The new news 24 thread

[mrbenn]

Some really bloody good news from my end.

 

My chum Emma (who helped with the Sierra bASe and mentioned here http://bit.ly/2bXo43M)has just had her most recent MRI scan results and is still stable.  Whilst secondary cancer doesn't go away, she's been very stable now for 18 months.

 

She asks about the car all the time.  I would like to get some pictures of her with it before too long.  If we leave it much longer my worry is that...well... it's too hard to say really.  

 

But there's a good chance Dicky will have made it too nice by then and Emma won't recognise it.

Now that is good news! Was just wondering how she was the other day.

[320touring]

I got the train to work today. Everything I own is fuckernated..

[M'coli]

Has the 205 sold or is that being used by the Burd?

[320touring]

Has the 205 sold or is that being used by the Burd?

I has got a deposit paid and due for collection soon- not been using it as considered sold:)

 

the train is no hardship bar avoiding having a pint or two before getting on it to come hame

[Kiltox]

avoiding having a pint or two before getting on it to come hame

 

Does not compute

[320touring]

Does not compute

never drunk in stirling then;)

[Kiltox]

never drunk in stirling then;)

 

Alloa's worse....

[320touring]

Alloa's worse....

True, but then again I don't work in Alloa. Larbert is always good for a boxing match

[Kiltox]

Hahaha yep!

[trigger]

Pissing hell, I just had a quick play at the Fiesta sump bolt, first tap with my hammer and punch and the bastard popped inside the sump and all the oil came out. Bollocks.

 

Looking online they don't list a sump gasket so it looks like i'll have to take it off and then stick it back on again.

[beko1987]

I used tigerseal to stick the meriva's gasketless sump on, still leak free* 2 years on

 

*doesnt leak oil from the sump at least...

[trigger]

I've just been out at bought this stuff, looking at it the magnetic end of the plug has come off put part of the bolts thread is still attcahed to the sump hole, Ford want £47+vat for a new sump, i hope i don't end up having to go down that route.

 

[beko1987]

That looks like it'll work too! You should be able to remove the remains of the bolt with the sump out and dripping oil all over the lawn easily enough

[hairnet]

less than fiddy for sump aint too bad ya tight wad

[DVee8]

Watching news 24 before work this morning,on the rolling text along the bottom of the screen....

 

...Renault may stop building diesel engines..

 

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37287129

[andrew e]

Good news eh!

[Ghosty]

As long as they don't do it by throwing the engine blocks through the wall of the factory.

[fordperv]

I've just been out at bought this stuff, looking at it the magnetic end of the plug has come off put part of the bolts thread is still attcahed to the sump hole, Ford want £47+vat for a new sump, i hope i don't end up having to go down that route.

 

I've used that stuff and it's decent, there will be no tension on the bolt that's still in there so you should be able to get the remains out without too much fuss

[egg]

A good day for chod spotting, I saw a real life roadworthy Toyota Tercel 4x4 (near me) and these two in sunny Gravesend.

 

 

[Fat_Pirate]

Replaced the shit plastic thermostat housing (and associated shit plastic tubes) on the 75 yesterday, refilled with fresh coolant, all looks good.  Come back today, V of the engine is awash with lovely (expensive) red coolant again.  I've not run the engine so I can only assume it's slowly finding it's way past the o-rings on the plastic parts.  Considering refitting them with a healthy portion of gasket sealer now, is this bad?

[AMC Rebel]

Replaced the shit plastic thermostat housing (and associated shit plastic tubes) on the 75 yesterday, refilled with fresh coolant, all looks good.  Come back today, V of the engine is awash with lovely (expensive) red coolant again.  I've not run the engine so I can only assume it's slowly finding it's way past the o-rings on the plastic parts.  Considering refitting them with a healthy portion of gasket sealer now, is this bad?

Some beards on the 75/ZT forum advocate super duper o-rings and/or some sort of super grease stuff - I hope I don't need that as I have not long done this to my spare KV6 but it'll be a while before it goes back in the car.

[Ghosty]

Some of you may recognise this Acclaim.

 

 

 

I took that photo nine years ago, age 11.

[Eddie Honda]

Looking online they don't list a sump gasket so it looks like i'll have to take it off and then stick it back on again.

 

As you have found out, there is no gasket. It's listed as a tube of splodge because modern. This is the blue oval stuff.

 

[trigger]

^ £17+vat for that tube too. Hopefully this Wynns stuff is the same.

[Eddie Honda]

It will be. OMGFORDSCENETAX innit?

[twosmoke300]

Was it a steel or alloy sump trig ?

Usually alloy sumps use an anerobic sealer that looks like jam . It doesn't block up oil ways if it squeezes out . Steel sumps use silicone based sealers due to the bigger gaps / more flexibility

[Bear]

Just another couple of weeks and life will be much, much more to my usual standard of time/projects/mental space!

 

A certain 200TE is getting some small bits of OCD treatment - it now has secure sunvisors, a grommeted antenna and working interior lights, and is getting "mysterious sticky substance" removed from the carpets because when I went to retrieve a screw I dropped, I regretted sticking my hand down there. The SLK is finally getting the ATF fluid change (oil change revealed a filter so clean after 5000 miles, many of the bombsite dealers I knew would just have put it right back in there). The SEC isn't doing much. And having returned the repaired and MoTd Audi A2 to the office expecting to be driving back in something appropriate, I appear to have found myself behind the wheel of an MG ZR. Truly, never have I driven a car with such firm seats and limp performance. Nice steering though.

 

Such is my mental space where Mercedes are concerned that when walking back to the car to take my companion home, my head was filled with the smell and familiarity of Mercedes interiors, the homely comforts of the dismantled console and no radio, the smell of warm oil burning off the manifolds and I was looking forward to it... then I remembered the small green terror from Longbridge I held the keys for, and my heart sank. Literally.

I know tattooing brands is truly a shit thing to do, but somewhere in my biomech piece, I will incorporate a three pointed star. I'm not quite sad enough to get a W124 or G-wagen committed to skin... but closer than you'd imagine...

[Bear]

Oh, and I think I'm just going to sell the MGF for parts. There's a more rational welding project incoming.

[garbaldy]

/\ I quite like the zr but just wait till you try to sell it they are like the kiss of death.

[holbeck]

BMW gone for it's MOT today.

 

Oh, and Rancho delivery ETA 17.00