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[Bobthebeard]

I don't know if this was the reason behind it or just happy coincidence, but when the car used to cut out at junctions when cold it was a lot easier to just flick that switch whilst giving it some gas than stop, put it in park, switch ignition off and on again, fire the engine up then try to find the right balance between stalling and revving the nads off it as I slotted it into drive. Having said that, the cutting-out issue seemed to gradually sort itself out the more I drove the car.

Makes sense. Although as I haven't yet driven the car anywhere I have never experienced the cutting out. May end up putting the switch back again! Although using a push button rather than a toggle switch that could get accidentally knocked 'on' by my fat leg!

[richardmorris]

Is it within 30cm of suspension mounts?

 

Ben

Who knows! I don't think so, it's confined to the inner wing. No suspension within a couple of feet.

[cort16]

I nipped out for an hour to seam sealer all the welding I did on the Cortina after priming it all yesterday. What even half wit painted to couldn't be arsed bending down so the bottom part of the sill has no stone chip or as far as a I can see paint on it. I thought I'd clean it up with the wire brush before re-stone chipping it. Can you guess what happened kids? Yes the sill is a total swiss cheese effort so I'd like to retract my statement about the welding being complete. I'd show a picture but when I went to take it the phone turned off in protest at being forced to take so many rust pictures.

I think I'm going to buy a sill for something around the right curvature and cut it up to make a patch as I want to try to put it in in one section.

[The Moog]

Decided that I would make the most of the rain ending to see about the water dripping in the civic.

 

First off sucky up all water from footwell

 

Then checked the scuttle

 

Off with scuttle

 

The blower inlet was a bit damp. It looks like it has a foam seal which doesn't. Rooted through the shed to find something

Apply liberally

 

Interweb suggests that also putting some shielding over the inlet will help, so bent the metal over and hunted for flexible metal or plastic. Nothing available so used a bag for life to build a bit more of a shield.

 

Taped it and riveted it then sealed bottom. Looks better in real life.

 

Fingers crossed it will work. If it doesn't I will whip it all off and get some rubber to make the shield.

[tooSavvy]

^^^ much EpikBagRemodelling here.

 

I had to go to Motorhog, bumrape a Daewoo door for bits just to get my drivers window moving up & down.... Should have put a bag over it.... Iz Loser

 

 

TS

[taxi paul]

Travelled to sunny Wrexham yesterday to meet a nice man and collect four alloys for my Rover 75. All in very good nick and with good tyres on. I can now fit them to my 75 and have a go at refurbishing my old ones.

[ruffgeezer]

Bought another 2 Rallye steelies at the "set" I bought last week was in fact, 2 pairs of 2 different sizes.

[richardmorris]

Travelled to sunny Wrexham yesterday to meet a nice man and collect four alloys for my Rover 75. All in very good nick and with good tyres on. I can now fit them to my 75 and have a go at refurbishing my old ones.

It's a lie. Wrexham wasn't sunny yesterday when I face timed my grandfather!

[320touring]

Had a braw day car tinkering with some miscreants form the SVM

 

Cheers for the hauners Mssrs Fowler2000 and RML2345

[richardmorris]

Oh, and I also cleaned the alloys on the merc with pro valet bilberry wheel cleaner. It's very impressive- no effort at all and got rid of all the yellowing haze and black bits of gunk and made them all sparkly and silver. I've put off thoughts of refurbishment now!

[beko1987]

Bilberry is awesome! Which do you have, red or blue? I have both and prefer red!

[beko1987]

Had a braw day car tinkering with some miscreants form the SVM

 

Cheers for the hauners Mssrs Fowler2000 and RML2345

Does it glf now?

[dome]

I hope you used genuine BMW bushes or they'll likely be shot again in a few months. E46's eat through those bloody wishbone bushes but genuine parts should give you a couple of years.

I went for Meyle-HD they're uprated and seem to get good reviews. Whether they're shot in a couple of years or not the next owner can decide...

[richardmorris]

Bilberry is awesome! Which do you have, red or blue? I have both and prefer red!

Didn't know that there was a choice! Mine is red. Bought 1l on eBay for under £11 free delivery. I diluted it about 1:3 and used my mukoff sprayer to do the wheels. Then rinsed and washed them down with a microfibre mitt with Aldi's car wash 'n wax. Then washed the whole car and wheels again. I remain very impressed - if slightly lacking in fingerprints. They are by far the cleanest in the four years I've had it.

 

I'll do the fiat in a month or so and get them nice and shiny again for goodwood. Alloy wheels don't really get me excited, as long as they're clean I'm happy. But the difference this stuff made in 10 minutes really is impressive.

 

Of course, now that the wheels are superb the car has developed metal moth. Ho hum.

[Cheggers]

Had a braw day car tinkering with some miscreants form the SVM

 

Cheers for the hauners Mssrs Fowler2000 and RML2345

That Dollywobbler's let himself go

[andy18s]

Bit of news for all you steam buffs out there4

If you didn't know already, "The Flying Scotsman" is paying a visit to Holyhead,Anglesey on June 15th

 

https://www.facebook.com/events/138609269848007/

http://www.nrm.org.uk/NRM/flyingscotsman/scotsman-season.aspx

 

Be nice to see it cross over the Menai Straits......

[MarvinsMom]

the flying scotsman will also be visiting the NRM Locomotion site at Shildon over the summer.

 

July 24th to July 29th i think.

 

and am looking forward to going there to see it.

