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[fordperv]

That rd400 is sexy, mrs fordpervs uncle is rebuilding one that's been in bits for about 20 years.

 

glwts it looks a real gem

[nacho man]

It is a nice one I bought it for quite a bit less a few years ago just freshly restored as it seemed cheap, but the prices have shot up! some people are asking 5k plus for um and even sheds are making 1500-2000. It's mad. So I am getting out the game and cashing in my chips.

[vulgalour]

These are lovely, but I'd have* to buy a Toyota to put them on... even though they would, probably, fit the Princess.  Ã‚£100 for a set of five seems pretty bargainous to me.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toyota-Cressida-Alloy-Wheels-5-5-x-14-4x114-3-Classic-Retro-/331283242190?pt=UK_CarParts_Acc_Wheels_tyres_Trims_Car_Rims_ET&hash=item4d22051cce

 

 

I'm not buying them but maybe someone else wants them for their car?

[Ratdat]

Those wheels would look good on a Prairie but they are rather a long way away!

[derskine]

Cortina has a blown head gasket, shit.

Fortunately easy to change, disconnect throttle, exhaust down pipe from manifold, take off rockers, remove head.

This is why its slow and gets hot.

[Ratdat]

I can collect and store them if that helps as i am only about 20 miles from Broadstairs.

 

Cheers for the kind offer but to be honest, I very rarely ever go to that part of the country and it's a bit far for a trip there just to fetch them. It usually takes me the best part of 5+ hours to get down to Dover from here.

[Ratdat]

Cortina has a blown head gasket, shit.

Fortunately easy to change, disconnect throttle, exhaust down pipe from manifold, take off rockers, remove head.

This is why its slow and gets hot.

 

One of the reasons I love old OHV engines. So easy to do a HG on.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Cortina has a blown head gasket, shit.

Fortunately easy to change, disconnect throttle, exhaust down pipe from manifold, take off rockers, remove head.

This is why its slow and gets hot.

I remember my dad's 1500 pre-crossflow mk2 estate blowing it's head gasket on a caravan holiday. We spent the night in a pub carpark and he changed it the next morning whilst my mom was making breakfast. He might even have made the gasket out of a cornflake box or a bit of Lino, unless he carried a spare, I'll have to ask him next time I see him.

[vulgalour]

If Vantman collected them would the cost of couriering them up to Ratdat not be less than the cost of fuel to collect anyway?

[HillmanImp]

Celebs can be strange fellows sometimes. But some can be just the opposite to what you expect. I occasionally deal with some and the ones I come across are pretty down to earth really.

 

At the end of the day, to some, it's just a job but it's more in the public eye than most.

 

Quote from Bill Murray about Chevy Chase:

 

When you become famous, you've got like a year or two where you act like a real asshole. You can't help yourself. It happens to everybody. You've got like two years to pull it together  or it's permanent." 

[HillmanImp]

Two cars i am looking at finish on ebay today. The one I want most finishes an hour after the one I really like but not as much as the one that finishes after it.

 

Therefore i cant bid on the one that finishes first as if I win it I can't afford the 2nd one but if the bidding goes too high on the 2nd one in the last hour i will have missed out on the 1st one.

 

I know exactly how this is going to pan out.

 

I have been feeling rough as fook all weekend and have not been drinking but went up to a ROADHOG festival for fat old men on brand new Harley Davidsons in Baildon this afternoon and had a few beers sat on a bench in the square without feeling like an alcoholic as everyone was doing it so was a little tipsy when I got home.

 

First auction for the car I did not really want just finished and due to the alcohol I felt like living dangerously so I did chuck in a cheeky bid of £650 and its finished over £20 over with a reserve not met.  Game over there I think.

 

So we are down to the last 46m of the auction for the car I actually want to bankrupt me rather than the sensible option that just finished. 

[Noel Tidybeard]

Took the Vel Satis into Norwich this afternoon to buy a new telephone.  Started it up to come home and it flashed up a "fuel injection system fault" warning message along with its usual "Sensor fault and "SERVICE" messages.  Then it proceeded to go into limp mode, which made the journey home somewhat tedious as I couldn't get past the dithering old biddy in a Corsa C who was in front of me most of the way back.  Strangely, limp mode also made it idle higher than normal (1,000rpm), although touching the brake pedal dropped it back down to 700.  Anyway, I got home in the end, and at least it didn't overheat.

