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[xtriple]

This is not accurate, just going from the onboard computer thing but since new plugs, doing the same pathetic little journeys, fuel consumption has decreased by 3 miles per gallon! At this rate, the plugs will have paid for themsellves by about 2030.

[Six-cylinder]

7 hours ago, egg said:

Are there going to be any Inva*** fettling days? I had maybe half a mind to help* out at one of those?

Yes is the answer, but no dates yet.

@LightBulbFun is keen to get a posse together as soon as the weather permits so we can remove his  Invacar fuel tank and get it repaired.

[LightBulbFun]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Yes is the answer, but no dates yet.

@LightBulbFun is keen to get a posse together as soon as the weather permits so we can remove his  Invacar fuel tank and get it repaired.

indeed! just keen in general to get some progress made on fixing REV  

as mentioned in my thread I luckily don't think she needs too much work to be road worthy

main road legality issues in order of most difficult to easiest are, Fuel tank needs repair or replacement, (as well as fuel lines, already got the hose and assorted clips and filters for that), the brakes need attention, she needs new tyres, and finally need to get all the lights and horn working!  (oh and a new windscreen wiper blade)

thankfully most of these sounds like a fairly easy to sort issues, so im hopeful it can be sorted in a day or 2 at the FoD with some help from the forum  especially as we got a nice parts haul with REV and Dolly so im hopeful it contains most of the replacement items we need to service the brakes etc

im even hopeful that we may have some spare time after sorting REV, to get some work done on Dolly  

 

I specifically mention the fuel tank as thats my biggest worry/unknown I don't want to get everything else sorted on REV and have her ready to hit the road, only for the fuel tank to still be an issue, as its the one potential issue we might not be able to sort at the FoD

im hoping its just a small hole we can patch with that stuff whose name escapes me atm, but @Mrs6C mentioned at one of the FoD gatherings last year  

but if its something more serious then ill have to get it repaired or a new one made up like @Zelandeth did for TPA, and id like to get started on that ahead of time if at all possible 

 

as a side note I was just checking the fuel tank removal procedure in the workshop manual, and its interesting to note that they do mention fuel hose clips! previously it was stated that the Model 70 employed a worrying lack of fuel hose clips, but it looks like that may be down to Approved repairers not doing things correctly, and not a fault of the Model 70 itself  

(the Fuel tank removal proceedure is a little bit different on REV as she has a newer fuel tank setup fitted for better crash protection/resistance, but the same general idea applies, undo a couple bolts and drop the tank out the bottom) 

[egg]

Here's a pic of me that's just surfaced from 1979 with my Granny, err...sitting on a Granny. I have no idea of context, but I don't remember anyone in my family being posh enough to run a Granada...

[wuvvum]

35 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

im hoping its just a small hole we can patch with that stuff whose name escapes me atm, but @Mrs6C mentioned at one of the FoD gatherings last year

I've used Plastic Padding Leak Fix to good effect on fuel tanks in the past.

[chaseracer]

59 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

im hoping its just a small hole we can patch with that stuff whose name escapes me atm, but @Mrs6C mentioned at one of the FoD gatherings last year  

Chewing gum.

?

[loserone]

20 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Chewing gum.

?

I hope you brought enough for everybody

[Shep Shepherd]

The Aero has a new MOT, but to get it, it needed a new parking brake cable, as the old one had seized up, causing roadworthiness issues. Surprisingly, the rest of the car was okay:

The total cost of the repair, including the MOT was £205, which I believe was a small price to pay to keep an interesting car on the road for another year  

[barefoot]

On 1/4/2020 at 3:45 PM, barefoot said:

I've had half the dash board lights inexplicably missing for a week or two and I've been thinking about removing the cluster for a bit of a look. Today there were two magpies in the road chewing on a dead rabbit, I honked at them and the dashboard instantly lit up again like it should do.

Who says the magpie thing is an old wives tale?

And as if that wasn't cool enough, today I decided that I'd fix the display on the digital clock which has read 0:06 for about a month & wouldn't adjust. I disconnected the battery, counted to six and reconnected. Clock showed 0:00 and adjusted with ease. I IZ ELECTONIX XPURT innit!

[xtriple]

My car steamed up today. I was both surprised and disappointed as it's Mercedes Benz and this sort of thing just doesn't happen. I glanced to the left and where a red light should show the air con was on, there was not red light. Pressing it repeatedly did get me a red light of happiness, my distress and unhappiness increased. So did the fog on my windscreen.

