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[Noel Tidybeard]

19 hours ago, stuboy said:

 

 

you are bigclivedotcom AICMFP 🤣

[Ghosty]

 

[stuboy]

Gave the spot washer it maiden voyage on the seats I'm the galaxy

[Yoss]

Here's one for the Cat Piss Tarp Challenge. 

And I've no idea what the answer is. 

[stuboy]

13 hours ago, Yoss said:

Here's one for the Cat Piss Tarp Challenge. 

And I've no idea what the answer is. 

road roller?

[Ghosty]

1 hour ago, Yoss said:

Here's one for the Cat Piss Tarp Challenge. 

And I've no idea what the answer is. 

could be an UMM Alter... 

[Ghosty]

and I'm back, 382 miles on the MX-5 trip counter from a single tank of Sainsbury's 97 E5. (I think that's the BP stuff?) 
I'm interested to see how much goes back in as the last time I filled it it did 350 miles to 38l, which is about 41mpg.

And yes, if it's not obvious by now, I've bought a CR-X. It's a Japanese spec SiR - the original top spec, and the precursor to the Type R, with the first generation B16A - 160hp, and the lowest VTEC crossover of any B, at 5500rpm.  
The seller offered to arrange some bodywork that it needed doing as well as delivery which I've taken him up on. It should be here later in the month. 

[Spottedlaurel]

1990s Toyota completes long distance journey shock! The Dash to Dubrovnik duo of Miss SL and BF have successfully made it there in the ex @BorniteIdentity Avensis SR.

They reached Dubrovnik on Friday PM, the final run with the car's gauge showing 36deg. With no working AC apparently the steering wheel was getting a bit sticky....

I didn't appreciate this, but to get there you either drive through a short stretch of Bosnia or get the ferry across to a peninsula which keeps you within Croatia. I believe the latter avoids lack of insurance in Bosnia and that's what they did. Streetview from 2011 shows there to be a quite a lot of older cars in that area, including a garage with a Ford Corsair, so I've put them on alert.

Apparently just a Mondeo FTPed in their group, and a C-Max was on its last legs but did complete the trip. Otherwise I assume the H-reg Panda and other Toyotas all made it OK, they didn't say otherwise.

Scenery looks like it is stunning and accommodation not too expensive and it would be great for me and Mrs SL to do the same thing (on a more leisurely schedule) within the next few years.

In the meantime the pair of them are going to make their way home via Italy and a meandering journey across France. Fingers crossed the Avensis continues to do its thing and they'll be confident driving around Europe on their own rather than with a group.

 

[dozeydustman]

On 30/06/2022 at 18:53, artdjones said:

I cleaned the windows at a car dealer's house today. Some of his stock is usually nice classics, which are kept undercover in some large sheds. However, this was parked in among the normal cars 

Looks like it came from Portugal via Holland 

Oooof!

[SiC]

12 hours ago, Yoss said:

Here's one for the Cat Piss Tarp Challenge. 

And I've no idea what the answer is. 

Polaris Ranger? Popular with farms as a bigger, more practical version of a quad bike. Petrol versions are quick little buggers.

https://www.fwi.co.uk/machinery/atvs/on-test-polaris-ranger-diesel

 

[meggersdog]

It's a nice day today so got up early for a trip to the coast.Made a pack-up, filled a flask got the windbreak out, everything for a day out piled in the car. Get in the Nissan and....click went the starter motor. Never happened before.Luckily I have a few tools at home so first off I cleaned the terminals. Still one single click. The car is an auto so can't stick it in gear and rock the car have to take the starter off. It's a genuine Nissan item  so if original it's not done bad. I flicked the cog with a screwdriver and it moved. Resting the starter on the gearbox for an earth turn the key and it worked. I put 3 in 1 oil on the shaft and re-assembled it. The car starts fine now but I don't trust it enough for a trip out.

 

[Matty]

12 hours ago, Yoss said:

Here's one for the Cat Piss Tarp Challenge. 

And I've no idea what the answer is. 

Wardrobe and two bed side tables?

[BorniteIdentity]

1 hour ago, Spottedlaurel said:

1990s Toyota completes long distance journey shock! The Dash to Dubrovnik duo of Miss SL and BF have successfully made it there in the ex @BorniteIdentity Avensis SR.

They reached Dubrovnik on Friday PM, the final run with the car's gauge showing 36deg. With no working AC apparently the steering wheel was getting a bit sticky....

