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[trigger]

A 164! glorious! ?

[Amishtat]

4 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Your 164 still has a far better chance of making it to Trigfest than mine does...

We'll have to see. I can't really get it out into daylight until the ground dries out a bit so today was just does it run and move. Yes to both though. Photos flatter it rather but it's not awful. That one in the ebay thread tugged at my heartstrings a bit, I used to know that car and didn't think it was that bad. 

[trigger]

It's been 11 years since i last saw it!

[Amishtat]

Which is probably how long it's been off the road! 

[Kiltox]

8 hours ago, djim said:

I did the drop links on my Outback a couple of weeks ago and had the same problems with both the far-too-small-IMO allen key socket rounding out on 1 and the rusted to shit nut rounding off the corners on the other. I don't own either a nut splitter or a grinder so ended up hacking them off with a hacksaw and junior hacksaw. took about an hour each side with about 3" of saw movement each way. Not the most fun I've ever had, and it didn't sort the front end rattle either. next time I'll cough up for a grinder for sure. 

I feel your pain - I bought an angle grinder the day after doing exactly that. 

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Found the source of my Land Rover water sprinkler, sitting there hiding under the alternator bracket and above the oil filter...

It defeated me. Took less than an hour to drain and strip and then proceeded to fight me for 2 hours as it is a 40mm int dia pipe and I only had 30mm. I got it to fit but then the old clips wouldn't and then some new clips I got only went up to the size below what I needed and then I had to take the pipe off again to get the clips swapped over and then I forced it back on again and then a clip broke and then I had to take the pipe off again to get that clip off and then I couldn't get the pipe back on so cut a new bit which was worse and then I was on my 20th pair of gloves and then...

I fucked it all off and ordered the proper pipe from Land Rover. 

 

[Richard]

When changing drop links I usually use an open ended spanner to dislocate the ball and then grip the ball with mole grips. Have I been doing it wrong?

[hairnet]

4 hours ago, Amishtat said:

Some time ago I said (probably after a drink) that I'd like to take the 164 to Trigfest. Yesterday I realised how little time I have.. Day one: Start it up for the first time this year and actually get round to registering it in my name after three fucking years. The lighting in here leaves something to be desired but the stale fuel fog is lovely 

❤️

[Split_Pin]

22 hours ago, sickboy said:

I spent 3 days last weekend welding up the driveshaft tunnel on his Saab.

No pictures from the latter, final  finished and undersealed state, but we get the idea

Sickboy says: Black snot and TetraShultz encrusted  mits are a measure of happiness 

That is an outstanding piece of fabrication. 

[KitKat]

35 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

That is an outstanding piece of fabrication. 

Thanks ?

Happy to help out with welding on any other fellow shitters steeds btw. 

 

[wuvvum]

That's a very brave offer to make...

[hairnet]

six cyl will be down with a atric transporter

 

[Zelandeth]

That's a git of a job that repair...one well known to anyone who's owned a Classic 900 I think.  Really nicely done!

[Floatylight]

Breaking News:

Must sell Saab now - Business has come to a point that I need a truck!
 
 

Noooo! You've been showing it the love it deserves...

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[rusty998]

Made redundant on Monday 9th of March,  get new temp job putting together a VW Scirocco Storm circa 1985, I'm as happy as a pig in the poop, it keeps the wolf from the door and something for my brain to do ?

Picture of the spares car

 

[Six-cylinder]

9 hours ago, sickboy said:

Thanks ?

Happy to help out with welding on any other fellow shitters steeds btw. 

That is a risky thing to say to a man with an everlasting supply of rusty cars!

8 hours ago, hairnet said:

six cyl will be down with a atric transporter

Two Artics at least!

 

[cpjitservices]

6 hours ago, Floatylight said:

Noooo! You've been showing it the love it deserves...

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I know mate! 

At least I can pass it onto someone with things already done and improved!

 

My business has reached a point where I need to invest in a big compan vehicle...I did look at a van - but cant get the kids in one.

 

Sigh.

