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[Cavcraft]

Galaxy time again. Started with the hatch wiring, it looked awful, what with two broken wires, plenty of frayed and exposed others...

...fixex broken ones, taped over the others for now. One reverse light then worked, the other was a blown bulb.

 

No such luck with the battered old driver's door wiring. Three (at least) wires have come away from the connector, looks like replacement loom probably easiest fix as broke/knackered one of the door pins. There are pin removal and replacement kits, but not sure if can be arsed. One of the thicker wires has broken, hopefully it's the central locking one and will thus work again when replaced...

 

Next up, removal of injectors. Number 3 was a bastard, but got it out using mole grips, but carefully and using some encouraging words instead of swearing. Well, possibly some swearing. Or quite a lot of swearing...

Engine bay now thus...

...the glug plug relay thing looks a bit wank, plus the leak off pipes have gone to bollocks. Injectors hopefully going for a pro clean and test this week.

 

Sacked off going on a scooter run due to time involved doing the car, took two of the bikes and one of the scooters out for short local runs instead. The Lambretta decided it CBA ticking over and then stalled, but luckily fired back into life after a few minutes.

 

Very tidy 'Elsie' by the river

[rusty998]

4 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Went for a walk this morning to check out the damage to Chobham common from its fire a fortnight ago. QVicmemorial survived, and signs of green bracken and grass already.

Didn't know the car park was open again, the fire was a doozie had to change a couple of Burns bags at work while that was going on up the road,  pretty much an anual thing the common going up in smoke, I do hope Chobham Breakers are okay 

[richardmorris]

8 minutes ago, rusty998 said:

Didn't know the car park was open again, the fire was a doozie had to change a couple of Burns bags at work while that was going on up the road,  pretty much an anual thing the common going up in smoke, I do hope Chobham Breakers are okay 

Are you local then? Road and parking opened last week after a week. The damage does seem to be confined to a line above the queen vic memorial and Burma road longcross.

[rusty998]

Last time I went across Chobham Common ther was concrete blocks stopping people from being able to park but that must have been quitesome time ago now, glad to see it's all coming back with new growth ?

[richardmorris]

Just now, rusty998 said:

Last time I went across Chobham Common ther was concrete blocks stopping people from being able to park but that must have been quitesome time ago now, glad to see it's all coming back with new growth ?

The blocks are still there ( as in carpark pic). And it was a tighter squeeze in the merc than expected. But the signs say open. The blocks are there to stop those with transit vans and caravans. I usually park in staple hill ( as in the pics today ) overlooking the m3.

[rusty998]

26 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Are you local then?

Yes I'm in Ashford,  I work at the Ambulance depot on the A320 near the Otter roundabout

[richardmorris]

48 minutes ago, rusty998 said:

Yes I'm in Ashford,  I work at the Ambulance depot on the A320 near the Otter roundabout

My work is just down the road opposite fairoaks. You’ve probably passed. A friend lives in ashford and his wife works at St. Peter’s. 

 

Ps the a320 outside the ambulance place is often solid, don’t know how you can cope?

[sdkrc]

PROTIP: Shake'n'vac doesn't work in cars

I shook and I vooked but the primera looks worse than when I started

[mitsisigma01]

On 8/29/2020 at 12:09 PM, Six-cylinder said:

Mine is a Universal Hobbies Axel.

And yes I need somebody to come and clean my 200 models!

Is that one of every car that you currently have ??

[richardmorris]

35 minutes ago, sdkrc said:

PROTIP: Shake'n'vac doesn't work in cars

I shook and I vooked but the primera looks worse than when I started

I’d recommend autoglym interior cleaner. 

[Split_Pin]

Took the 75 to its natural habitat today, a garden centre and then off to my parents for a walk and a roast dinner. I noticed that the NSR wheel had more brake dust in it than I would expect and it was quite warm so that will be another caliper sticking on. All my 75s have done this and I've not long replaced the OSF caliper. The NSF one is also fairly new.

