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[dollywobbler]

Aye. My sanity has only been held in check by the kind people of 2CVGB, many of whom have let me drive their cars over the summer. I've never driven so many different A-Series vehicles as I have this year. 

[Taff]

Dyane is (pretty) solid now apparently. Getting closer!

 

I'll be heading over next week with a set of wheels and a master cylinder to coax the brake system back into life, and will then carry out some pre-test checks and perhaps actually drive it a bit (on private land, obvs). OMG FETTLING CAPERZ. Given how long it'll take for the logbook to come through, I'll be amazed if I get it back home before September. Seriously hoping it'll be here before Chumleigh Shitefest.

 

The Foreign Legion used them as staff cars, you know. It would be a nice spin on the whole military rat look as well, give it a weathered early 80's legion paint job

[dollywobbler]

Military really isn't my style though. I'm a bloody hippy. It needs flowers, anti-nuclear stickers and some vomit-inducing tripe about giving peace a chance.

[daveb47]

Its strange though,most of the cars adorned with ban the bomb stickers look like they have been hit by one....

[anonymous user]

The Foreign Legion used them as staff cars, you know. It would be a nice spin on the whole military rat look as well, give it a weathered early 80's legion paint job

Was this meant to go in the made up facts thread?

[Craig the Princess]

Just leaving a train at Reading to collect a new car for a friend. Lovely day for it.

[chaseracer]

Just bought a new speedo cable for the Merc...

[dollywobbler]

Just bought a new speedo cable for the Merc...

 

That's done well! Perhaps it'll solve that 'bounce' issue the needle had. 

[stillOrange]

£15 for a 13" steel wheel from a scrappy. Isn't that a bit on a expensive side?

[chaseracer]

That's done well! Perhaps it'll solve that 'bounce' issue the needle had. 

 

This is the plan, my friend!  While the dash is out, I'll replace the heater fan with one that has functioning bearings... 

[dollywobbler]

I might regret this, but I'm putting the Combi Camp up for sale. £175 if you're interested.

 

Does need a fair bit of fettling to be ideal, but I've camped all over England and Wales in it this summer and it has served me very well. Even in Welsh rain. Tows beautifully too.

[Richard]

I sent SWMBO a link to that post and was met with silence. I'll keep working on it.

[Inspector Morose]

That's done well! Perhaps it'll solve that 'bounce' issue the needle had.

Bounce?! Last time I was in it I thought it was the indicators as the needle bounced off the stop to about 60!

 

 

Just bought a new speedo cable for the Merc...

(Runs away on a job of work) see you in Leeds.

[chaseracer]

(Runs away on a job of work)

 

It'll wait till you get back 

[Cavcraft]

Blakeney is a lovely place. So lovely, in fact, my Vectra decided to have a bit of a prolonged stay there earlier. Luckily, after deciding to break down on the narrow high street, it decided to unbreak down again 20 minutes later.

Dave Lee Cartland was happy though, we got to walk back to the partially sunk Zafira in the car park and he was actually so happy he crapped on someone's doorstep. Quite probably the doorstep of the only people who were at home. And looking out of their window.

[cort16]

I'd been looking at 4.0 v8 disco 2 on eBay so googled for engine problems. Fuck me they'd be more robust if they'd cast the blocks out of fudge and used wowwy pops as liners.

 

Liners breaking loose, corroded blocks and holes in the castings to name a few things.

 

http://robisonservice.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/all-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-land.html?m=1

[Alfamale]

On hols up in Cumbria and this is in the news:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-33809702

 

£11k for 5 cats? Is someone having a giraffe? Or are they charging themselves £OMGANALRAPE for labour prices on the insurance?!?

[stuboy]

Changed front droplinks

[vulgalour]

Does anyone know if Richard Grant or similar did a Tailblazer/Heckblende for the Rover 200/400?  I'd like one, but I have this feeling it doesn't exist.

i think the world had moved on by then- you could always look for the body coloured panel rover did later on

Had a look on eBay to see what was available.  Reflective tape can be bought but typically I'll have loads left over because it's sold in metre lengths and my back panel needs 1.1 metres.  Top bar (orange) needs to be minimum 80mm width, bottom bar (red) needs to be minimum 90mm width.  Comes out at £25 doing it this way which seems a bit pricey for two bits of tape.

