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[tommotech]

Audi A4 daily passed its MOT test today, no advisories but did find the RH front brake to have the slightest bind - didn’t affect brake test. Managed to check it over, finding the slide pins sticking with solidified grease. A clean and lube and all is good. 
 

[rickvw72]

Been rebuilding my mk2 Golf GTI Speedo clocks. Stripped and cleaned everything, polished up the slightly scratched lense, and fixed a fault causing no temp gauge, and a flashing coolant light - basically, the terminals bolted to the gauge itself had come loose.

Also changed the MFA screen - which shows time, MPG (you don’t want to see that), and oil temp etc.

Doing this ive learnt things.

1- I haven’t a clue how LCD screens work. There was a prism shaped plastic base, green filters and weird rubber block things. Witchcraft 

2- LCD screens do have to go in a certain way round.

3- I’ve very catrefully and with much buffedelment Fitted my new screen and it works.

4- I fitted it upside down, So the display is bananas. Bollocks

 

[Carlosfandango]

Finally found a space to stash the X300 (me da’s driveway) as I’m up to my hole in projects and I just want this to be safe for when I get the chance to use it. 
 

CFD

[captain_70s]

The Doloshite's heater blower had gone a bit past 'lightly patinated' and starting to look 'noticeably' shit.

Brutalising it with 80 grit for a half arsed respray.

Numerous bits aren't easily removable so they aren't coming off (main linkage), don't have anything to hand to drill out the rivets so the ballast resistor has to stay for now, the tube won't come off becuase the screws just round.

Haven't quite decided if I want to keep the original stickers. You can get similar reproduction ones...

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, captain_70s said:

Numerous bits aren't easily removable so they aren't coming off (main linkage), don't have anything to hand to drill out the rivets so the ballast resistor has to stay for now, the tube won't come off becuase the screws just round.

 

Vice Grips are your (angry, bitey, grab onto things and don't let go) friend. 

[MarvinsMom]

after more than 30 years faithful service, the wireless in the kitchen has been replaced.

the radio and cd player on the old one both still work, the cassette player though had died some years ago.

so, out with the old and in with the new.

Tinky of course was helping, making sure that he approved of the new appliance.

And the old one isn't quiet ready for the bin, though it had been demoted to the garage.

[dozeydustman]

Still can’t find the Suzuki’s oil filter so have ordered another one. I bet I’ll find it in the shed, bedroom, man cave or some other random place once the new one has been delivered.

[N19]

8 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

Still can’t find the Suzuki’s oil filter so have ordered another one. I bet I’ll find it in the shed, bedroom, man cave or some other random place once the new one has been delivered.

In an old job we had a particular 6-monthly service up a ladder in a dark corner. Sometime after doing this I realised my torch was missing and, not finding it, ordered a new one. The next six months roll around and I go up the ladder to do said service in a dark corner, decide to lay my torch down at the top to give a good view of the area, only to find the ledge at the top occupied by said missing torch.

[lanciamatt]

Been doing a bit of car fetaling today, refitted undertray to thema td, and cleaned earth points up on V6 thema, and broke maserati, but thats another story. 

[Timewaster]

8 minutes ago, lanciamatt said:

fetaling

Typo or one for the urban dictionary? 

[lanciamatt]

3 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

Typo or one for the urban dictionary? 

Fettling, I ment. 

[wuvvum]

6 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

Still can’t find the Suzuki’s oil filter so have ordered another one. I bet I’ll find it in the shed, bedroom, man cave or some other random place once the new one has been delivered.

You actually have a man cave?  I thought those were something that was made up by advertising agencies to sell pointless shit to blokes.

[vulgalour]

I'm having a bit of a quandary with this one.  Since failing to replace the o-ring on the throttle shaft and successfully breaking my injection pump...

... I'm looking at ways to fix it.  Rebuild by a professional seems most wise, I don't want to venture back in on this one.  Rebuilt pumps seem to be in the £300-500 price range, with requirement that you send your old pump for rebuilding and that there may be an extra charge for any parts that need replacing.  While the throttle shaft is available (the bit on the right with the black sticky outy bits) for about £40, the rod that holds all the springs which is snapped on mine appears not to be.  So that might mean that my pump can't be rebuilt because the spares aren't available.  So that means getting another Bosch VE mechanical injection pump (the 1.9 pump is usually different to the 1.7 pump from what I've seen and the cable routing on the top doesn't match up) to replace this one and then send it off to be rebuilt.  The only source of second hand pumps I've thus far found is second hand cars, but I don't really want to be lumped with a whole car I probably can't then get rid of when all I need is this piddly little rod.  By the time I've bought a car and paid for a rebuild I've probably spent as much as a brand new pump anyway and by that point I've probably paid more than the car is actually worth.

Should have just sent it off to be rebuilt in the first place, but it was just one piddly little o-ring I was replacing.  This wasn't supposed to happen.

[Semi-C]

Behind enemy lines (a notorious housing estate in my hometown to be precise), a plan* to break the hibernation of my Cortina was executed. 

It had lain dormant for almost 3 months so I prepared for the undering of my expectation’s whelm.

 

After reconnecting the battery, the fourth turn of the key had it running, eager for a dose of fresh petrol and some air in the N/S/F tyre, which were duly attained from the local Murco.

Drove around enough to feel sanguine/heat coming through the vents and then reluctantly parked it back up.

NEXT GRIPPING INSTALMENT: Coming.

[Austat]

13 minutes ago, Semi-C said:

Behind enemy lines (a notorious housing estate in my hometown to be precise), a plan* to break the hibernation of my Cortina was executed. 

It had lain dormant for almost 3 months so I prepared for the undering of my expectation’s whelm.

