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[Bren]

The aldi is now on ebay.

 

Spontaneous human combustion is now a certainty....

[scruff]

Went up the hill at the Festival of Speed yesterday. 

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

Went up the hill at the Festival of Speed* yesterday. 

 

EFA, considering the vehicles depicted 

[egg]

I've just sold a Keane CD on ebay to a guy in Peru. He lives here. The modern world is amazing!

 

(i.e. why would anyone want a Keane CD?)

 

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[mercrocker]

Had some braking problems with the Cowley for several weeks now.   Adjust 'em, drive it 15 miles, fine.   Drive it 115 miles.  Fine.   Drive it home again - one drum starts heating up.    Handbrake varying between textbook 3 clicks and Reg Varney on the skid pan.    

 

Off with rear drums, off with shoes, check and re-fit beehives and springs, back on, adjust up.   N/S still getting hot unless I leave the handbrake slack (its had a new cable hence the unsureness) O/S going "over" its ideal position.   Right, adjusters are shit, then.   Best order some new ones.   

 

At this stage I have run out of time and mojo so hand the car over to my MOT man who has it for several hours.   It was his workshop lad who noticed that none of the shoes quite match!   They look the same but two of 'em have slightly different radii on the curve that sits in the adjuster.   The way they appear strikes me that they have been sprayed black and relined probably from God knows - earlier car, some other obscure BMC chod that is nearly, but not similar....  

 

Ordered some new shoes and all will be well, hopefully.   At least I now have balanced brakes (they just ground a tad off until everything adjusted properly) and so far not getting hot. 

 

Now here is the thing.....Garage 8 miles away.   Drove from home and back in clear blue sky and hot summer sun, except for a half mile stretch that was absolutely torrential.   Same stretch both ways - torrent of water gushing down each camber, almost zero visiblity, Cowley wipers completely gave up trying to clear the screen.   People still driving like cunts, of course, even when confronted with the glaring sun on a wet road when coming out of the trees.    Worse than that the Cowley leaked!   Its never done that before - I suspected screen rubber but its actually perished rubber seals behind the wiper arm pedestals.    I'll have to fish them out and find some substitutes.....

[Guest Hooli]

The wrong shoes, not the first thing you'd look for really. I know I always compare the new ones to old ones when I open the box but I don't really expect them to be wrong it just lets me put them in the right place.

[mercrocker]

Yeah, the garage owner is highly experienced in 50s motors, his lad is not but has the cynicism of youth and said "check the shoes, these old motors are always a bloody nightmare...."

[JohnK]

It's now at the workshop, it runs (just need to bring a better battery down as this one keeps losing charge), It's had a quick run up the road and back and brakes etc seem fine.

 

Much better after a wash .. I think a service and a new set of tyres on the rear to replace the perished ones might see this in for MOT next week...

[Guest Hooli]

Is that a Mk2 Polo shell I spy?

[JohnK]

Yep its a breadvan. For now, it'll be bean cans before long!

[dave21478]

To redress the balance of yesterdays CT pass, the pickup lost half its blower fan speeds today. A quick prod with a screwdriver in the footwell of the spares truck showed the fan resistor is dead easy to get to so pulled it and swapped into the new truck for a return to four-speed luxury. Oh and thank fuck for working aircon in this weather!

[bramz7]

Great to meet you too. Hope the car does your friend a good turn...

[egg]

Since I've got a Japanese coupé*, I've gone a bit stickers yo! PetrolBlog has been added to Hubnut...

 

[stuboy]

Popped over to see Stu's mate this morning to pick up a new 'sail' and power steering switch for the Base Mondy. Had another quick perv at his Citrine while I was there

 

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he needs re-exciting his love for it

[egg]

Yeah, but it's probably only gaining value while it sits there!

[LightBulbFun]

Had some braking problems with the Cowley for several weeks now.   Adjust 'em, drive it 15 miles, fine.   Drive it 115 miles.  Fine.   Drive it home again - one drum starts heating up.    Handbrake varying between textbook 3 clicks and Reg Varney on the skid pan.    

 

Off with rear drums, off with shoes, check and re-fit beehives and springs, back on, adjust up.   N/S still getting hot unless I leave the handbrake slack (its had a new cable hence the unsureness) O/S going "over" its ideal position.   Right, adjusters are shit, then.   Best order some new ones.   

 

At this stage I have run out of time and mojo so hand the car over to my MOT man who has it for several hours.   It was his workshop lad who noticed that none of the shoes quite match!   They look the same but two of 'em have slightly different radii on the curve that sits in the adjuster.   The way they appear strikes me that they have been sprayed black and relined probably from God knows - earlier car, some other obscure BMC chod that is nearly, but not similar....  

 

Ordered some new shoes and all will be well, hopefully.   At least I now have balanced brakes (they just ground a tad off until everything adjusted properly) and so far not getting hot. 

 

Now here is the thing.....Garage 8 miles away.   Drove from home and back in clear blue sky and hot summer sun, except for a half mile stretch that was absolutely torrential.   Same stretch both ways - torrent of water gushing down each camber, almost zero visiblity, Cowley wipers completely gave up trying to clear the screen.   People still driving like cunts, of course, even when confronted with the glaring sun on a wet road when coming out of the trees.    Worse than that the Cowley leaked!   Its never done that before - I suspected screen rubber but its actually perished rubber seals behind the wiper arm pedestals.    I'll have to fish them out and find some substitutes.....

