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[Popsicle]

3 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

That happened to me once, as Hijets have a gap in the channels to remove the door. Fuck me, they're heavy!

Side doors are stupidly heavy, I've changed a couple on Sprinters deffo a 2 man job.

[Six-cylinder]

Like a Mini Shitefest!

 

For those who don’t trawl through my 547 pages of drivel this weekend Friday-Saturday-Sunday-Monday 26-27-28-29 May we are opening up our small holding known as FoD to Autoshite members to visit.

Visit for an hour, day or the long weekend.

Camping for FREE is welcome as is entry.

Family’s and Pets are welcome.

Camping with us and going off and doing your own thing is welcome.

What is there to do:

·         Sit around, Drink tea and chat

·         Plenty of space for ball games

·         Great footpaths for a walk and bridleways if you bring your horse

·         Work on your own car or stuff you bring

·         Fit the engine back in our Saab 95 and make it run

·         Wire the headlights on our Peugeot 404

·         Make a moped or two run again so we have site transport

·         Can we make it run, Vauxhall Royal edition

·         Scalextric  

·         Camp fire

For guidance the nearest large town is Milton Keynes

PM me for joining instructions or questions.

 

[GingerNuttz]

Holes......

Pillar is fine so that's a win 🤣

[Split_Pin]

10 minutes ago, GingerNuttz said:

Holes......

Pillar is fine so that's a win 🤣

That whole floor looks buggered does it not?

[GingerNuttz]

17 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

That whole floor looks buggered does it not?

It's alright behind the white chalk line according to the pointy hammer 😂

The underfelt stuff on the carpet has been holding water so the floor is all surface rust, will know more once I hit it with the grinder. 

 

[Saabnut]

Saabnut wanders off to a quiet corner, sobbing gently!  

I think we can safely say that without @GingerNuttzand his magic sparkly stick, Delilah as this Rover is known (reg no WYY) would not have been long for this planet!

[cort1977]

Is that the P5?  Looked so solid as well.

[GingerNuttz]

1 hour ago, cort1977 said:

Is that the P5?  Looked so solid as well.

Aye it's the P5. 

It deffo looked more solid when I glanced at it the other day but the pointy hammer soon ruined that  🤣

[SiC]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who buys a shiny classic and find out it's not after a few judicial prods!

If you enjoyed doing that with the P5, there is always my Dolomite Sprint that needs finishing 😁

[GingerNuttz]

22 minutes ago, SiC said:

I'm glad I'm not the only one who buys a shiny classic and find out it's not after a few judicial prods!

If you enjoyed doing that with the P5, there is always my Dolomite Sprint that needs finishing 😁

Haven't you finished it yet ?

I've not browsed the forum much over the past little while with all the shit I've had going on 😂

[SiC]

2 minutes ago, GingerNuttz said:

Haven't you finished it yet ?

I've not browsed the forum much over the past little while with all the shit I've had going on 😂

I've not touched or done anything on it for over a year. It's going up to storage and stashed away for a while. Frees up garage room for my BGT/Spitfire to be rotated around with storage and I need to get my MG Midget finished. 

Life is too damn busy. 

[GingerNuttz]

Just now, SiC said:

I've not touched or done anything on it for over a year. It's going up to storage and stashed away for a while. Frees up garage room for my BGT/Spitfire to be rotated around with storage and I need to get my MG Midget finished. 

Life is too damn busy. 

Didn't know you had a Spitfire either, I really need to catch up on some of the threads this weekend.

I've found my mojo again past couple of weeks after going through a bit of mad depression plus the new meds they've got me on for epilepsy are like speed 🤣 

[ruffgeezer]

V50 sold to a couple of Bulgarian chaps.  

I was a little put off the whole idea when, on test drive, the buyer proceeded to hammer down the cul de sac at what felt like 80 and then stood on the brakes (the pedal is a little long since I replaced the rear discs and pads).

I think he might need a new back seat now... 💩

[richardmorris]

Another request today for a 2cv for a wedding as the phone rang just as I was walking through the door. 
addlestone to lyne and on to valley end. If anyone knows of a white (ish) 2cv available on the 8th July let me know please.  Mine is ok and the mother’s choice but not the brides!

[Hertz]

On 5/20/2023 at 7:56 PM, w00dy said:

A serious lack of space for my leg to operate the brake pedal gave me all the excuse I needed to fit one of my favourite wheels of all time.

Which Porker is that off? I have been looking for a replacement wheel for ours as the rubber has come away at the top. 

