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[Roverageous]

I took my 2600 across to the excellent BL show at Gaydon today, left mine at 6am, picked up some friends and got home at 10pm! Its been a long but brilliant day, I've took lots of photos which I'll try and get up on here in the next few days but I'm over the moon with the car, 350 miles without even the slightest hiccup (other than trying to do up all 4 windows at once and blowing the window trip)

 

It did cost me about £60-70 in fuel though! Not a cheap car! Although it's running far to rich at the moment which won't help, I must get it booked into a SU carb specialist to get them adjusted properly.

 

 

 

 

I had a great day out.

 

[Guest Hooli]

Correct. I'd rather watch paint dry than subject myself to such dullness.

[anonymous user]

I've just eaten a full pack of Jaffa cakes before 8 minutes into the football.

 

 

 

I have another pack, would eating those be greedy??

 

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It would only be greedy if there are any witnesses, a bit like it's only speeding if you get caught

[iainrcz]

I'm half expecting you to say you like cricket.

Correct. I'd rather watch paint dry than subject myself to such dullness.

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[Guest Hooli]

But if you class one pack as biscuits and one as cakes then they are different snacks so not as greedy.

[somewhatfoolish]

Only if you correctly answer the question - biscuit or cake ?

IIRC for VAT purposes the Chancellor thinks they're biscuits.

[trigger]

 

 

 

I had a great day out.

 

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Lol! You was there too! Was yours the lovely C reg ?

[cort16]

I’m in Birmingham for 3 days near longbridge , no factory just a giant American style mall I’m guessing in the place it used to be. Not complaining too much I had my tea at the m&s cafe their and it was flippin delicious .

[Richard]

Only if you correctly answer the question - biscuit or cake ?

It's a biscuit. All that shit about whether they go hard or soft when stale is bollocks. They are biscuit shaped, found beside the biscuits in the shop, live in the biscuit tin, and are offered alongside other biscuits with a cup of tea. Biscuit.

[Roverageous]

Lol! You was there too! Was yours the lovely C reg ?

 

 

Unfortunately I've nothing as exciting / proper as an SD1, but I was there with my 75 V6 (the red gaffer spec one!).

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

 

Only if you correctly answer the question - biscuit or cake ?

  It's a biscuit. All that shit about whether they go hard or soft when stale is bollocks. They are biscuit shaped, found beside the biscuits in the shop, live in the biscuit tin, and are offered alongside other biscuits with a cup of tea. Biscuit.

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[stuboy]

As i bought impact gun i decided to treat my self to sockets... some wheel one and some other nice ones, all nicely in there own holding container...

[Brodders]

IIRC for VAT purposes the Chancellor thinks they're biscuits.

Not quite, they are classed as cakes, rather than biscuits, for VAT reasons.

 

Whilst a chocolate covered cake is zero rated for VAT purposes, a chocolate covered biscuit is standard rated (despite the fact a plain biscuit is zero rated too). As such, it was advantageous for McVities to argue the case they were cakes rather than biscuits, as it allowed for a greater recovery of input VAT than they would otherwise have.

 

Plus, I also agree with them being cakes, not biscuits. They go hard when left out (unlike a biscuit), have a center similar to a cake and have the word "cake" in their name.

[Sloth in a bowl]

I’m in Birmingham for 3 days near longbridge , no factory just a giant American style mall I’m guessing in the place it used to be. Not complaining too much I had my tea at the m&s cafe their and it was flippin delicious .

 

 

If you want a good view...

Wander up the hill past the factory.

Carry on going till you crest the hill then at the roundabout turn right.

Turn right into the golf course then left and up through the woods to the view point at the top of the hill.

 

It's about 1.5 miles each way.

On a clear evening you can see 20/30 miles in each direction.

[RobT]

Fleet shot, just because.

 

 

I managed to do a lot of tinkering over the weekend.  I did a two bucket wrong 'un on the Cavalier as it was filthy, and gave the interior a hoover for the first time in probably 12 months.  We then took it for a pointless 70 mile drive on Sunday evening and I'd forgotten how good it is on a run, as I hardly use it these days being Mrs T's car.