I didn't appreciate this, but to get there you either drive through a short stretch of Bosnia or get the ferry across to a peninsula which keeps you within Croatia. I believe the latter avoids lack of insurance in Bosnia and that's what they did. Streetview from 2011 shows there to be a quite a lot of older cars in that area, including a garage with a Ford Corsair, so I've put them on alert.

Apparently just a Mondeo FTPed in their group, and a C-Max was on its last legs but did complete the trip. Otherwise I assume the H-reg Panda and other Toyotas all made it OK, they didn't say otherwise.

Scenery looks like it is stunning and accommodation not too expensive and it would be great for me and Mrs SL to do the same thing (on a more leisurely schedule) within the next few years.

In the meantime the pair of them are going to make their way home via Italy and a meandering journey across France. Fingers crossed the Avensis continues to do its thing and they'll be confident driving around Europe on their own rather than with a group.

 

Did you treat it to a regas m8?  It normally works for about 8-12 months once topped up!  Maybe it's finally let go though...

[Spottedlaurel]

40 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Did you treat it to a regas m8?  It normally works for about 8-12 months once topped up!  Maybe it's finally let go though...

I think they did but not sure if it lasted too long. Anyway, they're doing the trip in an older car, can't be having too many fancy things - character building isn't it?.....

[beko1987]

Just open the windows and feel the wind in your hair! 

My dad tells me off for opening the window when I drive his car. All about the air movement 👌

[D.E]

Went to another event yesterday, which was held in a town with the rather unimaginative name Huizen ("Houses").

This Barockengel was my personal favourite, original paint and upholstery:

1930s "Volpi" V16 racer:

1904 White:

Many more pics behind the spoiler!

Spoiler

 

[wuvvum]

44 minutes ago, D.E said:

This Barockengel was my personal favourite, original paint and upholstery:

 

The what now???

[D.E]

9 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

The what now???

German nickname for the 501/502 series🙂

[junkyarddog]

Picked this up last Friday evening. 

1996 VW Golf 3,1.9 N/A diesel.

She's a ripe one,but it runs good so will make a good engine doner for a Mk2 Golf. 

Ideally I wanted a turbodiesel one,but these are now extremely thin on the ground. 

I do have a 1.6 turbodiesel engine I was going to use,but needed various extra parts,crankshaft pulley,power steering pulley,starter,vacuum pump,and various other bits n pieces so in the end it was more cost effective to pick up a runner and cannibalize that.

Bosch injection system too,so veg friendly.

216k,and it has history up until 148k,timing belt was done at 207k along with the water pump,but the camshaft seal is weeping and the belt has the appearance of being a bit damp,so will have those jobs to attend to.

Spending it's life on the west coast of Ireland hasn't done the body work any favours at all,the Atlantic coast is vicious.

 

 

[junkyarddog]

Picked this up at a boot sale today.

1980s Sharp Cassette player. 

Paid €5.00 for it,that's my limit for this kind of stuff.

Pleased to say it actually works well.

[MikeR]

FFS that F1 crash was bit of a bottom twitcher !!!!

and he thankfully walked away from it ...

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10977913/Zhou-Guanyu-George-Russell-involved-horror-crash-British-Grand-Prix.html

[Noel Tidybeard]

ironic that the safety equipment caused it to flip

[Pat Earrings]

I did a buy today. Best car I’ve owned by a mile, and I’ve owned a fair few. Powerful, comfortable, practical and economical. Love it and it’s a treat to myself. Literally nothing needs doing. When I get a chance, I’ll clay bar and ceramic coat it. 

[Dyslexic Viking]

Checked the prices of Volvo 240s now and it looks like I will never be able to afford one again. All under 3,000 pounds in Norway are rusty wrecks. This below is a 2200 pound 240 in Norway.

It is also an auto something I dislike as much as the rust. So this makes me sad as I like these and would love to have one again.

[Spottedlaurel]

12 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Did you treat it to a regas m8?  It normally works for about 8-12 months once topped up!  Maybe it's finally let go though...

A bit cooler today, just 34deg, and they sent a pic of this neat mileage as they headed back up the Adriatic coastline:

1,721 miles recorded from Norfolk before they turned around headed for home. Looking at their route they'll be close to 4,000 by the time they get back here.

Apparently the car is using a bit of oil - particularly on the hills - and the wiper motor is suspect, but otherwise it's going well.

