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[Brigsy]

8 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

I'm in the doghouse again.

Turns out that the SLK of The Child Bride has a sticky caliper piston, diagnosed about an hour ago. She's supposed to be off to Cornwall bright and early in the morning - so she's now got to slum* it in the CLK while I fix the smoller car (or else).
Already ordered in a new caliper + flexi pipe + pads  but I have a question:

Being a lady of little taste (hence still married to me after 20+ years) she likes the red overspray** on the existing calipers.
Anybody recommend a brush or spray on paint that's going to last more than ten minutes?
Fake AMG red preferred so it matches the back caliper on the same side 🤷‍♀️

Thanks

**whoever painted the existing calipers on her car rattle canned it without masking anything - not only are the ABS wires red, so are the pad wear wires, and some of the flexis? I bet they even sprayed the effing discs and pads?  The outer edges of the slider pins are also red in places - I had hoped that would be the cause of the binding brake but, nay lad, split seal has let to quantities of grit, grot and rust.

I've cut a load more of the seal off to provide you with an atmospheric, after dark, West Wales, Friday night, 18+ only image, look away now if you are of a delicate constitution

Hammerite smooth red metal paint will do the job.

[EyesWeldedShut]

2 hours ago, Brigsy said:

Hammerite smooth red metal paint will do the job.

Thanks - I'll have a go with that next week when the caliper arrives.
I'm in a happier place now as all the components came apart/off the SLK without breaking any of them, or me (2003 car on 90,000 miles) - less than an hour on a beautiful morning.
It all looks to be the original parts and I'm dead chuffed that I'm not going to have to be flaring any brake pipes or the like. (New flexi & pads going on but, otherwise, reassembly using the existing parts).
Happy Days.

[wuvvum]

3 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Looks what's appeared back on the driveway, after nearly four weeks of driving around France and a quick excursion into Belgium:

Waiting for a debrief and tally-up of the mileage, but it made it back here without any significant issue

Normally this is the point where I would say "Of course it did, it's a '90s Toyota", but my '90s Toyota is broken at the moment so I won't.

[Split_Pin]

Im off to see that A30 this afternoon, I shall report back with pictures and hopefully a price.

[Split_Pin]

More progress on the 75 today from Gingernutzz. 

When the car had a dent in the NSR, rather than pull it out, whoever repaired* it just stuck a load of filler in it and tried to use the waist trim to mask the spray line.

Not too bad though, needs a new lip on the inner arch about 1/4 of the way up and the pulled out the meet the outer.

Bonnet repair:

OSR arch is OK, just a few localised bits needed.

Should be back with me in a week or two, just waiting on paint.

[stripped fred]

7 hours ago, paulplom said:

My mate has these for sale. Can't remember the size or price but I can find out.

Located NE22.

If you don't mind finding out 👍

[wuvvum]

Figured out the Innocenti brakes eventually.  There is a funky metal bit in the shoe which sits on a pivot pin on the brake backplate, and I hadn't realised that the bit in the shoe is actually the adjuster and is mounted in an oval hole so it can slide.  It'd been set from the factory at maximum adjustment - a few minutes with a large hammer and an extension bar had it knocked into something closer to the correct position - close enough that I could get the drum back on anyway. 

It's still binding a bit but I'm going to take the car round the block and see if it sorts itself out once everything is seated properly - if not I'll have to take it apart again and do some more hammering.  No massive rush anyway as the garage is closed all next week so won't be able to do a retest until after the Bank Holiday.

Toyota next...

[artdjones]

4 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Figured out the Innocenti brakes eventually.  There is a funky metal bit in the shoe which sits on a pivot pin on the brake backplate, and I hadn't realised that the bit in the shoe is actually the adjuster and is mounted in an oval hole so it can slide.  It'd been set from the factory at maximum adjustment - a few minutes with a large hammer and an extension bar had it knocked into something closer to the correct position - close enough that I could get the drum back on anyway. 

It's still binding a bit but I'm going to take the car round the block and see if it sorts itself out once everything is seated properly - if not I'll have to take it apart again and do some more hammering.  No massive rush anyway as the garage is closed all next week so won't be able to do a retest until after the Bank Holiday.

Toyota next...