It's going to the Rover specialist in Whitburn in Thursday for some rusty sections of brake line to be replaced so I'll just ask him to grease the slider pins while the car is in the air.

[rusty998]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

Ps the a320 outside the ambulance place is often solid, don’t know how you can cope?

I rarely get stuck as a start at 6p.m. and finish at 6 a.m. so miss most of the traffic 

[Six-cylinder]

2 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Is that one of every car that you currently have ??

No, it includes cars owed in the past.

[brownnova]

The 9000 has eased over 203,000 this weekend  having covered over 1000 miles in the last three weeks... 

Its become the family wagon of choice as both Mrs_b and I find the C5 we bought to take the family use strain rather uncomfortable to drive.... 

Replacement likely to be Swedish methinks... 

[hairnet]

23 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Is that one of every car that you currently have ??

 

21 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

No, it includes cars owed in the past.

imagine the cupboard if it was ones wanted :D

 

[richardmorris]

Bit damp this morning on my trip to work.

[mitsisigma01]

4 hours ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

And following more pointers from NorthernMonkey, cleaned out the connecter and used my Compucleaner to blow out the connections, back to a smooth idle once more.   New one will be kept as a spare since they seem to be a damn consumable item on K11's. 

Any pics for fellow K11 owners to see please, my K11 will be called into service soon now the Sigma is broken ?

[stuboy]

today went to the 'old timers'car show  at folkestone near the grand hotel, ill chuck up a thread if i remeber..

[wuvvum]

So today this happened.

First start in several years.  (The buzzing noise when revved is because the bottom exhaust bolt is missing so the exhaust rattles around a bit.)  Didn't take all that much starting to be honest - I gave the carb a quick clean, drained the varnish from the tank and put some fresh pez in, and it started after a few kicks.  I did take the plug out to clean but it didn't actually need doing.  Not bad for a 40-year-old 2-stroke (although to be fair the engine is only in its late 20s).  It's not UK registered so I definitely didn't* put my helmet on and take it for a cheeky spin up the road.

The Spacy wasn't quite so keen to play ball.  It has compression now so my oil down the bore last weekend seems to have done the trick.  It'll fire up briefly but then it dies, if you keep winding it over it does nowt but if you leave it for half an hour and try again it'll again start briefly and then conk out.  I might have to whip the carb off again as apparently not enough fuel is getting through.  At least the fact that it'll run briefly is a relief - will hopefully avoid having to take the head off.

Dug the 164 out of the garage and put it back on the drive.  That was relatively straightforward - only issue encountered was the battery didn't quite have enough juice to start the car, but a pair of jump leads from my big battery and it fired up straight away.  The indicators didn't work though, so I had a fun session with the multimeter trying to remember how the fuck I'd wired up the flasher unit all those years ago.  They're working now, although the offside rear cluster needs the earth looking at as it's flashing the tail light bulb at the same time.

Prior to putting the Volvo on the drive I backed the CRV in and changed the rear diff oil.  Again a fairly straightforward job, although I had to use the breaker bar to get the filler plug undone.  It's definitely quieter on full lock now, so that's good.  It might be up for sale soon though as I don't have a particular use for it.

I've traced the fault with the rear foglights on the Innocenti to a rusted earth connection to the light bodies.  Unfortunately the bolts holding the light units and earth wires in place showed no interest in coming undone, so I've bodged a temporary connector behind the bumper to bridge the rusty bit in the earth connection.  I'm going to do a slightly better job when I can be arsed and run a separate wire from the lamp unit to a decent earthing point.  The non-functioning high beam was traced to a knackered relay - standard 5 pin job so I've ordered one off eBay.  The non-functioning offside repeater was a little more puzzling, as it was getting power but there was no illumination happening.  Turns out that's a slightly dodgy earth - I'm not going to start pissing about with the wiring inside the wing so I've fitted an LED bulb which there is enough juice to light.  I'll get there one day...

