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[stuboy]

Some moped work today... 

 

Just fed up its still in bits,  it's not 100% still but I felt positive

[somewhatfoolish]

4 hours ago, Barry Cade said:

A good mate just bought a Wolseley 15/50, turns out it's a manumatic... I've been doing a lot of reading and learning,  but looks like the engine and box have to come out..😕 I've told him just to make it a normal manual, but am intrigued.  I need to stop volunteering for shit..

The Manumatic Clutch. Sounds mildly terrifying but if it can be preserved it probably should be.

[Noel Tidybeard]

11 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

The Manumatic Clutch. Sounds mildly terrifying but if it can be preserved it probably should be.

sounds like C-Matic as found on green blooded things

[Pete-M]

On 9/18/2023 at 12:06 AM, High Jetter said:

I hear thunder....

Probably the moment my new pressure washer was delivered...

#RainGod

[Pete-M]

36 minutes ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

sounds like C-Matic as found on green blooded things

I drove a 911 with Sportomatic many years ago,  same kinda thing. 

[Barry Cade]

2 hours ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

sounds like C-Matic as found on green blooded things

Or the RO 80.. 😯

[SiC]

16 hours ago, Barry Cade said:

A good mate just bought a Wolseley 15/50, turns out it's a manumatic... I've been doing a lot of reading and learning,  but looks like the engine and box have to come out..😕 I've told him just to make it a normal manual, but am intrigued.  I need to stop volunteering for shit..

Each to their own but for me the manumatic is the most interesting thing about the car. Very few are left and it's a fascinating system of a dead end technology that I'm sure some engineers spent a good part of their life refining but then having it dropped as a product once in the marketplace.

[High Jetter]

6 hours ago, SiC said:

Each to their own but for me the manumatic is the most interesting thing about the car. Very few are left and it's a fascinating system of a dead end technology that I'm sure some engineers spent a good part of their life refining but then having it dropped as a product once in the marketplace.

Why is that, though? Did customers not take to it or was it problematic in use?

[TheOtherStu]

On 9/19/2023 at 2:04 PM, aldo135 said:

Just came off it. Fair play you are right, it was interesting. I’ve had very little training in the 26ish years I’ve been driving so was probably overdue! I had it in my head it would be patronising and kind of like “getting a row” but it was informative and useful. Definitely better than 3 points too 😂

I was one of the first to do it online in 2020 (they had to, because of Covid). Have to say, it wasn't the most dull thing I'd ever done. Some of the people on it were just fucking idiots though. People who genuinely don't know speed limits. One person even said that the national speed limit was 40. How she got a speeding ticket, I have no idea.

Another one thought that most speed cameras didn't work, so she just ignores them all. I do wonder though why it took so long for her to get caught so I asked. Turned out it was the second time she'd attended a course.

What I didn't know was that there are 2 courses. A Motorway one and a Non-motorway one. As I was caught on the A11, I have done the non-motorway one.
My son admitted that he's done both and still has no points 🤣

[Barry Cade]

6 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Why is that, though? Did customers not take to it or was it problematic in use?

On reading the factory manual, it required a lot of setting up to make it work properly, it has vacuum operated throttle controls to increase revs to match road speed, and shut the throttle off when changing gear, independent of the actual throttle cable, and controlled by 2 solenoids, along with  a centrifugal clutch for taking off, as well as a normal, but vacuum operated normal clutch once moving. Everything runs on vacuum using rubber bellows. Looks like quite a few special tools are needed too and I'd imagine parts are very difficult to find.  I reckon I could make it all work, but the car itself is pretty rough and has been off the road for about 10 years, so needs a lot of work.

[Rod/b]

The evaporator on my SLK busted so after acquiring a new one from Slovenia of all places, I took it into my favourite workshop and told them to do the needful, which they did.

 

It was also looking a bit shabby so it's getting a full respray too. The clear coat had blown on the bonnet roof and bootlid and it had a few dinks and scratches so it's getting the works. Prep work underway...

 

 

[richardmorris]

21 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

The Manumatic Clutch. Sounds mildly terrifying but if it can be preserved it probably should be.

Sound like something from Wallace and gromit.

