N19 Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Just now, Tamworthbay said: Except on here it seems! Three 1.6L’s not sure if we have any others of other types. But of course! "Is that the 2.8 laser injection special tickford? My mate used to have to put paving slabs in the boot" Tamworthbay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthbay Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 1 minute ago, N19 said: But of course! "Is that the 2.8 laser injection special tickford? My mate used to have to put paving slabs in the boot" Tell me about that! Having rebuilt mine on the drive I have learnt all about the John player brooklands 3 litre injection specials that people ‘used to own’. I guess folk remember them and want to talk about them and that’s all they know. barefoot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N19 Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Just now, Tamworthbay said: Tell me about that! Having rebuilt mine on the drive I have learnt all about the John player brooklands 3 litre injection specials that people ‘used to own’. I guess folk remember them and want to talk about them and that’s all they know. I don't mind the people who are genuinely a bit ignorant or ill informed, who are probably just wanting a chat, and who have a little misguided knowledge. In fairness, I'd probably be similar talking about say british leyland stuff. The annoying one is the people who tell you absolute 'facts' and insist they're right... Tamworthbay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthbay Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 55 minutes ago, N19 said: I don't mind the people who are genuinely a bit ignorant or ill informed, who are probably just wanting a chat, and who have a little misguided knowledge. In fairness, I'd probably be similar talking about say british leyland stuff. The annoying one is the people who tell you absolute 'facts' and insist they're right... Same here, one bloke tried to convince me that Mk3s were MK5 Cortinas underneath. Even when I showed him the leaf springs he was adamant. But most people are just genuinely pleased to see a bit of history being preserved. N19 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N19 Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 By transplanting the Bluebird oil cap to the Mondeo, I have one happily driveable modern. Hurrah! Etc dome, Six-cylinder, paulplom and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 I sold the Merc today, not without some misgiving. I'd more or less reached the conclusion that it wasn't going to sell and I'd even ordered a new front caliper and flexi for it, but I had a 'phone call this morning from a chap who actually owned the car a few years back and had himself regretted getting rid, so he was quite keen to have it back. He made me a decent enough offer and had paid via bank transfer within a couple of hours - he's sending a recovery chap up to collect it at some point soon. That's put a bit more money in the kitty to get the rest of the fleet sorted, which is good. I've ordered the new headlight mounts for the Innocenti, and I'm going to buy it an exhaust as well - I've found a place in Germany that does them, but they have a delivery time of about a month and ideally I'd like it to come a bit sooner than that. I might even finally get around to getting the brakes sorted on the 164. Not got too much done today due to the shite weather, but I did get the new expansion bottle fitted to the V70, and I fitted new caliper slider pins (which have cured the annoying rattle) and one front drop link to the CRV - I'll do the other drop link tomorrow if it's dry. My Chinese replacement fuel tap for the Spacy arrived on Thursday so I fitted that too. Then while scrabbling through a box of assorted tools looking for my nut splitter I found another brand new Spacy fuel tap, which I must have ordered years ago and completely forgotten about. Oh well, I've got two now... somewhatfoolish, BorniteIdentity, Split_Pin and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conrad D. Conelrad Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Good quality interior. Wasted ages and half a tube of glue trying to glue it back on before giving up and using duct tape, which will work perfectly until the next time the car gets hot inside (in about twelve hours). If it does fall apart again, it's getting some self tappers or cable ties and the next owner can splash out the £50 for a new door if they want one. Split_Pin and somewhatfoolish 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Start a new job on monday so needed a cheap car quick. Got this for £275. Needs a battery, brakes freed off, exhaust blowing. I ran out of daylight tonight to give it a good check over. Busy day tomorrow. No panic.Sent from my SM-J330FN using Tapatalk davehedgehog31, BorniteIdentity, Split_Pin and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 17 minutes ago, doug said: Start a new job on monday so needed a cheap car quick. Got this for £275. Needs a battery, brakes freed off, exhaust blowing. I ran out of daylight tonight to give it a good check over. Busy day tomorrow. No panic. Sent from my SM-J330FN using Tapatalk Looks like a 2 litre going by the wheels? Nice colour too, I have the Bburago model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Went for a drive this evening to settle the baby... rare thing happened on Rhos on Sea prom... I found another 9000 Split_Pin, inconsistant, Saabnut and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 31 minutes ago, Split_Pin said: Looks like a 2 litre going by the wheels? Nice colour too, I have the Bburago model. Aye 2 litre. Split_Pin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort16 Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 54 minutes ago, doug said: Start a new job on monday so needed a cheap car quick. Got this for £275. Needs a battery, brakes freed off, exhaust blowing. I ran out of daylight tonight to give it a good check over. Busy day tomorrow. No panic. Sent from my SM-J330FN using Tapatalk Nice one one on the job! Remember to put the flower in the vase, doug and BorniteIdentity 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Just now, cort16 said: Nice one one on the job! Remember to put the flower in the vase, A Venus Fly Trap should do it. doug 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Just now, cort16 said: Nice one one on the job! Remember to put the flower in the vase, Cheers ,not worked since the end of March so it will