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[RoverFolkUs]

Obviously the car gods have decided that an engine rebuild on the Focus is not enough for me to contend with, as the Picasso seems to have developed an annoying single click/tap under harsh acceleration and moving off from low speeds

It's almost a bit like a CV joint click but I don't think it is, as it's just a singular "click" noise and isn't rotational. 

I'm thinking possible lower arm bush, but the MOT man didn't flag anything up and it's hardly done any miles since then 

Maybe brake pads rattling in the carrier, it's not going to be an easy one to pinpoint, so that's another thing to sort 🙄

I'm contemplating just buying a 3rd car again 😂

[RayMK]

@stuboy: an Alfa of some sort from the 1960s/70s??

[brownnova]

A night away in a hotel (work purposes) so I took the Pontiac, as it hadn’t had a good run in a while and the battery let MrsB down when she drove it the other day. Came back to the car park to find I had a retro friend. 

Sadly shortly after this was taken I was under the bonnet with the jump pack… a 30 mile dual carriageway jaunt ought to have been enough to charge it I would have thought. So… duff battery, duff alternator or battery drain… 

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, stuboy said:

Popped over to leysdown to do few bits on the villa on way in got a glimpse of this so on way out tried to get a picture... no idea what is

 

Sorry for shite picture

 

1 hour ago, stuboy said:

 

 

36 minutes ago, RayMK said:

@stuboy: an Alfa of some sort from the 1960s/70s??

1300 Junior in a pure AS colour?

[Ghosty]

MX5 has changed colour and topped up my bank account. That was nice of it. 

 

 

Rollcage, alarm, leccy stuff, VVT swap with Megasquirt ECU, years test. 

Should clean up well, and then it'll be sold on. 

[JMotor]

On 6/24/2023 at 11:49 AM, Split_Pin said:

Actually, @JMotor this is Ian Cadden and I think he might have a flywheel going spare.

Managed to get something sorted now. 

But thank you for the heads up bud 👍. 

[JMotor]

On 6/23/2023 at 9:49 PM, Ghosty said:

Collected. No pez shot as it had 3/4 of a tank. 

Smaller wheels and cloth seats FTW. 

103k, ten months test, recent cambelt, ALL THE TOYS, full history, exceptionally clean, low owners, and the a/c works.

It was £1795. 

 

Fucking belter. 

 

 

Ohhh! 

That's an S if I mind right. Same seats as in my Altezza. 

That's a bloody good price for an IS200!

[Ghosty]

3 minutes ago, JMotor said:

Ohhh! 

That's an S if I mind right. Same seats as in my Altezza. 

That's a bloody good price for an IS200!

It is indeed an S no sunroof either. Has the optional cruise though.

[richardmorris]

I’ve just seen a perfect forum car for the summer on the 2cv friends FB page.

 

[stuboy]

20 hours ago, High Jetter said:

 

 

1300 Junior in a pure AS colour?

i was thinking daf..

[High Jetter]

19 minutes ago, stuboy said:

i was thinking daf..

Methinks too wide for that

[The Vicar]

First show today in the 164. Nice experience.

[wuvvum]

Got the new (second hand) driver's window regulator fitted to the Toyota yesterday.

The old one was slightly past its prime...

It was actually fairly straightforward to fit, but annoyingly it doesn't quite wind the window up fully home.  There doesn't seem to be any scope for adjustment anywhere so I'm not sure why it's doing that.  It closes far enough that it's over the inner seal so it should be watertight, but it doesn't quite push all the way home into the outer seal so there's a little bit of wind noise above 60, although nothing too bad.  I'd still rather have a window I can wind down at this time of year, so I'm calling that a win.

Then I got under the 107 and the Rover and did a bit of rustproofing where they'd had MOT advisories.  The 107 could really have done with going over with a flap wheel first but it was too bloody hot to bugger about with that - I might do a better job at a later date if I can be arsed.

This afternoon I went up to welding mate's and we did a bit more on the Renault 6 - it now has an inner sill all the way to the front, and is starting to look structurally pretty sound again.  There's one more large section to replace, then it's just a couple of small holes on the other side.  I'd parked the car on an angle last time I left it and today there was about an inch of rain water in the footwell so the repairs are obviously watertight!  I'm going to have to make more of an effort to find the source of the water ingress now that water can't just run straight out through the holes in the floor...

[HMC]

4 hours ago, richardmorris said:

I’ve just seen a perfect forum car for the summer on the 2cv friends FB page.

 

As seen in morlaix….

Less plums and custard, more hearing aid and prosthetic limb.

