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[hairnet]

seth ya barbarian

 

drum so hes only selling 10 tickets ??

[stuboy]

Went car hunting for oh sister and her brother.. set her heart on corsa 1.2poo s'exi, turned up.. wouldnt start even though just been moved..? Mayo on filler cap.. header tank stank..on start up deffo rattle garage man sprayed grease everywere i sugestted timing chain was lil loose so walked away and we found a yard with some others she liked and ended up buying this 1.2 expression... appatantly its cute

[Lankytim]

Hydraulic oil is the best stuff to mix with Kerosene or jet fuel, it's such a small amount I'd just stick a few litres of Veg in with it

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I ran my 4-headed monster Rover 800 on Kero for thousands of miles, chucking in a bit of engine oil now and then and it didnt seem to give a shit, just carried on

[D Spares & Tyres]

You need to put veg in it to disguise the smell

 

Kero illegal and stinks but cooking oil fine and will overpower it ☺

 

For added disguise in case of dipping add some used diesel engine oil to make it black ☺

[wuvvum]

Got a few bits done this weekend in spite of the weather.  Swapped the wheels over between the two red Rovers, so the VI now wears the 15" alloys and the Project Drive 25 now has manky 14" steelz with Poundland trims (although I did give the rims a quick coat of black paint as it didn't look right with rust showing through the trim holes).  There was logic behind this:  the steels have snow tyres on them, which the 143bhp of the VI was nomming through at a rate of knots (they didn't do the handling a lot of favours either); the 25 has 40bhp less so is less likely to chew the tyres up, plus it's the one I'm most likely to use if we do get snow.  The VI actually looks quite good on the 25 wheels too.

 

I fixed the non-functioning heated rear window on the Swift (one of the little "feet" that the wires join onto had come adrift), then drove it up onto the ramps to have a poke about underneath.  Wish I hadn't now - it's got quite a lot of grot.  It has a hole in the driver's side front floorpan, which I knew about, but I was also able to poke my screwdriver through the outer sills on both sides in several places.  It's a shame really, as it's a great little car in every other respect, but it's probably going to be too much for me to take on myself and the values of Swifts are such that it won't really be worth paying someone to do it either.  It's still got a few months' test though, so I'm going to run around in it through the winter and then see what's what.  On a more positive note, I also got the Rover 25 up on the ramps, and that looks pretty sound - which is good as the MOT runs out in a couple of weeks.

 

Had a bit more of a poke around the CX as well - found some more rust (including a couple of small holes inside the rear door shuts) but nothing too drastic.  It's still not heating though - my initial thought was that the thermostat might have been removed, but when I had a look the thermostat housing didn't look like it'd been disturbed for many a year.  My current suspicion is a blocked heater matrix, as the inlet pipe seems to be getting warm and the outlet pipe doesn't - although a longer drive will be needed to confirm that.  All the heating controls appear to be doing their job, as I can hear the relevant motors buzzing behind the dash when I move them.  It doesn't seem to be getting as much air to the screen as it should though - but there's not much I can do about that without removing the dash, which ain't gonna happen.  For the moment I've plugged in my silly little 12v ceramic heater thing, which clears about a 6" diameter circle directly in front of me - better than nothing.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I've been fettling today as well, fitted a new propshaft centre bearing on the 760 and investigated the busted lumbar support in the drivers seat. The mechanism inside the seat was broken so I removed it, drilled and locked it in the '75% adjustment' position, and reinstalled it inside the seat. Now I have slightly more lumbar support than i would like, but its much better than none at all.

[Lord Sterling]

Saw a lovely red B reg Visa in Edinburgh last night - is it anyone on here?

 

No photo, I did have my cameraphone but I was on a bus and it was pitch black, the photo would have been as much use as none at all.

Annoying innit. Last night I saw a sky-Blue 1987 D-reg Peugeot 309. What a photo that would've been. It passed me as I was sitting in the parked-up Sterling.

[Richard]

 

I fixed the non-functioning heated rear window on the Swift (one of the little "feet" that the wires join onto had come adrift).

 

How did you fix that?

[dollywobbler]

I've been fettling today as well, fitted a new propshaft centre bearing on the 760 and investigated the busted lumbar support in the drivers seat. The mechanism inside the seat was broken so I removed it, drilled and locked it in the '75% adjustment' position, and reinstalled it inside the seat. Now I have slightly more lumbar support than i would like, but its much better than none at all.

How tricky was it to remove? My 740 has the same issue.

[Angrydicky]

Annoying innit. Last night I saw a sky-Blue 1987 D-reg Peugeot 309. What a photo that would've been. It passed me as I was sitting in the parked-up Sterling.

Was it theorganist?

[beko1987]

Re heating oil, as long as it's not red I'd use it in the car, have used a bit of kero previously in an xud.

 

The problem with it is it is much less lubricatey than normal diesel so will kill pumps quickly if not mixed with veg etc.

 

Having said that, there was a bloke running a pd Bora on 90% kerosene, 10% biodiesel when I used to buy bio from a place in Bradford. Allegedly it had ran fine for thousands of miles but it sounded like spanners in a washing machine.