[wuvvum]

Got the gearbox mount on the Innocenti changed yesterday.  It was fairly straightforward in the end, everything came undone easily, it took a little while to prise the old inner mount out of the metal frame and the gearbox needed some wrangling with the jack to get the holes to line up, but overall it was relatively easy.

Knackered old mount out, shiny new mount in.

And all back together again.

Took it for a drive and the dreadful whining / scraping noise it used to make under acceleration in the lower gears has completely gone, so that's a result.  I tried adjusting the clutch cable having managed to free off the adjuster, but it's not given me any more bite, just more free play at the pedal, so I'm definitely going to have to do the clutch at some point.  I also changed the fuel filter as the one on there was ancient and rather manky looking - took a couple of attempts as I didn't get a good enough seal first time around to allow the fuel pump to pull petrol through.  It's running a bit better but still kangaroos occasionally under acceleration.  I've ordered it a new air filter as the existing one hasn't been changed in my ownership and is looking a bit grey - when that arrives I'm going to take the housing off and give the carb a good blast out with cleaner, see if that sorts it.

I made a start on the Volvo brakes - didn't get as far as I wanted as the weather was a bit variable, but I've got the nearside rear caliper off.  To my surprise the brake pipe union came undone easily - the caliper bolts took a bit more persuasion though (not a lot of clearance and suspension bits in the way so I couldn't get a breaker bar on there, ended up using a ratchet and twatting it with a lump hammer, not ideal but it worked).  The caliper can't be removed from the disc with the brake pipe still attached as it's a rigid pipe - the flexis run to the axle just to the nearside of the diff and then it's metal pipes from there to the calipers - so I've sealed (hopefully) the end of the pipe off with a female union blocked up with JB Weld.  I will just double check it in the morning to make sure the fluid level hasn't dropped - if it does I might have to put a clamp on the flexi.  I've cleared several decades' worth of cobwebs and dead leaves off the caliper and squirted some penetrating oil round the pad retaining pins - I'm going to have a go at getting them out and lubing up the pistons tomorrow when I finish work.

I had a quick look at the air filter on the Rover 75 as that hasn't been changed since I bought the car either and I've done a few miles in it now.  It actually still looks pretty clean, although there were some paper towels in the housing for some reason which was a little odd.  Annoyingly when doing the housing bolts back up I managed to drop a 5mm Allen key and it disappeared into the bowels of the engine bay.  Fortunately it's at the opposite end of the engine to all the spinny bits so touch wood it's unlikely to get caught up in anything, and it was only a cheap Rolson job anyway, but it means I now have another incomplete set which is annoying.

I've upgraded the horns on the Maxus and the 107.  Each had a single tone disc horn, the Maxus' was low tone and the 107's was high tone.  So I bought a pair of disc horns off eBay for the princely sum of £5.22, and fitted the high tone to the van and the low tone to the Pug, using piggyback connectors.  The Maxus was easy enough to do but the 107 was more of a pain - the horn is behind the bumper and the only easy way to get to it is to take the undertray off, but when I tried this one of the captive nuts came loose and just span, so I ended up having to prise the wheel arch liner away from the bumper and squeeze my hands through the gap.  Got there in the end, and the horn sounds rather less pathetic now so that's good.

That was about it for the weekend's fettling - I've got a couple of bits on order (brake pads for the Renault 6 and a headlight relay for the 121) which should be here during the week, so that's the plan for next weekend, weather permitting.

[RoverFolkUs]

Just sprung to mind that I passed a house the other day with 90's-00's PSA chod aplenty parked outside! 

Out one side was a pre facelift Citroen Berlingo, 2x silver Xsara Coupe's, a silver Xsara estate and round the other driveway was a Xsara Coupe that looked immaculately clean, with no reg plates, in that fetching yellow/gold colour like the one below

Taking a look on streetview, they've clearly been 90's-00's PSA chod botherers for some time:

In 2009: (ignoring the Octavia)

In 2011:

In 2012: 

(Would love to know whats under that cover, which can also be seen in 2009 from another angle)

In 2015:

In 2018: 

And 2020: 

I love how shonky the blue van is. 

I wish I had time to stop and speak to the owner!

That Xsara estate is the one I saw the other day, none of the Xsara Coupe's were in these streetview images unfortunately. I thought they're pretty rare now? So was surprised to see someone with three of them! 

[wuvvum]

14 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

I love how shonky the blue van is.

Any Sevel Sud van of that generation painted in anything other than white will eventually lose its paint.

