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[anonymous user]

A few days ago, I had a testdrive in one of these:

 

It´s a Fulu City Pick-Up from China with a two-cylinder 600 ccm engine in the back. 

 

 

Are you sure it's not Futu?

[catsinthewelder]

I'm not sure if I would prefer a go on the fulu or the train.

 

Bloody Disco is driving me nuts,  I've changed the lift pump, filter and pickup/sender unit as well as cleaning out the sedimenter and it still keeps loosing all power.  I can get it going again now by cracking off the bleed screw on the filter while the engine idles and waiting till the bubbles clear and it sprays fuel in my face but after 5 minutes driving it splutters to a halt again with the fuel filter full of air.  I can work round this by some extent as it seems fine if driven at full throttle but ease off a fraction and it's cough cough up the verge time.

[Lacquer Peel]

I don't know how the feck they can justify charging 10K€ for one of those though - they're probably about 1500 quid ex factory.  I can't see them selling too many...

 

Aye, I always thought those shitty DFSK vans should be a lot cheaper too. You can buy a basic Berlingo for the same price as a Loadhopper.

[catsinthewelder]

Import duties?

[Ghosty]

Old Man spring progress: 90% of one side and he can't be arsed doing the other one until next weekend. Car is sitting on 3 wheels blocking the garage.

 

Lazy bastard, just get it done with.

[Richard]

The Hindustan Ambassador ended up costing ten grand when it was imported. I think most of the extra money goes towards meeting EU requirements.

[Urko]

Changed the oil and filter on the Puma.  In theory I don't expect it to live beyond the September MOT but when I saw the state of the oil I just couldn't leave it like that - at least it 'll be in the scrappers with decent oil.

 

Had to go and get a new oil filter wrench though - the chain one I have was too big to get on there, and hammering a screwdriver in didn't work as there's no room to twiddle it and it was on mega tight.

 

Then I had another go with the aircon rattle can contraption and - bingo - a faint attempt at cooling - enough for the electric fan to finally make an appearance (it's never come on in my ownership so far).  I think this also confirms that the slow speed on the fan is buggered.

 

AMC turned over, fired, stopped (it always does this).  Then nothing from starter (except a vague clunk). Checked all connections, tried jump start - no.  Seems to be the starter again - oh goody.

[HMC]

Out in the 75 today....

England's cliched green and pleasant bits, and Dartmoor national park.

[dave21478]

I'm not sure if I would prefer a go on the fulu or the train.

 

Bloody Disco is driving me nuts,  I've changed the lift pump, filter and pickup/sender unit as well as cleaning out the sedimenter and it still keeps loosing all power.  I can get it going again now by cracking off the bleed screw on the filter while the engine idles and waiting till the bubbles clear and it sprays fuel in my face but after 5 minutes driving it splutters to a halt again with the fuel filter full of air.  I can work round this by some extent as it seems fine if driven at full throttle but ease off a fraction and it's cough cough up the verge time.

My Mazda used to do that.

The fuel pipes looked a little crusty so I bypassed the main pipe from tank to filter with a long bit of rubber fuel hose as a temporary* measure to see if that helped and it cleared it right up so I left it like that.

This worked for a while until it started crapping out again which turned out to be the diapghram diafram ...whatever....on the hand primer pump which was built into the filter housing. Binned it all and replaced with a basic 1 in 1 out filter cannister and bled it by cranking forever with the bleed on the injection pump open and it ran fine after that.

[Jazoli]

Spent the afternoon de-rusting the bottoms of the front wings on my '05 focus, it really is piss poor for a 'modern' car but I've spent too much on it for it to rust away and the wife is going to have it when I replace it with a sporty Italian off this very BB.

[xtriple]

On the shit roads round here a standard 1.8 MX5 is LOADS faster than a lowered turbo powered version of the same car! All I could hear behing me was lots of scraping noises as the turbo thing dragged various bits on the floor.

 

My sons car, he wasn't happy...

 

Oh, and I visited the dollop and it started! Left for over a week and the battery wasn't flat.

[lisbon_road]

Was watching the Wheeler Dealers on the 230E B reg Merc.  Seems programme was 2004, looked it up and it hasn't been taxed since 2006. Shame!

[RobT]

The Senator by the sea. Or more specifically St Margaret's at Cliffe near Dover, which is the closest place in England to the continent apparently.

 

 

I can see why the rozzers liked these. I did some country lane hoonage and it handles really well for such a big old barge, fairly quick too even though it's only the 2.5. The best bit is the way it gathers speed on motorway slip lanes whilst in sports mode!

 

Only problem is I think the heater matrix is borked. I noticed today the carpets are damp, and it'd also explain why it has a tendency to mist up all too easily.

[wuvvum]

Aye, I always thought those shitty DFSK vans should be a lot cheaper too. You can buy a basic Berlingo for the same price as a Loadhopper.

Yeah, but the Berlingo doesn't look like* a BMW.

[dave21478]

Its raining so hard the gutters cant cope and the streets are flooding.

Shits crazy, yo.

