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[SiC]

2 hours ago, Supernaut said:

 

Sorry. It had to be done.

It was intentional!

[brownnova]

For the last few weeks the XC90 hasn’t done the bulk of the work, it’s done all of it. A lack of time to do anything with any other car meant that easiest was the only way. Anyway now the pesky school inspectors have fucked off I had a couple of hours to use doing something car related. The 2CV is out of MoT next week, and last time I went to use it the battery was dead and the interior had got damp when I stored it outside for a couple of weeks and therefore was a little mouldy. Fast forward three weeks and… 

Yeah that’s grim, 

So it was a couple of hours cleaning. 

Turns out the inside had got quite grubby, I felt like it needed mopping out!

From there it was MoT checks, one rear light had a bit of a loose connection, and the fog light wasn’t working (wiring not the bulb). Those were sorted. But the non working screen wash was not, not quite sure why that’s not working. But other than that… nothing obvious. 

[gm]

3 hours ago, DVee8 said:

@gm, where have I been today?

 

you been down the cluny for sunday afternoon beers ? nice 

[Yoss]

2 hours ago, BeEP said:

Took the trailer for a morning out to Hertfordshire and somehow this followed me home...

 

Calender shot. 

[riek]

The Gold, on bbc1 right now has some pretty prime chod.

 

Would the met have been using a P6 in 1983 tho?

 

 

 

 

[adw1977]

3 hours ago, BeEP said:

I should probably make an effort to update my thread

Definitely, we need to hear more about these two.

[wuvvum]

4 hours ago, BeEP said:

Took the trailer for a morning out to Hertfordshire and somehow this followed me home...

I should probably make an effort to update my thread, because a month ago this did the same...

Ooh!  Limeflower?

Definitely need more on the Montego as well.  A diesel estate is still on my bucket list.  Is the Transit yours as well?

[wuvvum]

Did a bit of pottering with the fleet this weekend but I really couldn't be arsed to attempt any big jobs, so the Rover 75 has sat untouched.  Yesterday I had a bit of a play with the MG - I took the front wheels off to investigate how much of a pisser it'd be to remove the hubs so I can take them to the garage and get new bearings pressed in.  Most of the bolts look like they'd come undone with a bit of persuasion, but the top ball joint nut on both sides is rusty AF.  I've given them a liberal dousing in Plus Gas and left them - I'll try cracking them off another day.  While I was on wheels I got the two locking wheel nuts off the back after some hammering, and all four locking nuts have been replaced with normal ones.

Then I backed the car up onto the ramps to have a proper look at the exhaust blow.  It's blowing from the join between the cat and the silencer - there is very little left of the bolts (if indeed that's what they were) and the chances of getting them out were pretty much zilch, so I found three small G clamps and stuck them on the flange next to the remains of the bolts - once tightened they held the exhaust together a bit better, there's still a blow but it's a bit quieter than it was.

I've actually been wondering whether the wheel bearing noise on the front is actually the tyres - they are 10-year-old Kormorans and are both cracked and rock hard.  The noise definitely sounds wheel bearingy but the sound doesn't change under cornering load which I'd normally expect with a noisy bearing.  I might try fitting the spare wheel onto the driver's side next time I get a spare half hour to see if that changes anything.

After that I gave the Toyota a wash, then I brought the MG round and gave it a very quick one-bucket wrong 'un to get the worst of the dirt off - I need to do some paintwork rectification on it at some point and that's easier to do when it's clean.  And that's all I could be arsed to do yesterday.

Today I've mostly been playing with the Visa.  It's back together again - I'd removed and dismantled the carb to see if I could find any reason the needle valve might not be closing, but I couldn't find anything obvious - the float is moving freely and the valve is doing what it should - with the carb up the right way I can blow into the fuel inlet, with it upside down I can't.  There was some crud around the base of the valve in the fuel inlet pipework which I've cleaned out, but nothing else untoward that I found.  The carb is now back on and the car is running on the original mechanical fuel pump (which should in theory be lower pressure than the electric pump it's been running on until now), with a fuel filter added into the line for good measure as it's hitherto been running filterless.  I've also refitted the bonnet latch so the bonnet now closes properly rather than relying on the emergency catch to stay closed.  The carb hasn't flooded again since I reinstated the original fuel pump, although that doesn't mean owt as before it'd sometimes run for 15-20 minutes before flooding and conking out.  I ran out of time to take it for a drive so that'll have to wait for another day.  It now won't idle off choke though, which is a bit strange - it idles fine on choke when cold but as soon as it warms up having the choke on makes it splutter and eventually conk out, as you'd expect.  I might try the easy way out of adjusting the idle via the screw on the throttle stop - it's going to be a pain in the arse having to keep blipping the throttle to keep it running.

I think I may have killed the battery on the Maxus.  I went to visit a mate in it on Friday evening - I had to jump start it, nothing unusual there as it doesn't get used very often and it has a minor battery drain somewhere which I've not been able to find.  When I left my mate's to come home though, there wasn't enough in the battery to start the van, despite having driven 12 miles just a few hours earlier.  My jump pack was also nearly flat so my mate had to fire up his car and put jump leads across - which will have endeared me to his neighbours given that it was gone 1am by then.  I stuck the battery on charge overnight and it just about had enough guts to start the van this morning, but I'm not confident that it's holding a charge properly.  I've disconnected it and I'm going to try it again tomorrow morning - if it's gone flat on its own I know it's shagged.  It's mildly annoying as I only bought the battery a few months ago, but it's probably partly my fault for letting it go flat over the winter.  I do have a plan though - I have £75 worth of lifestyle vouchers from work which can be spent, among others, at Halford's.  A new 110 battery with a 3-year guarantee is 91 quid - with vouchers applied that results in a net cost to me of £16, and if the van does kill it I can just take it back and get a new one...

