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[Joey spud]

I've done a bit of Morris Minor bothering too.

When I drove it a while back i was slightly alarmed by how mechanally noisy it was although to be fair it had absolutely no interior fitted at the time.

So I bought five sheets of this bitumastic 2mm sound deadening stuff to stick to the he bulkhead and gearbox area. In hindsight I could of done with another pack to do the rest of the floor too but hey ho.

Will it make a jot of difference who knows ?

Also I was wanting to keep the inner sill / step assembly exposed to look agricultural but alas any rain water from the ineffective door seals collects here and would start rotting it out again in no time.

So I have waxoyled everything and fitted the step tops making sure they are rain water tight.

And for some daft reason I have started to add sound proofing to the floor too.

On the subject of door seals I have fitted Morris Marina spec drop glass seals (with the help of lashings of Tiger Seal to glue them in place) to slow the water ingress through the doors.

Every little helps as a certain retailer constantly spends thousands telling us so time will tell...

[S2000]

Bought the W1000 home today from the unit to start prepping for sale, drove better than I remembered and put a smile on everyone’s face as they heard the straight cut gearbox ….

[richardmorris]

Have just seen a very smart N reg red rover827i fastback on the m3. Anyone here?

[barefoot]

On 03/08/2024 at 12:05, Joey spud said:

 

And the interior has been hoovered out ready for a bit of insulation putting down before refitting everything again.

Fuck me, your hoover's got some suck.

[24vdiamond]

21 hours ago, Joey spud said:

I've done a bit of Morris Minor bothering too.

When I drove it a while back i was slightly alarmed by how mechanally noisy it was although to be fair it had absolutely no interior fitted at the time.

So I bought five sheets of this bitumastic 2mm sound deadening stuff to stick to the he bulkhead and gearbox area. In hindsight I could of done with another pack to do the rest of the floor too but hey ho.

Will it make a jot of difference who knows ?

Also I was wanting to keep the inner sill / step assembly exposed to look agricultural but alas any rain water from the ineffective door seals collects here and would start rotting it out again in no time.

So I have waxoyled everything and fitted the step tops making sure they are rain water tight.

And for some daft reason I have started to add sound proofing to the floor too.

On the subject of door seals I have fitted Morris Marina spec drop glass seals (with the help of lashings of Tiger Seal to glue them in place) to slow the water ingress through the doors.

Every little helps as a certain retailer constantly spends thousands telling us so time will tell...

Where did you get the black bitumen mats with the diamond pattern?  I need some but forgotten to hunt some down until now!

[Joey spud]

18 minutes ago, 24vdiamond said:

Where did you get the black bitumen mats with the diamond pattern?  I need some but forgotten to hunt some down until now!

Wayside adhesives off that eBay.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/371107119311?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=EsU-jmmZRSm&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=LUEY6lLiSBS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Nice easy to use product much recommended.

[junkyarddog]

Out and about in the Shitbox Jetta today and this happened....

Nearly.....

Whohoo!!

200k achivied. 

 

[richardmorris]

A lot of unnecessary arsing about. And not a lot of 1963 in evidence.

 

[Merryck]

On 03/08/2024 at 12:05, Joey spud said:

I did a bit of Subaru pickup yesterday.

I've owned it since 2010 but took it off the road in 2018 to deal with the rampant corrosion and shamefully lost my mojo three years later and bought an even rustier Minor instead (as you do).

Unsurprisingly it's now running really poorly with stale fuel and a clogged carb.

I chanced my arm and tried to loosen the petrol tank drain plug half expecting the applied force to rip the bottom out of it but no it spun undone like it was only fitted last week and a couple of litres of rank smelling yellow fluid washed out.

I really rate these Hitachi carbs but admit they do give a lot of trouble once they age,even when in good order they could be a bit stuttery at times but I had a secret weapon in the form of a rebuild kit sourced from Rockauto in the US.

I spent a nice leisurely couple of hours in the sunshine stripping,blowing thru,cleaning and adding the fresh seals,gaskets and valves.

Once refitted and with some fresh fuel added I was hoping for a happy idling and clean reving little flat four. Well I got easy starting and a lovely smooth idle but it still coughed and bogged down when trying to pull away.

Shining a light down the carb and pumping the throttle revealed that despite a new accelerator plunger and compressed air being blasted into every orifice there was still no fuel being squirted from the accelerator jet into the carbs throat.

I tried blowing through the jet again but it's awkward to get at so I plucked a bristle from a wire brush and probed it instead. I couldn't feel anything blocking it but refitted the top cover and tried again anyway.