 

 

 

[Tamworthbay]

Was watching the Wheeler Dealers on the 230E B reg Merc.  Seems programme was 2004, looked it up and it hasn't been taxed since 2006. Shame!

not entirely surprising, they are a bit of a bodge basic job on there. Chuck on some shiny bits and away you go. Anyone remember the Suzuki?

[Supernaut]

Its raining so hard the gutters cant cope and the streets are flooding.

Shits crazy, yo.

 

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Fun!

 

I don't know why, but I actually quite like dramatic weather like that. It's interesting at least. Maybe it's just because I'm Scottish.

[worldofceri]

More ex-Bo11ox tat news.

 

Mr_Bo1 kindly forwarded me a new exhaust mount that he'd ordered just before roffling the Gooner.  Handy, as it's been banging off the heat shield for the last week or so.  Bit-of-wire bodge had failed.

 

 

Well, it's the most complicated exhaust hanger I've ever encountered (although I have lived a sheltered life).

 

 

I expected the bolts to be a bit on the seized side and that - as I'd have to re-use them - I'd round them off with pure ineptitude.

 

Turned out that wasn't my problem.  First one came out easily and the second...  hang on, it's too big for my 15mm socket and...  too small for a 17mm.  Oh, ffs.  Who uses 16mm bolts for crying out loud?

 

Did a quick stock-take and I have at least 22 metric sockets (excluding duplicates), but not one of them is 16mm.  Luckily I live but 5 mins from Halfords and it's always nice to have an excuse to get them to open the special locked tool cabinets.  The store assistant actually seemed to know what he was on about judging by the conversation he was having with another customer about crankshafts and bearings and what not, that went right over my head.

 

 

So, I got the old one off and the new one on.  Compare/contrast:

 

 

All UR on-street parkinz R belongz to us.

 

 

Bye!

[omegod]

Working on a 53 plate focus

Auxiliary belt idler Pulley is knackered and as soon as I put a socket near the 10mm bolt it rounded,took hardly any effort so i assume they are made from toffee, tried a 10mm irwin bolt remover but it's just rounded it more and won't bite. I'm thinking of cutting/grinding the bolt head off, removing the pulley in the hope that there is thread all the way down the bolt so I can double nut it out. Access is crap due to engine mount and i don't want to start stripping it out if I can help it .

Any more suggestions ??
 

[catsinthewelder]

Renault are a bugger for oddly sized nuts.  I have 16mm and 18mm sockets and spanners here that I haven't used since the Migraine departed and a broken 17mm spanner that I tried to file out to 18mm one Sunday afternoon.

[Richard]

16mm seems to be the standard hex size for M10 bolts in France.

 

Getting the hub carrier and brake disc off the 850 involved 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19mm, T45 and E14 sockets/spanners iirc.

[wuvvum]

I bought a 16mm spanner when I was taking the front calipers off the Volvo, which was about 5 years ago. I don't recall needing it again since. Although I'm pretty sure my current socket set has a 16 in it. No 18 though.

[omegod]

I used a 16 mm today on the 306 suspension strut , i think bmw are fond of 18mm

[Lacquer Peel]

When I did some work on the front suspension of my VW Caddy I think 13, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 21mm sockets were involved. Ridiculous.

[Ghosty]

The mess our garage is in suggests that the A4 needed a similar amount of spanners and sockets to change a spring and a trailing arm.

[HillmanImp]

Working on a 53 plate focusAuxiliary belt idler Pulley is knackered and as soon as I put a socket near the 10mm bolt it rounded,took hardly any effort so i assume they are made from toffee, tried a 10mm irwin bolt remover but it's just rounded it more and won't bite. I'm thinking of cutting/grinding the bolt head off, removing the pulley in the hope that there is thread all the way down the bolt so I can double nut it out. Access is crap due to engine mount and i don't want to start stripping it out if I can help it .[/size]Any more suggestions ??[/size]

 

This is probably why they were going to scrap it.

[chodweaver]

Today, I replaced my first oxygen sensor.

 

Whether this has been successful or not is still uncertain. I may have to visit a man with a probe and a blue sign again.

 

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[omegod]

This is probably why they were going to scrap it.

 

Nay, nay sir it hadn't been touched, i'll win but'll have to pop the engine mount off to get some proper hammer swinging space

 

You left the oil cap off the rover by the way you plant pot,it was on the rocker cover   

[Inspector Morose]

Yay! After a weekend running the golden slug without thermostat confirms all is not too shabby in the cooling department. (By the way, anyone know what temp a douvrin should run at?) now all I need to work out is which one of the three identical (identical looking but differing part number) thermostats I need to order.

 

Plus I think slug might be going russet brown in the near future. Because.

[Ghosty]

Today has been a day for chod spottage, but in all but one case I couldn't get a picture fast enough.

 

-2016 Mustang

-Ford Vignale (a £30k Mondeo)

-ZX

-two Dafs

-an L reg mk1 Fiat Panda

-a 1992 Chevrolet Caprice police car

-a 1998 Ford Crown Vic police car

-two TVR Cerberas

-Ferrari 308

 

And the one I got a picture of?

 

 

25 GTI.