[EssDeeWon]

Travelled to sunny Wrexham yesterday to meet a nice man and collect four alloys for my Rover 75. All in very good nick and with good tyres on. I can now fit them to my 75 and have a go at refurbishing my old ones.

 

What type of alloys did you buy?

[Fat_Pirate]

• Good news: bought a really nice 2001 Saab 9-3 convertible yesterday!

• Bad news: catastrophic turbo failure today!

• More Bad news: £133 to recover it to my house!

I bought it from a Saab specialist for no small amount of money, so hopefully a swift and amicable solution can be found tomorrow, when I ring them for a lovely* chat.

[wuvvum]

 

• Good news: bought a really nice 2001 Saab 9-3 convertible yesterday!

• Bad news: catastrophic turbo failure today!

• More Bad news: £133 to recover it to my house!

I bought it from a Saab specialist for no small amount of money, so hopefully a swift and amicable solution can be found tomorrow, when I ring them for a lovely* chat.

 

I'm getting a feeling of déjà vu here...

[wuvvum]

Got a bit of fettling done this weekend - the weather even stayed nice for most of it.

 

I finished bodging the MGF's gear cable back into place with a jubilee clip - the old one was utterly fecked so I used a nice shiny new one.  The car now has its full complement of gears back, which is nice.

 

Fitted a reversing siren to the Movano - it's one I bought off eBay a while ago and forgot I had until I found it in the kitchen.  It's not the best installation job - I stuck the siren beind the bumper, then removed the offside light cluster and joined the wires from the siren onto the relevant wires to the light using Scotchlocks (the connectors everyone loves to hate), but it works OK and you can't see the wiring when the doors are closed, so it'll do for now.

 

Next job was to investigate the lack of demisting on the LDV.  The directional control on the heater didn't seem to be doing much, and there wasn't a lot of resistance when it was turned, so I suspected a broken cable.  I removed the top of the dash for a look, only to find that yes, the cable was knackered, but it was the other end, right up behind the dash, which was broken.  Fortunately Maxus dashboards are fairly minimalist and I was able, by lying down in the footwell, to reach up behind the dash and manually move the slider that the cable pulls on.  So the van now has demisting - not the best as the fan is a bit feeble, but a lot better than it was before.  Unfortunately when refitting the dash I managed to wire the (aftermarket) rear foglight switch up the wrong way round and blow a sidelight fuse - a couple of minutes with a multimeter soon had this sorted though.  I also slapped a bit of direct-to-rust white paint on the damaged panels where the original paint had fallen off - it's a pretty shit job tbh, but at least it'll protect the metal for now.

 

The Innocenti was treated to a wash this afternoon - the local seagulls seem to be suffering from dysentry or something similar at the moment, so the car was in dire need of a clean.  Looks much better now.  As the roads were dry I took it for a bit of a spin - it's making a funny rubbing noise when accelerating hard in first and second which is slightly worrying - I think one or more engine mounts might be getting a bit soft.

 

Didn't fix the CX, but I did pinpoint the main source of the leak - weather permitting I might have another go at sorting it next weekend.  I should also really have a bash at fixing the heater, but I can't be arsed at the moment.  I also fired up the Spacy and the Hyosung today, for the first time since October - the Hyosung needed the battery charging but both bikes fired up straight away, which was a relief.  The Hyosung is going to need some new fork seals before it goes back on the road though - that's a job that used to terrify me, but since I did the seals on the Cagiva I'm less worried about tackling them again.

[Eddie Honda]

Can you send Big Ron round to have a go at getting my bloody heating working ?!

Sorry chief. Big Ron has been and gone...

 

IMG_20160101_135956_193 by E Honda, on Flickr

[Eddie Honda]

Had a braw day car tinkering with some miscreants form the SVM

 

Cheers for the hauners Mssrs Fowler2000 and RML2345

Roll + sausage + tattie scone = heaven.

[twosmoke300]

 

• Good news: bought a really nice 2001 Saab 9-3 convertible yesterday!

• Bad news: catastrophic turbo failure today!

• More Bad news: £133 to recover it to my house!

I bought it from a Saab specialist for no small amount of money, so hopefully a swift and amicable solution can be found tomorrow, when I ring them for a lovely* chat.

 

 

 

Make sure they do a sump drop at the same time or it will happen again and could lunch the engine in the process

[HMC]

Another username change to Italianman?

Good Idea, Trig! Went for something similar

[barmatt]

 

• Good news: bought a really nice 2001 Saab 9-3 convertible yesterday!

• Bad news: catastrophic turbo failure today!

• More Bad news: £133 to recover it to my house!

I bought it from a Saab specialist for no small amount of money, so hopefully a swift and amicable solution can be found tomorrow, when I ring them for a lovely* chat.

 

 

If you need any bits let me know I'm breaking a 2000 9-3 convertible and most of it is here.

[cort16]

Did exactly the same thing not happen to cortinadave? Bought a Saab from a dealer, turbo shat it on the way home? Or was it the oil strainer?

[Lukas]

So better buy a Saab from dealers only... Warranty and such. 

[vulgalour]

Congratulations to Foreign People once again in being top at doing jobs the natives grumble about and making me want to give them more of my custom.  Rover now sports alloys.

[xtriple]

The Bentley, tired of such mundaneness as being a car, has booked itself yet another holiday at its favourite place. Off tomorrow, being picked up and carted away.

It has used a third of a litre of atf in 150 miles.