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[richardmorris]

If none of them want the air cleaner I will take it off your hands.

It's getting heated!

 

Chap from Staffordshire has bailed out due to distance and not willing to match price offer of local guy from camberley who is coming tomorrow. If he doesn't want air cleaner I'll let you know. But I think it's the best piece as it has no moving parts to seize!

 

Who knew boat anchors were in such demand?

[dollywobbler]

Sunny Turbo is a Cherry Turbo and I'd like to know more. I like the Viewt too...

 

I think we've fixed the Rover's fan again. Which is good; high temperatures coming our way. I can just sit and look at this car for hours. Did a fair bit of that today. Rover 600s are lovely.

[For Fiats Sake]

If anyone has a need for a modern give me a shout - I have a 2008/08 1.2 Clio, less than 50k miles, 1 owner, FSH coming in shortly that I'd like a quick sale on so heavy shiteist discount available

3 or 5dr?

[Kiltox]

3 or 5dr?

Pass... Will confirm tomorrow sorry!

[Six-cylinder]

Sunny Turbo is a Cherry Turbo and I'd like to know more. I like the Viewt too...

Sorry slip of the typing finger it says Cherry on the tailgate! I have no more info on the Cherry and the owner was not about when I looked over it, but I do know the Viewt owner if you want any information on that.

[AMC Rebel]

Failed to fit Acosutic Solutions DAB kit to Puma as It's buggered (The DAB thingy not the PUMA) - checked and double checked all my wiring then got the meter on it all - it's all OK, the unit itself is duff.  Turns out on investigation I paid 35 quid for it about 18 months ago so going to chalk it up to experience - will probably buy a new head unit if I can find a decent one - I listen to DAB at home all day and I miss it when I go out in the car.  Of course my other DAB kit is in the MG - and that's awaiting the engine and box being put back in.

 

Oh, and another vote for the Viewt - I like 'em.

[Louise2cv]

I might have just posted a million times in the general help/posting thread pinned at the top of board because I keep getting an error message:

 

"The autoshite.com page is not working. Autoshite.com is currently unable to handle this request. Http error 500."

 

And I hit reload about a billion times before I thought to check if it had worked by looking at the "last posted" thing on the main board. So sorry about that.

 

Anyway, i can't look at the thread now so have no idea if/how I can fix the problem.

 

Hopefully I can check back in this thread, if someone wouldn't mind letting me know what the advice is?

 

Ta.

[cros]

Tonight I finished nailing together the 1100 a series which is going in my Morris 10. I wound it over til the oil pressure came up and with a lashed up petrol feed and temporary coil bolted to the block I stuck some plugs in and it fired up. I had to grub around for a serviceable set of contact breakers as modern ones are rubbish, 'worn in points' are what's happening today.

 

Tomorrow I'll hopefully get some time to claw out the badly installed A plus engine, grind off the pigeon-shit welding which the 'conversion specialist' splattered the Ital engine mounting rubbers to the chassis with, and make it look a bit less of a nightmare under the bonnet. Photo's of the wanker's handiwork to follow, shame I can't give his business a name check but the work was carried out for the previous owner who flogged the car to me when he realised how it had been buggerated.

 

This must be bench testing as long as you don't rev it too much and it falls off.

[Asimo]

I might have just posted a million times in the general help/posting thread pinned at the top of board because I keep getting an error message:

"The autoshite.com page is not working. Autoshite.com is currently unable to handle this request. Http error 500."

And I hit reload about a billion times before I thought to check if it had worked by looking at the "last posted" thing on the main board. So sorry about that.

Anyway, i can't look at the thread now so have no idea if/how I can fix the problem.

Hopefully I can check back in this thread, if someone wouldn't mind letting me know what the advice is?

Ta.

This post and the one in the posting help thread look normal and only appear once. Might be worth clearing cookies etc, closing browser and trying again.

[wuvvum]

This weekend I have mostly been fitting the new water pump to the Volvo.  It has literally taken me most of the weekend.  I've fitted the bastard thing five times in total, and I'm still not quite done.  The problem is that it's a very odd bit of design - the back of the pump sits flush to the block and a paper gasket is sufficient to keep things watertight, but at the top where it pumps water into the cylinder head, there is a clear 1/8" gap 'twixt pump and head, which is bridged by two cylindrical rubber seals.  Which is fine, except that if you don't get the seals exactly in the right place, or if you bend them or pinch them at all whilst manoeuvring the pump into position, water will piss out as soon as you refill the system.  You have to place the pump against the block and then lift it up vertically to meet the underside of the head so that the seals can do their job properly, and then lift up hard with one hand to compress the seals enough that the bolt holes will line up, and screw the bolts in with the other hand.  Meanwhile your third hand is busy trying to keep the bastard gasket in line.