 

After reconnecting the battery, the fourth turn of the key had it running, eager for a dose of fresh petrol and some air in the N/S/F tyre, which were duly attained from the local Murco.

Drove around enough to feel sanguine/heat coming through the vents and then reluctantly parked it back up.

NEXT GRIPPING INSTALMENT: Coming.

Nice Cortina, is it a GXL or a 2000E?

[paulplom]

15 hours ago, MarvinsMom said:

after more than 30 years faithful service, the wireless in the kitchen has been replaced.

the radio and cd player on the old one both still work, the cassette player though had died some years ago.

so, out with the old and in with the new.

Tinky of course was helping, making sure that he approved of the new appliance.

And the old one isn't quiet ready for the bin, though it had been demoted to the garage.

I have one of these in my lock up you could've had. If I ever get access to it again that is.

Perfect for copying spectrum games.

[puddlethumper]

6 hours ago, vulgalour said:

I'm having a bit of a quandary with this one.  Since failing to replace the o-ring on the throttle shaft and successfully breaking my injection pump...

... I'm looking at ways to fix it.  Rebuild by a professional seems most wise, I don't want to venture back in on this one.  Rebuilt pumps seem to be in the £300-500 price range, with requirement that you send your old pump for rebuilding and that there may be an extra charge for any parts that need replacing.  While the throttle shaft is available (the bit on the right with the black sticky outy bits) for about £40, the rod that holds all the springs which is snapped on mine appears not to be.  So that might mean that my pump can't be rebuilt because the spares aren't available.  So that means getting another Bosch VE mechanical injection pump (the 1.9 pump is usually different to the 1.7 pump from what I've seen and the cable routing on the top doesn't match up) to replace this one and then send it off to be rebuilt.  The only source of second hand pumps I've thus far found is second hand cars, but I don't really want to be lumped with a whole car I probably can't then get rid of when all I need is this piddly little rod.  By the time I've bought a car and paid for a rebuild I've probably spent as much as a brand new pump anyway and by that point I've probably paid more than the car is actually worth.

Should have just sent it off to be rebuilt in the first place, but it was just one piddly little o-ring I was replacing.  This wasn't supposed to happen.

Don't know if this helps but I got a pump rebuilt by RN diesel in Wolverhampton for £200.

[Semi-C]

7 hours ago, Austat said:

Nice Cortina, is it a GXL or a 2000E?

Ta very much, it’s a 1972, 1600 GXL.

[barefoot]

2 hours ago, paulplom said:

I have one of these in my lock up you could've had. If I ever get access to it again that is.

Perfect for copying spectrum games.

I've got one of those too, I can't stand radio, own no cassettes and use it as speakers/amp for my iPod.

[Six-cylinder]

I have just been sent a picture from a friend to identify the car?

My first thought was Merc W123 but now I don't think it is that.

The door handles appear to be lift handles rather than buttons to prevent opening in a roll over.

I think the car behind it is a Viva HC?

[HMC]

Stumped. Oriental looking. Some sort of Nissan Cedric?

[Six-cylinder]

3 minutes ago, HMC said:

Stumped. Oriental looking. Some sort of Nissan Cedric?

I did wonder if it was Eastern Europe.

[Supernaut]

9 hours ago, vulgalour said:

I'm having a bit of a quandary with this one.  Since failing to replace the o-ring on the throttle shaft and successfully breaking my injection pump...

... I'm looking at ways to fix it.  Rebuild by a professional seems most wise, I don't want to venture back in on this one.  Rebuilt pumps seem to be in the £300-500 price range, with requirement that you send your old pump for rebuilding and that there may be an extra charge for any parts that need replacing.  While the throttle shaft is available (the bit on the right with the black sticky outy bits) for about £40, the rod that holds all the springs which is snapped on mine appears not to be.  So that might mean that my pump can't be rebuilt because the spares aren't available.  So that means getting another Bosch VE mechanical injection pump (the 1.9 pump is usually different to the 1.7 pump from what I've seen and the cable routing on the top doesn't match up) to replace this one and then send it off to be rebuilt.  The only source of second hand pumps I've thus far found is second hand cars, but I don't really want to be lumped with a whole car I probably can't then get rid of when all I need is this piddly little rod.  By the time I've bought a car and paid for a rebuild I've probably spent as much as a brand new pump anyway and by that point I've probably paid more than the car is actually worth.

Should have just sent it off to be rebuilt in the first place, but it was just one piddly little o-ring I was replacing.  This wasn't supposed to happen.

[farmer mode]

Is there not something else you could bodge in there in place of the snapped rod?

Countless times I've broken something on a car by accident and managed to find something roughly the right size and shape and modify it then bodge it back in.

[/farmer mode]

[Tadhg Tiogar]

 

6 minutes ago, HMC said:

Stumped. Oriental looking. Some sort of Nissan Cedric?

Never seen that shape before. Doesn't look like any of the Cedric body styles of the '70s.

One of the big Toyotas?

[Austat]

29 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

I have just been sent a picture from a friend to identify the car?

My first thought was Merc W123 but now I don't think it is that.

The door handles appear to be lift handles rather than buttons to prevent opening in a roll over.

I think the car behind it is a Viva HC?

Toyota Crown S50 (1968 - 1971):

 

[HMC]

BOOM!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Is it a Toyota or Toyopet Crown?

 

 

Bloody hell, that was quick ! I was still trying to find a picture 

Edited May 15, 2020 by NorfolkNWeigh
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[HMC]

I think we need @Spottedlaurel ‘s expertise here 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

[HMC]

Actually those c pillar vents are partly hidden by the tree but they are there as is the double swage line when you really look. We have a winner!