wuvvum Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 Maxus passed its MOT today. Total bill including fitting the TRE and ball joint came to £90 - I can live with that! I actually got a call from the garage this morning - whoever booked the van in hadn't realised it'd need a full retest, and they didn't think they'd have time to do it today. Went up there just before 6 (their advertised closing time) and the van was on the brake rollers, so I buggered off and came back a bit later and it was done. I'll need to get the tracking done at some point but other than that it's ready for another happy year of LDVing... AnnoyingPentium, Popsicle, Stevebrookman and 20 others 23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 Oh yeah, I also fitted the new silencer to the Mazda at lunchtime. Bit pointless really as it's not now going to be going in for an MOT in the foreseeable, but I'd bought the thing so thought I might as well put it on. Went OK apart from one of the mounting bolts being rather rusty (came undone OK but was a bit of an effort) and has quietened the car down a bit, although the exhaust is still blowing slightly from the front pipe. While I was out there, many, many geese flew over. Dyslexic Viking, Rust Collector, paulplom and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 Dropped a clanger. Shit. Ghosty and Crackers 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcyonecorporation Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 https://blacktopmagazine.wordpress.com/2022/10/18/novelty-toyota-defiles-historic-japanese-toilet/?preview_id=391&preview_nonce=4450b204bf&preview=true&_thumbnail_id=446 Failing to code my WordPress site very well, so I wrote a story to test it. It's about a WiLL Vi smashing into Japan's oldest toilets. Lacquer Peel and mercedade 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcyonecorporation Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 Oh, and a new battery has been found for the SVX. The Lion it had was old, shit, and driving the gearbox ECU mad. £80 on the Halfords trade card really isn't bad. stuboy, Coprolalia, mercedade and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 3 hours ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said: Any tips for removing a fuel injector that seems to prefer staying in place? don't desire to muller the plastic for the connector. Going from a YT video the chap used some pliers and levered them out, mine seem quite stuck in place. 🤦♂️ Why are you removing injectors before doing a compression test and making damn sure the coil and appropriate lead are good? What year Micra is it? Later K11s had pencil coils, only the early ones had HT leads and a dizzy. SiC and cobblers 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 28 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said: 🤦♂️ Why are you removing injectors before doing a compression test and making damn sure the coil and appropriate lead are good? What year Micra is it? Later K11s had pencil coils, only the early ones had HT leads and a dizzy. It's a very early one, most definitely HT leads and dizzy. HarmonicCheeseburger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 9 minutes ago, Fumbler said: It's a very early one, most definitely HT leads and dizzy. Ah ok, wasn't sure how old it was. Could still swap leads around as there will be more than enough length. Hard to pinpoint the dizzy but they're far more prone to packing up than an injector HarmonicCheeseburger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alusilber Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 So I took the day off today to do an oil change on my 924. Decided to treat it to a new sump plug and washer while I was at it. Drained oil, changed filter, fitted new sump plug, filled with new oil... then I found a sump plug washer on the ground under the car. Yes, it was the new one. Must have fallen off the new sump plug when I was fumbling about under the car trying to fit it 😡. Then when I was backing the car back into the garage, the wind caught the plastic sheeting I had put down to catch the spills and now there's oil all over my monoblock driveway. Which I only got professionally cleaned last month 🤬. Just as well I found another bag of diatomaceous earth in the attic the other day... catsinthewelder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 I've never lost a bet by accident. Hopefully I can keep this up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruffgeezer Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 I put a deposit on a new car today, naturally it's pre-broken and I can't bring it home until something else leaves. A slack ebay dispatch means that the new fuel filter housing for the van is going to be lost in the post for fucking ages. I support the strike, but not ebay bumholes who say they've posted things on the 17th that don't actually make it into the Post Office for a further 2 days. Yoss and Rust Collector 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 3 minutes ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said: 1. We have checked spark the HT lead is sparking 100% fine. 2. We don't have a compression test unit handy and swapping injectors would rule out fuel since C1 fires just fine, running on the basics Spark, Fuel, Air as our diagnosis. 3. With no spark plug in C4 when the engine was fired up while we checked for spark you could hear the air being pushed out of C4, now I know this is not as good as a compression test, but myself and my buddy are confident it has compression. Either it's a dead/stuck injector, or a stuck valve that has not dropped. 1) you can't be 100% sure of that by pulling a plug out and earthing it against the block. Existence of a spark does not equal a good spark. 2) buy one, literally £12.50 and anyone who fiddles with cars needs one. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363846164185? 3) 20 psi would still be compression but it's inadequate. No way you can measure compression accurately by running the engine without a plug in. I'm not sure how you can even come to the conclusion that there's compression when there's nothing to compress! Air will be inducted and escape through the path of least resistance on the compression stroke which will be the spark plug hole. As soon as the plug is back in it'll escape somewhere else - i.e burned valve seat. As I've already said, you don't need to swap injectors around to rule out fuel. Spray some easy start or brake cleaner into the intake and see how it behaves. If it still runs like shit then you know it's definitely getting fuel to cyl 4 along with the air Don't forget you have valve overlap in valve timing. So the test you found on YouTube isn't entirely foolproof Pulling injectors is a ridiculous diagnostic procedure, you have the risk of breaking 2 injectors if they don't come out in one piece, before knowing what your compression figures are If I started pulling injectors before doing a sodding compression test I'd be out of a job. Not really, but you get the point. A burned valve is more likely than a stuck valve.. davehedgehog31, CGSB and Jazoli 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathan_dyane Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 On holiday in US, unexpectedly the hire car is a (brand new, had 4 miles on) Dodge Charger. It's giving me bad thoughts about what a good car the Challenger must be... Split_Pin, Dyslexic Viking, danthecapriman and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 13 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said: I didn't know Milton Keynes had a castle 😲 90 metres of guttering !!! 