 

Treated the Rover to a new air filter and some paste on the exhaust as it's got a blow from the back.  My Dad changed the two mid-sections about 6 months ago but had a bugger getting it to seal properly, so that was an easy job for me after he'd done the hard bit.  78 years old and still crawling about under cars, I hope I'm like that at his age.  Unlikely though as he's a strong old sod whereas I'm all weedy...

 

 

Ramps didn't slide away for a change.

 

 

That'll do, seemed to work, although I think there's also a leak from another joint as it's still a bit whiffy.

 

 

I also started poking around under the ZX and created a few smoll holes in the front inner wings so lobbed some Vactan on there for now, and also investigated the cooling system situation.  The temp gauge doesn't work which isn't ideal and the radiator looks like this:

 

 

Drained the coolant using the handy drain tap which is all rather civilised and there's no oil in there, so hopefully it's just a sludged up old radiator.  The bottom hose is cold and also the heater doesn't work, and as a new rad was only 30 quid I've bought one plus a new temperature sender.  I also replaced the thermostat as I found this:

 

 

So at some point someone has been bodging.  The fan now kicks in so atleast that works despite the lack of a working gauge.  I'm hoping to get it all sorted this week as I just want to crack on and use the thing!

 

[HMC]

The rear aches look decent on the old 416GTI rob!

[RobT]

The rear aches look decent on the old 416GTI rob!

 

A little bit of grot, but not doing too bad.  The Cavalier on the other had....I've wobbed them up, much to my shame!  It's a bit of an old heap really so can't justify a proper fix!

[plasticvandan]

Invacar featured on part one of a BBC 4 documentary on the NHS

[mercrocker]

Minor is back home after extensive (and expensive) rear wheel arch surgery.  New inner wing, outer wing and beading plus paint.   It looks lovely now.   Unfortunately the blat home from Chichester reminded me how much it needs a de-coke.   Also a piece of fuck-buggery occurred.   Feeling that the brakes were spongier than they were, I checked the reservoir and there was only a kitten's dribble in there.   I set about checking for leaks when it dawned on me that they may have rolled the car to weld it.   They should of course have topped up afterwards but the remote reservoir kit fitted by the PO may have interfered with that.   

 

Its a piece of shit typical of the rubbish peddled by Minor specialists, made worse by the ludicrously placed M/C in the chassis leg.   Of course after 25 years or so, the inspection panel didn't just unbolt - almost every captive nut has rusted itself to the screws whilst simultaneously detaching themselves from the leg.  

 

Not only that, but the half-arsed piece of fucking rubber tube the kit uses to link the M/C to the reservoir is not something I would put fucking screenwash through.   It seems to have been sweating brake fluid for most of its life.   I wiggled it a bit (stupid really) to see if was secured somehow inside the chassis leg with the result that a fuck-ton of fluid streamed down inside the chassis leg and out of my self-drilled vent holes (no, really they are vent holes!). 

 

Great.  Most rustprone structural part of the car now awash with corrosive fluid.   I have got shitloads on this month and next and I am not fucking about with cars until my mojo returns.   Expensively-repaired Minor now banished to the barn where it will probably languish until I need to put the T25 away in the winter whereupon I will start panicking about storage!  

 

Until I get it somewhere I can work on it at leisure (probably my car port which is currently occupied) there is no point in doing any more investigative work or parts-buying.   I am resigned to it being a winter project now which kind of takes the pressure off really.   I actually feel good about having had all the welding work done as it has stopped the car becoming a fucked basket-case instead of just being temporarily fucked.

[Inspector Morose]

If you want a good view...

Wander up the hill past the factory.

Carry on going till you crest the hill then at the roundabout turn right.

 

 

Then carry along this road till you see a little church on the left. At the back of the graveyard of this little church you will find the headstone of one Herbert Austin.

