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[Asimo]

Hot-melt glue and string?

[wuvvum]

It's a rubber concertina pipe which has perished and split, I'm not sure it's really repairable.  I might try seeing  if I can snip out the middle bit and find a rigid pipe of the right diameter to fit in the gap.

[SiC]

2 hours ago, wuvvum said:

It's a rubber concertina pipe which has perished and split, I'm not sure it's really repairable.  I might try seeing  if I can snip out the middle bit and find a rigid pipe of the right diameter to fit in the gap.

Are you looking at the right one? There are two types. One with a noise generator output and one without. The 3.0 should have the noise generator hose. That when I looked is the cheaper hose.

Check part numbers but I believe it's this one:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184878385385

That's genuine from a BMW dealer. Might even be a similar price direct from a local dealer too. 

[JJ0063]

Picked up a fellow shiter from the station earlier who had come to collect the Ibiza, then straight over to a local van hire place to collect a Luton as mother JJ is moving house this weekend and I’m the designated pair of hands it seems. 
 

 

On the way home I stopped and picked these up, no real need but for £50 I couldn’t really say no! Set of BMW winter wheels with matching winter runflat tyres and a 5th brand new winter tyre on a new rim. Bargain for £50 and 20 mins from my house. I’m sure I’ll never need them but for that price I was always going to buy them. 

[Hawkeyethenoo]

Been getting the 2000 986 up to scratch. Getting there.... Rear struts replaced to match the front, garage serviced and MOT'd, I have also replaced drivers window regulator, ballache, and snapped in new set of frunk struts, it flies up and stays there now. New battery seems to have got the central locking working once more, faulty N/S door lock was also replaced, just need to see if I can get it working from the fob. I need to open the car with the key and then get the ignition on before the second horn beep, or all hell breaks loose as the aftermarket alarm is mega loud enough to make my ears wobble.

Might yet stick on a set of these. https://tirestreets.co.uk/products/accelera-651-sport-xtra?_pos=2&_sid=750946ebe&_ss=r

Or https://www.camskill.co.uk/m54b0s3991p135346

 

[wuvvum]

3 hours ago, SiC said:

Are you looking at the right one? There are two types. One with a noise generator output and one without. The 3.0 should have the noise generator hose. That when I looked is the cheaper hose.

Check part numbers but I believe it's this one:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184878385385

That's genuine from a BMW dealer. Might even be a similar price direct from a local dealer too. 

Mine is a 2.5 and doesn't have the noise generator - I think the 2.5 and the 2.2 use the same hose.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, JJ0063 said:

straight over to a local van hire place to collect a Luton as mother JJ is moving house this weekend and I’m the designated pair of hands it seems. 

Please tell me she's paying for the van, at least?

[SiC]

Mine is a 2.5 and doesn't have the noise generator - I think the 2.5 and the 2.2 use the same hose.

Ah I always thought you had the 3.0. My 2.2 had someone retrofit the noise generator. Tbh it's pretty loud at full bore. Enough to make your ears hurt. Tempted to remove it and put a standard intake hose in like you need.

[Supernaut]

Just now, SiC said:

7 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Mine is a 2.5 and doesn't have the noise generator - I think the 2.5 and the 2.2 use the same hose.

Ah I always thought you had the 3.0. My 2.2 had someone retrofit the noise generator. Tbh it's pretty loud at full bore. Enough to make your ears hurt. Tempted to remove it and put a standard intake hose in like you need.

I wonder if one of these noise generators would fit an M52 generation straight six...

[SiC]

Just now, Supernaut said:

I wonder if one of these noise generators would fit an M52 generation straight six...

Dunno but it clips over the side of the engine.

https://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/showparts?id=BT51-EUR-04_2002_E85_BMW_Z4_30i&diagId=13_0999#13747514863

 

[JJ0063]

3 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Please tell me she's paying for the van, at least?

Oh of course, I’m just the driver and labourer!

[High Jetter]

4 minutes ago, JJ0063 said:

Oh of course, I’m just the driver and labourer!

Obviously! Sorry though, I was confusing you with JakeBullet when I posted that.

[junkyarddog]

Nice day for it. 

[Lankytim]

More French Fancy Fettling. 
 

Today I was mostly glueing the weather strips back on to the bottom of the doors and removing the fuel tank for cleaning/replacement of rubber fuel line. 
 

Can’t be far off an MOT. 

 

[richardmorris]

While the tank is out make sure the electrical connections to the sender and nice and shiny and waterproofed. Saves dropping the tank again.

[richardmorris]

Lovely weather this morning, so went for a walk after going into work. Interesting little tug.

[Boycie]

May weekend , tourists are officially here at work and I'm already bored of Americans asking me stupid questions

However on the plus side I've £500 ( tax free ) coming to me for my 25 years service ..... I've also got a large chocolate cake from fellow staff members ......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Boycie]

On 30/04/2024 at 20:24, Dyslexic Viking said:

Yes, they were in the bedroom sleeping when this happened. The driver was also uninjured.

Not surprisingly, the driver is suspected of driving under the influence.

If that my gaff he would suffering the influence of having my size 8 boot right up his back passage ...

[Dyslexic Viking]

1 minute ago, Boycie said:

If that my gaff he would suffering the influence of having my size 8 boot right up his back passage ...

