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[Tadhg Tiogar]

^^

Should be easy to drift off to sleep. All ye need to do is count, er.....

[brownnova]

The Mazda has been leaking water. Leaning over the engine whilst blipping the throttle using the throttle cable resulted in being squirted in the face with coolant. So I decided to remove the offending pipe.

Seemingly simple... surely... 

Nope it’s well buried and the bloody pinch clip is inaccessible with pliers... 

It took almost an hour, but the bastard is off!!  

it was so brittle it snapped. Annoyingly I thought I had some spare pipe in the garage... but no I must have used it.... 

Trip to the motor factors it is tomorrow, and maybe I can use it!! 

Oh wait the MoT expires in 10 days... bollocks! 

[anonymous user]

3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

I’ve just been invaded,,,

Why are there all those German Army helmets around the edge of the grass, or are they Land mines?

[00833827]

On 6/9/2019 at 7:50 AM, 00833827 said:

Morning. Have a carina e that was getting hot so figured after a bit of diagnostics it was the water pump. So am in the middle of a belt and pump change. Pump out and to be honest it seems perfect. So now i am wondering, what else could it have been. New rad in her. Hope there is not a boockage anywhere 

Checked the thermostat last night, it opened up fine.

To check for another blockage, if i was to put a hose in the pipe that feeds in to the top of the rad, leave the thermostat out, and remove the water pump and run the tap, I would expect the water to pour out there where the water pump should be, telling me the way is clear. How does that theory sound?

[stuboy]

2 minutes ago, 00833827 said:

Checked the thermostat last night, it opened up fine.

To check for another blockage, if i was to put a hose in the pipe that feeds in to the top of the rad, leave the thermostat out, and remove the water pump and run the tap, I would expect the water to pour out there where the water pump should be, telling me the way is clear. How does that theory sound?

shove hose in both holes and stat housing

[andy18s]

13 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

^^^^OOOF! at that Chrysler Sunbeam! Much droolage.

I had a 1.0 ls in the same colour way back the...engine and box got hoofed out for a ti spec setup tho

[andy18s]

In other news, €69,000 can get you this

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1444216189200311/permalink/2322939444661310/?sale_post_id=2322939444661310

Nothing to do with me....but not far from me

 

[Tenmil Socket]

On 6/6/2019 at 10:30 PM, gm said:

do you have a cousin in the north ? 

 

 

 

a couple saw me taking photos and laughed, I laughed too until I realised that they thought it was my car !

I'd love to alter that 3 on the reg plate to a g...

[reb]

It's all gone a bit two bucket wrong 'un at the farm today.

Rather it did, until I discovered the manky veg/derv stain behind the filler neck wouldn't shift.

I never thought I'd see the day I'd unflinchingly rub down a panel on my own car with a rag soaked in unleaded. It works though!

[reb]

2 hours ago, andy18s said:

In other news, €69,000 can get you this

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1444216189200311/permalink/2322939444661310/?sale_post_id=2322939444661310

Nothing to do with me....but not far from me

 

Bulgaria keeps popping up in my pipe dream future plans. One day.

[richardmorris]

12 hours ago, anonymous user said:

Why are there all those German Army helmets around the edge of the grass, or are they Land mines?

Mines to keep the sheep away - they don't work!

[egg]

Message from Jean Hammond at the RumCar register. Let me know if you are interested.

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Do any of your AS members have an interest in American Motorcycles(Harley-Davison etc.) ? If so one of our members has some interesting magazines etc. he wishes sell if you do, tell them to  get in touch with me and I will them know how to contact my member.

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

I'd love to alter that 3 on the reg plate to a g...

Changing it to "6" should do it.

[tonedepear]

Wonder if the 19 is dropping oil? Keep meaning to have a look.

 

Yup. Not the weather for doing owt though. 

[anonymous user]

3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Mines to keep the sheep away - they don't work!

But immediate roast mutton delivered to your door (front wall, windows, roof, neighbours, etc.)

[clayts450]

On 6/8/2019 at 6:44 PM, clayts450 said:

15 quid off Gumtree just now, local in Nottingham.

No bullshit, no pissing about. 

