What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[willswitchengage]

It turns out there is a Vacuum cleaner autoshite... http://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD ... D.cgi?9110

 

Mine is almost identical to the brown one in the first post

[Pillock]

Dysons are well overpriced and rarely sell at full price. We're currently offering half price on a lot of models and just before Christmas staff could get 60% off the whole range - still didn't buy one. The one we have is forever clogging - yes it has plenty of suck but it also has really narrow passages.

 

Mum used to have a proper old Hoover. Heavy cast metal base with a full-width light on the front, in charming Autoshite metallic brown. It was great, you just used to barge furniture out of the way. We once had a demo off the Kirby dealer (they did this thing where they'd come and vacuum a room, and whilst they did it you got the hard sell on how good they were) and he took one look at this relic and gave up - their selling points on Kirby were metal construction and loads of suck.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Mum used to have a proper old Hoover. Heavy cast metal base with a full-width light on the front, in charming Autoshite metallic brown..

 

my dad still has and uses this sort of hoover. i'll get a pic (can't believe i'm saying that) next time I visit him

[Spiny Norman]

[ashmicro]

. A bloke at work thinks he can shit gold, without the pills.

[Cavcraft]

 

...it has plenty of suck but it also has really narrow passages.

 

 

Sounds like my ideal woman

[Lord Sterling]

Something has actually gone right for me today, I cant actually believe it myself.

 

Firstly today, I actually did what I said I was going to do, I went to my garage, got the expansion tank off the white Sterling and stuck not a terribly bad one on it so I can actually move the car in and out of the garage. It was raining but I had the shelter of my garage. Then, I went home and stuck the new tank on my car, the job took me less than 10 mins from start to finish. I've tested the new tank out and it seems very tight, no cracks, I might need to loose a bit of coolant as I overfilled anticipating that I might loose some when the engine heats up.

 

To test it out I decided to take a trip down to the local retail park to buy myself a new case and screeners protector for this Galaxy pad thingy I was bought for Christmas. The tank didn't loose any coolant and the heaters worked blowing out hot air, luke warm air can be a sign of air trapped in the system.

 

Off I went into PC World, but I couldn't find a case or screen protector for my make of computer tablet. I picked up a couple of generic looking ones and went to pay, I was thinking I'd be spending at least £30 odd quid, the screen protector was a little expensive but the case came up as 97p pricewise, bargain!

 

So, for once, I'm actually a happy!

[messerschmitt owner]

Found my vid of tough at the top reliant. Must watch it when the video is unpacked.

[wackywacerwill]

Finished the annual Witley mcc day after boxing day enduro on my old Honda donkey. It's no wiz bang race machine and with this years event being chuffin' hard going I'm dead pleased with the result.

Training consisted of the usual tyre change fight and walking the half mile to my mums on boxing day. Race prep for the Honda was add knobblies and check oil, I did remove the mirror just before scrutineering and add a roll of gaffer tape to the rear rack,

And after

That's after being cleaned by the rain for a few days and a wet ride to work and back. Seems pretty unscathed (disregarding loss of paint) despite being laid down on more than a few occasions whilst fighting it's way around and through the trees. Perhaps judgement should be reserved for after I've had time to clean it up and give it a service though.

[Cavcraft]

'I'm alright going down there'

 

http://dirt.mpora.com/video-clips/helmet-cam-gold.html

 

 

[warren t claim]

Transferable Skills.

 

Last night I managed to "hotwire" a vibrator with a dodgy on/off switch.

[Albert Ross]

I hope you wore gloves....

[HillmanImp]

Vaccumshite - 'Your hoovering is our concern'

 

 

For no reason just found it on B3TA

[autofive]

is that one called Godwin?

[Cavcraft]

Vaccumshite - 'Your hoovering is our concern'

 

For no reason just found it on B3TA

 

[cobblers]

[mk1_4dr]

[daveb47]

Well after a bit of welding my 1998 escort turbo diesel estate has finally got a new MOT.

Well pleased to be mobile again.

 

Has anyone ever done fanbelt & cambelt on one of these? Access seems very limited and manual only shows how to do it with engine on bench.

[vulgalour]

Princess is moving to my new address tomorrow morning rather than Friday. I am very happy about this. Neighbour is concerned about how long the Princess will be on his side of the drive, I shall have to keep him sweet somehow, beer usually does the trick.

[fotorabia]

https://www.facebook.com/DerelictScotland

 

Check this FB group out..fantastic scappie in Perthshire....och u southerners dinnae noo what yer missing...

[trigger]

https://www.facebook.com/DerelictScotland

 

Check this FB group out..fantastic scappie in Perthshire....och u southerners dinnae noo what yer missing...

 

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=15630

 

[fotorabia]

yeah..i just saw that..but this is with the new updated photos ..and yer gonna lift yer kilt when u see the new yard!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

^^^^ sweet mutha of god!

[M'coli]

Scottish Shitefest 2013 - the mass trespass!

[Albert Ross]

Well after a bit of welding my 1998 escort turbo diesel estate has finally got a new MOT.

Well pleased to be mobile again.

 

Has anyone ever done fanbelt & cambelt on one of these? Access seems very limited and manual only shows how to do it with engine on bench.

 

Hundreds. SHOULD be a double belter at that age, (One for cam, one for pump) locking pins and double jointed wrists required. Also, use only genuine belt kits as the guide rollers have a habit of shedding the outer plastic ring with killage style effects. Not a double bad job to do if one has the right kit, (like me...it's in the garage, somewhere) but I'm 150 miles from you at least, so that puts me out of the frame. The cam sprocket is a floater and needs setting loose before repinning and nipping. There's a method, but it's best to have the engine in front of you to understand it!

[Richard]

The last time I bought a belt kit from Ford it came with full instructions. You can make the locking pins easily enough, IIRC it's just a bolt cut to length and a bit of flat bar.

[daveb47]

Thanks Albert & Richard,kind of confirms what i thought...

Looks like i got to get it done by someone,a bit beyond my capabilities age & artritus wise i suspect.

Any idea what its likely to cost?

Are these an interference engine

Cheers

[vulgalour]

2 hours, 3 men, one Maestro, one bent Princess, one ratchet strap and a hammer. Full report with pictures later today, just a few more things to tweak.

[vulgalour]

Magnificent maroon Marina in Sheffield on the way to the Doovla office with Dad. What a sterling thing to see and pip and wave at, driven, I think, by the same chap that owns the brilliant brown Marina with the fast engine and the banded Rostyles. Today has been a good day, which is something I feel has been a damned sight overdue!

[Richard]

Thanks Albert & Richard,kind of confirms what i thought...

Looks like i got to get it done by someone,a bit beyond my capabilities age & artritus wise i suspect.

Any idea what its likely to cost?

Are these an interference engine

Cheers

 

The kit was something like £72 from Ford when I did the job but that was about ten years ago. I'm not sure how much time is in it, a couple of hours I suppose.

 

I don't think it's possible for a diesel engine to be non-interference. Some are designed to limit damage when the belt fails but the Ford 1.8 isn't one of them.