place in the garage, it has endured half the winter outside, and I’ve done the grand total of fuck all on the other one in over a month. So it’s back to sardines with this, the other 2CV and the Yugo crammed into the double garage!