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[Christine]

Sill, it is

[tooSavvy]

I'm already wondering how hard it would be to make a Lego Rover 800.

... easier to make one drive out of a LEGO garage?

 

 

 

TS

[anonymous user]

No, I have not changed my car!, by the time the fourth person had asked me today in work I was getting fed up; nobody believed that a garage would loan me a Land Rover that looked nearly as old as my own.

 

Verdict on driving the 110 is that the turbo diesel pulls well with 260,000 miles on the clock and once I had found where reverse gear was hidden, reversing and the extra length was no problem. I had to collect a colleague this morning and she was most impressed with the Station Wagon version, especially by the emergency underpants left in the centre cubby box. My 90 is now fixed with a new servo and the leaky hub done at the same time.

[derskine]

Lost drive while pulling away from a roundabout in Aberdeen, some passers by helped shove it onto the grass and out of traffic. Once off the road I had a look underneath and under the bonnet thinking it was a clutch issue. Nope, O/S drive shaft no longer connected to the wheel, snapped. Didn't get home 'till 1:40am.

Recovery driver said he was getting a lot of suspension and drive shaft failures recently due to the shit condition of the roads. As a bonus he liked repairing engines and had owned Triumphs so we had a good chat on the 60 mile drive back...

 

Timing belt + service carried out 4 days ago for £350, bastard of a thing.  Now back at the garage, should get it back tomorrow. 

 

On average I spend about £350 on car repairs a month regardless of what I drive, so hopefully this is March's breakdown occurring slightly early...

 

Know the feeling, I've broken down 500% more in the past 3 months than I have in the past 3 years.

[Bear]

Does anyone know K-Jet 3 really well? I'm at the stage of just flinging sensors at the Audi, but want to sanitycheck an assumption I'm making.

 

As far as I can tell, the Audi is happy to run in a pretty dumb state - timing, temperature and feedback fuses and connectors don't affect the running particularly, a little like the MAF disconnect on the SLK chucking it into default engine map and thus, not cutting out when it had MAF issues. The Audi's strop is about cold starting, as as far as I can tell, the ISV and cold start injector aren't being asked to do anything - i.e. either there's a signal the ECU wants it's not getting to trigger a cold start programme, or the ECU isn't responding.

 

It's also not adjusting the timing I think. It feels flat, but that could be the MAF needing clean and maybe adjustment.

 

Conclusion right now is the 2-wire temp sensor on top of the thermostat housing is misbehaving - but it has varying resistance with temp, reducing with heat - disconnected should be FULL resistance and I think it would be on a single-wire (the kind with the spade connector on top) but maybe this ECU is smart enough to know the difference between infinite resistance and open circuit. That sensor tells the ECU what to do - the one under the housing is for gauge and A/C behaviour.

[MarvinsMom]

^ i recommend fire, lovely, lovely fire.....

[Bear]

Not my Audi, so fire is not an acceptable solution. And it'd probably take about 20 attempts to get it to catch.

[twosmoke300]

K jet has to one of the simplest yet most infuriating systems to fault find on .

[Urko]

Was listening t'radio earlier and Matt LeBlanc claimed to have crashed a Reliant Rialto on Cannock Chase - has Top Gear gone all Autoshite?

[Bear]

He's American, so a: hasn't had a lifetime of idiots saying Robin Reliant to him, and b: reads the instructions. Americans do read things - it's why their dashboards are all "BRAKE FAULT" and "OIL PRESS" instead of "(!)" or pictures of genies escaping from lamps.

[Lankytim]

I have mad(ish) ideas about sticking a Zetec in my Minor, and have been looking for a suitable donor. Ratdat very kindly offered his Dads old X reg 2.0 auto but now I have it at home it looks lovely. 91k, looks pretty smart apart from a gaffered front bumper and a rust hole in one sill. It drives great too. Should I kill it or get it roadworthy??

[fordperv]

I say roadworthy if it's not too bad and get a rot box as a donor

[twosmoke300]

Isn't the kit to convert the zetec to rwd an expensive bugger ?

Go for a puma 1.7 !

[dollywobbler]

I have mad(ish) ideas about sticking a Zetec in my Minor, and have been looking for a suitable donor. Ratdat very kindly offered his Dads old X reg 2.0 auto but now I have it at home it looks lovely. 91k, looks pretty smart apart from a gaffered front bumper and a rust hole in one sill. It drives great too. Should I kill it or get it roadworthy??

 

This is Autoshite. If anything, the suggestion would be to do the transfer the other way around. A-Series Mondeo FTW.

 

Seriously though, if somehow both of my cars sold, an auto Mondeo is on the possibles list. At the moment, neither has sold. In fact, bar one interested party in the XM, I've been stunned by silence. 

[richardmorris]

Was listening t'radio earlier and Matt LeBlanc claimed to have crashed a Reliant Rialto on Cannock Chase - has Top Gear gone all Autoshite?

[dollywobbler]

It's good how the TG saga has been resolved by a burst of new and exciting ideas!

 

Oh. Shit. 

[Lankytim]

Isn't the kit to convert the zetec to rwd an expensive bugger ?

Go for a puma 1.7 !

Nope, the type 9 box is the expensive part, then you need a water rail for the back of the engine block, but it's all very reasonable. I hope to run the original injection system on a cut down loom, the world of banger racing holds all the secrets for doing this stuff cheaply.

[skattrd]

Shirley nobody will compare one set of idiots with another doing different* things in 3 wheel Reliants.

[captain_70s]

Shirley nobody will compare one set of idiots with another doing different* things in 3 wheel Reliants.

Nah BBC TG have got cheapo Rialtos. New Old TG have bought more expensive Mk1 Robins. ENTIRELY DIFFERENT.

[plasticvandan]

Here's the brown one when I owned it

The Evans ones cost £1000 and £2000.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Lets see a pic of the Mondeo Auto!!!!!

[Ghosty]

I really want to see an A-Series Mondy now.

[phil_lihp]

It'd be ideal for a race with a Rover 800 running a 1.1 K-series out of a 100.

[mercrocker]

It'd be ideal for a race with a Rover 800 running a 1.1 K-series out of a 100.

 

This is Autoshite. If anything, the suggestion would be to do the transfer the other way around. A-Series Mondeo FTW.

 

 

 

I would have an ounce of respect for Top Gear style programming if they did things like this.....

[andrew e]

I feel old now the Type 9 is an expensive component rather than a £50 one! For young people:

 

http://www.syncrogearboxes.com/ford-type-9-gearboxes/

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Hey LT!!!! I think you should put an MX-5 engine in your Minor.

[Noel Tidybeard]

They rust through. Wasnt expensive to fix. Stupid Honda design... 

not just honda theres may cars with a balance weight on the driveshaft and they trap moisture and snap- see nissan primera p10/p11/p11-144

[twosmoke300]

not just honda theres may cars with a balance weight on the driveshaft and they trap moisture and snap- see nissan primera p10/p11/p11-144

Use j and r driveshafts . Very cheap and good quality

[tooSavvy]

I have mad(ish) ideas about sticking a Zetec in my Minor, and have been looking for a suitable donor. Ratdat very kindly offered his Dads old X reg 2.0 auto but now I have it at home it looks lovely. 91k, looks pretty smart apart from a gaffered front bumper and a rust hole in one sill. It drives great too. Should I kill it or get it roadworthy??

Shirley PugD. FWD is 'the way ahead'? On here... somewhere.

 

TS

[Coprolalia]

A VHRA chap my dad knows by the name of Marco Warren (runs Juarez Fabrication) dropped a transit banana DI in a ford model t (I think) pickup.

 

Now that was a beast.