 

Things are not helped by the fact that the pipe which comes out of the bottom of the pump and links to the bottom rad hose is a push fit with another rubber seal and is seemingly almost impossible to get the retaining bolt into when the pump is fitted.  I managed it once by bolting the pipe into position first and then crowbarring (literally) the pump into position afterwards - but then of course the top seals were mangled to feck so it leaked.

 

I think I've got it sorted now, although I still haven't bolted the bottom pipe in position, it's held in place purely by the rubber seal at the moment.  I've also got a bit of a drip from where said pipe joins onto the radiator bottom hose, but I think that will be cured with a new jubilee clip, so I can live with that.  I'm also going to have to use my temporary universal fan belt as the alternator is off at the moment so the original fan belt won't fit.  I'll get there eventually though.

 

 

The only other job I got done this weekend was to clear all the crap out of the Rover of Doom and swap the wheels over with the VI, so the Doom now has four nice legal tyres (and the VI now doesn't).  While the back wheels were off I gave the extremely rusty drums a quick wire brush and a lick of silver paint, which has improved things somewhat - the Project Drive alloys are a lot more see-through than the original steels.  I also gave one of the freshly-welded sills a coat of bitumen paint - the other side will have to wait as I ran out of time.

 

The other exciting (well it was to me...) news this weekend was that I've bagged myself a garage just over the road - a load of ex-council lockups were bought up by a local chap who is now renting them out.  It's a bit narrower than my current garage, but it's 15 quid a month cheaper and it's 100 yards away rather than 15 miles.  Thus far I've only got the Mobylette in there (yes, I did ride it the 100 yards up the road - first time I've ridden it on the road in 18 years) but the Renner Six will be joining it soon.  Having it so much closer might mean that I actually do some work on it...

[vulgalour]

Like for the garage gettage and potential R6 fettling there, not the temple-vein-inducing waterpump.

[Kiltox]

3 or 5dr?

 

5dr

[HMC]

Was great to see Robt again at the weekend, this time after offering to drive an unseen and untested £175 Volvo 740 from London to West Devon. Not only that but it was pretty manky and yet when it arrived here it was unrecognisable from the listing as Rob had kindly powerhosed the shit off it and given it a vacuum. He said he'd found something in the glovebox that I wouldn't want to know about. I didnt ask!

 

Anyway, after talking shite with Rob and smoking about in this old crate my old car mojo is back after a couple of months not really feeling the vibe. So thanks again Mr T, and excuse me whilst I pop to the window at work to eye up my "awful" (my nurses words) car again. I love it!

[RobT]

Adds a touch of class to the car park there Matthew!  I love the Draco wheels in particular (had to Google it as couldn't remember the name).

[Six-cylinder]

Was great to see Robt again at the weekend, this time after offering to drive an unseen and untested £175 Volvo 740 from London to West Devon. Not only that but it was pretty manky and yet when it arrived here it was unrecognisable from the listing as Rob had kindly powerhosed the shit off it and given it a vacuum. He said he'd found something in the glovebox that I wouldn't want to know about. I didnt ask!

 

Anyway, after talking shite with Rob and smoking about in this old crate my old car mojo is back after a couple of months not really feeling the vibe. So thanks again Mr T, and excuse me whilst I pop to the window at work to eye up my "awful" (my nurses words) car again. I love it!

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So when Bucketeer finds me something irististable in Bulgaria I know who to call on!

[RobT]

^^I'm game!

[Bucketeer]

Hey, don't be pimping my work out!

If we could get RobT over here though I reckon I could convert him from the BL/Vauxhall chod to the red side.

'Rob and his black Volga' has a nice ring to it.

[Ghosty]

Make Volgalour happen!

 

I'm off to That London for the rest of the week. I'll try and do some spottage as Beckenham and the surrounding bit of Kent does seem to have some decent tat scattered about.

[richardmorris]

Boat anchor of a 2cv engine just exchanged for £50 and lots of French magazines. No not those sort!

