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[beko1987]

My caliper turned up today! It's cleaner in some places and less so in others (the main piston seal is torn but the piston itself looks ok). Hoping I can swap the seal around from my one.

 

It's raining heavily all day, and amy worked last night so will be tired tonight, hopefully if she sods off to bed early I'll get the garden parasol out and get on with it, otherwise it'll be another day of seized caliper tomorrow!

[phil_lihp]

This slightly green Rover 45 belongs to a colleague and has been sat in a local garage's yard for most of the last year.  MOT has just run out, looks very tidy and had just had the head gasket done - only 56k on the clock, too.  1.4 K series, new front tyres.  Apparently, after the head gasket was changed the engine started 'knocking' and he gave up on it, dumped it at the garage and obtained another car.  I'm tempted to make a slightly insulting offer for it but it depends what the 'knocking' is - I find it hard to believe it could be the bottom end at that mileage unless it had so much coolant in the oil it's knackered the engine.  I'd like to think it was injector noise which these are apparently known for but who knows.

 

I might see what he wants for it and stick a battery on it so I can hear the noise myself, could be worth a punt although these things still seem pretty worthless.

 

On the other hand, it's currently keeping exceptionally shitey company.

 

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So, now been offered this for free, hard to say no really.  It may of course be quite broken but that's still a few spare parts and a front seat for my van if nothing else.  Going to go and have a look after work on Friday with a spare battery to see how bad this engine 'knock' is and much chance there is of getting it to my tame garage for a fresh MOT.

[DodgeRover]

The beavertail I'm hoping to book for Bluebird collection is having its MOT today. I'm rather hoping it passes so I can book it for a day next week. Only problem is the need to drive to London and back in a day. I think I'll aim for plenty of stops. It'll be about 480 miles.

Make sure it's ok to go into the LEZ without charge or it's £100 ish if you pay in advance

[dollywobbler]

Make sure it's ok to go into the LEZ without charge or it's £100 ish if you pay in advance

 

Despite being based in Aberystwyth, that's pretty much the first question the place hiring out the beavertail asked. The second was what car, because they actually care what people carry.

[trigger]

Just sold my P6, first person to come and view it loved it and gave me close to the asking price, the only downside is that he's 84 and needs to check he can still insure it because of his first. It will go with his 1972 MGB which cost £18000 to restore!

[tooSavvy]

^^^ 'Cars to buried in!'

 

New thread on Open forum then... ??

 

TS

[dollywobbler]

Ugh. Beavertail plan has fallen through as it has failed its MOT. 

[Bobthebeard]

Ugh. Beavertail plan has fallen through as it has failed its MOT.

 

Oh heck....

Still, this is Autoshite after all.

Failed recovery truck fails to recover failed Bluebird etc.

[egg]

local spottage. It lives here. May be owned by ZX/Chevette/Sierra man.

 

Advisory below from 2014, just passed another test earlier this month.

 

Vehicle is very corroded and has previously been repaired in many areas

 

[dollywobbler]

Shiply confirmed. £1 a mile isn't cheap over that distance, but probably works out cheaper than me hiring a beavertail and driving there and back, and I don't lose a day of work!

[twosmoke300]

My caliper turned up today! It's cleaner in some places and less so in others (the main piston seal is torn but the piston itself looks ok). Hoping I can swap the seal around from my one.

 

It's raining heavily all day, and amy worked last night so will be tired tonight, hopefully if she sods off to bed early I'll get the garden parasol out and get on with it, otherwise it'll be another day of seized caliper tomorrow!

The caliper dust boot is held in by the piston so can't be changed without taking the piston out . If the piston turns nicely and looks clean I would pack the boot with rubber grease and just fit it

[beko1987]

The caliper dust boot is held in by the piston so can't be changed without taking the piston out . If the piston turns nicely and looks clean I would pack the boot with rubber grease and just fit it

Then that's what I'll do! I'll experiment with seals on the old caliper. It was cool after driving home today, maybe it's the rain...

[Supernaut]

Shiply confirmed. £1 a mile isn't cheap over that distance, but probably works out cheaper than me hiring a beavertail and driving there and back, and I don't lose a day of work!

So... you're paying about as much for shipping as you did for the car, and it has OMGHGF.

 

You legend.

[egg]

I think DW deserves an easy caper for once though!

[Supernaut]

I think DW deserves an easy caper for once though!

Well, I suppose getting a shiply is easy, yes!

 

However, doing a head gasket...?

[BorniteIdentity]

Time is money. Words often mumbled by us self employed.

