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[Kiltox]

How is my old Trafic getting on?

[Guest Hooli]

Check the filler pipe while your under that Legacy. They rot through the top as they curve under the car towards the tank. The part is about £120 so I fixed mine with petrol putty as everytime I pulled away all the petrol sloshed out the hole & onto the floor.

[clayts450]

Those trolley jacks are shit - if you're going to use it more than once every few months buy something decent.

 

SGS Engineering are really good for jacks - their 3T garage jack is hard to beat (but heavy)

 

Yeah, it's really for the boot of the car and for a few odd jobs - will deffo invest in a £100 jobbie when finances allow

[taxi paul]

Checking through the history of my celica and the cambelt was last done in 2003 at 65,000. I didn't ask seller has I thought it was a chain.messaged seller to see if he had had it done . He messaged back to say he hadn't because it was hobby car and he thought it was a chain has well. So I shall get the cambelt done after the school holidays. Looks like I shall be doing what we all do and spend more on a car than its worth. Still it isn't has expensive as an ex wife. It's also more fun and nicer to look at ,so worth it.

[SiC]

Checking through the history of my celica and the cambelt was last done in 2003 at 65,000. I didn't ask seller has I thought it was a chain.messaged seller to see if he had had it done . He messaged back to say he hadn't because it was hobby car and he thought it was a chain has well. So I shall get the cambelt done after the school holidays. Looks like I shall be doing what we all do and spend more on a car than its worth. Still it isn't has expensive as an ex wife. It's also more fun and nicer to look at ,so worth it.

Depends how long you are keeping it! Also you got it very cheap. Pretty sure you could get your money back even after the belt changes.

[taxi paul]

To be honest I think it will be staying for a while. I allways liked them and was looking but never got one. It was cheap for a mechanicaly sound car. Bodywork is straight with no rust but a patches of laquer peel. I give it a mild polish yesterday and the paintwork came up great ,so may do it again a bit better. Front bumper really needs painting,lots of chips. But I lover it and so do the kids. So it's worth it i suppose. You never know they may increase in value one day.

[chodweaver]

AS' (temporary) France correspondent reports that:

 

Banger Xantias and ZXs are alive and well and far from extinct here;

Renner Vel Sati are rare but the few that can be found are healthy;

The new supersize-me Renner Talisman is selling surprisingly well

 

On the endangered Citroen species list: ph1 C5s;

C6 (just one spotted in 1025 km)

 

Feared extinct: XM

 

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Hope this works!! My new shite

[SiC]

Saab ftw

[egg]

A select gathering today and pez station shite...

 

 

[Ghosty]

 

Old Man seems to be pulling his finger out re: the A4 lately. It's had parts sprayed, replaced etc.

 

The mother is working on getting him to get rid as neither of us like it much, and we want a Volvo or something.

[alcyonecorporation]

Piazza is leaking like a bastard. 

The refill wiper blade the garage one before last fitted is terrifyingly shit. 

Isuzu being Isuzu meant that Piazzas didn't just come with a standard wiper fitting - it used this bizarre tonearm mount thing. 
An adaptor is being sourced so I can stick a modern blade on it. Sod wiper autism/joy, I need to see where I'm going. 

[BorniteIdentity]

 

I know that it's pretty poor form to laugh at someone who's had a car leave them stranded, but I've had a couple of moments this weekend that have made me snigger a tiny bit.

 

This is the 2nd.  What a story arc! 

[Kiltox]

Very few people swap a working car. Lots of people would do well to remember that

[beko1987]

I posted this in my shite thread, but bargain chod cleaning machine alert

 

http://www.vax.co.uk/carpetevent/vax-6131t-multifunction-carpet-cleaner-bundle?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20170724_CW_reminder_SB&utm_source=Vax&utm_content=http%3a%2f%2fwww.vax.co.uk%2fcarpetevent%2fvax-6131t-multifunction-carpet-cleaner-bundle

 

Perfect for the 80% of us who have leaky chod which is just easier and cheaper to let it leak and dry it out

[D Spares & Tyres]

Hahaha, like the adverts used to say: ' above all,its a Rover'

[dollywobbler]

Piazza is leaking like a bastard. 

 

The refill wiper blade the garage put is terrifyingly shit. 

 

Isuzu being Isuzu meant that Piazzas didn't just come with a standard wiper fitting - it used this bizarre tonearm mount thing. 

An adaptor is being sourced so I can stick a modern blade on it. Sod wiper autism/joy, I need to see where I'm going. 

 

Or get a decent refill? I've 'made' blades before now and still been able to see where I'm going.

 

The cheap shitty Ebay blades I bought for the Bluebird turned out to be a bit of a fail. They kept trying to fall apart (which meant a horrible clunk at the end of every sweep) and the spoiler was hitting the trim at the bottom of the screen. It was just screwed on though, so I binned it.