[richardmorris]

Saw my first 73 plate car this morning. Hideous all black Range Rover. Blacked out badges too.

[richardmorris]

2 hours ago, Rod/b said:

The evaporator on my SLK busted so after acquiring a new one from Slovenia of all places, I took it into my favourite workshop and told them to do the needful, which they did.

 

It was also looking a bit shabby so it's getting a full respray too. The clear coat had blown on the bonnet roof and bootlid and it had a few dinks and scratches so it's getting the works. Prep work underway...

 

 

Where is that?

[Wibble]

2 hours ago, Rod/b said:

The evaporator on my SLK busted so after acquiring a new one from Slovenia of all places, I took it into my favourite workshop and told them to do the needful, which they did.

 

It was also looking a bit shabby so it's getting a full respray too. The clear coat had blown on the bonnet roof and bootlid and it had a few dinks and scratches so it's getting the works. Prep work underway...

 

 

Wow! Are you willing to share what the ball park cost is for the paint job? I’ve just been given a ball park figure of £10k to strip and respray the Cortina😬

[stuboy]

ohh forgot... managed to reassemble, but still getting fueling issues..

 

 

[Rod/b]

28 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Where is that?

Abu Dhabi

[Rod/b]

16 minutes ago, Wibble said:

Wow! Are you willing to share what the ball park cost is for the paint job? I’ve just been given a ball park figure of £10k to strip and respray the Cortina😬

Equivalent of about £1200

[richardmorris]

1 minute ago, Rod/b said:

Abu Dhabi

Didn’t look like uk.

[Wibble]

Only noticing that now😆

[Rod/b]

Could probably ship it here, get it painted, and ship it back for less than 10 grand 😂

 

[stuboy]

34 minutes ago, Wibble said:

Wow! Are you willing to share what the ball park cost is for the paint job? I’ve just been given a ball park figure of £10k to strip and respray the Cortina😬

 

7 minutes ago, Rod/b said:

Could probably ship it here, get it painted, and ship it back for less than 10 grand 😂

 

was gonna suggest that

[Wibble]

10 minutes ago, stuboy said:

 

was gonna suggest that

Was thinking the same!

[wuvvum]

Flushed with success from my recent mess-free oil and filter change on the Toyota, I decided to do the same on the LDV today.  It was a fucking disaster.  Started off OK - weather was dry, wind had died down and the sump plug came undone with little difficulty - but then whilst the oil was draining into the pan, an almighty gust of wind came out of nowhere, upended the funnel and sprayed oil absolutely fucking everywhere.  I was covered in it from head to toe and there was a fair bit chucked over the car park as well, so I've got to go out there tomorrow with the Gunk and a wire brush and clean that up, which is great.

It's ruined two T-shirts (I put a clean one on not realising that I had oil all up my upper arm so that one's now covered in oil as well - they were scruffy T-shirts but now they're literally only fit for working on cars), and I've also lost my watch - I took it off to avoid it getting covered and left it in the van, but it's now disappeared - I can only think that someone came along while I was getting cleaned up, saw it on the seat and nicked it - although that kind of thing would be completely unprecedented round here, and it's not as if someone walking past casually would have seen it as the van was right in the corner of the car park so someone must have walked up to have a look, which is quite worrying.  It wasn't an expensive watch, a 40 quid Timex out of the Argos catalogue, but that's not the point.

Also the oil filter was a complete pain in the arse to get at, and I've now chucked my entire remaining stock (5 litres) of 10W40 into the engine and it's still barely registering on the dipstick - total capacity is 6.5 litres but I rarely get 100% of it out so would have thought 5 litres would be enough to at least get to the minimum mark.  So either I did manage to fully drain the engine and I need to go and buy another litre of oil, or the dipstick isn't reading properly for some reason in which case I might already have overfilled it...

In other news, neither of the garages I contacted seemed interested in looking at the aircon on the Rover 75.  One didn't get back to me at all and the other said that they would struggle to get bits so didn't really want to get involved.  Not that aircon is going to be a necessity now until next summer, but it's useful in the winter for demisting purposes and after all the faff I went through getting the aircon belt fitted I'd quite like to get the system working.