I also tried out my new 12v jet wash - it actually worked surprisingly well by the standards of cheap Chinese eBay electricals, putting out a fairly powerful  jet despite the fact that the pickup pipe was just shoved in a bucket of water.  It'll make rinsing cars off a lot easier than chucking endless buckets of water over them anyway.

[Split_Pin]

I put the rear nearside door on my neighbour's Fusion back together yesterday. Unfortunately a few fixings had gone missing in the meantime, namely the little spring clip that holds the window winder on. However as we just cut the cables inside the door and wedged the window up, it won't be doing much winding so it is jammed on with blu-tac now.

It looks better than before without the gaffa tape round the window at least.

[Shep Shepherd]

Today is the 30th anniversary of The Volvo's first registration. It was supplied by Lex Brooklands in Colindale, north west London, which is still trading, albeit under a different name. I was going to drive the car back there today, but it seemed like an awfully decadent thing to do, given the current circumstances. Also, its battery is flat. Once I've given it a jump, I might drive to Basildon and back this evening.

I would have loved to have seen the car on that day. I bet that it looked amazing. Pity that it doesn't look so great nowadays; its paintwork is so thin in places that I daren't even attempt to polish it any more. I'd love to have it resprayed, but without a lottery win or a crowdfunding exercise it's not going to happen in the foreseeable future. The lack of MAACO and Earl Scheib-type bodywork places in the UK is lamented.

Here's a photo of the car ten years ago, when it still had half decent paint. A couple of days after this photo was taken, I drove it to eastern Germany and back without any issues whatsoever:

Fun facts about The Volvo: the car was given its pre-delivery inspection on 24th August 1990 at 7 miles, even though it wasn't registered for another week. It had its first service on 5th September 1990 at 500 miles. I suspect it was originally a demo car or management car, as it's fitted with a few quite desirable Volvo accessories and it's evident that it once had a hard-wired carphone.

I hope that it will last long enough to become tax and MOT-exempt, and to get the respray it so deserves.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

12 minutes ago, Shep Shepherd said:

Today is the 30th anniversary of The Volvo's first registration. It was supplied by Lex Brooklands in Colindale, north west London, which is still trading, albeit under a different name. I was going to drive the car back there today, but it seemed like an awfully decadent thing to do, given the current circumstances.....

Sometimes you have to put on the style. Just do it.

On the other hand, there's probably nobody left working at Colindale who remembers that particular car.

[N19]

I was hoping to take my Capri for a couple of photos on the original dealers forecourt in Keighley, which still exists, for its 40th year. Postponed until next year owing to covid, but still on the agenda. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I have no idea who supplied my CX new. No clues at all in the paltry paperwork. Dealer probably long gone anyway or subsumed into a Peugeot dealership (only one left around here).

I do know that it lived in Edgware for a while before going "oop Narth"

[barefoot]

And I wouldn't take my 944 back, because everyone I've ever spoken to at a Porsche dealership, has been a nob.

[lanciamatt]

A few jobs have been done on thema since last week when starter motor caught fire .luckily managed to put flames out .replaced said starter motor ,and this evening replaced OSF Flexi hose and brake pipe .just got drivers front Flexi to change now .

[lanciamatt]

Still not managed to get rid of fire extinguisher dust yet either ,that vid is first start up since fire

[dozeydustman]

Toyota has gone to the friendly ministry examiner for its annual, albeit Boris extended, test and will be done in the morning.

Left the handbrake as borderline so hopefully if that’s the only thing they’ll sort that when they do the air con regas.

[Split_Pin]

I cannot work out where or what this has come from. It is where the front of the car would be on the left most space on the drive but I leave all 3 of my cars there at any one time.

None are displaying signs of a leak of any sort and have not left a mark at any other spot on the drive. 

It's too clean for oil, has no smell and hasn't dried in.

Stumped.

[SiC]

Rain water drainage?