 

I want to get another set of rear lights and another rear panel so I can swap out what's in at the moment but revert to the current look if I want to.  That adds more expense for quite a frivolous thing.  I don't know, I'm undecided on this one, I like how the car looks now but I do want to try this idea out to see if it looks the same in the real world as it does in my head.

[Craig the Princess]

Back home after 133 miles and 3 3/4 hours.

 

 

A Rover Metro 1.1S! The best supermini offering of 1990 (with in built kettle) for the cost of just £185.

 

Needs a service, a tiny patch of welding on the reader is a sill and the radio, fuel gauge and washer pump to work.

 

Didn't over heat in awful traffic leaving Reading, at one point about 40 minutes into traffic-agehedon put the hearer on hot and full but I think that was more paranoia about the k series).

Sat comfortably at 70 when able, very refined composited to A series ones.

[EssDeeWon]

Changed front droplinks

 

Were these Ok to do DIY? The ones on my 75 are a right PITA because the bottom of the coil spring gets in the way.

[EssDeeWon]

Nice one Craig. Thats an early Rover Metro there...

 

Win.

[twosmoke300]

Rover 75 drop links are indeed a toss bag to so because of the spring retaining plate

[Ghosty]

 

Had a look on eBay to see what was available.  Reflective tape can be bought but typically I'll have loads left over because it's sold in metre lengths and my back panel needs 1.1 metres.  Top bar (orange) needs to be minimum 80mm width, bottom bar (red) needs to be minimum 90mm width.  Comes out at £25 doing it this way which seems a bit pricey for two bits of tape.

 

I want to get another set of rear lights and another rear panel so I can swap out what's in at the moment but revert to the current look if I want to.  That adds more expense for quite a frivolous thing.  I don't know, I'm undecided on this one, I like how the car looks now but I do want to try this idea out to see if it looks the same in the real world as it does in my head.

 

 

Would the rear panel from an R21 be any use? (yes I appreciate it being potentially elusive, but...)

 

 

You need a rear window louvre.

[EssDeeWon]

Blakeney is a lovely place. So lovely, in fact, my Vectra decided to have a bit of a prolonged stay there earlier. Luckily, after deciding to break down on the narrow high street, it decided to unbreak down again 20 minutes later.

Dave Lee Cartland was happy though, we got to walk back to the partially sunk Zafira in the car park and he was actually so happy he crapped on someone's doorstep. Quite probably the doorstep of the only people who were at home. And looking out of their window.

 

You could always upgrade to this? I saw this and thought of you, an SD1 in Chester

 

WCPGW??

 

SPARES OR REPAIRS

1979 2.6 litre. Driven between 1985 and 2000 - 100,000 miles plus. Been garaged in a lock up since , Condition now unknown, but probably either a major fix up or spares. Area - Chester

Contact : Geoffrey Pitchford

[vulgalour]

@Ghosty:  red/tint is the wrong way around... and other issues, but yes that would be the sort of look I'd like.  I want a window louvre for the Princess especially since finding out they made them!  But not the Rover.  A red backflash might fit the style though, have it say KETTLE or something similarly amusing* rather than the more predictable ROVER.

[EssDeeWon]

Rover 75 drop links are indeed a toss bag to so because of the spring retaining plate

 

I'm leaving them to the garage. They quote 30 mins labour on a good day, in reality more like double that. Apparently its mission impossible getting to the nut at the top (under that spring plate) Especially after 15 years of rustage if their original.

[Cavcraft]

You could always upgrade to this? I saw this and thought of you, an SD1 in Chester

 

WCPGW??

 

SPARES OR REPAIRS1979 2.6 litre. Driven between 1985 and 2000 - 100,000 miles plus. Been garaged in a lock up since , Condition now unknown, but probably either a major fix up or spares. Area - ChesterContact : Geoffrey Pitchford

Is the 2.6 the facelifted 'Mk2' type? I just cannot like them, it's only the early/Mk1 types that float my boat.

[EssDeeWon]

No, a 1979 car will be a series 1 car through and through 

 

Only difference between a series 1 2600 and a 3500 is the exhaust note and rear badge with the engine size.

[stuboy]

Were these Ok to do DIY? The ones on my 75 are a right PITA because the bottom of the coil spring gets in the way.

 

yeah.. was easy as a pork pie... just me did it