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[cort16]

My p6 is with eBay now . I got a message from another p6 owners saying they had the same issue and how they got around it using a specific bleeding technique . Yes, I have to sacrifice a goat but it's got to be worth a try right?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I might have made the goat bit up

[twosmoke300]

About to drive down to my first enduro race in about 4 years . I'm gonna be ruined by the end .

I hoping that my new bike will make it easy but I'm probably dreaming

Well - not only did I survive I beat my much younger , fitter mate and another who bust his knee ( trying too hard!)

I don't reckon I could have done 3 hours non stop on the Ktm ( I did have to have a piss half way ) and the little honda is a trooper .

Roast at the outlaws later too - what a day !

[17-Coffees]

I decided to add a giffer spec wheel cover to the LexBarge, because I felt the car needed more wood effect. (Despite the thing having 20 trees worth of real wood trim inside) 

 

 

And it's too small to fit on the wheel...waste of £2 that was. 

 

But fear not, it'll be on another car very soon! 

[anonymous user]

Had a massive fashion fail today.

 

Decided to use the Cortina for a trip out for lunch with the family. It was pointed out to me after I had picked everybody up that I resembled a Ford Cortina door card

 

 

Ah, so you must be about 40 or 45 I trust you were also wearing the matching beige cardigan and sensible slip-on shoes

[MarvinsMom]

jaguar has shat itself for the last time today.

 

yesterday  and again this morning, was running fine, as sound as a pound even! was using it this weekend to see if it could be trusted, say, to get me too and from work?

 

get to the FiL's park up, again fine. come back to it 20 minutes later to let them out, start it up, and it sounds like a cement mixer!!

 

think there is a problem with timing chains/tensioners cos the noise (a horrible deathly, metallic rattle) is coming from the front to the engine so fuck it, other half will call U-pull-it or Piggots and get them to come at take it away!!

 

this fleet reduction thing, it easy.....

[fatharris]

 

Long minibus ride today for 12 days of adventurous activities in Rockland. The map is wrong, we're going near Ullapool so it's even further up.

 

Stuck in traffic at Birmingham, joy.

 

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[fatharris]

Oh, and I did have a fully charged spare battery for my phone, but it turns out I've left it on the fucjing mantelpiece, arses!

 

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[stuboy]

Some one localish to me was offering hgf diesel mk2 mondeo, i asked him if he would sell me the wheels and he agreed, so popped up to collect them on the a20 was getting small thudding noises from the front wheels, got home and seems both fronts had obtained some bulges.. thankfully i just bought the black 5 spokes to replace the knackererd 18's... and i decided to pump up the tyres and give the old girl a bath.

[vulgalour]

I was a little bit confused for a minute there, it wasn't clear straightaway that there were two people and I was trying to figure out how you kept your nails in such great shape while wearing those work gloves.  I think you might need more stickers too, there's some car that's still black

[hairymel]

Angyl -  stuboy has carefully (and obviously successfully) crafted his image to attract teh ladiez.

 

i am trawling ebay for bumper packs of stickers right now

[spike60]

I changed the left rear subframe bushes, bottom ball joint, ARB link and top arms on the 530d Touring now it has sunk down to my ownership. i feel we had the best out of the ball joint and bush. If you look closely you can spot the difference between the new and old ball joints in the 1st pic  . Alarmingly these passed MOT a month ago.

 

 

 

Unsurprisingly it had a serious amount of -ve camber and thudded like a bastard over the bumps. At least this sort of work gives noticable results, not like fitting a chewy cambelt. Only the other side to look forward to now!

[richardmorris]

Just driven back from north wales. Lots of nice old lorrys about near Telford: must have been a meeting somewhere.

 

Stopped for fuel at tern hill and worked out that the merc had done 31.3mpg up on the Friday, despite what seemed like endless stop start queues.

[dollywobbler]

I'm 200 miles into the 350-mile drive home, now installed in Bradford. The XJS (not mine in case you missed it) is running well, though town driving today has seen the MPG drop back down to 23. I very, very nearly had it up to 25 today.

 

Anyway, it's been an incredible weekend of old shite. Fantastic day with RatDat yesterday, and today involved many good things I can't yet tell you about, including this.

 

Only got to drive it around a car park, due to lack of legals. Just 15,000 miles on the clock! Tomorrow, off to see the 2CV get chopped to bits, then home.

[Supernaut]

 

Long minibus ride today for 12 days of adventurous activities in Rockland. The map is wrong, we're going near Ullapool so it's even further up.

 

Stuck in traffic at Birmingham, joy.