 

Once I got home I dug out the code reader and plugged it in.  The code reader didn't have a clue (showed that there was a fault, but then said "N/A" when I interrogated it further).  This wasn't entirely unexpected, as it couldn't communicate with the DCi Scénic either.  I restarted the engine to see if that'd help, and noticed that the injection warning wasn't showing any more.  Took the car for a blat up the road and it was no longer in limp mode.  Although I did notice the gearbox is hesitating a bit between 3rd and 4th under hard acceleration - I wonder if that's what the sensor fault is.  Oh, and because I'd thrashed it, it decided it was going to get hot again, and I had to pull into a layby for a minute to let it cool down.  Still, at least it's out of limp mode for now.

my old work mate used to get the "injector fault" warning which renner could never replicate on his scenic auto- turns out cos he's disabled in right leg he didnt realise he was pressing accelerator pedal whilst on the brakes which would send the car into a panic and put the message up

[HillmanImp]

I have been feeling rough as fook all weekend and have not been drinking but went up to a ROADHOG festival for fat old men on brand new Harley Davidsons in Baildon this afternoon and had a few beers sat on a bench in the square without feeling like an alcoholic as everyone was doing it so was a little tipsy when I got home.

 

First auction for the car I did not really want just finished and due to the alcohol I felt like living dangerously so I did chuck in a cheeky bid of £650 and its finished over £20 over with a reserve not met.  Game over there I think.

 

So we are down to the last 46m of the auction for the car I actually want to bankrupt me rather than the sensible option that just finished. 

 

GET IN! Collection thread imminent. 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

^^^REZULT!!! Sadly I got outbid on the 605 24v with the knackered engine.

[HillmanImp]

I have emailed the seller and all I need to do now is figure out how to play golf and take up cigar smoking before I pick it up.

[Noel Tidybeard]

must be a jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag or roller then lol

[HillmanImp]

Not a roller....

[wuvvum]

I did a weldage today, for the first time ever.  It was pretty shit, but then I was never expecting to be Philibusmo right from the off.  I've bought my mate's MIG, and he showed me how it all worked and then gave me a brief lesson.  I think I get the theory - I now just need to find a load of old bits of tin from somewhere and practise like f**k.  I have a feeling it's going to be a steep learning curve.

[cort16]

It's all in the prep wuvvum. If I can do it anyone can .

[philibusmo]

It's all in the prep wuvvum. If I can do it anyone can .

Seconded. The welding is the quick and easy bit, its the prep that takes ages and can be all the difference between a superb bit of welding and a lumpy and awful mess. It's never satisfying trying to weld in a hurry as the prep is never as good as it could be so the welds always end up shit at some point.

[cort16]

And a badly prepared weld in more likely to try to shoot a lump of molten rust down your underpants

[philibusmo]

Other sound advise is never weld cross legged in shorts made of highly flammable material. That may actually be the most important piece of advise I can possibly give you unless you get your kicks from having your nutsack on fire and then repeatedly slapping yourself in that area to put it out.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I hate having my nutsack on fire, don't enjoy it at all.

[Lord Sterling]

Which Vel Satis have you got Wuvz? I must have missed it.

[Angrydicky]

Yesterday I saw Shep Shepherd's old V70 estate on the other side of the dual carriageway on Eastern Avenue in Southend. This was surprising, as I thought Kirby's had scrapped it after failing to sell it when he sold it to them. Youngish bloke driving, who was having a good look at the Maestro as I drove past. 

[vulgalour]

Removed the front wing and the nose from the orange Princess today.  Surprisingly large amount of metal still remains so it will serve well as a repair panel.  Also found the remnants of the front footwell are really solid so that makes the repair I have to do in that area on the beige one much easier.  Made a start stripping the mechanical stuff off but there's the usual battle of the bolts so Mikeknight and I just decided to go home because it's Bank Holiday Monday and it was 4pm.  There's barely anything left to scrap, I've got so much useful stuff off the Orange car.

[HMC]

Somehow I've managed to convince SWMBO that our next German trip (november) will be done in my '92 range rover classic. Yes it's LPG converted but its also brakeless and on axle stands in the drive.

 

Better get cracking

[wuvvum]

Which Vel Satis have you got Wuvz? I must have missed it.

 

This one.

 

 

It's a 3.0 DCi Initiale, and it's a royal PITA.

[wuvvum]

This evening I have mostly been burning holes in bits of steel sheet as I take my first tentative baby steps into the mysterious world of MIG welding.  As expected, I'm not very good at it - at least not yet.  I am actually quite enjoying it though, which I wasn't sure I would.  I also managed to heed Philibusmo's wise advice and not set my testicles on fire.

 

The welder is spattering everywhere (I'm using gasless wire which probably doesn't help) and most of the welds I've done so far look shit (although I have managed a couple of passable ones, more by luck than judgment at this stage).  On the plus side, the bits of tin I was welding were indeed attached to each other at the end of the process, so from that point of view it was a success.   And I eventually worked out that the reason I was burning a lot of holes at the end of welds was because I was lifting the torch away before releasing the trigger.  

 

Unfortunately by then it was getting too dark to continue (no light in the porch), but I'll have another bash tomorrow evening if I have the energy.  I'm hoping to take the last two weeks in September off work, and it would be nice if I could get the hang of it by then - at least enough to be able to do some patching up of the Renault 6.

[cort16]

Gassless - don't do it