[Sunny Jim]

I've been working at Glastonbury where yesterday I had the pleasure* of driving the shonkiest site vehicle I've ever experienced.

This position on the steering wheel set the road wheels dead ahead although there's a good quarter of a turn of slack before anything happens. Clutch pedal has a good couple of inches of slack in the pedal before anything happens and the brakes don't. Fortunately the site speed limit is 15mph.

Oh, and this is the state of the NSR hub. Fucking hippies.

[andyberg]

56 minutes ago, Sunny Jim said:

I've been working at Glastonbury where yesterday I had the pleasure* of driving the shonkiest site vehicle I've ever experienced.

This position on the steering wheel set the road wheels dead ahead although there's a good quarter of a turn of slack before anything happens. Clutch pedal has a good couple of inches of slack in the pedal before anything happens and the brakes don't. Fortunately the site speed limit is 15mph.

Oh, and this is the state of the NSR hub. Fucking hippies.

Really!!!!

[bigfella2]

On 6/22/2023 at 9:12 AM, artdjones said:

205/70/14 front

215/70/14 rear

Smaller than a lot of family cars today.

If we are talking about the Lambo they are way bigger than that.

 

15x8.5 225/50 up front and 15x12 out back and 345/35 tyres!!

[tom13]

FML

[wuvvum]

Transits gonna Transit...

[JJ0063]

I just checked our old transit camper and it looks like it failed its MOT a few weeks ago on rot but has been fixed and passed since! 

[tom13]

The best part is as soon as I finish this side I get to move onto the other side.

[Matty]

On 6/24/2023 at 10:01 PM, stuboy said:

 

Gilbern Invader or genie

[egg]

I love Chris Goffey's 'dad' tweets, they're exactly as you'd expect....

[somewhatfoolish]

That's what they do if you don't cut the grass every 30 minutes at this time of year, TADTS. He should get one of those robot ones, it will still leave lines but they will be squiggly and you can sit and watch it while drinking beer.

[artdjones]

6 hours ago, bigfella2 said:

If we are talking about the Lambo they are way bigger than that.

 

15x8.5 225/50 up front and 15x12 out back and 345/35 tyres!!

I think we're both right, it was the smaller 14" wheels for the first four years of production, then the enormously wide ones after that. Still only 15", though.

[GeordieInExile]

On 6/24/2023 at 5:51 PM, Pat Earrings said:

Happy birthday to me.

I absolutely love this thing. Thanks to @rantingYoofand his father, what a gent.

Has a facelift ever done a better job of improving the look of a car than this? Maybe the 166.

[chancer]

The Duster has been losing power so had a look a while ago an noticed it needed one of these....

£136 quid! EGR pressure sensor pipe. Been putting the job off for a while now, mainly cos it lives down the back of the engine. Actually quite easy once i stripped the airbox and battery out. Took about half an hour all in. Has totally transformed the car, so although the part was expensive, it was much needed. Old one was gubbed

[Stinkwheel]

29 minutes ago, chancer said:

£136 quid! EGR pressure sensor pipe. Been putting the job off for a while now, mainly cos it lives down the back of the engine. Actually quite easy once i stripped the airbox and battery out. Took about half an hour all in. Has totally transformed the car, so although the part was expensive, it was much needed. Old one was gubbed

See, this really annoys me. Why did that need a whole assembly at 136 quid,  wouldnt a short length of suitably rated hose and some quality jubilee clips have fixed that?

In the days i used to work in parts (back in the dim and distant mid to late 90's) we used to tell customers what could be 'circumnavigated' to fix much more cheaply, obviously doesnt happen so much now

[chancer]

7 minutes ago, Stinkwheel said:

See, this really annoys me. Why did that need a whole assembly at 136 quid,  wouldnt a short length of suitably rated hose and some quality jubilee clips have fixed that?

In the days i used to work in parts (back in the dim and distant mid to late 90's) we used to tell customers what could be 'circumnavigated' to fix much more cheaply, obviously doesnt happen so much now

To be fair, the 'hose' part takes a fair bit of pressure and is pretty thick walled and reinforced. I wouldnt trust anything other than the correct part. There are some on ebay for 40 quid, but for the sake of £100 i would rather not have to do it twice

[Stinkwheel]

3 minutes ago, chancer said:

To be fair, the 'hose' part takes a fair bit of pressure and is pretty thick walled and reinforced. I wouldnt trust anything other than the correct part. There are some on ebay for 40 quid, but for the sake of £100 i would rather not have to do it twice

Completely understand the thinking here and thats more than fair enough, its just that to my mind thick wall high pressure oil resistant etc tubing definitely exists off the shelf