 

[KitKat]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

That is a risky thing to say to a man with an everlasting supply of rusty cars!

??

What car is that crusty A-pillar affixed? 

9 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

That's a git of a job that repair...one well known to anyone who's owned a Classic 900 I think.  Really nicely done!

Thanks!!

This full rear quarter I replaced on a Ford Falcon earlier this year was harder. Took me hours of fettling, set up and getting it clean and straight before I cut it welded anything.  I TIG’ed it all too ?

Before:

 

After, but still more to do:

[Six-cylinder]

Lancia Trevi, a few other bits including a small roof area, it is a genuine Lancia so rust can break out anywhere!

[hairnet]

3 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

That is a risky thing to say to a man with an everlasting supply of rusty cars!

Two Artics at least!

 

Meh if the windows not falling out it's character

[Shep Shepherd]

Just replaced The Volvo's engine oil (20w50 from Euro Car Parts) and filter (genuine Volvo from eBay), a job which took me all of 20 minutes due to having done it so many times over the past 16 years. If I recall correctly, it took me nearly two hours to do the job for the first time in 2004...

[PhilA]

Ordered some new wires and plugs and a tin of red spray lacquer.

Unfortunately the site only had 4 plugs and all others are trying to sell the same plugs for over 4x the price.

I'll wait for the lawn mower supply place to restock their plugs and order some more. It's nice when your car takes the same plugs as a tractor, that immediately subjects them to I'M NOT PAYING THAT MUCH I'M A FARMER pricing.

 

Hopefully I'll be able to make a little progress soon but I need new tires for the daily. Best quote yesterday was $870 for 4 fitted and balanced. I think I'll go with that. Just in time to be working from home for 3 weeks.

Brakes for the Chieftain are $28 a wheel with $15 core return to be re-lined, so I'm going to take that option and the wheel cylinders are $32 a corner. Flexible pipes are $18 each made to the correct length.

Sounds cheap until you multiply it all by 4 but that's the way it goes. I think I may be ordering some parts to finish off one radio that's on my bench too.

Currently in a static "hurry up and wait" mode which is annoying. It'll end, the question is when. If it does soon, the car will be on the road for summer.

 

Phil

[barefoot]

Fired up the 944 and the T2 for the first time this year and left them both ticking over for a quarter of an hour.

[RobT]

406 tinkering today.  Application of snake oil first off.

Then an oil and air filter change.

I also tried to cure the idling rough until fully warm issue by fitting the recommended fix of a BMW E46 fuel filter, thus bypassing the plastic filter housing that can let in air due to hairline cracks.

Plumbed in easily enough after this pic, but it made no difference so I just changed the OE one instead.  The old one in there was incorrect I think, being shorter than the housing.

That's me out of ideas, so I'll just continue running it until it becomes undriveable, or I get bored and buy something else.  But I've done 4,000 miles in it since November and it keeps being a good distance car.  50mpg on a run with an 80 litre tank is handy...last trip was Pembrokeshire a couple of weeks ago, 600 odd miles in three days.  Here it is at St Brides Bay.

The rear NS brakes started to make a noise soon after I took this.  Dousing the caliper in WD40 cured* it, but I suppose that's next on the list together with curing the thudding noise from the rear (might be droplinks).

[egg]

From the Independent January 1990. 15 years before Greta was born?

 

[brownnova]

Citroen BX coasters anyone? Search for Citroen gifts on Facebook... these are awesome... 

@strangeangel @vulgalour @Cleon-Fonte can’t think who else has a BX.... 

[egg]

Also from 1990 paper. The XR2i died in 1999. Just about 10 years.

[Six-cylinder]

I am at a car gathering at Towcester, I am not sure I would recommend it as it is very wet!

[320touring]

That's the ML over 100k now

Have done over 4 k miles in it since end October 19

[rusty998]

1 hour ago, brownnova said:

Citroen BX coasters anyone? Search for Citroen gifts on Facebook... these are awesome... 

@strangeangel @vulgalour @Cleon-Fonte can’t think who else has a BX.... 

That would make lovely wall art