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Had a father-son tool handover today. Not all of them, mostly stuff that he will almost certainly ever touch again. 
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A few highlights.

Some punches
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Rpm gauge. Not sure I'd want to put my hand close enough to a crank pulley to use it.
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Air flow gauge
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Dwell, rpm, etc gauge
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Apparently this was a lot of money back in the day. It's a rather large old meter.
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We may have missed the expiry for the MOT on the wife's commuter shite Ibiza. It was booked in for a general look over and service anyway, fortunately the garage said they can MOT it too...

So far they have said it's chewed through a set of rear calipers and started at the drums.

Fingers crossed for the rest being ok!

 

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Wonder if there’s any false jeopardy in the “saved from the Scrapheap” tagline.

Im sure whoever “found” them immediately thought more of selling them to the classic fraternity, and it cannot be a literal term as last time I looked you couldn’t weigh in ash / whatever wood makes up a body buck.

Good publicity, whatever the motivation and facts of the situation.

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Water sloshing around in the Bluebird rear wing cured by drilling a small hole underneath, at which point said manky water drained out. It's pretty much totally inaccessible I think, so I've just sprayed the inside with WD40 in the hope that'll dry out any remaining moisture... 

So naturally I came back to find that there's a bit I didn't cover in the sealing which seems to be letting in water. Round 2 begins soon... 

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Corsa D cam back from the garage. Bought a water pump, but it wasn't needed. Turned out it was the thermostat leaking, they're a big plasticky thing and known for cracking/breaking it seems.

 

Anyhow, collected it Wedes evening but not had the chance until today to test it properly, and it's been fine. 

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4 hours ago, SiC said:

Had a father-son tool handover today. Not all of them, mostly stuff that he will almost certainly ever touch again.

Some Kwality stuff there. Paint on the meter looks the same as a battery charger of similar age my dad had. It's actually still in use today, providing 12v to a door lock release for 11 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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2 hours ago, HMC said:

Wonder if there’s any false jeopardy in the “saved from the Scrapheap” tagline.

Im sure whoever “found” them immediately thought more of selling them to the classic fraternity, and it cannot be a literal term as last time I looked you couldn’t weigh in ash / whatever wood makes up a body buck.

Good publicity, whatever the motivation and facts of the situation.

Weren't they all part of the recent auction of Bristol gone bust stuff, if so hardly lost.

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Today the 205 got put back on its wheels for the first time in well over a year in preparation for getting shifted to my unit. The HDI plan is in the bin because various goings on this year have led to everything related to it being thrown into complete disarray, I'm sure it's still doable but I'm not the one to do it. The plan now is to put it back to standard-ish and get it as well sorted as I can while I have the time to work on it. There will still be turbots involved, but in a more factory intended manner.

MrsREB will be arriving in just over a month, we'll see how long her promise to keep me company at the unit lasts when she realises how bastarding cold it is up there!

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Been to see a friend who has the kind of stuff you'd all spaff over... Military stuff, modern and vintage fire engines, one of those yank streamlined buses, old mercs, jags, kit cars, Japanese stuff... 

These two were new. Signum is one of the 3.0 v6 diesels and is for sale. Very tempting. Jag has been driven through a tatfield by a previous owner. 

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4 hours ago, egg said:

Usual daily mAil rubbish. Just up the road from me at the old BOC / LINDE headquarters for a couple of years. Auctioned last month,

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4 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Usual daily mAil rubbish. Just up the road from me at the old BOC / LINDE headquarters for a couple of years. Auctioned last month,

Ah, were they actually part of the auction? I hadn't realised that.

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Just now, wuvvum said:

Yep, Isuzu design.  It's true that the cat on something like that would probably weigh in for £££.

The mates rates on it makes it appealing. Ticket until April as well, just that rear quarter gouge and a scuffed bumper makes it a no-go for most buyers. 

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A bucket full of cun....calipers.

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Nearly there with the Rover, but I feel traumatised!  Got a bit carried away with the heat and melted the brake hose, so the latest is this.

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Rounded off the brake pipe wotsit for added incompetence.  Have ordered a set of flare spanners, so hopefully they'll offer enough grip.  I bought a brake hose previously but it's incorrect, so have bought another one.

Started the job at 1.30pm, finished at 10.30 with a break for tea.  Much of that time was spent fucking about trying to get the handbrake cable reconnected.  The new bracket from the MGF caliper wasn't the same as the old, so gave up and MAP gassed and Irwin'd the bolts on the old one off, which was a drawn out affair.  Was tempted to set fire to the car at this point.  Limped it into a residents parking bay on the handbrake only, and the next fun* instalment will be when the parts arrive and I've undergone the necessary therapy session...

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The Doblo failed its test on a wishbone bush and both rear bumpstops.The parts were supposed to arrive on Monday but turned up today .IMG_20201031_143541.thumb.jpg.dae9e257a2293e7708bc3cf68f694407.jpg

The old ones were pretty ragged.As you can see,you probably use a special tool that fits into the small cutouts on the top cup to fit and remove them at a Fiat dealer.A large drift and a lump hammer soon loosened them.

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Then ran a tap up the threads in the chassis.IMG_20201031_143846.thumb.jpg.65c2c11b572a14316b33a6da7e56628c.jpg

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Then hand tighten and tap round half a turn.

The wishbone can wait until tomorrow.

 

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Just found a very old email from 2003, where I asked Vulcan engineering for the price of a complete GT spec rebuild of my MK2 escort engine. This was the 1.3 so would have lifted BHP to about 70ish with a new unleaded compatible head

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The price of a STD 1300 GT spec rebuild inc a new carb & vat is 1079.82 but
this DON'T inc Fitting is around £340 inc vat.

I decided at the time, this was madness and ended up selling it. But given the price of RWD escorts these days, probably would have been a sensible* investment,

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