What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Wibble]

7 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

I usually hate working on older (well, 90s) cars because of how they have electronic systems without universal diagnostic capabilities

Well I've had an old V90 in with an ABS light, neither the snap on or autel scanner would interrogate the ABS system. In fact snap on wouldn't talk to anything Volvo before 2000. 

Instead of throwing my hands up and giving up because a computer couldn't tell me what was wrong I thought I'd go back to the basics

It's a very simple ABS system so found a wiring diagram online from a Volvo service manual.

Checked every connection and found that one of the sensors had 1,000,000 ohms of resistance compared to the others which were 1,000 ohms, that might pose an issue!

Plugged a new sensor in and bingo, ABS light gone

So that's that. Massive grin because it's a successful fix by using a bit of brain work

 

Fair play, hats off to you. That’s pretty much exactly how my local garage identified the Senator ABS problem. Problem was finding a replacement sensor. Only took a year to discover early Astra ones work but all sorted now.

[Joey spud]

You can never have enough tool storage.

I spotted this old tool box dumped in the scrap metal bin at a fast fit in Fareham the other day and got permission to bring it home.

It scrubbed up alright.

[Wack]

Just had a memory jogged 

35 years ago I took my ex wife's family to a funeral in Mansfield, a town I didn't know, nobody in the car knew where the cemetery was, but then I saw a guy leaving the car park, I'd seen him in the church

Result, followed him , right on to the drive of his house, by the time we got to the cemetary they were filling the hole in with a digger

Not really the final farewell they were looking for

[Metal Guru]

10 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

One of the fingers of my lunchtime off-brand KitKat didn't contain any wafer, just solid chocolate all the way through.

I don't know why that feels like a win, but it does somehow.

I’ve had that happen a couple of times with real Kit Kats . Presumably the wafers and moulds are made to different tolerances and eventually they create a small gap.

[High Jetter]

3 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

eventually they create a small gap.

What fills a gap? Kit-Kat!

[Wack]

8 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

I’ve had that happen a couple of times with real Kit Kats . Presumably the wafers and moulds are made to different tolerances and eventually they create a small gap.

Will it be worth a fortune like those mis-printed £5 notes 

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, Wack said:

Will it be worth a fortune like those mis-printed £5 notes 

Possibly but it would have to be intact and you can’t tell without biting into it.

[scdan4]

New ratchet spanners make me grin 😁 

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

4 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Possibly but it would have to be intact and you can’t tell without biting into it.

you can usually tell as the bottom looks different with no wafer in

[hairnet]

so having issues due to medical

rang them

showed them photos 🤢

they said they have look and speak to them that know

went into work - told them i migh have to leave suddenly in the afternoon or not be in tomorrow (what the hossy said)

after ringing them at 8 o clock they rang at 1130 - we have a space get in here naahhhhhh (mike reid)

i cant im in ramsbottom

would 1300 be ok

yes

finally released at 1630 - hopefully what they did sorts me out

they also signed me off again for a week

fek - bored again

and while i went on holiday the last time - due to what theyve done its gonna be dad taxi for the next week

def quailty street tin tomorrow

the other grin is i have speed awareness on saturday - i was working but now not

LIE IN!!!!!!!!!

 

[RoverFolkUs]

Must be my lucky week (for a change)

If you know, you know... 

No hammering and no heat. No power tools/impact guns etc either! 03 plate Audi A4, doesn't look like it's been touched recently. 

I don't like having to extract those when they're seized... I don't think anybody does!

[High Jetter]

[MikeR]

Hopefully this chap will be ok , he was very small , vets found fly eggs on him and strimmer marks on his spines , was curled up on the pavement in the middle of the day 

[junkyarddog]

There is just something nice about opening up that prickly husk to reveal a nice shiny conker!

[dome]

15 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Must be my lucky week (for a change)

If you know, you know... 

 

No hammering and no heat. No power tools/impact guns etc either! 03 plate Audi A4, doesn't look like it's been touched recently. 

I don't like having to extract those when they're seized... I don't think anybody does!

[wuvvum]

45 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

There is just something nice about opening up that prickly husk to reveal a nice shiny conker!

Not goona lie, when I first glanced at that picture before reading the caption I thought you were holding an unusually shiny dog egg.

[junkyarddog]

You can't polish a turd🤣

Besides have you ever seen what comes out of the rear end of a German Shepherd?,you'd need a shovel.🤣🤣

[motorpunk]

Spotted this, love it. I'd daily this, no question. 

Wrote a few quick words here. 

[Back_For_More]

16 hours ago, MikeR said:

Hopefully this chap will be ok , he was very small , vets found fly eggs on him and strimmer marks on his spines , was curled up on the pavement in the middle of the day 

I've got a regular feeder and milk drinker here..... Looks to be in fine health luckily

[nacho man]

My bro sent me this he spotted the other day. 
 

I asked for more details about the pickup conversion but never received the goods. 

[HillmanImp]

Top kwalitee journalism from the Daily Star. 

Its a live stream, so there probably isn't a lot happening. 

[cort16]

5 hours ago, nacho man said:

My bro sent me this he spotted the other day. 
 

I asked for more details about the pickup conversion but never received the goods. 

This appears in the video in this advert for another SD1

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334591955444

[hairnet]

knight rider 

and devons been stiffed by a lady in his ascot pennington (looks like a duesenberg but is probably a chevy)

she hits him in a 1983-4 (its got april in it so 83) mazda 626 coupe  @Conan

theyre going to custom car show and they just put flames on kitt

 

[EyesWeldedShut]

On 10/9/2022 at 5:23 PM, reb said:

Because by and large we agree with her?

Why haven't the English seen through David Cameron Theresa May Boris Johnson Liz Truss yet?

As an expat Scot living in Wales I was never that impressed with her to be honest and her views on Indy. Having lived here through Covid and watched the machinations of just how little consideration that the UK Gov (UK = English?) has given to this Principality then I too, by and large, agree with here as do my remaining family in Scotland who were never that bothered about politics.

[EyesWeldedShut]

On 10/9/2022 at 5:23 PM, reb said:

Because by and large we agree with her?

Why haven't the English seen through David Cameron Theresa May Boris Johnson Liz Truss yet?

As an expat Scot living in Wales I was never that impressed with her to be honest and her views on Indy. Having lived here through Covid and watched the machinations of just how little consideration that the UK Gov (UK = English?) has given to this Principality then I too, by and large, agree with here as do my remaining family in Scotland who were never that bothered about politics.

[EyesWeldedShut]

Sorry - got diverted by Scottish Stuff.....

Happy today, Bini passed MoT again with no work beforehand (just oil/filter/cambelt/alternator belt and a wash). 

Only 4,000 miles in the year as we're now both working from home - wonder how long it'll keep going?

[Fumbler]

On 13/10/2022 at 19:11, High Jetter said:

Lol, I install these at work (with a proper keypad though!). I was told the price of them once- £1200. They're bloody durable things however.

[High Jetter]

IIRC they were used as emergency phones, it's the sign that's wrong.

[Rust Collector]

My driveway/garden line up made me look back and smile today as I was walking to the front door

[horriblemercedes]

Spotted at the Nürburgring. Head gasket on the dash as a trophy?