It wasn't all bad though, I got a £50 lifestyle voucher through work so this evening I went to Halfords and treated myself to a low profile trolley jack - £55 so net cost to me was a fiver.  Should make jacking the Ampera up less of a faff - I need to do an oil change on that soon, the oil is pretty black and the filter is going rusty so evidently hasn't been done for a few years...

[High Jetter]

Sorry, you put an image of Frank Spencer in my mind for the first 3 paras!

[Split_Pin]

I'm not going to lie, I am a bit gutted that I'm not going to get custody of the TT. The SLK is nice but I hadn't planned it to be one of 'my' cars. I had my heart set in the Audi.

Going by the fact it remained unsold for nearly 3 months on here I'm going to have to throw myself into the Thunderdome of Marketplace and Gumtree. Hopefully I can get my money back for it which should just about get me my own TT, even if it isn't a 225 at that money.

[grogee]

On 9/19/2023 at 5:56 PM, Barry Cade said:

A good mate just bought a Wolseley 15/50, turns out it's a manumatic... I've been doing a lot of reading and learning,  but looks like the engine and box have to come out..😕 I've told him just to make it a normal manual, but am intrigued.  I need to stop volunteering for shit..

Is this the witchcraft where you 'pre-select' a gear? It makes absolutely no sense to me. 

[grogee]

16 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Flushed with success from my recent mess-free oil and filter change on the Toyota, I decided to do the same on the LDV today.  It was a fucking disaster.  Started off OK - weather was dry, wind had died down and the sump plug came undone with little difficulty - but then whilst the oil was draining into the pan, an almighty gust of wind came out of nowhere, upended the funnel and sprayed oil absolutely fucking everywhere.  I was covered in it from head to toe and there was a fair bit chucked over the car park as well, so I've got to go out there tomorrow with the Gunk and a wire brush and clean that up, which is great.

It's ruined two T-shirts (I put a clean one on not realising that I had oil all up my upper arm so that one's now covered in oil as well - they were scruffy T-shirts but now they're literally only fit for working on cars), and I've also lost my watch - I took it off to avoid it getting covered and left it in the van, but it's now disappeared - I can only think that someone came along while I was getting cleaned up, saw it on the seat and nicked it - although that kind of thing would be completely unprecedented round here, and it's not as if someone walking past casually would have seen it as the van was right in the corner of the car park so someone must have walked up to have a look, which is quite worrying.  It wasn't an expensive watch, a 40 quid Timex out of the Argos catalogue, but that's not the point.

Also the oil filter was a complete pain in the arse to get at, and I've now chucked my entire remaining stock (5 litres) of 10W40 into the engine and it's still barely registering on the dipstick - total capacity is 6.5 litres but I rarely get 100% of it out so would have thought 5 litres would be enough to at least get to the minimum mark.  So either I did manage to fully drain the engine and I need to go and buy another litre of oil, or the dipstick isn't reading properly for some reason in which case I might already have overfilled it...

In other news, neither of the garages I contacted seemed interested in looking at the aircon on the Rover 75.  One didn't get back to me at all and the other said that they would struggle to get bits so didn't really want to get involved.  Not that aircon is going to be a necessity now until next summer, but it's useful in the winter for demisting purposes and after all the faff I went through getting the aircon belt fitted I'd quite like to get the system working.

It wasn't all bad though, I got a £50 lifestyle voucher through work so this evening I went to Halfords and treated myself to a low profile trolley jack - £55 so net cost to me was a fiver.  Should make jacking the Ampera up less of a faff - I need to do an oil change on that soon, the oil is pretty black and the filter is going rusty so evidently hasn't been done for a few years...

Had a similar experience doing the gearbox oil on my bmw. Absolutely slathered in ATF, and the drive too. I've not bothered cleaning the drive. Sometimes it's just impossible to be mess-free despite your best efforts. 

I'd have thought 5 litres in the LDV is enough to drive to Halfords and get a 1 litre bottle? 

[stuboy]

Me doing driving assessments for newbies and got this renault thingy and the Morris that's always here..

[Barry Cade]

1 hour ago, grogee said:

Is this the witchcraft where you 'pre-select' a gear? It makes absolutely no sense to me. 

No, it's a normal manual gearbox, but has no clutch. The clutch is operated automatically when you change gear with a normal gearlever.