[Ghosty]

Boat anchor of a 2cv engine

 

Essex powered 2CV? Well I never.

[BavarianRetro]

I got scammed several years ago in France - 2004 and I'd not heard of these cons. English guy in an old British registered Volvo stopped me as I was leaving the air de bais de sommes in my Citroen cx DTR. Sob story and, being a soft touch, I gave him 20euros. Mug.

I had bought an E30 convertible in southern England and was heading home.

 

There was a load of junk in the boot of the convertible including a gallon of petrol and some tools. I put them in the back of the Jeep, which was full of parts with the rear seats folded. The fuel and tools were right behind the passenger seat.

 

I pulled on to M1 slip road and was flagged down by someone standing next to a stricken Nissan who gave me the run out of fuel- gold rings worth thousands for fifty quid - buy some petrol story.

 

I gave him the fuel in the can and the look on his face was priceless as he tried to persuade me to buy the rings as I accelerated down the slip road leaving him with a gallon of petrol of unknown vintage and quality.

[BavarianRetro]

I might have just posted a million times in the general help/posting thread pinned at the top of board because I keep getting an error message:

 

"The autoshite.com page is not working. Autoshite.com is currently unable to handle this request. Http error 500."

 

And I hit reload about a billion times before I thought to check if it had worked by looking at the "last posted" thing on the main board. So sorry about that.

 

Anyway, i can't look at the thread now so have no idea if/how I can fix the problem.

 

Hopefully I can check back in this thread, if someone wouldn't mind letting me know what the advice is?

 

Ta.

I was getting this with the mobile version of threads I hadn't read before, I think yesterday.

 

Changing to the full version stopped it.

[richardmorris]

Essex powered 2CV? Well I never.

He seemed genuinely delighted with it. Plans to rebuild it with another engine he already has and put it in his ak250 van that currently has a gutless 425cc in it.

[anonymous user]

Did the early 2Cv van have an even smaller engine than 425cc? A friend's brother had, what I was told was, an ex Belgian Post Office van, desperately cute with suicide doors but it was never able to get up a very steep hill out of Little Haven in Pembrokeshire with any passengers in it; I'm sure it was only around 350cc.

 

In unrelated news, unsurprisingly I did not have my petrol tank back today. When I rang on Saturday I was told that it was finished but that they had not worked out the final cost. I rang this morning to see what it was in case they preferred cash, to be told there was a problem and that they would get the chap who was working on it to speak to me, I was therefore quite taken aback when a chap came onto the phone and proceed to tell me off. After he had had a good rant at me about how busy they were and that he was working to his timescale not mine as they had much more important work to get on with, I was also told that the work was difficult (something which I already know and appreciate).

 

I decided to pop down there, it was obvious that they were having a bad day as the other chap was just as bad when I went in, getting a retaliation in before I had even said a word. I attempted to ease the situation and said I did not want to fall out with him, to be told that we wouldn't fall out as he had plenty of work to do without mine and that I could take it away if I wasn't happy.

 

Things did settle down a little and eventually we had a chat about what was not going well, I also had a chat with the chap doing the job who was much more amenable face to face. I hope that they can sort it soon as I really need to get the car moving, I know that they do very good work and I don't like to pester people, but I'm getting a bit frustrated. I did collect what is left of the dead fuel gauge sender, I had hoped it might be salvageable, but seeing the state of it have given in and ordered a new one.

 

I'm begining to feel like xtriple throwing money at a car that I can't ever drive.

[richardmorris]

Smallest was 375 from 1949 to '54. Then 425 to 1967, and 435 and 602.

 

http://www.citroenet.org.uk/passenger-cars/michelin/2cv/technical.html

[Tamworthbay]

Don't the 375s fetch silly money now? Like most things, swapped out as owners wanted upgrade then purist restorer spends an age and a fortune finding one to put back in.

[richardmorris]

All 2cvs are silly money now. I got mine as a cheap first car- now they're a lot dearer than anything far more sensible.

 

Real silly money 2cvs are the twin engined saharas- £80,000 and up!

[Cavcraft]

Had a bit of spare time before (which is unusual) so decided to clean a couple of my cars, starting with Vauxhall's finest hour...

 

[Cavcraft]

 

 

[hairnet]

Essex powered 2CV? Well I never.

b series or k series shirley