[Bobthebeard]

Oldsmobile caliper now fitted. Just hope the disc cleans up with a little bit of use. Other side of disc shiny, this side not so much. Result of previous seized slider. No visible wear ridge and the pitting is not deep so may be ok.

[oldcars]

Wilkinson's are selling Simonize car cleaning products for £2.00 each

 

http://www.wilko.com/search?q=simonize

Need to find one near me, that air con refresh thing got a good review in practical classics.

[stuboy]

popped to aylesford priory to kit car, classics, americana car show.. will post pics later

[spike60]

Oldsmobile caliper now fitted. Just hope the disc cleans up with a little bit of use. Other side of disc shiny, this side not so much. Result of previous seized slider. No visible wear ridge and the pitting is not deep so may be ok.image.jpeg

You could do with as much rust cleaning off as you can get or it will chew into the pad as it cleans up. Knotwheel, emery, lathe etc

[RobT]

Some git did this to the XJ40 over the weekend.  One of the dangers of on street parking I suppose, should have been in the garage really.  I'm more miffed at the fact the OS indicator and sidelight no longer work, despite replacing both bulbs and fiddling with the connectors.

 

 

It's now on eBay as a 3 day auction as I'd decided to sell it anyway.  If that turns out a waste of time I may break it myself, as the more I look at it the more I realise how shonky it is! 

[MorrisItalSLX]

Some git did this to the XJ40 over the weekend.  One of the dangers of on street parking I suppose, should have been in the garage really.  I'm more miffed at the fact the OS indicator and sidelight no longer work, despite replacing both bulbs and fiddling with the connectors.

 

XJ40 wing dent.jpg

 

It's now on eBay as a 3 day auction as I'd decided to sell it anyway.  If that turns out a waste of time I may break it myself, as the more I look at it the more I realise how shonky it is! 

 

That's a sad sight to see, at least its on the shagged rusty wing!

Is it still road-going? If so, i'd just drive until it dies and then break it, make the most of it!

[RobT]

Yes, still road going but I've got my eye on other stuff, this one is mentally out the door already!

[alcyonecorporation]

Or get a decent refill? I've 'made' blades before now and still been able to see where I'm going.

 

The cheap shitty Ebay blades I bought for the Bluebird turned out to be a bit of a fail. They kept trying to fall apart (which meant a horrible clunk at the end of every sweep) and the spoiler was hitting the trim at the bottom of the screen. It was just screwed on though, so I binned it.

 

Right, except the refills that fit are utterly shit. 

[Bear]

Head gasket set for the Sera arrived. Oil filter for the 320's gearbox arrived. Accidentally bought two sets of caliper refurb kits for the RX8, neither has arrived. The RX8 is on the lift where the 320 or Sera need to be, with no brakes.

 

So I'm thinking, if I put the gasket kit and water pump on top of the engine on the Sera, close the bonnet, walk away, there'll be some jolly "magical things are happening" music, maybe a kind of waltz, and then I'll open the garage and the car will be fixed. That's how that works, right?

 

(Also: The whole "brake rubber seals aren't compatible with parts washer fluid" - they are not kidding. What a mess. I knew what I was doing but didn't realise it was as fast or as digusting - the seals and pistons are for the bin anyway, new ones going on - not a total idiot. Need to shotblast the old calipers, then repaint them, by the time that's done they'll be worth more than the car).

[Inspector Morose]

No, I won't be over till later in the week.

[Bear]

Some git did this to the XJ40 over the weekend.  One of the dangers of on street parking I suppose, should have been in the garage really.  I'm more miffed at the fact the OS indicator and sidelight no longer work, despite replacing both bulbs and fiddling with the connectors.

 

XJ40 wing dent.jpg

 

It's now on eBay as a 3 day auction as I'd decided to sell it anyway.  If that turns out a waste of time I may break it myself, as the more I look at it the more I realise how shonky it is! 

 

I might have a bumper for that. Pretty sure I did.

[Bear]

No, I won't be over till later in the week.

 

You have a Rover to focus on. Maybe you can figure out all the parts of welder that I've got and see if it's any good

[dollywobbler]

Boot wouldn't open on the S-MX. Apparently, the thing to do is remove the inner panel, then manually operate the linkage, then lube everything up. I did this.

 

What a great car to work on though, because of simple stuff like this - a plastic trim clip designed to be reused! Also, the fir tree clips that also hold the panel in place can actually be reused several times with snapping - this is so unlike French and British stuff I've owned! 

 

 

Now I need to remove the camshaft end gasket, smear it with instant gasket and refit, because it's pissing oil out of there like it's a Mini at the moment. Not everything about it is brilliant...