It's an Ikea Kallax https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/storage-furniture/shelving-units-systems/kallax-shelving-unit-black-brown-art-20275885/

Seller getting rid of all her old furniture for design/colour reasons.

Good job it was an Ikea as it didn't quite fit in the 620 much to my embarrassment. Cue fumbling around in the pissing rain for an allen key. Which, naturally, were all at home. Luckily seller had one.

Ultimately, all my old vinyl collection of albums and 12 inch whoppers will slide into the eight cubes therein quite nicely - easily hold 50 or more per cube.

For now it's re-erected and currently hosting random tat in the living room.

Oh...

That's the plan to get the records in there any time soon thwarted. Squatters' rights and all that bollox...

[trigger]

Lifes been a bit busy lately, back in the beginning of November we agreed to buy a new home just outside of town, the house we were in wasn't in the best area, we had a pot head next door, my car was stolen of the drive a couple of years back and the school's don't have a good reputation so we decided to bite the bullet and up our mortgage.

A couple of weeks ago we eventually moved in after a lot of stress and worry! 

I've never had anything so posh! Unfortunately we are on the old A12 but you can't have everything and it's great for car spotting! On Saturday I managed to even dig the Marina out of its hibernation and get it back to the new house.

Hopefully next week I'll even be able to get the van back too.

The next day I took it to the Aldham Rally in Colchester, I've been going to this for years and there's always something of interest that I haven't seen before.

Namely this Maestro Van, it is the very one which was stolen last year and used in a ram raid, still looks good though apart from the plastic plates!

i quite fancied this Minor for Mrs Trigger (the van will probably be going at some point as I never use it), paint work was a bit ropey, seats different colours and generally just needed a bit of love, I later saw the owner, expecting the price to be around £1500 - 2000 and nearly had a stroke when he said £4400! I'm so out of touch with MM prices!

[cort16]

Looks nice trigger, which part is the servants quarters? ?

[trigger]

A few more from the show.

I rather liked this Fiesta.

Wide wheels

Even wider wheels (which looked shit in my opinion)

This Transit was amazing, it's literally been painted with a brush and was just covered in runs and brush strokes, but the filler over the rust repairs were remarkable.

Then I took it in the ring in front of everyone.

Even my dad took his in the ring too.

[cort16]

Good to see your old Cortina still looking so smart.

[somewhatfoolish]

That tranny's wobbage is remarkable.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

27 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

That tranny's wobbage is remarkable.

Ran out of Polyfilla.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

That 2.3 Ghia is lovely, I don't think I've ever seen a Ghia in that colour , most of them were metallics or white. 

[trigger]

That 2.3 Ghia is lovely, I don't think I've ever seen a Ghia in that colour , most of them were metallics or white. 

That's the very car Corgi used for its Vanguards model.

[shoddybanger]

I spotted an ad where someone is emptying an old unit and selling off a couple of old Skoda 120L's, a Skoda 105L and a Citroen Dyane here in Finland.

https://www.tori.fi/pohjois-karjala/Skoda_120L_58189024.htm?ca=18&w=3

I don't recall when I last saw an old Skoda 120 on the streets. Hopefully someone saves these.

[stuboy]

16 minutes ago, shoddybanger said:

I spotted an ad where someone is emptying an old unit and selling off a couple of old Skoda 120L's, a Skoda 105L and a Citroen Dyane here in Finland.

https://www.tori.fi/pohjois-karjala/Skoda_120L_58189024.htm?ca=18&w=3

I don't recall when I last saw an old Skoda 120 on the streets. Hopefully someone saves these.

last november in margate

[shoddybanger]

Wow, so examples still pop up in UK, too. I haven't seen one in the flesh for years!

[stuboy]

Just now, shoddybanger said:

Wow, so examples still pop up in UK, too. I haven't seen one in the flesh for years!

i turned the ambulance around to get picture (after dropping paitent off obviously)

[iainrcz]

Got a letter this morning from Anglian water, apparently they think we need a new water meter due to "restricted access" to it.
It's not restricted it's just outside my kitchen in the drive!?

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[anonymous user]

What have you got parked on top though?