It was some time before I realised that my car has a ghost and all the heater controls were turned off as was the fan, turning it back on gained me a red light and a rapidly demisting windscreen. So the car is either haunted by spirits of BL workers long passed or a fat arsed Chester in his desperation to get out and foot-stomp e in the bollocks has brushed passed and turned them with his ample rear.

My money is on the BL workers....

[HillmanImp]

Looks like it was a busy day for me 8 years ago. 

 

[beko1987]

3 hours ago, egg said:

Here's a pic of me that's just surfaced from 1979 with my Granny, err...sitting on a Granny. I have no idea of context, but I don't remember anyone in my family being posh enough to run a Granada...

Maybe they quickly snapped the photo and scrammed before the owner saw? 

[egg]

Apparently it belonged to a friend of the family. Photo was in Canterbury I'm told. I like my homemade clothes...

[Bren]

I have managed to obtain a new old stock glovebox handle for the SD1.

It's another part no longer available.

[richardmorris]

Just been watching White House Farm on itv. Lots of early eighties tat.

[Crackers]

I've been driving a Freelander. 

I've been really liking it. 

Uh oh. 

Does a high mileage early FL2 count as shite yet? 

[loserone]

Yes.  

[brownnova]

Yeah.. I think you’ll get away with it! 

[dollywobbler]

I'm seriously flip-flopping about what to do with my Ford Fairmont. Part of me wants to ship it back to the UK, because that's a stupid thing to do, the other part of me knows it's a stupid thing to do and is already busy spending the shipping fees on something else.

[Split_Pin]

The driver side door seal on the Audi is leaking again, in the same place as before. I replaced this with a good used one a few months ago and although it all looks fine, water is getting under a tiny lip which is designed to bridge the seal between the hood and the windscreen pillar. 

I have some gummy rubber reviver coming from Germany via Dublin (great* carbon footprint - thanks ebay) and I'll take it all off and put it back on again to see if that works. If not and because I thought this might happen, I bought 2 seals at the time so at least have that comfort.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

12 hours ago, Bren said:

I have managed to obtain a new old stock glovebox handle for the SD1.

It's another part no longer available.

Could be used as a pattern for a 3D print, maybe?

[egg]

4 hours ago, dollywobbler said:

I'm seriously flip-flopping about what to do with my Ford Fairmont. Part of me wants to ship it back to the UK, because that's a stupid thing to do, the other part of me knows it's a stupid thing to do and is already busy spending the shipping fees on something else.

My tuppence? Leave it down under. Bringing a holiday romance back home often doesn't play out so well!

[barefoot]

Me too. It's a cheap car over there, fun mayhap, but by the time it's back here, it'll be an expensive car, and it'll still have no headlining.

[Eyersey1234]

@dollywobbler I hadn't realised you had bought it I thought you had hired it

[Asimo]

13 hours ago, Crackers said:

I've been driving a Freelander. .........Does a high mileage early FL2 count as shite yet? 

Only if it has a 3.2 litre petrol engine. 

[beko1987]

6 hours ago, dollywobbler said:

I'm seriously flip-flopping about what to do with my Ford Fairmont. Part of me wants to ship it back to the UK, because that's a stupid thing to do, the other part of me knows it's a stupid thing to do and is already busy spending the shipping fees on something else.

Could you road trip it back? Bar the bits of sea you have to do... Would cost fucking mega loads in fuel though

[Crackers]

18 minutes ago, Asimo said:

Only if it has a 3.2 litre petrol engine. 

They only sold 6 and a half of those, and this isn't one. Thank christ!

[Eyersey1234]

My last day of local bus is Saturday, go onto National Express a week on Monday 

[DodgeRover]

8 hours ago, dollywobbler said:

I'm seriously flip-flopping about what to do with my Ford Fairmont. Part of me wants to ship it back to the UK, because that's a stupid thing to do, the other part of me knows it's a stupid thing to do and is already busy spending the shipping fees on something else.

Get yourself onto retro rides and look in the for sale section, someone is offering shipping out of Wellington to Southampton for £1200.

[HillmanImp]

21 hours ago, HillmanImp said:

Looks like it was a busy day for me 8 years ago. 

 

More photos of the Lancia appearing in my memories on Facebook. 

Christ, that was a good looking car. It was absolutely fucked like but it was good looking.