Eureka I now had a squirting accelerator jet and an engine that picks up and revs cleanly.

Where it's been sitting unloved the paint work that was freshly applied 2pac eleven years ago has bloomed and faded badly. 

So while I had the energy I wet sanded it with 1500grit foam backed pads followed by a serious cutting back with 3M green top (excellent stuff) applied by hand.

It's 80% done and looks better than I thought it would. When I painted it back in 2013 it was too nice and I was afraid to use it as a truck for fear of marking the paint work but now it has scratches,dints and blisters showing under the paint it's far more useable.

And the interior has been hoovered out ready for a bit of insulation putting down before refitting everything again.

Would love a Brat again, I only owned one for a few weeks in an attempt to save it from being scrapped. It had been my wedding car.

I think I’ve got a pair of front brake/hub/suspension assemblies somewhere if you’re ever in need.

[goosey]

Borrowed my sons 110 and did some pickup stuff with it today, getting rid of an old patio set 

it’s getting some 1 ton rims and 33s next month

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, goosey said:

Borrowed my sons 110 and did some pickup stuff with it today, getting rid of an old patio set 

it’s getting some 1 ton rims and 33s next month

Why? Those wheels look right.

[wuvvum]

Gave the Renault 6 a bit of a service this weekend - oil and filter change and a new set of spark plugs (Bosch this time).  I stuck a can of engine flush in it beforehand, having seen when I took the rocker cover off to do the valve clearances that it's a bit* gungy in there.  How much good it's done I have no idea but it was worth a go.  I also gave the brake pipes their annual check over - still all looking good, but I did give them a good spray of wax this year in an attempt to help keep them that way.  One has to be a little bit careful with a single circuit braking system.  I'm glad they didn't need replacing though as there's a surprising amount of pipe for such a small car - the front to rear pipe runs up the offside sill, then across the rear axle to a load sensing valve on the nearside, which then sends another pipe back across the axle to join up with the offside flexi.  #BecauseFrench.

I also did an oil and filter change on the Merc today.  I wasn't sure how old the oil was (it was black but that doesn't mean anything in an ageing turbodiesel) but it had also been overfilled so I thought I might as well do it anyway.  I used my shiny new Lidl special oil pump for the first time.  It did a pretty good job, other than when the outlet pipe popped out of the catch can and started depositing used engine oil over the driveway .  Fortunately I was still by the car at the time so it only spilled about a mugful, but that made enough of a mess.  I hate to think what had happened if it had waited until I'd gone inside to make a coffee - I would have come out to a full gallon of oil running down the drive.

That wasn't the only mishap - when I was fitting the new filter it was a bit of a tight fit in the housing, so I gave it a good shove and it suddenly popped home and splattered the oil that had been in the bottom of the housing all over the engine and, more annoyingly, all over my face.  Fortunately it had more or less cooled down by then...  I tipped about 7 litres of 5w30 in - the last two litres were some Tesco own brand stuff I had on the shelf in the shed which is semi-synth rather than full, but I can't imagine it'll do too much harm.  Capacity is supposed to be 8.5L so I don't think the pump managed to get all of the old oil out, but it'll do.

I had another look at the power steering motor on the BMW, having acquired a few more tools.  I'm now nearly able to get to the bolts, but I need a longer 3/8" extension and also a universal joint, so I'm going to order those and hopefully have another crack next weekend.  The job is complicated somewhat by the contortions required to get to the bolts which are above the steering column deep under the dash - with me being as broken as I am I can't stay upside down in the footwell for more than a few minutes at a time so it's going to be an awkward job anyway, but at least I know how I'm going to attack it now.

I also had a more thorough go at polishing the roof on the Innocenti.  It's actually come up reasonably well - it's far from perfect but then so is the rest of the car, so I'll probably leave it as it is.  The bonnet needs rather more work - I'm still hesitating whether to wrap it or attempt to paint it.  Finding a colour match is probably going to be a challenge but a bonnet is something that I might be able to achieve an acceptable finish on with rattle cans, especially if I remove it from the car - I'd have no chance painting a roof.

The Toyota is booked in for an MOT on Friday, so the next job is to tidy that up and give the exhaust its annual Gun Gumming.  When I went to the garage to book it in I also asked about the auxiliary belt on the Merc, and they said it wasn't actually that bad of a job once the plastics are out of the way - which I'm hoping means that if I do give up and farm the job out to them the bill won't be too horrendous.  I've ordered the tensioner and alternator pulleys anyway, so one way or another it'll get done.  It's also going to need front springs at some point - they're fine but they're the wrong ones for the car, it has sport suspension and someone has fitted non-sport springs so it sits far too high.  Oh, and it's showing a fault code for the offside MAF sensor being out of spec.  It's going to end up owing me rather a lot of money by the time it's fully sorted, but it should also be rather a nice car...