 

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Yeah, as we discussed on facebook earlier, I put your actual route into google maps and it's more like 13 hours, if you're in a car and not a clapped out minibus.

 

Chodpseed.

 

Even I consider Ullapool fucking miles away from where I am!

[dollywobbler]

It's going to take me a month to get over this trip. It has just been packed full of too much win. And contrasts. Like my mate's SM-engined DS, which sadly blew a head gasket.

[andrew e]

Heavy oil powered Fiesta appears for my eldest to learn to drive in:

 

[richardmorris]

I was a little bit confused for a minute there, it wasn't clear straightaway that there were two people and I was trying to figure out how you kept your nails in such great shape while wearing those work gloves.  I think you might need more stickers too, there's some car that's still black

Yes, I was flicking though the photos and was imagining Barbara, the taxi driver from the league of gentleman too!

[Richard]

I've spent the weekend up north too, though not as far north and from a much closer starting point.

 

 

This was at a caravan site where I slept in my Avenger Estate for ten nights in 1990.

 

A couple of miles further on the road ended at an abandoned chairlift. I saw an exhaust peeking out of the drive cabinet so I had to have a look and see what it was.

 

 

 

Cologne? That sticker says 2.8 HC. I'm not sure what the engine was for, there was a huge electric motor underneath it.

 

After a quick look at the funicular railway it was time to head down to Aviemore for afternoon tea on a steam train.

 

 

Best described as "functional", which is fine by me.

 

This unfortunate looking specimen was in the car park when we got back.

 

 

Today we went somewhere I've not been since 1992 to see if anything had changed.

 

 

 

 

 

Incidentally, I've always had a sneaking suspicion that that's the Renault 5 in the famous caravan video. It's the kind of thing my cousin would do and he did live in a caravan before he moved into the boat.

 

After that it was time to check out a garden of shite that Lacquer Peel tipped me off about.

 

 

The shite was all gone and somebody was living in the house. It was worth it for the caravan though.

 

Back to Aviemore where I spotted this tidy early 850.

 

 

[richardmorris]

It's going to take me a month to get over this trip. It has just been packed full of too much win. And contrasts. Like my mate's SM-engined DS, which sadly blew a head gasket.

 

Oh dear. Poor ed.

overheated or just failed?

[Kiltox]

Hopefully shifting this lovely* machine tomorrow and if I do, I'm going to be buying something really fucking stupid..... More stupid than a Scenic II auto

 

[dollywobbler]

Oh dear. Poor ed.

overheated or just failed?

 

Just failed he thinks. His cars always seem to get him to events, then break down.

[For Fiats Sake]

Had a missed call from the bloke I bought the donor brava from, rang him back, he was taking an engine out of a mk3 panda, a reg check later it turned out it was an 1108cc (55hp) so not really worth the effort in changing out a 999cc 50hp mk2 engine.

 

The garage has the Uno mot'd and will be swapping it for the last of the fleet needing one for a few weeks at least.  I really haven't enjoyed multicar ownership in the months where the majority of the mots fall and have decided to pass on the Maestro and the Uno.  I'll do a proper fox-ale threads later.

 

I had the v5 reverting the mk4's reg back to its original one so I'll pass that on to the garage.  Turns out I didn't get a reminder for the tax as it was still registered at my old address, one of the reasons for losing two cars from the fleet is missing the obvious and getting clamped on my doorstep just wasn't a good experience.  With two gone (and three if I get the donor car gone) the drive widened next month, I can get all of the them on my property without having to play car tetris.  

Oh and the doovla can go fuck themselves if the want to clamp a car I forgot to tax.

[phil_lihp]

It's all about the giffery shite around here at the moment.  There's an older chap in the area who has a lovely gold F-plate Peugeot 405 petrol saloon, must be one of the earliest ones.  It's absolutely spotless whenever I see it, it has an unusual but original-looking grill with rectangular spotlights in it.  Unfortunately I saw it again yesterday and whilst him, his magnificent beard and his wife looked perfectly happy and the car was, as usual, spotless, the amount of blue smoke it left in its wake suggested that it was not well.  Hopefully it'll be fixed.  

 

There's also an elderly chap I see occasionally, who has a pastel-blue Lada Samara, again very early on a G-plate I think.  Spotted it again this weekend, it's straight and tidy although the paint is as flat as a flat thing and having seen it coming the other way in the dark, the headlights are hilariously bad.

[wuvvum]

I'm 200 miles into the 350-mile drive home, now installed in Bradford. The XJS (not mine in case you missed it) is running well, though town driving today has seen the MPG drop back down to 23. I very, very nearly had it up to 25 today.