 

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[xtriple]

Got a letter this morning that made me slightly fucking furious! I was proper raging and in danger of taking it out on the dogs (got close with a bit of shouty action) so decided to clean the car. Washed it, leathered it and then polished it, for a heap it does clean up well   Then attacked the back seat area with kitchen cleaner with anti-bacterial stuff in it to get some of the ingrained muck out, which worked a treat.

 

I was STILL raging and continued to be until I took the dogs out and met up with the same girl that caused me trouble last week, Sophie, then another lass turned up and we all chatted for an hour or so while mutts played and were annoying each other. Turns out this lass lives in her posh camper and does waitressing wherever she is to earn some cash. Sounds like an ideal lifestyle to me, travelling around with your mutt for company. She was telling me about scary incidents though, which didn't sound so much fun!

 

Anyway, after that, I'd calmed down and so managed to continue the day without killing anyone or anything!

[egg]

LBC has gone all world cup funky on it's Hexagon map

 

 

[stuboy]

LBC?

[egg]

LBC?

 

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[GrumpiusMaximus]

Bought a new rear wiper motor for the Golf.

 

Easy to change.  Change the motor in 20 minutes or so.  Test.  Great, it's working. 

 

Except for the fact that it doesn't bloody switch off again.  Bugger.

 

Strip down the motor, replace the cheap aftermarket bits that I think might be failing with original teutonic OEM parts from old motor.  Same problem.  Bugger.  Re-strip, re-fit, check electrics inside for shorts.  Look at the relay:

 

 

Spot the dry solder joint.

 

Went inside, fired up soldering iron:

 

 

Took it outside to admire my genius.  Doesn't fucking work at all.  Must've overheated the tiny IC on the board to buggery re-soldering the joint.

 

For fuck's sake.  Ordered another one.  Fortunately, I got £10 off my order because of a Post Office cock-up last time around.

 

[mercrocker]

'Tis the true Autoshite way.   Spend fucking hours mending something before realising its fucked anyway and buying another one.   I think I am starting to resent the time more than the money these days, though.

[Simonsays]

Bought a couple of new toys recently. Firstly a 12V air compressor to top up my tyres. Got the cheapest one ECP had at £15. It seems pretty flimsy tbh but seems to work okay and the pressure dial agrees with my tyre pressure gauge.

 

I also took delivery of a 12V impact driver to remove lugnuts. The lug wrench included in every car I've ever owned has always been about 10" long and totally unsuitable for the job at hand. This driver just spins the nuts off in a couple of seconds. I'm really quite impressed.

[meshking]

Went to FoS yesterday, first time in ten years. Had a great day, but it's definitely grown since I was there last.

 

Couple of photos of mine for your enjoyment.

 

 

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[Bren]

Drove my first convertible today. My mate's bmw. It has the 3.0 td engine and goes surprisingly well. It made me wonder how quick a 335d must be.

[MarvinsMom]

today we has been to the Rover club(s) classic car day at East Kirkby.

 

we went with the Rover 75 club. but as mine is slightly broken as one of the ball joints is shagged we went with this car instead

 

we saw this

 

and this

 

these flew over head

 

and so did this (crap picture of a Hurricane.....)

 

which was much lower than it looks, in the picture it just small, not far away......

 

there were some cars there too including

 

[Squire_Dawson]

A PCB in a wiper motor, that's what's fucking wrong.

[richardmorris]

Went to FoS yesterday, first time in ten years. Had a great day, but it's definitely grown since I was there last.

Couple of photos of mine for your enjoyment.

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I haven’t been for a few years- I went to them every year when it started as it was about £25!

Did you like Ragnar’s ripple 2cv?

[richardmorris]

I’m just back from France. Car making a squeaking noise round corners, but not over bumps. I think it’s the roofrack and bike combo. Hopefully not the new balljoint! Maybe the anti roll bar bushes?

 

About 600miles at 32mpg. I was taking it easy as I really don’t like the bike on the roof but it seems to have done wonders for the mpg. A good job since super essence 98 is €1.59 at the cheapest!

 

Anyway, my main worry, such as it is vexing me, is the oil pressure gauge. I think* the pressure itself is fine. The engine purrs perfectly and kicks down to 6000rpm on the m25 just now very happily. But the gauge is currently reading just over 1bar on the move. It used to read over 3 (the max). Revving it like above to 6000 doesn’t move the needle at all, it’s like it decides in the morning what pressure to read and that’s the lot. It never drops whilst driving but usually in the morning it’s slightly lower than it read the day before. Even with cold oil.

 

This morning in France it read just over 1bar, and this evening in Surrey it’s not moved despite driving some 300miles in high 20s temp.

 

Anyway, advice please peoples. As far as I know there are three possible theories...

1. It is really low oil pressure and the oil pump needs replacing?

2. The oil pressure switch /gauge is faulty and needs replacing ( is it one single item?)

3. The Dashboard needle is faulty and needs replacing / masking off with black tape.

 

It’s on 116k by the way. Oh and the last time Mercedes ascot had it they did mention an oil weep from somewhere - could it be the oil pressure switch/ meter?

 

Thanks.

Richard.

[HMC]

^ When you start from cold what does the guage do?