[Zelandeth]

15 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Gave the Renault 6 a bit of a service this weekend - oil and filter change and a new set of spark plugs (Bosch this time).  I stuck a can of engine flush in it beforehand, having seen when I took the rocker cover off to do the valve clearances that it's a bit* gungy in there.  How much good it's done I have no idea but it was worth a go.  I also gave the brake pipes their annual check over - still all looking good, but I did give them a good spray of wax this year in an attempt to help keep them that way.  One has to be a little bit careful with a single circuit braking system.  I'm glad they didn't need replacing though as there's a surprising amount of pipe for such a small car - the front to rear pipe runs up the offside sill, then across the rear axle to a load sensing valve on the nearside, which then sends another pipe back across the axle to join up with the offside flexi.  #BecauseFrench.

I also did an oil and filter change on the Merc today.  I wasn't sure how old the oil was (it was black but that doesn't mean anything in an ageing turbodiesel) but it had also been overfilled so I thought I might as well do it anyway.  I used my shiny new Lidl special oil pump for the first time.  It did a pretty good job, other than when the outlet pipe popped out of the catch can and started depositing used engine oil over the driveway .  Fortunately I was still by the car at the time so it only spilled about a mugful, but that made enough of a mess.  I hate to think what had happened if it had waited until I'd gone inside to make a coffee - I would have come out to a full gallon of oil running down the drive.

That wasn't the only mishap - when I was fitting the new filter it was a bit of a tight fit in the housing, so I gave it a good shove and it suddenly popped home and splattered the oil that had been in the bottom of the housing all over the engine and, more annoyingly, all over my face.  Fortunately it had more or less cooled down by then...  I tipped about 7 litres of 5w30 in - the last two litres were some Tesco own brand stuff I had on the shelf in the shed which is semi-synth rather than full, but I can't imagine it'll do too much harm.  Capacity is supposed to be 8.5L so I don't think the pump managed to get all of the old oil out, but it'll do.

I had another look at the power steering motor on the BMW, having acquired a few more tools.  I'm now nearly able to get to the bolts, but I need a longer 3/8" extension and also a universal joint, so I'm going to order those and hopefully have another crack next weekend.  The job is complicated somewhat by the contortions required to get to the bolts which are above the steering column deep under the dash - with me being as broken as I am I can't stay upside down in the footwell for more than a few minutes at a time so it's going to be an awkward job anyway, but at least I know how I'm going to attack it now.

I also had a more thorough go at polishing the roof on the Innocenti.  It's actually come up reasonably well - it's far from perfect but then so is the rest of the car, so I'll probably leave it as it is.  The bonnet needs rather more work - I'm still hesitating whether to wrap it or attempt to paint it.  Finding a colour match is probably going to be a challenge but a bonnet is something that I might be able to achieve an acceptable finish on with rattle cans, especially if I remove it from the car - I'd have no chance painting a roof.

The Toyota is booked in for an MOT on Friday, so the next job is to tidy that up and give the exhaust its annual Gun Gumming.  When I went to the garage to book it in I also asked about the auxiliary belt on the Merc, and they said it wasn't actually that bad of a job once the plastics are out of the way - which I'm hoping means that if I do give up and farm the job out to them the bill won't be too horrendous.  I've ordered the tensioner and alternator pulleys anyway, so one way or another it'll get done.  It's also going to need front springs at some point - they're fine but they're the wrong ones for the car, it has sport suspension and someone has fitted non-sport springs so it sits far too high.  Oh, and it's showing a fault code for the offside MAF sensor being out of spec.  It's going to end up owing me rather a lot of money by the time it's fully sorted, but it should also be rather a nice car...

I'm always wary of flushing agents in grimey engines.  Always the potential for some chunk of gunge breaking free and blocking off some critical oil way or the pickup strainer.  I'd be far more inclined to use some diesel spec oil of the correct grade instead, as that generally has a higher detergent content than petrol oils.  So will just gently clean things rather than aggressively scouring the innards of the engine.

[RichardK]

I really should have tried one of these when they were new

[goosey]

5 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Why? Those wheels look right.