It seems to be an Italian thing, Fiats had this style of auto adjuster for many years.

[Split_Pin]

Aye so went to see the A30.

 

Bodily it looks great but its almost completely disassembled, its been partly rewired but the chap could not say which part.

Engine is under the polythene in the last pic to show it exists, ran when parked....

All the bits are there but he wants.....£5k. I took a few pictures to be polite but the only place that car is going is the scrapyard when a relative is left with it. Sorry chaps!

[Gaffer]

Gave the new daily driver a few tweaks and a quick scrub up, be rude not to grab a snap or two on the way home

[Tayne]

That looks remarkably good for 33 years and 207k miles.

[Pat Earrings]

AC condenser changed today for the F11. Clearly was leaking and it’s seen better days. I’ve fitted a new MAHLE one and it was a relatively pain free job save for a bolt I had to angle grind off carefully and replace at the front. Those are my angle grinder spark repellant socks

[artdjones]

57 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Aye so went to see the A30.

 

Bodily it looks great but its almost completely disassembled, its been partly rewired but the chap could not say which part.

Engine is under the polythene in the last pic to show it exists, ran when parked....

All the bits are there but he wants.....£5k. I took a few pictures to be polite but the only place that car is going is the scrapyard when a relative is left with it. Sorry chaps!

Nuts. I'd say the best A30 on the planet might be worth that, that's worth a few hundred.

[Split_Pin]

5 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Nuts. I'd say the best A30 on the planet might be worth that, that's worth a few hundred.

He said '5' and I thought hundred.

It makes me a bit sad that this cars fate is sealed as it basically just needs putting back together. 

The old chap was breathless from heart failure but was still smoking the smokiest of cigarettes as we talked .

[wuvvum]

Well the new brake drum is fitted to the Carina.  The brake didn't seem to be binding particularly badly when I jacked the car up, and everything seemed to be moving freely inside the drum, so I've given it a clean up and a dab of copper grease on the contact surfaces and chucked the new drum on - hopefully that'll sort it.

The Innocenti's brakes continue to be a pain in the arse though.  Messing around with the wheel cylinders has obviously allowed some air into the system, so they need bleeding, but the bleed nipple is showing absolutely zero interest in coming undone.  I'm pretty sure if I put any more pressure on it it's going to just snap off.  So not sure what to do about that.  Other than try to find a correct replacement wheel cylinder, but that's likely to be a lot of trial and error as they all look the same on the outside.

[louiepj]

I spent just under an hour playing 10p coin pushers, just because I could never afford to play them long as a kid. I may or may not have fed them most of my weekly shopping budget.
I shouldn't be surprised that the machine designed to take all your money, err, took all my money.

In Hastings, they sell you a £10 bucket of 2ps!
One each for our youngest two girls to drag around the arcade

[captain_70s]

40 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Nuts. I'd say the best A30 on the planet might be worth that, that's worth a few hundred.

A nice one is 4-5k. Scruffy runners around £2k.  Projects are usually £500-1000.

The shell looks decent, there are a lot of fillery examples about, but still needs £2.5k worth of prep and paint...

[Rustybullethole]

Rest of the family have come up to meet me at work. 

Planned to ride up and dump a moped here so we could travel back in one vehicle. Might still leave the Citroen we will see. 

[artdjones]

23 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

A nice one is 4-5k. Scruffy runners around £2k.  Projects are usually £500-1000.

The shell looks decent, there are a lot of fillery examples about, but still needs £2.5k worth of prep and paint...

This nice one, which has had thousands spent on it, is £5000. There are a couple that are more, but some of them are tuned up.

[reb]

I would really like to spend my evening drinking beer in the garden, but apparently I left the house in an absolute state so I'm cleaning like a madman. About an hour saw the kitchen in a decent standard, just the floor to do in there.

I wish I'd remembered the state of the house before I invited my friend round tomorrow.

[Mally]

11 minutes ago, reb said:

I would really like to spend my evening drinking beer in the garden, but apparently I left the house in an absolute state so I'm cleaning like a madman. About an hour saw the kitchen in a decent standard, just the floor to do in there.

I wish I'd remembered the state of the house before I invited my friend round tomorrow.

Hopefully it's worth the effort.