8k for fascias, soffit and guttering... Gold plated 🤔 Around £100/metre seemed to be the going rate for replacement of the soffit boards (rather than just sticking new over the old) when I looked a couple of months back. The cheapest quote we got for it was 5K, and that required us to provide the scaffolding ourselves. The guy who gave us that quote also very much gave me the impression that the materials used would have "fallen off the back of someone else's van." There's a lot of boarding on this house. The fact that there's three levels of it out back doesn't help in that respect either. Either way I know the guys we have working here just now aren't the cheapest, but I'd rather have a job done properly than done cheaply at the end of the day. The fact that the previous owner of this place had *everything* done by the lowest possible bidder has been one of our biggest headaches since the day we moved in here. mitsisigma01, LightBulbFun and GrumpiusMaximus 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacquer Peel Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 My sister's appliance and the vehicle of the future next to it. It is my favourite vehicle, you feel like you are floating on this boosty veg fuelled cloud, it has an XUD9TF engine with a Bosch pump. I turned up the fuel pump with @Supernaut's assistance, the gearing is quite short but it will do 80MPH uphill and keep accelerating, and keeps up with most traffic now. I put Maxxis all season van tyres on it and it feels very secure on the road now it's cold and wet. It's class. Tickman, Sigmund Fraud, Dyslexic Viking and 26 others 28 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 Perfect registration for Len, too catsinthewelder, wuvvum and Lacquer Peel 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 I'd be interested to try one of those with the XUD9TF. I've had a few but they've either had DW8 power* or DW10 which go well enough but are quite high geared. I did once have a Fiat Ducato van with the turbo XUD and that was hilarious - ran out of revs at 78 in 5th but accelerated like a scalded cat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 Had a Rover 75 in this morning for some MOT repairs to go back for retest elsewhere. It's reaffirmed how much I want one It was a 1.8 Manual so more resembled a boat anchor but I still would Sills were clean with only surface corrosion on the inner side. They looked original too. Only things were the rear upper arms which were very scabby and probably be needing changed before long. Ok for now though Was just all the normal R75 shit - airbag light, exhaust, bonnet stuck shut, cloudy headlights etc but all done now, very refreshing to work on older chod in addition to the modern crap 😁 Especially when I knew exactly how to release the stuck bonnet and sort the SRS light, as does every Rover owner probably! Yoss, Cookiesouwest and wuvvum 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 Well that went well. Unemployed now. Something about blatant disregard for operational security or something like that... AnnoyingPentium, Sunny Jim, catsinthewelder and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 On a more positive note, I've more than met my step goal every day this week! puddlethumper, Lankytim, Lacquer Peel and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 3 minutes ago, reb said: On a more positive note, I've more than met my step goal every day this week! Because of the placement of my cursor, I read that as step goat! I was getting really concerned about you for a bit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacquer Peel Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 5 hours ago, wuvvum said: I'd be interested to try one of those with the XUD9TF. I've had a few but they've either had DW8 power* or DW10 which go well enough but are quite high geared. I did once have a Fiat Ducato van with the turbo XUD and that was hilarious - ran out of revs at 78 in 5th but accelerated like a scalded cat. A DW8 one must be dismal. It goes pretty well with the XUD9TF and even better with the injection pump turned up a little. The gearing is something like 23MPH/1000rpm in this so pretty low geared and thirsty but it's veg, who cares. DodgyBastard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 1 hour ago, Lacquer Peel said: A DW8 one must be dismal. I can confirm. Lacquer Peel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 2 hours ago, reb said: Well that went well. Unemployed now. Something about blatant disregard for operational security or something like that... Based on your description of how shit it made you feel, maybe for the best in the long run before it burned you out completely. Completely understand that you probably wont see the bright side immediately after the "oh shit!" moment of becoming unemployed though! reb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lankytim Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 W00t! The Laguna went and passed! So proud. wuvvum, ProgRocker, GrumpiusMaximus and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 Excellent! Lankytim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 Oh joy, the old soffit boards have now been removed from the house and hey look, two of the gable end rafters are totally rotten. Not entirely surprised, was fully expecting some horrors to be uncovered, still sucks though! adw1977, Wibble, GrumpiusMaximus and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 Just booked the flying lesson I got for my 50th. Wife disappointed she couldn't come - told her at least she wouldn't see the crash. Wibble, Lacquer Peel, GrumpiusMaximus and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Guru Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 53 minutes ago, Bren said: Just booked the flying lesson I got for my 50th. Wife disappointed she couldn't come - told her at least she wouldn't see the crash. Hope you get a nice day. I had one and it took three attempts due to low cloud. Bren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 3 hours ago, Zelandeth said: Oh joy, the old soffit boards have now been removed from the house and hey look, two of the gable end rafters are totally rotten. Not entirely surprised, was fully expecting some horrors to be uncovered, still sucks though! Could be worse, the police found a girls body in the loft in MK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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