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[Bobthebeard]

The new (metal) three leaf transverse rear leaf spring is now officially fitted to the Oldsmobile! Was a bit of a palaver tbh. Requiring several axle stands, bits of wood, a trolley jack, some new isolator/friction pads, a spring compressing tool from the U.S, cutting the old mounting rubbers off the monoleaf and modifying to fit the metal one and half a day of grunting and thrutching. The car now sits level. The broken single leaf composite spring was about 10% of the weight of the metal one, so a good idea really. Just unobtainable new, hence the replacement in metal from Canada. Just need to replace every brake pad and replace the transmission pan gasket now. Progress is actually happening. No pictures were taken due to being too involved and forgetting! The rear brake discs have little wear or scoring but are rusty. Hopefully new pads will remove the rust once the car is driven. Old pads are knackered. The outboard pads having about a millimetre of lining left.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

14/10 for dedication btb

[dollywobbler]

Aye. Any pics?

[320touring]

The new (metal) three leaf transverse rear leaf spring is now officially fitted to the Oldsmobile! Was a bit of a palaver tbh. Requiring several axle stands, bits of wood, a trolley jack, some new isolator/friction pads, a spring compressing tool from the U.S, cutting the old mounting rubbers off the monoleaf and modifying to fit the metal one and half a day of grunting and thrutching. The car now sits level. The broken single leaf composite spring was about 10% of the weight of the metal one, so a good idea really. Just unobtainable new, hence the replacement in metal from Canada. Just need to replace every brake pad and replace the transmission pan gasket now. Progress is actually happening. No pictures were taken due to being too involved and forgetting! The rear brake discs have little wear or scoring but are rusty. Hopefully new pads will remove the rust once the car is driven. Old pads are knackered. The outboard pads having about a millimetre of lining left.

k'd forgotten all about that old barge- good effort lad:)

[rml2345]

Changed the coolant and thermostat on the Xantia today. The one that came out looked a bit fucked...

 

[Bobthebeard]

Aye. Any pics?

No 'during' pics sadly. But will take some 'after' pics tomorrow.

[Shep Shepherd]

Someone at work has swapped his pretty tidy 52-plate Focus Ghia saloon for this 'organic' Rover 25 with rust on every panel, simply because he was 'bored' of Focus ownership:

 

 

Check out the passenger side front indicator!

 

 

The boot is full of 'get you home' stuff, including spare parts and a portable jump starter. He's so far in the Autoshite closet, he's in Narnia

[DodgyBastard]

 

 

 

Blagging a tow from the aa didn't go to plan so I left morpeth empty handed. Still undecided whether its for spares or restoration.

 

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[spike60]

Tomorrow Sept 11th has the annual Saltburn closed road hill climb if any NE shiters are interested. 

The entry is bikes and cars up to 1975, the oldest car I've seen entered is "The Golden Ford", a 1911 Ford Model T racer with a brass body.

Where else will you see a Landcrab pick up competing? Free to get in and gotta hurt less than the Great North Run.

[DodgyBastard]

 

It runs at least...

 

Tried to arrange viewing the Sigma tomorrow but he's away all day apparently so it will likely be next weekend before I can get it.

[Bucketeer]

The Sigma looks all kinds of scary awesome.

[dugong]

bought a 960 24v estate

[stuboy]

Went to help friend garry to put parts of his car back together at his home in sittingbourne..

[overrun]

Citrine win. 

 

Are those MOMO Ferrari's, too? Prefer your Zetec wheels, Stu! But I guess they are period.

I'd have some TSW Stealth's.

[holbeck]

Hmm,

 

Both the Scotto 305 and the Kentish Mondeo have Gloucester registrations.

[fordperv]

I do love a bit of citrine yellow

[Jim Bell]

Yellow cars are for winners.

[Fat_Pirate]

I've just refitted the new thermostat housing on the KV6 Rover again, this time with a smidge of gasket sealer on the o-rings.  I will return in an hour and if that engine Vee is full of red coolant again... there will be a raffle.  

[Fat_Pirate]

I've just refitted the new thermostat housing on the KV6 Rover again, this time with a smidge of gasket sealer on the o-rings.  I will return in an hour and if that engine Vee is full of red coolant again... there will be a raffle.  

There was indeed a load of coolant doing a runner... but I could see it was actually coming from the new temperature sensor.  Extracting it without dismantling has been a major ball-ache and has resulted in a set of BBQ tongs becoming part of my tool kit, but hopefully it's fixed now (copper o-ring added).

[overrun]

Yellow cars are for winners.

This must be true. I tried and failed to buy one.

[purplebargeken]

I've never had a yellow car. I like yellow cars.

 

I had a yellow Suzuki GS850 but it just wasn't the same. Primarily because it was a motorbike.

[Supernaut]

I didn't want to post this in the grump thread, because it's not much of a grump really.

 

I find myself questioning why I have the Xantia. It's a nice car to waft about in, but it doesn't inspire me in the slightest. It's a bit 'grown-up' really.

 

I tend to enjoy driving the BMW 316 far more. Nice little revvy N/A 1.6 that's just willing to go and go. I end up driving it far quicker than the Xantia, even though it's probably technically 'slower'.

 

I've been offered a black W reg Civic Aerodeck 1.6 Vtec stupidly cheap because it's been off the road a couple of years. This is more through the owner's laziness rather than anything being massively wrong with it. It's been on a proper driveway and not in long grass either. Getting an MOT on it shouldn't be too much of a hardship. It even includes a new catalytic converter. Basically, it belongs to another member of this forum who lives locally to me, and he's probably never going to use it again. It's a lovely little thing though.

 

Dilemma! Does somebody want a cosmetically challenged but mechanically sorted low-mileage Xantia? It'll even include a 5L bottle of hydraflush!

[egg]

 

Been using this today - very effective and no smears...(not cheap but you get what you pay for....)

[DodgyBastard]

 

305 collection take 2

 

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[spike60]

A few pics of a handful of the cars and bikes at Saltburn hill climb today, most were a bit newer than my selection though all are supposed to be pre 1976.

 

Panther

 

The Golden Ford. 1911 Model T racer

 

Brough Superior

 

Grenfell Special..

 

Railton.

 

The last couple were my favourites though I know little of them. I think they belonged to the same family who also had a Bentley. Fair few shiny Shepa coupes and A35 convertibles there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dugong]

[320touring]

Looks lovely! do I detect a smidgen of coolant use? or is it the classic "big engine, small runs and loads of condensation'?

[stuboy]

Citrine win. 

 

Are those MOMO Ferrari's, too? Prefer your Zetec wheels, Stu! But I guess they are period.

I'd have some TSW Stealth's.

yeah momo ferraris..

[doobietoo]

Just won a 1959 spridget saloon on ebay... *may make for an interesting collection thread...

[Ghosty]

Spridget saloon?

 

Magnette?