DVee8 Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Reading a old copy of Practical Classics, the rust in peace section from none other than @eddyramrod. Cavcraft, Cord Fourteener, Steviemillar and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 I thought I had thrown out all my old Popular Classics magazines but I found a small batch when I was moving some things in the garage last week. I had every issue from January 1990 until the final issue in July 1996. Someone who was once on here and shall remain nameless, failed to turn up and collect them for free after I had spent several evenings sorting them all out into years so the whole lot went in the bin. Sadly there weren't any of the early white cover issues left, just some glossier ones from 1992. At the time I loved classic cars, mainly due to my inherited Dinky and Corgi collection from the 1950s and 1960s. And I loved that magazine. I've moved on a bit since then and so has the car scene so it's all good but I'm glad a few have been saved including the final edition. DVee8, Craig the Princess, Amishtat and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig the Princess Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 On 07/02/2021 at 17:28, Craig the Princess said: Driving back from work on Friday, at dropping my phone and smashing the screen to bits, they Multipla was reluctant to go into 5th. Then extremely reluctant to leave 5th. Drove home like Michael Schumacher did that time he won a race stuck in 5th and left it until today. The black arm at the top is meant to be attached to the grey ball just below it (above the green painted bolt on the left). The arm was attached by the last scrap of metal and came off in my hand mate. Secondhand replacement found on eBay for £33 Replacement part fitted in about 20 minutes earlier. Gear change feels better than ever which suggests the failure has been coming for quite a while. chodweaver and stonedagain 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 2 hours ago, Tim_E said: I done fixed something I see no repair... #seamless 😃 Noel Tidybeard and Cord Fourteener 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohdearme Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Wife advised the Mazda has stopped ‘that screeching noise from cold’ also reported battery light came on coming home from shop. bonnet inspection reveals an aux belt has gone walkies for the second time on this car albeit a year apart. Wonder if there’s a wobble in a bearing somewhere? currently in a taxi to liberate old mans spare Mazda 3 so we’re still mobile. Cord Fourteener 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimo Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Crankshaft pulley - is it a two part damper type where the rubber is disintegrating? Ohdearme 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 On 2/13/2021 at 1:08 AM, wuvvum said: The new flasher relay I ordered turned up, but although the terminals are in the right places they're all the wrong way round so it doesn't work. It seems Iveco decided to use a different pin layout to literally everyone else, and the correct relays are almost impossible to find. The original relay is working again now after I took it apart and wiggled bits around, so I'm hoping it'll last a bit longer. Do you have the set of tools for removing connector terminals? Could reconfigure it to something standardised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Took the plug out of the Lexmoto this afternoon, it was pretty shit looking so wire brushed it up and tried resting it on the engine, getting some power to the battery and seeing what happened. Nothing. Spare plug in my tool box. Nothing. Then I remembered the side stand was down and tried again, nice spark. Put it back in and it ran, although it clearly needs a new plug, the bike to be ticking over and then a short run to hopefully see it running well. One of the brakes was sticking, so tapped the calipers gently and it's a bit better now. chaseracer and andyberg 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 32 minutes ago, Cavcraft said: ...so tapped the calipers gently... 😁 Cavcraft, richardmorris and Cord Fourteener 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floatylight Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Arse! At least not too difficult to change.. Cord Fourteener, Craig the Princess and Burnside 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Rustbucket Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 33 minutes ago, chaseracer said: 😁 It is deeply disappointing but should come as no surprise to me that this is all you have to say and that the preceding pages laced with criticism of the moderation on Autoshite are once again dismissed with silence. It is not a tantrum by children. It is reasoned criticism by adult members who are supposedly respected members here. Many have been members here for a long time and from long before you appointed yourselves to control us. Or that is, what's left of them, the ones you haven't yet driven away. Yet we are it seems worthy of nothing. No response. No respect. Just high-handed dismissal from 'teacher'. The silence is stark. It's the arrogance which triggers me. It's breathtaking. I am lucky enough that in daily life I have not been bullied and have always been treated with respect by those around me. That is what makes the behaviour of the moderating team all the more stark. Maybe if I had endured bad managers I would be more inured to it but being treated as a feeble-minded, grubby little child unworthy of consideration or explanation when the law is laid down by my self-styled 'betters' is very difficult for me to accept with the 'simple shrug, head downcast and move on' I am expected - nay required - to manage in order to remain a 'valued' member here. Finally I grasp that I am done contributing to Autoshite. Fondness of what is was has left me blinkered to the reality that it will never recover its vitality, its colourfulness or its eccentric uniqueness. Most of its characters have gone or mostly lurk. Doesn't that tell you something or are you too sure of your own virtue to notice or care? Is your crusade so important