[Split_Pin]

8 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Got the gearbox mount on the Innocenti changed yesterday.  It was fairly straightforward in the end, everything came undone easily, it took a little while to prise the old inner mount out of the metal frame and the gearbox needed some wrangling with the jack to get the holes to line up, but overall it was relatively easy.

Knackered old mount out, shiny new mount in.

And all back together again.

Took it for a drive and the dreadful whining / scraping noise it used to make under acceleration in the lower gears has completely gone, so that's a result.  I tried adjusting the clutch cable having managed to free off the adjuster, but it's not given me any more bite, just more free play at the pedal, so I'm definitely going to have to do the clutch at some point.  I also changed the fuel filter as the one on there was ancient and rather manky looking - took a couple of attempts as I didn't get a good enough seal first time around to allow the fuel pump to pull petrol through.  It's running a bit better but still kangaroos occasionally under acceleration.  I've ordered it a new air filter as the existing one hasn't been changed in my ownership and is looking a bit grey - when that arrives I'm going to take the housing off and give the carb a good blast out with cleaner, see if that sorts it.

I made a start on the Volvo brakes - didn't get as far as I wanted as the weather was a bit variable, but I've got the nearside rear caliper off.  To my surprise the brake pipe union came undone easily - the caliper bolts took a bit more persuasion though (not a lot of clearance and suspension bits in the way so I couldn't get a breaker bar on there, ended up using a ratchet and twatting it with a lump hammer, not ideal but it worked).  The caliper can't be removed from the disc with the brake pipe still attached as it's a rigid pipe - the flexis run to the axle just to the nearside of the diff and then it's metal pipes from there to the calipers - so I've sealed (hopefully) the end of the pipe off with a female union blocked up with JB Weld.  I will just double check it in the morning to make sure the fluid level hasn't dropped - if it does I might have to put a clamp on the flexi.  I've cleared several decades' worth of cobwebs and dead leaves off the caliper and squirted some penetrating oil round the pad retaining pins - I'm going to have a go at getting them out and lubing up the pistons tomorrow when I finish work.

I had a quick look at the air filter on the Rover 75 as that hasn't been changed since I bought the car either and I've done a few miles in it now.  It actually still looks pretty clean, although there were some paper towels in the housing for some reason which was a little odd.  Annoyingly when doing the housing bolts back up I managed to drop a 5mm Allen key and it disappeared into the bowels of the engine bay.  Fortunately it's at the opposite end of the engine to all the spinny bits so touch wood it's unlikely to get caught up in anything, and it was only a cheap Rolson job anyway, but it means I now have another incomplete set which is annoying.

I've upgraded the horns on the Maxus and the 107.  Each had a single tone disc horn, the Maxus' was low tone and the 107's was high tone.  So I bought a pair of disc horns off eBay for the princely sum of £5.22, and fitted the high tone to the van and the low tone to the Pug, using piggyback connectors.  The Maxus was easy enough to do but the 107 was more of a pain - the horn is behind the bumper and the only easy way to get to it is to take the undertray off, but when I tried this one of the captive nuts came loose and just span, so I ended up having to prise the wheel arch liner away from the bumper and squeeze my hands through the gap.  Got there in the end, and the horn sounds rather less pathetic now so that's good.

That was about it for the weekend's fettling - I've got a couple of bits on order (brake pads for the Renault 6 and a headlight relay for the 121) which should be here during the week, so that's the plan for next weekend, weather permitting.

I think the housing screws for mine are 6mm, strange. I use an extra long allen key to get to the ones down the back. The most stupid design ever, imagine having to take off an engine cover, ducting and then another cover just to change an air filter!? The filter is inordinately large too, almost as big as a lorry one.

[BorniteIdentity]

8 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

A bit cooler today, just 34deg, and they sent a pic of this neat mileage as they headed back up the Adriatic coastline:

1,721 miles recorded from Norfolk before they turned around headed for home. Looking at their route they'll be close to 4,000 by the time they get back here.

Apparently the car is using a bit of oil - particularly on the hills - and the wiper motor is suspect, but otherwise it's going well.

Was it serviced before it went off and - if so - did he put 5w30 in it?  I found it would use 5, but 10w40 would do a good 5-6,000 miles without needing a fill up.  I used to just service it every 5k so there was less oil to get rid of!

The little yellow light will ALWAYS come on when the oil level gets to the minimum mark on the stick, at which time it needs another litre to go from empty mark to full mark.  

Good to see it plodding.  Superb old thing.