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, BeEP said:

Took the trailer for a morning out to Hertfordshire and somehow this followed me home...

I should probably make an effort to update my thread, because a month ago this did the same.

Ooh! 2 of the finest!

[High Jetter]

31 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Ooh!  Limeflower?

It does look like it, a bit late tho?

[SiC]

I thought that ADO16 was more harvest gold 

[wuvvum]

I did wonder.  The problem is that limeflower through one digital camera can look extremely similar to harvest gold through another camera.

[High Jetter]

Limeflower is quite a bit greener:

Harvest Gold:

Very similar to Sandglow:

Who was it had loads of colour brochures?

[BeEP]

8 hours ago, High Jetter said:

It does look like it, a bit late tho?

It's definitely limeflower, which continued until the end of 1973.  My August '73 1100 is limeflower (pictured below), and it was available on the earliest (1973) Allegros.  I do agree that depending on the lighting and camera used, limeflower can look like harvest gold in photos, and to a lesser extent vice versa.

[stuboy]

Missus/her brother and kids going away on there yearly pilgrimage to butlins, and asked to use the galaxy .. I said yeah just clear me a space for.... trolley jack....jump leads... straps.. box of crap, old towels,  an axle stand, and other random crap... and the 7th seat she needed  out for luggage...  bet she glad she not want the mondeo emptied out... 

[SiC]

Doesn't help there are different shades of Harvest Gold depending on the years. My BGT is lighter than original earlier. 

[TagoraSX]

Can any shitters in the Midlands recommend a decent and reliable classic car restoration garage?

No body work, some reassembly and recommissioning.

[MiniMinorMk3]

5 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Who was it had loads of colour brochures?

That'll be me.

That ADO16 is Limeflower.

[mitsisigma01]

Mcgard locking wheel nuts 😡😡😡😡😡😡 has anyone had the pleasure of trying to remove the ones with the fat spinning collar... Obviously done up full whack by a Kwikfit monkey, signs of at least two of them having broken bits of key in them and on another a mate has wanged a socket on and got it stuck as well 🙄🙄🙄 .All help gratefully appreciated 🙏🙏

[SiC]

6 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

That'll be me.

That ADO16 is Limeflower.

 

I agree that it's Limeflower. That said the two are very close together. 

Maybe limeflower is when the painters don't clean their guns when changing from Green Mallard to harvest gold. 🤣

[Back_For_More]

6 sodding hours as the rear d-side bearing was fubar'd.  The caliper carrier bolts were a complete nightmare aamd took most of the afternoon Air chisel eventually got the bearing out. 

Now I can hear the other side 🤬That'll be next Saturday taken care of then..... 

Forester Turbo is proving a commendable hack and sounding like Mcrae down the local single track lanes is always a laugh..... 

[wuvvum]

So this happened.

[Rust Collector]

1 hour ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Mcgard locking wheel nuts 😡😡😡😡😡😡 has anyone had the pleasure of trying to remove the ones with the fat spinning collar... Obviously done up full whack by a Kwikfit monkey, signs of at least two of them having broken bits of key in them and on another a mate has wanged a socket on and got it stuck as well 🙄🙄🙄 .All help gratefully appreciated 🙏🙏

How thick is the spinning collar? All the ones I've come up against so far I've been able to split the collar with a sharp chisel and then once that's out the way it's business as usual with 12 point socket and a lump hammer.

[mitsisigma01]

18 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

How thick is the spinning collar

about 4mm ish

[mitsisigma01]

How about getting off the Halfords advanced socket my mate wanged on with a lump hammer 🙄☹️

[mitsisigma01]

It wouldn't surprise me if all the others without the locking wheel nuts have been gunned up to 3,000,000 lb as well .☹️

I've got an uggadugga that goes to 450 , anyone nearby got a bigger one 🤔

Failing that I've got a 4ft pole to go over my socket wrench,let's see how good Halfords advanced stuff is 🤞

Just going to take some Valium and then have a go... 🤯

 

[PicantoJon]

So changing the bleed nipples on the Picanto went well, only two of four were utter bastards... Pleasingly enough none of them broke so I'm calling it a win. 😁

[Asimo]

7 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Mcgard locking wheel nuts 😡😡😡😡😡😡 has anyone had the pleasure of trying to remove the ones with the fat spinning collar... Obviously done up full whack by a Kwikfit monkey, signs of at least two of them having broken bits of key in them and on another a mate has wanged a socket on and got it stuck as well 🙄🙄🙄 .All help gratefully appreciated 🙏🙏

May not be exactly the same type.   I removed all four from a colleague’s SaaB 93, they had a spinning collar.
I hammered a 12point socket over the collar, which crushed it enough to grip the bolt.

Important to use a T bar on the sockets so that you just apply torque and no side-load to the socket.

Because side-load

a) increases the thread’s friction 

b) tries to pull the socket off the stupid, pointless, annoying  locking thing.

[RoverFolkUs]

Anyone fancy playing "guess the car"? 

Clue: it took me back in time, used to be everywhere, hardly see many about any more....

[Asimo]

1 hour ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Anyone fancy playing "guess the car"? 

Clue: it took me back in time, used to be everywhere, hardly see many about any more....

Ford,  Ka?