Unfortunately in Norway, that would have led to prison for you.

Better to look at it as free house renovation. And since he was driving under the influence, he will most likely have to pay for everything, which will not be cheap.

[vulgalour]

May is the quietest month of the year for me with work so I've been putting my spare time to use applying for whatever jobs I can find that my skills transfer to.  So far I've only had one response and that was a rejection letter, I'd forgotten just how much of a grind job applications can be.

It's not great being asked "oh, so are you giving up on the artwork then?" because I'm not giving up, I'm being pragmatic.  I don't especially want a different job but I do want a better and more regular paycheck.  The boom-bust cycle of freelance work is pretty exhausting.  I've also got to get myself motivated to make use of the lovely weather and weld up the little rust holes I found on the Princess today before they become big rust holes, I just don't wanna.

[beko1987]

29 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

May is the quietest month of the year for me with work so I've been putting my spare time to use applying for whatever jobs I can find that my skills transfer to.  So far I've only had one response and that was a rejection letter, I'd forgotten just how much of a grind job applications can be.

It's not great being asked "oh, so are you giving up on the artwork then?" because I'm not giving up, I'm being pragmatic.  I don't especially want a different job but I do want a better and more regular paycheck.  The boom-bust cycle of freelance work is pretty exhausting.  I've also got to get myself motivated to make use of the lovely weather and weld up the little rust holes I found on the Princess today before they become big rust holes, I just don't wanna.

Film the work and turn it into YouTube videos? I've got a dc25 to strip down shortly and must film it as its fucking awful but almost can't be arsed... 

I could teach you how to refurb dysons? Much of a repair market in your area? 

[Pat Earrings]

And another set done. Managed to identify a damaged wire to the monitor which was self caused so a replacement has sorted it. Can’t argue for about £18 

[grogee]

Fuck trens. Seriously, fuck them. Does anyone have a good word to say for them? 

I'm an occasional tren user. Tren-curious. I want them to work. I want them to be a viable alternative to the car. 

But I've done maybe half a dozen journeys in the last couple of years. Every one has been disrupted. Every. Single. One. 

I don't travel at peak hours and I don't generally travel at weekends, except for today. 

Utter bollocks. Bless him I'm with Master Grogee today as well and he's good as gold but imagine this shit with a toddler/old person/disabled person. 

If anyone can give me a good reason this shouldn't be nationalised tomorrow, I'm all ears. 

[brownnova]

Saw a Fiat Panda Italia ‘90 today!!! 
Made my day that. Not seen one complete with wheel trims for many many years! 

[wesacosa]

4 minutes ago, brownnova said:

Saw a Fiat Panda Italia ‘90 today!!! 
Made my day that. Not seen one complete with wheel trims for many many years! 

I missed out on one at an auction for about £1200 5 years ago.  Really should have gone for it

[dozeydustman]

Got family round for a BBQ. It’s bot exactly warm so we fired up the chimnea.

I think the wood is a little damp and the tinder and kindling kept burning out but the split logs wouldn’t take until dad borrowed my stepdaughter’s hairdryer…

Yes that’s better.

[vulgalour]

5 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Film the work and turn it into YouTube videos? I've got a dc25 to strip down shortly and must film it as its fucking awful but almost can't be arsed... 

I could teach you how to refurb dysons? Much of a repair market in your area? 

My joy for making Youtube videos has evaporated lately in the face of having to adjust to the new living situation and all that.  Doesn't help that I've made zero cash from doing them for several years nor that my Patreon that folks asked me to set up has generate zero supporters.  Finding it hard to rediscover the motivation to bother spending hours and hours editing videos recently.

[barefoot]

Me too, I can't believe that it was 17 years ago when I uploaded this little film. 

Never made a fucking penny from it.

[Bren]

The mondeo is having the trailing arm bushes done next week.

Thankfully somebody else is doing them. The least I could do was get genuine ones - I would hate to think of the struggle with poor quality parts. The current ones are only three or four years old - a japanese main dealer north of the border fitted them - obviously spurious quality.

The ford item were not that much more expensive than aftermarket.

[Spottedlaurel]

It was a lot brighter yesterday than I had expected, and I was up early so I took the Laurel out to a local show....

Found an appropriate area of the car park. I just went in as public scum, as this one requires booking-up in advance and I didn't want to commit a day to it.

I think this Commodore was my car of the day. Imported from Belgium and had apparently been pretty much unused since 1974.

Old boys enjoying a Wartburg. This one is locally-registered and has lots of patina, little surprise as it gets used quite a bit - I saw it elsewhere in the depths of winter several years ago.

Rare sighting of DeLorean with doors closed! Imagine 400 or so vehicles at a country show on a sunny day and you'll get the idea, but there was some interesting stuff there amongst all the usual suspects. I took a lot of photos, particularly enjoying anything on local Suffolk/Norfolk plates that's still in the area from new, 50, 60, 70+ years on.

 

Also some interesting things in the rather grassy car park.

Stopped for a quick driveby shot of this one on the way home, and as I was taking it someone took a photo of the Laurel.

As I was out and about on such a pleasant day I had fun driving home the back way, using lanes that I'd never been on before which ran alongside the river and stopping for a few photos....

Great to see this Escort of similar vintage:

 

A rather square-rigged lump of steelwork. And a bridge.

Found some vague hills. Sky was very big.