 

The road that you traveled on just is part of Rose Hill the road where Austin sevens (amongst others) were road tested after being built.

[Bucketeer]

I decided to take my Volvo (and my girlfriend) away this weekend. We headed towards Wales and stopped at Tintern Abbey on the way.

 

 

Tintern Fete was also happening. Be rude not to.

 

 

We were then rewarded with a malfunction of the engine starting variety.

The girlfriend helpfully took pictures from the shade whilst throwing out useful comments like 'why don't you just ring the AA?'.

 

 

After much aimless wiggling of wires and suchlike with no success I resorted to taking off the earth strap and cleaning the contacts, as much to buy myself thinking time as to any particular end. Anyway, the car fired straight up afterwards and we headed off for the Brecon Beacons immediately, before the car changed it's mind.

 

 

We found a car park with a nice view and set up for the night.

Where's Wally?

 

 

 

Shortly after the above photo was taken, and as the sun set, the car park filled up with what can only be described as fucking doggers.

It was at this point that we made our excuses and left.

We awoke Sunday morning in a different and privater layby.

 

 

We visited Caerphilly Castle. It was nice.

 

I was impressed with how thorough they were with the tourist information.

 

 

The Volvo then got us home last night (about 500 miles total) in perfect reliability and comfort.

This morning however, the bugger refused to run right/at all. Cheap car joy.

[somewhatfoolish]

 

Great.  Most rustprone structural part of the car now awash with corrosive fluid.   I have got shitloads on this month and next and I am not fucking about with cars until my mojo returns.   Expensively-repaired Minor now banished to the barn where it will probably languish until I need to put the T25 away in the winter whereupon I will start panicking about storage!  

 

Not corrosive, it just fucks paint; wash it out with copious warm water.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

...fucking doggers.....

That's pretty much what they do.... I understand.

[Shep Shepherd]

Could do with some Autoglym Bumper and Trim Gel on those bumpers! 

[davehedgehog31]

Where was this car park?

 

Asking for a mate.

[Eddie Honda]

It's a biscuit. All that shit about whether they go hard or soft when stale is bollocks. They are biscuit shaped, found beside the biscuits in the shop, live in the biscuit tin, and are offered alongside other biscuits with a cup of tea. Biscuit.

 

Next you'll be claiming Viennese Whirls are cakes because they are in the cake aisle, and fig rolls are biscuits...

 

Jaffa cakes are cakes. Cakes are round as are biscuits. They are erroneously stocked in the biscuit aisle. The never live in the biscuit tin (the fuckers would dry out) and aren't offered alongside other biscuits with a cup of tea (they are all mine I tell you, ALL MINE!) 

[Richard]

Fig rolls are biscuits. I don't know what Viennese whirls are so I can't comment.

 

Jaffa cakes are made by McVities, who make biscuits. I don't blame them for trying it on, but I do blame whatever moron in the treasury it was that decided to entertain the suggestion.

[New POD]

45% off what? 45% off a figure that was 82% higher to start with isn't saving anything.

 

The definition of PRICE is the figure at which both buyer and seller agree to transact given a free choice and no monopoly.

[xtriple]

Hoovered the car out yesterday as the back was full of dog hair and sand from the beach. Took ages and it was effin HOT. Then when it was all clean and lovely, I took the dogs to the .... beach!

 

Back of car now covered in salt, sand and dog hair... again!

 

Had to go to the dentists first thing so, as I was worried about getting up, decided to just not go to sleep, binge watched yet another foreign detective series and stayed up. Consequently, hanging all day! Got home, fed the dogs, fed me and... fell asleep. Woke up a couple of times to let mutts out but otherwise slept until 9:00 this morning. I must have been tired?

[mercrocker]

Not corrosive, it just fucks paint; wash it out with copious warm water.

 

fucked paint is conducive to corrosion on a Minor!    Know what you mean, though.  Yes its been irrigated and will be refilled with Waxoyl once I sort out a new pipe....