be strange getting back into it. The car came with a wee teddy, you can just make it out on the dash. Think I will keep it there just to wind my daughters up as they are not very impressed with my latest purchase! BorniteIdentity and cort16 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitsisigma01 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 1 hour ago, cort16 said: Nice one one on the job! Remember to put the flower in the vase, I thought that was to hold a circuit tester, no point putting it away in the toolbox, you'll be using it regularly ?? paulplom and dome 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidfowler2000 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Last train to Wemyss Bay tonight - 2236 off Glasgow. The joys* Inverclyde young team were out in force but thankfully not on my train. Got held at Port Glasgow 'cos the train coming off the single line was 27 minutes down after needing police assistance at inverkip. Ended up 15 mins down at the worst. By the time I got to the bay, changed ends and pedalled the utter fuck out this poor bastard, I was only only 1 minute late back to Glasgow... Arrived in central at 0028. Full shut down with walk through, dumped bag in my locker and changed shoes, hire bike most of the way home. I was in the flat for 0048 and on my second gin by 0100 brownnova, beko1987, dome and 16 others 18 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Were you running empty back to Glasgow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidfowler2000 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 No. 11 mins down at Port Glasgow. Got the call to say they'd move me round to the last signal before the single line 15.5 mins down at Whinhill 12 mins down arr at Wemyss Bay 8 mins down dep The Bay 4 mins down at Port Glasgow 2 mins down at Paisley Gilmour St 1 min down at Central I just horsed it's arse all the way. Brakes on it were outstanding. Was hitting platforms at 35 - 40mph and stopping no bother. Split_Pin, beko1987, Dirk Diggler and 11 others 12 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spurious Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 47 minutes ago, davidfowler2000 said: Last train to Wemyss Bay tonight - 2236 off Glasgow. The joys* Inverclyde young team were out in force but thankfully not on my train. Got held at Port Glasgow 'cos the train coming off the single line was 27 minutes down after needing police assistance at inverkip. Ended up 15 mins down at the worst. By the time I got to the bay, changed ends and pedalled the utter fuck out this poor bastard, I was only only 1 minute late back to Glasgow... Arrived in central at 0028. Full shut down with walk through, dumped back in my locker and changed shoes, hire bike most of the way home. I was in the flat for 0048 and on my second gin by 0100 You need your own thread on this, 10/10 would subscribe. mercedade, LightBulbFun, Dabooka and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Split_Pin Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 7 hours ago, davidfowler2000 said: No. 11 mins down at Port Glasgow. Got the call to say they'd move me round to the last signal before the single line 15.5 mins down at Whinhill 12 mins down arr at Wemyss Bay 8 mins down dep The Bay 4 mins down at Port Glasgow 2 mins down at Paisley Gilmour St 1 min down at Central I just horsed it's arse all the way. Brakes on it were outstanding. Was hitting platforms at 35 - 40mph and stopping no bother. Having got the train to work for the last 20 years, this is the kind of journey I like. Would also subscribe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 7 hours ago, Spurious said: You need your own thread on this, 10/10 would subscribe. For the train driver in all of us. BorniteIdentity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juular Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Count me in. Was this a 320 or one of the chopped 321s? I remember the days when the 320s were new on the north Clyde, before TPWS was a thing and they were getting properly driven. Didn't realise they were on the inverclydes now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidfowler2000 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 All the 320/4s are the ex-321s. Been using them on Inverclyde for 2 years or so now juular and somewhatfoolish 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Confessions of a train driver thread please. BorniteIdentity, loserone, LightBulbFun and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holbeck Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 5 hours ago, davidfowler2000 said: All the 320/4s are the ex-321s. Been using them on Inverclyde for 2 years or so now Does that mean they can't be called 'dusty bins' any longer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Stuboy junior car tyres are not the best, and few days ago I spotted a corsa wheel with new tyre for £20, well he moaned about spending money.. and did nothing about it , I couldn't miss this bargain so went got it myself.. bloody kids mk2_craig and HMC 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dean36014 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 So I collected shonky the bx yesterday from the garage he was stored in for a year. Put away with a suspected head gasket failure. So today I used a sniffer test, left it in for half an hour and it stayed blue. Pressure tested the coolant system to and pressure held. Ran it for an hour with the rads fans cutting in and out every couple of minutes (been on a drive prior to get him up to temp) and no blowing out the overflow on the expansion bottle. I've a horrible feeling I was over filling the expansion bottle causing it to blow out. Rad cap and thermostat were replaced when I laid him up. So I'm going to run him commuting for a week and see what happens. On the plus side the parking out front of my house looks good, and yes I know I need to sweep the stones up. dome, phil_lihp, Coprolalia and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 6 hours ago, High Jetter said: Confessions of a train driver thread please. There is a general railshite thread in the non-car section. High Jetter and LightBulbFun 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busmansholiday Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Saw my first "new" Land Rover Defender today. "How fooooking much", it looks like Postman Pat's van on steroids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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