it is worth killing the forum for? Maybe you think it is. Because that is what you are doing. The period since the moderation team appointed themselves has been disastrous for Autoshite. The forum staggers from one moderator-driven fiasco to the next. I had drifted back here in the hope that something has been learned and that the situation may have improved. But nothing has. The forum I loved is dead and you Chaseracer and your clique have killed it for me. It is an achievement indeed to bring such an emotional response from one so phlegmatic as me, but by God you have managed it. Sheefag, Amishtat, HMC and 21 others 11 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripped fred Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 My wife refused to travel in the Micra today as 'it looks scruffy'. Following further *debate she relented and got in, still quite huffy. She hasn't agreed to travel in it again but I think she realises that it drives quite nicely for a 24 year old car. I did point this out on several occasions.... We will never agree on this, as she has no interest in cars, but I am hopeful that she can be persuaded to join me again. However, I had to promise not to use it when we meet any of her friends 😀 treehugger, stonedagain, louiepj and 3 others 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Just packaged up a large, 5.5kg object dating from 1983. Can you guess what it is yet? richardmorris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 11 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said: Just packaged up a large, 5.5kg object dating from 1983. Can you guess what it is yet? Volvo plastic Bicycle? Dick Longbridge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 11 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said: Just packaged up a large, 5.5kg object dating from 1983. Can you guess what it is yet? A 300mb hard drive of some sort? Dick Longbridge and wuvvum 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Hedge trimmers Dick Longbridge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripped fred Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 The wife? Cavcraft, Spurious, richardmorris and 2 others 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Clue one. Made in Nottingham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 3 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said: Clue one. Made in Nottingham. Raleigh Bicycle? Cord Fourteener, loserone and Dick Longbridge 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treehugger Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Quiver full of arrows? stripped fred and Dick Longbridge 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 30 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said: Just packaged up a large, 5.5kg object dating from 1983. Can you guess what it is yet? A very light Gearbox? Dick Longbridge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 21 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said: Raleigh Bicycle? Damn, you're good! Frame, forks and handlebars of a mk1 Mag Burner. richardmorris, DVee8, Six-cylinder and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 4 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said: Damn, you're good! Frame, forks and handlebars of a mk1 Mag Burner. Wheels are quite important on a bicycle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leyland Worldmaster Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 I thought I'd better clean Alison before her MOT and stuff. It was bloody cold! Still, better than the minus silly temperatures up until yesterday! I always clean the wheel arches, etc as well as the top side. Engine Bay is cleaned bi-monthly. Alison has got nearly 250k on the clock. I've put nearly 120,000 on myself! 117 of which was on the clutch she came with! 😎😎😎 chaseracer, Yoss, Six-cylinder and 15 others 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 2 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said: Wheels are quite important on a bicycle! So are brakes and a saddle. It's not got them either! Cord Fourteener, stonedagain, LightBulbFun and 2 others 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 1 hour ago, Magnificent Rustbucket said: TLDR COS LIFES TOO FKIN SHORT did you not realise what cavcraft was talking about? you dont work on your cars do you? chubbyracer wasnt commenting on cavcraft he commented on what he was saying about something someone else posted ffs engage brain - or buy a chuckle muscle from somewhere crad, GeorgeB and Cavcraft 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 48 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said: So are brakes and a saddle. It's not got them either! My Raleigh burner (gold with white mags) rarely had brakes, though occasionally I'd fit one MX before a long ride. Dick Longbridge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheefag Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 12 minutes ago, hairnet said: did you not realise what cavcraft was talking about? you dont work on your cars do you? chubbyracer wasnt commenting on cavcraft he commented on what he was saying about something someone else posted ffs engage brain - or buy a chuckle muscle from somewhere A Chuckle Muscle, you say.. red5, crad, Dick Longbridge and 6 others 2 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red5 Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 43 minutes ago, hairnet said: did you not realise what cavcraft was talking about? you dont work on your cars do you? chubbyracer wasnt commenting on cavcraft he commented on what he was saying about something someone else posted ffs engage brain - or buy a chuckle muscle from somewhere Or try reading the preceding pages chap? That way you won't embarass yours....oh.. Maybe then it'll make sense....not that anything does these days, silence is golden. crad, chadders, Amishtat and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 58 minutes ago, hairnet said: chubbyracer Careful, someone who's complained about other people complaining will complain about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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