 

Anyway, it's been an incredible weekend of old shite. Fantastic day with RatDat yesterday, and today involved many good things I can't yet tell you about, including this.

 

Only got to drive it around a car park, due to lack of legals. Just 15,000 miles on the clock! Tomorrow, off to see the 2CV get chopped to bits, then home.

My Starlet had exactly the same interior as that, although mine was beige on the outside.  Not the most supportive seats on a long drive...

[trigger]

Today was the day that i said goodbye to the Mk3, i took it to a nice little show in Little Clacton and then delivered it to my dads house as he's bought to use along side my old Mk1 Cortina what he also owns.

 

I had mixed feelings driving it to his, part of me was sad that after 4 years of ownership (the longest I've ever owned a car) and a lot of time, money and good times spent with the car (Shitefest probably being it's peak) that i won't get to enjoy it anymore but the more i thought about it the more my back started to ache and i started to get pissed off with having to keep concentrating to keep it in a straightline and not bouncing all over the road on very bump so that I'm not that bothered it's going really.

 

Is also now means that i have £5000 to spend on a new toy, i wonder what it will be!

 

[wuvvum]

Got a few of the jobs on my list done this weekend.  Yesterday I refilled the cooling system on the A35 (chucked in a bottle of radiator flush I had lying around as well, as it was a bit gunked up in there), then started it up and let it run for 20 minutes or so - probably the longest I've run it for since I bought it.  It seemed quite happy, and top & bottom hoses got warm so it's obviously circulating as it should.  I've said it before, but you can't beat an A series.

 

I didn't manage to sort the back brake on the Spacy.  The problem appears to be that the brake cable retaining clamp on the swing arm has fallen off, so there's nothing holding the cable in place - so when I press the pedal it's pulling on the whole thing rather than just the inner cable.  Which would explain why it only starts braking near the bottom of the pedal's travel.  A quick prod of the pedal on the spares bike seemed to suggest that the setup is still intact on that, but unfortunately due to the Movano's increasing use as a shed / rubbish dump over the 8 months or so since I last needed the spares bike, it would have taken me more time and energy than I had to get to the bit of the bike I needed, so that's been put off until next week.

 

I did finally manage to find the wires for the fuel gauge though.  I knew they were there somewhere as I remembered unplugging them when I removed the original (fecked) fuel tank, but I'd never been able to find them since.  So the bike now has a working (in theory at least) fuel gauge for the first time in the five or so years I've owned it - time will tell how accurate it is.  I also reconnected a wire that had come apart for the auto choke, although I don't know how much difference that will make as I hadn't had any difficulties starting the bike from cold.

 

Next job was the Saab, which had been going into limp mode more and more frequently.  It was throwing up the same code every time, and a quick search of the Saab fora suggested that the most common cause was a sticking throttle butterfly, caused by gunk in the throttle body.  So I pulled off the inlet pipe, and indeed it was gungy as feck in there.  I sprayed carb cleaner liberally into the intake, then wiped it out as best I could and scraped out some of the more solid chunks of gunge with a screwdriver.  I had a bit of an issue when putting the pipe back on as the jubilee clip snapped when I was tightening it up, and the only spare clip I had was slightly too big (as in when it was fully done up it was just about holding the pipe in place, but I think a sustained bout of full boost driving would have seen it pop off).  That was solved by nicking a slightly smaller clip off a slightly larger pipe, which was able to clamp the boost pipe in position properly (and without snapping); the larger jubilee clip then took its place on the larger pipe.  If that makes any sense at all.

 

I've now done about 45 miles in the car and it's not yet gone into limp mode, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that that's sorted it.

[wuvvum]

Is also now means that i have £5000 to spend on a new toy, i wonder what it will be!

 

[hairnet]

matra.

 

murena.

[M'coli]

Put 3 new tyres(Yokohama Bluearth or som such pish) on the ZX on Saturday, really impressed with the lack of road noise compared to the old ones.

Popped up to Malham for some cabbage juice and to pick up the Krujoe A-frame for Bub to use (don't feckin blame me if it goes tits-up, I'm just the mule!)

Delivered the 'frame to Bub after having to tie the exhaust to the back axle at Woodall services...

[Angrydicky]

Driving along Southend seafront yesterday, I passed a familiar looking dark green BX estate parked up. J798TPC, is that jackytwoshoes? Unfortunately no shiters were in the car at the time, but it was good to see a BX as there's really not many left around here.