It's the same colour as veg oil, but the consistency of water, and fooking stinks!

 

The Flange wants to go to asda tonight, I've added 10l of veg to the shopping list!

[wuvvum]

How did you fix that?

The little foot thing has two contact points, so I put superglue on one of them and on the connector on the end of the feed wire, which left the other contact point (between the two) glue-free and touching the HRW wires.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

How tricky was it to remove? My 740 has the same issue.

 

pretty easy, snip 3 metal hog rings at the bottom of the seat backrest and the covering fabric comes up and off like a big sock. (only have to take it half off). Then you can see the lumbar support mechanism inside the seat and remove it with 3 screws. Skandix sell new ones for only 7 euros but the shipping is 18 euros which seems a bit harsh. Want to buy a couple and go halfers on the shipping?

[dollywobbler]

Thanks. On a free car, I'm struggling to motivate myself to spend money on it, especially after being forced to buy a new alternator (still tempted to track down some bushes and then flog one of the then-working alternators to be honest). I shall attempt some bodgery. Any of SVM up for lumbar bulk buying?

[Noel Tidybeard]

Charles Darwin owned an MX-5 and claimed it inspired his Theory of Evolution.

 

Barbara Cartland sold 500 MX-5s at launch to promote her 1200th book.

 

The Renault 20 was used as inspiration with Mazda buying one to reverse engineer.  In the end, only the headlight filament from the Renault was used in the Mazda to serve as the filament in the cigarette lighter.

 

In Japan they are known as My Little Rocket Pony, for no reason anyone can understand anywhere.

 

The first MX-5 sold in the UK was bought by a retired farmer in Leeds who wanted it to view the annual crane festival.

RED CARD you are in the rong thread- go to your room young man and dont come out untill you're sorry

[barmatt]

Skattrd finally got the Umm mot'ed just in time to come to Norfolk for a pay and play day at my local off road site.

 

The Umm behaved itself quite well but would have benefited some knobblier tyres. Skattrd, not having done any off roading before was quite cautious going round trying to avoid the deepest mud....

 

I on the other hand didn't feel his sense of caution.......

 

 

 

 

The photos really don't show the angle of the lean fully.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Ha!!!!! Nice work

[andy18s]

Skattrd finally got the Umm mot'ed just in time to come to Norfolk for a pay and play day at my local off road site.

 

The Umm behaved itself quite well but would have benefited some knobblier tyres. Skattrd, not having done any off roading before was quite cautious going round trying to avoid the deepest mud....

 

I on the other hand didn't feel his sense of caution.......

 

 

 

 

The photos really don't show the angle of the lean fully.

Can you ask Chris to check his pm's please....cheers muchly

 

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[320touring]

Changed o rings on octavia to little or no real advantage.

 

have sat down to read the double dutch that is a Haynes CX manual..

[beko1987]

How will a haynes CX manual help the octavia of much GLFness?

 

Can you not connect/re-route the fuel line of the octavia to a jerry can of fresh derv and see how it idles? Or does it idle fine and drive like shit?

[320touring]

How will a haynes CX manual help the octavia of much GLFness?

 

Can you not connect/re-route the fuel line of the octavia to a jerry can of fresh derv and see how it idles? Or does it idle fine and drive like shit?

It wont but it passes the time.

 

the octy idles ok. revs ok to about 3k then dies off

 

was also stalling when slowing down.

 

i tried a fair few combos but no success.

[beko1987]

Tried setting fire to it? Although that would be a damn shame given the amount of work you have put into it. Does your magic cable and software not show what's going on? Does it show live data?

[barmatt]

Can you ask Chris to check his pm's please....cheers muchly

 

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Done

[320touring]

Tried setting fire to it? Although that would be a damn shame given the amount of work you have put into it. Does your magic cable and software not show what's going on? Does it show live data?

I've put fuckall into it:)

 

dont need live data, can see the air in the fuel lines.

 

fire may be it

[Inspector Morose]

And on the sixteenth day, the rank taxi did runneth out of MoT and verily it past forth into the scrapyard of much misery.

[ruffgeezer]

I had a nice visit from Bub today to collect some tools, to celebrate this occasion, the Picasso pre-emptively shat it's voltage regulator and now cannot be driven due to the dash lighting up like a low rent German disco as soon as the engine does anything more than idle speed.

[Lacquer Peel]

It wont but it passes the time.

 

the octy idles ok. revs ok to about 3k then dies off

 

was also stalling when slowing down.

 

i tried a fair few combos but no success.

Have you drilled the tank pick-up yet?

[320touring]

Have you drilled the tank pick-up yet?

nup. just stripped and cleand.

 

no obvious clogging. no drill here either and no desire

[Christine]

Welded on the new outrigger on the T4 ,all good .Went to change the brake pads on the rear and the discs are ...knackered. Bollocks..

Rang Jayars ," yes we have them in stock.. Ã‚£50 a pair.."

Just gone to pick them up, and i they are there ready on the counter . And I thought blimey ,bargain,  Brembo's !!     Then i put my glasses on    ..

 

 

 

 

"Smell ok "  said Spud the Dog