[reb]

28 minutes ago, Mally said:

Hopefully it's worth the effort.

Worth it either way since it gives me a more pleasant environment to exist in!

Kitchen and bathroom both done, just the living room to do now. Bollocks to my office, she won't be going in there and it's not that bad anyway.

Ordered a burger and chips to reward myself with (read: I cannot be arsed cooking anything)

[beko1987]

The other week I made the mistake of looking closely at the state of the bathroom tiles 😬 

With my drill brushes I use for car carpets it also came with some scouring pad discs, so I put a green one on the drill and with the bathroom spray scrubbed a massive layer of shit off the tiles!

They shone afterwards, was a bit strange and it looks better now the limescale has dulled it down a bit 😂

[EyesWeldedShut]

43 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

The other week I made the mistake of looking closely at the state of the bathroom tiles 😬 

With my drill brushes I use for car carpets it also came with some scouring pad discs, so I put a green one on the drill and with the bathroom spray scrubbed a massive layer of shit off the tiles!

They shone afterwards, was a bit strange and it looks better now the limescale has dulled it down a bit 😂

When we bought this house it came with some fairly large, black slate tiles in a downstairs room.
Angle grinder wire brush, scouring pads, TFR, and a car wax polish later - they're actually a dark green colour.
They were slippy AF for weeks later though - feckin' deadly, especially on a 90 degree, banked turn with both hands holding a glass of wine......
 

[JJ0063]

Z3 collected. Well chuffed. Absolutely loads of paperwork with it, I don’t think I’ve ever bought a car with so much. Loads of main dealer service history. Receipt for a new hood fitted in 2018 by a soft top specialist too.
 

Got it home and found a fault for the ABS pump motor, cleared it but it came straight back. Wiggled the plug for the pump, cleared it and it’s gone off… surely can’t be that simple but we’ll hope!

New temp sensor ordered. 
 

Needs a real good clean up but it’s definitely got potential

 

Oh and yes I’ve already binned the floor mats..

 

[stuboy]

Er'indoors is at tractorfest at Biddenham and sent me these..

[alcyonecorporation]

@Imhotep brought his new-to-him GT86 round this morning. 

I'd had the exhaust finally sorted out on the SVX but hadn't driven it since my disastrous trip up north (friend up in Weardale rescued it, but that week didn't go well). 
The GT86 is mostly Subaru; it and the SVX were made in the same Gunma factory, 20 years apart. Yes, I know the SVX has a 94-95 plate on it, but the VIN says it was built February 1993. 
While I'd driven a GR86 (this stupid profession has to be good for something apart from free USB sticks) I'd never driven an earlier GT. 

We drove along the Lincs/Cambs border because I wanted Imh to experience the Crowland corkscrew (jubermony in the library; the memories live on). 

Oddly enough, the SVX is quicker and better on fuel with a working exhaust: amazingly, you can still get the front cats and Y pipes (I assume it's the same factory shitting them out) but the rest of the system before the backbox was second-hand. A gearbox delivery job paid for the pipe and most of the delivery mileage. 

And no, before you ask: the SVX isn't faster, unless you want to drive flat-out. 

[I used my DSLR for the first time in ages and I am miles out of practice; we both stood on a sketchy earth mound to get some overheads and I had to spend about half an hour touching all of the fly-tipped shite out of the background. They're not what I wanted, so I won't post the rest]. 

[Split_Pin]

The other car thing that went on today was that a helpful chap from the Scottish Audi Clan came over and plugged the A4 into VCDS. 

A few codes came up for things I know about, such as the non working heated seat and the TPMS message but nowt for the hood at all. I think its the switch itself and I can see its been off before. Ill try cleaning it tomorrow and maybe order a replacement.

[Brigsy]

Done a few bits today.

Orange dci got some loving on the bodywork

Meg 250 got its new shoes on.

Bit of datalogging this evening on the 250 in mexico.

More works planned for tomorrow.

[Coprolalia]

Chepstow Classic Car Show Round 2 (one in May, one in Aug).

Interesting mix of stuff. Actually more weird and cool to me things in the car park (the Mustang in particular) than in the show. Checking my old photos the RR Park Ward(?) is the only thing I saw last time, which is a good sign.

Many of these were for sale, most for about twice what I would pay.