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[Junkman]

A car must have character.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Just leave it. You have to look hard to see it anyway.

[320touring]

I love the fact the mirror is folded in..

 

Wouldn't want the side of the car to looks scruffy;)

 

10 for a suction dent puller from a tool shop and some effort should reduce that considerably. .

[derskine]

Cortina has an annoying fuel tank leak, after I spent a week or so prepping and painting the thing a couple of years ago, the petrol has ripped the paint off.

Hopes of driving it this week are out the window unless I can stop the leak for a bit with some tigerseal - it's meant to be petrol resistant.

Will have to get another tank, or man up and weld it (with precautions of course), but any ideas if tigerseal will work for now? I'd carry a jerrycan, a tube of tigerseal and caulking gun in the car incase it failed!

[derskine]

Found this on another forum.

 

 

drill a hole in the centre of a 5p coin ( reet through the queens sneb )
then put a blind pop rivet through that and a rubber tap washer aswell so that squashes between the 5p and the tank then shove the rivvet int ole and gun it up and will probably outlast the tank

[alf892]

Pop rivets leak.

 

A lot

 

Cladding screws work for small holes. Just a largish self tapper really complete with rubber and steel washer......slightly more expensive but you do save the 5p

[twosmoke300]

You can get blind ended pop rivets. A motorcycle exhaust I bought a repack kit for had them to stop exhaust gasses leaking out the end.

[castros_bro]

OMG cock n balls have escaped Tesco's toilet door

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-28783990

[Heidel_Kakao]

Chewing gum will supposidly seal petrol leaks.

It worked in the Rocketeer so it must be true!

[dugong]

YOUR MUM

[derskine]

Well I didn't read any of this till now, so on the way back from work I bought some pop rivets, some o rings and some tigerseal.

I made the hole bigger with a phillips screwdriver to ensure I wasn't pulling the rivet onto shit metal, then put it along with the o ring in, and then slapped a load of tigerseal over the whole thing.

Will see how it goes.

[brickwall]

I used little self amalgamating plumbers type washers when I use rivets

[brickwall]

Busy today:

 

New bottom for the light and two patches on the wing

 

[Wackeldackel]

Route planned for tomorrow

 

 

New tyres on Tuesday on my newly refurbished wheels, coupled with some proper orange blinkers from a scrappy, I think my motor is looking alright.

 

 

 

Couldn't be arsed to wash it, will only get smothered with bugs tomorrow. €84 to the brim with super mega 98 octane pez, reasonable. Will set off at 6 am and pootle I think, keep that economy gauge out of the red as much as possible!

[dollywobbler]

Off to the Citroen Car Club Midlands Rally in the morning. I've been feeling pretty bleak about the 2CV lately, so we'll see how we get on. There's a chance she'll hit her 197,000th mile on the journey back. I think. I'm hoping to score some wheels for the Rover on the way back, to enable me to do more scientific tyre testing. There's a monster roadtrip looming for the Rover next week. I'll be ticking many counties off, culminating with Retro Cars at The Rock - a free event with optional track time at Rockingham Raceway. Folk should come. I think it'll be awesome.

[HillmanImp]

Busy today:

 

New bottom for the light and two patches on the wing

 

Thats pretty neat welding. Thumbs up.

[Craig the Princess]

Rover 200 Coupe is freshly MoTed. Awaiting tax on 1st September.

Will try the Autoshite Approved jetwashing the lacquer off the bonnet approach before then.

 

Oooh, I love that car.

 

 

Seen here with a friends 3-door hatch 220 Turbo.

[brickwall]

Thats pretty neat welding. Thumbs up.

 

 

My welding is coming along and I've learned a lot. the welding underneath is not quite so tidy, so thank the stars for flap-discs

[Noel Tidybeard]

If you think you're getting a "like" for that you're sorely mistaken

wrong!

[vulgalour]

Our neighbour has just put his early Saxo up for sale at £400 with T&T

 

 

I'm happy to have a look at it for anyone interested.  Located in TS17, Stockton-on-Tees.

[Noel Tidybeard]

It would be interesting to hear what input James May has on such stunts, and how much is the producers seeing the TG ratings and wanting to emulate that. I don't know the answer, but I guess as a presenter you have to do what the money says to some extent...

thats prolly why discovery wont let mark evans make any more a...is born

[The Moog]

thats prolly why discovery wont let mark evans make any more a...is born

Hadn't he run out of stuff to build? He even did that 3 part bike thing

[Cavcraft]

Hey, I picked that Mazda up this evening. No epic collection trips or owt, just a pleasant and reasonably quick 7.4 mile cycle ride to collect it.

 

Actually quite impressed with the car, seems to pull nicely and is quite punchy. Fairly typical Japanese interior but a little better than the norm, as in it's not as dull as a lot of them are. Fifth gear seems several hundred miles away from fourth when changing up, but soon got used to it. The only real faults I've found are a couple of dents, the CD player looks great but is actually a bit wank and the exhaust heat shield rattles a bit. 

[vulgalour]

I'm planning yet more transportation of fucked Princesses with more shiters.  Since inflicting the red one on Phil I already need my next fix.

[wuvvum]

Well the repair to the boost pipe on the Rover of Doom was a partial success.  I refitted all the pipes this evening, then took the car for a spin.  I tootled through the village to let things warm up a bit, but it definitely felt more responsive.  I then nailed it out onto the bypass and off it buggered, torque steering down the road with a huge cloud of black smoke out the back.  Yep, that'll do.  Even without the magic Doom Box fitted, it ain't a slow car. 

 

Didn't last long though - 1.5 bar boost was too much for my bodge repair, and it soon started leaking.  It's still a shedload quicker than it was before though - it'll boost to about 1 bar rather than the 0.2 it was managing previously - and as an added bonus it now makes an amusing farting noise like air being let out of a large balloon on full throttle.

 

I think in the medium term I'm going to have to bite the bullet and fork out for a new pipe though.  I'm a bit happier about doing this now that I know that the split pipe was the only thing wrong with the car.

[Pillock]

I'm planning yet more transportation of fucked Princesses with more shiters. Since inflicting the red one on Phil I already need my next fix.

I'm busy that day.

 

Whatever day it might be.

[Inspector Morose]

 

 

As I said earlier in a grump post, rad was a bit fucked. Today the new and not particularly expensive (£58 from fast rads in deepest Welshland) rad turned up. A mere short time saw the new rad installed, new thermostat checked and popped in and system bled for a good while. Little yellow light of doom stayed out during this so I thought I was home and dry.

 

Was I fook. Light comes back on after half an hour driving home.

 

Square one reached. I need a temperature gauge.

[spike60]

Insurance for 2.8 Z3 renewal hit the mat, a little rise from £180 with 2 years no claims to £518 with no change of details,- don't worry we'll take car of the automatic renewal. Will you fuck! I called them to tell them to stick it and once I got through I swallowed my pride as it was dropped to £144.... Hmmm.... Privilege Insurance.

[The Moog]

We have just had renewal for 405 through from privilege and they want close to £700. Confused gets me a price of £400 so going to call and cancel renewal.

[brickwall]

Swinton tried the old "You don't need to do nuffink, we'll sort it" earlier this week.

 

They wanted  385 squids and wouldn't budge. Moved to another and now £148