My Son wants a sort of OEM plus look, and one tons are probably the coolest wheels ever fitted to a Landrover 

[24vdiamond]

17 hours ago, Joey spud said:

Wayside adhesives off that eBay.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/371107119311?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=EsU-jmmZRSm&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=LUEY6lLiSBS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Nice easy to use product much recommended.

Thanks very much, ordered! 👍

[Stinkwheel]

14 hours ago, richardmorris said:

A lot of unnecessary arsing about. And not a lot of 1963 in evidence.

 

I know a couple of the guys in the video assisting - Joe and the best matcs teacher ever fairly well. good guys and 2CV through and through, have known them both 20 yrs, as you say though, some of that car is very 1963, other bits not so much, I do wish it was made clearer what was right and what was wrong about the car (Having said that, I dont much mind people modding their cars to how they want)

[EightMegs]

I just had to pick up a Mercedes Vaneo with intermittently broken power steering, a dead starter motor, and every warning light on the dash lit. Apparently the starter motor either needs you to drop either the engine or the subframe for access so this one's been written off. We'd already given up on the power steering issue because even the Merc specialist couldn't figure it out. I'm trying to convince my manager that it's worthy of a for sale thread but he's convinced that it's worth "£1500 in parts alone".

[artdjones]

31 minutes ago, EightMegs said:

I just had to pick up a Mercedes Vaneo with intermittently broken power steering, a dead starter motor, and every warning light on the dash lit. Apparently the starter motor either needs you to drop either the engine or the subframe for access so this one's been written off. We'd already given up on the power steering issue because even the Merc specialist couldn't figure it out. I'm trying to convince my manager that it's worthy of a for sale thread but he's convinced that it's worth "£1500 in parts alone".

Don't bother, I had one on hire in Germany once. Low geared, heavy on fuel, and not nice to drive. And I got my only speeding ticket ever rushing around trying to find a petrol station before returning the thing.

[Lankytim]

Browsing the local charity shop, who was it that’s into old vacuum cleaners? 

[loserone]

@beko1987

 

 

[loserone]

Here's one on eBay 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326003169498?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=tuPc0anhQ2m&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=_DrQZiLTSn2&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[24vdiamond]

Passenger side leg/wing assembly fully welded on the Carlton, starting to look like a car again!

 

[HMC]

They were filming a bbc crime drama right outside my window today and we let them use our conference room as the “Green room” between takes.

I had the opportunity to park the p4 up where the  pink and white citroen is, but the leaky fuel sender would have caused an environmental spillage risk at that angle.

Still, the cork gasket arrived today so i can sort that pretty soon.

Was an interesting day with celebrities/ actors going up and down the stairs. They were all very polite and friendly despite one scene needing about 6 takes.

[beko1987]

6 hours ago, loserone said:

Here's one on eBay 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326003169498?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=tuPc0anhQ2m&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=_DrQZiLTSn2&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Aaah kirbys! Depreciation of a modern Mercedes, and that ebay one is overpriced for the condition! 

I've got a 1984 Turbo, g4 and sentria 2, all with the full kit and the Heritage and Sentria are fully refurbished and still not worth that much! 

They are fucking good though if you've got lots of carpet. That G5 is mid 90s

And if it was a car it'd be in the 'fuck me just scrap it m8' thread 😂 Terrible value especially with no tools. That charity shop one is a much better price and the aluminium looks cleaner too! Always full toolkits and shampoo sets for £20/30 on ebay never used too

[richardmorris]

6 hours ago, Lankytim said:

Browsing the local charity shop, who was it that’s into old vacuum cleaners? 

@beko1987

[junkyarddog]

1 hour ago, HMC said:

They were filming a bbc crime drama right outside my window today and we let them use our conference room as the “Green room” between takes.

I had the opportunity to park the p4 up where the  pink and white citroen is, but the leaky fuel sender would have caused an environmental spillage risk at that angle.

Still, the cork gasket arrived today so i can sort that pretty soon.

Was an interesting day with celebrities/ actors going up and down the stairs. They were all very polite and friendly despite one scene needing about 6 takes.

Looks like kris Marshall.

[richardmorris]

5 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

Looks like kris Marshall.

Beyond paradise or has that finished?

[HMC]

7 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Beyond paradise or has that finished?

Yes series 3 apparently. He had a long lie down on the sofa between takes.

[richardmorris]

6 minutes ago, HMC said:

Yes series 3 apparently. He had a long lie down on the sofa between takes.

Watching tv or film being made is incredibly boring whilst being a little bit glamorous. In our last work site at englefield green most of the series Misfits was filmed there after the university closed to students and the ray winstone bill drury biopic was done just before we left.