[richardmorris]

13 minutes ago, Hertz said:

Which Porker is that off? I have been looking for a replacement wheel for ours as the rubber has come away at the top. 

928? 944?

[barefoot]

944.

[w00dy]

47 minutes ago, Hertz said:

Which Porker is that off? I have been looking for a replacement wheel for ours as the rubber has come away at the top. 

944, but 924, 968 will also work I did have to space out the horn contact ring 6mm using motherboard spacers and extend the main shaft spacer 6mm by cutting a second one down, but it's the work of 10minites or so. If you have a non assisted van I wouldn't recommend it as the wheel is a lot smaller, but it's no problem on a PAS van.

 

I bought a slightly rough looking brown one and dyed it black to save a few quid which was easy with a sponge and some furniture clinic dye.

[Popsicle]

Been struggling to get to the bottom of why the aircon in the Vectra wasn't working, new condensor fitted a couple of months ago as the old one had a big hole in it - had it regased and it pressured up fine but the compressor wouldn't kick in. Fault code showing for AC relay, popped a new one in and still the same, the compressor clutch would kick in if you shorted it so it seemed like a wiring problem. I'm crap with wiring so got a local auto-electrician who specialises in aircon faults to have a look. Took him 15 minutes to fix it, wiring from the ecu to ac relay was faulty, so he replaced it and the aircon is freezing cold and working again - happy days!

Never used the young lad before but he seemed to know his stuff, pulled up a wiring diagram of the system on his laptop and sorted the fault in minutes, for £70 including coming out to us I'm well happy with that - happy to pass the guys number on if anybody has any aircon faults in the Derby area.

 

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Another request today for a 2cv for a wedding as the phone rang just as I was walking through the door. 
addlestone to lyne and on to valley end. If anyone knows of a white (ish) 2cv available on the 8th July let me know please.  Mine is ok and the mother’s choice but not the brides!

J Walshe Esq has a red one on the road, must be some white ones tho?

[Ghosty]

They're all in Wales

[brownnova]

31 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

They're all in Wales

Some of it’s white! 

[trigger]

I had a phone call last week from the previous owner of my Dolomite, his brother was interested in seeing if I'd be willing to sell him back his dad's old car... Well I do need to sell a car as I'm short on space but I wasn't in any rush to sell the Dolomite though so I had a think about it.

This evening the brother rang me saying he saw it last week at a toy fair and had fallen in love with it again and made me a fair offer on it so I said yes, bit sad as the car is absolutely immaculate and I doubt I'll find another like it but it feels like the right thing to do, I think...

[SiC]

To continue the Dolomite theme, I sanded down the filler work I started and threw some paint on to prevent the bare metal from rusting over.

Tomorrow it's off to storage for a bit and allow me to get some headspace on my other cars. I think I've nearly done as many miles with it on a transporter than when I drove it home from buying it!



I appear to have forgotten to take any photos apart from that one...
I'll do some more tomorrow. That said it'll only so you can admire/laugh at my appalling paint skills and the paint runs.

It's only a temporary covering as it'll need more filler work and finish welding up the bottom of the arch. Good enough for now though.

[SiC]

6 hours ago, GingerNuttz said:

Didn't know you had a Spitfire either, I really need to catch up on some of the threads this weekend.

I've found my mojo again past couple of weeks after going through a bit of mad depression plus the new meds they've got me on for epilepsy are like speed 🤣 

I need some mojo topping up! Probably do need to see the docs about sorting some on going stuff out but such a pia to get an appointment nowadays.

Spitfire is recent - bought it from N Dentressangle on here. Runner and driver, so not any real excitement on it. Before that was a Rover P4 110 that I had just over a month - now also owned on here by Zelandeth. 

[GingerNuttz]

Sill over a sill. 

Floor half welded in before I ran outta gas. 

[Back_For_More]

Now THAT'S a Rover we can associate with.... My P6 is just as bad if not worse. 

Who are you using for panels? What's the fit like? 

[GingerNuttz]

23 minutes ago, Back_For_More said:

Now THAT'S a Rover we can associate with.... My P6 is just as bad if not worse. 

Who are you using for panels? What's the fit like? 

I make the panels myself out of 1.2mm steel.

[Zelandeth]

If I ever find whoever it was who stuck down the rocker cover gasket I have just changed with what appeared to be blue Loctite, I intend to make them *eat* the remains of said gasket.

Nearly three bloody hours of scraping to get most of that off.

[Lankytim]

Slowly adding things like indicators and sidelights to the 145, it’s more an exercise to see if I have all the parts there or not. I’ll get there eventually!