 

If it still goes tits, I can collect this and store it in Watford for a week or so (off road).

 

Good luck with it DW.

[cort16]

The chassis rail on the drivers side of the cortina was fucked. Not rotten just mangled because I think the steel has thinned to the point of it being about as strong as a quality street tin.

I welded on some box section so should be nice and strong now. Well obviously the chassis rail was wider than the box section I had and the rail had a kink in it so I had to cut two bits of box in half the long way then weld them together to make a wider bit then cut them in two , fit them then weld those two halfs back together. All while rolling about on the ground. What a great hobby.

Can't be much rust left now right?

 

 

Furk

 

 

The gods of welding must have been looking favourably on me as I found a bit of 3mm steel exactly the right size. Wazzed it up.

 

 

I'm going to stop saying that's the end of the welding.

[cort16]

I finally managed to get some decent pictures of the Cadillac. Hopefully it'll help sell it.

 

 

 

I should probably have painted that front spoiler first. Fuck it.

[worldofceri]

Or just take it off.

[stuboy]

Missus moaning her car slower... found intercooler pipe had split..£50 new ... or 13 quid 2nd hand of ebay.. my bodge apparantly was working well..

[stuboy]

Always think saloons look better with a spolier, couldnt find anything i liked..even though not my car, then chatting to a fellow mondeo ford lover he mentioned hed been let down and was fedup driving around with it, i said lets up a looksee and he wanted 20quid, mk5 escort spoiler with all bolts intact.. missus loves it.. all i need is time to paint it.. give me 6 months ..lol

[Spottedlaurel]

The beavertail I'm hoping to book for Bluebird collection is having its MOT today......

 

Bluebird?! I don’t keep track of everything on here, I must’ve missed previous mention of that one.

[Hertz]

Not been on here for a while, a mixture of holidays, work, family and the website issues got in the way.

 

Nice to see the site back up and running again.

 

I bumped into Junkman and Conrad a few weeks back in the Stockport market, good to meet you two chaps!

 

Fleet news is a new Alpine GTA in stock which is a nice project for the summer. Caved in to Mrs Hertz and we now have a VW T4 Multivan sans pineapple. Megane will be sold soon so have the delights of gumtree or ebay unless I get lucky.

 

Right going to hit the ebay tat thread as I have serious withdrawal symptoms.

[Slappy]

Sounds like my Mum's neighbour's JRG Maestro is off to the big car barn in the sky, and was collected earlier by some gents. 2 weeks worth of ticket left, an 89yo permo-sozzled owner and it having done less than 1k miles in 7 years, whilst also being stored outside hasn't done it much good. Previous welding in 2014 too, so not a great example sadly.

 

I'll be amazed if it comes back in any case!

[stuboy]

Some great sparks forget to put lights on when on motorway in torrential rain..(camera makes it look nicer weather)

[ruffgeezer]

Still twitching my balloon knot about the potential lack of family transport for the upcoming holiday.

 

So much so that I have been bidding on any old suitable looking shit on ebay, ready to blast it across to the far coast.

[BavarianRetro]

Spotted last night in Paisley. Not seen one in about 15 years.

[beko1987]

Pulled into asda to get some fuel this morning, turned the engine off, opened the door and BEEP BEEP BEEP pause BEEP BEEP BEEP etc. No warning lights, no dash message... Worried, I fueled up, got back in and prayed it started as I was at the front of the pumps... fired up fine. Drove off.

 

A few miles down the road I remembered I had put the side lights on when I got on the M40 as the weather is shit... Turned them off when I got to work, and no beeping noise...

 

French car in scare shocker...

[trigger]

I've had a morning of mixed fortunes, the V5 has arrived at long last for the 620, annoying the last owner has been re-added to the log book again so it shows him buying the car on the 7/4/17 and me buying it on the 8/4/17 which is wrong but meh, i have it now and the 84 year old buyer of my P6 looks to be cancelling the deal now as no insurance company will touch him because of his age and his astigmatism which is massively annoying for both of us.

[dollywobbler]

Pulled into asda to get some fuel this morning, turned the engine off, opened the door and BEEP BEEP BEEP pause BEEP BEEP BEEP etc. No warning lights, no dash message... Worried, I fueled up, got back in and prayed it started as I was at the front of the pumps... fired up fine. Drove off.

 

A few miles down the road I remembered I had put the side lights on when I got on the M40 as the weather is shit... Turned them off when I got to work, and no beeping noise...

 

French car in scare shocker...

 

Why would you turn your sidelights on and not headlamps? Sidelights are practically invisible.