What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[fordperv]

I have been working on mrs fp's car today and Whilst I was in the shower had a knock at the door, I jumped out and opened my upstairs window it was a lad who hangs around with my neighbors daughter, looks like a stereo typical council estate yoof, he was walking past and saw I'd left my ratchet on the pavement and was returning it to me before someone made off with it, my grin is not all yoofs are bad.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Dropped Rover 600 off for exhaust and MOT, then decided to have a late lunch in a pub garden.

Went into a pub I haven't been in for ages and surprised to see it quite full, but managed to get a place in the sun.

I mentioned to Mrs N the large crowd looked like a film crew or summat,, walks talkies ,vests etc..

When she pointed out that the bloke on the next table looked a bit like Ozzy Osbourne.......

Of course she couldn't resist collaring him and his boy Jack for a selfie , he seemed grateful she left it till he'd finished his lunch .

He was quite witty and didn't come across as doddery as on telly. He said to her he'd have to do a picture 'cos her security looked bigger than his ! She thinks this is much funnier than I do.

Seems he's filming in Bletchley Park, but didn't say what.

[fordperv]

Today I received a small parcel, it turns out mrs fp had seen a nos genuine timing chain case upper and lower gasket and a timing chain guide for sierra/granada dohc for sale on eBay, she told me they were less than I paid for the lower from ford and no doubt I'd need them eventually, what a woman

[Negative Creep]

Finally got myself an Xbox One Forza 6 pack. Over 400 high performance dream machines to choose from, so naturally my first purchase was a mk.2 XR2i

[Pillock]

Awesome! I'm waiting for Forza 6 to turn up after snagging it for £15, it's been dispatched but I think it's coming by DHL who normally offer some right palaver delivering stuff.

[Negative Creep]

Wow, how did you manage to get it for that price? Hasn't quite finished downloading yet but you'll be pleased to hear there is a good selection of shite as standard, even a Defender, Willy Jeep and 1960's Ford Bronco

[MrDuke]

This weird thing happened!  No, we didn't do any research, you can do that for us!  DEL BOY.

 

Yeah, my initial delight at seeing 'Reliant' and 'Robin' in the right order was short-lived upon seeing the photos. They probably meant to write 'Robin Reliant' and just mis-printed it, the fuckwits.

[DVee8]

New rear discs,pads and hand break shoes fitted today for £120 very  pleased.I have some great mates.

[cms206]

 

[Craig the Princess]

If there can be a landscape version of that it would be nailed on calendar cover shite.

[bub2006]

I seem to have bought a stylish* 4 door saloon with an auto box and a ghia badge

[Bucketeer]

Mega.

That deserves re-posting for the vertically-necked.

 

[phil_lihp]

Outstanding!

[Richard]

Yeah, my initial delight at seeing 'Reliant' and 'Robin' in the right order was short-lived upon seeing the photos. They probably meant to write 'Robin Reliant' and just mis-printed it, the fuckwits.

 

They did write 'Robin Reliant' on one of the captions.

[beko1987]

It was SWMBO'S baby shower today, so I did one to a friends house, who'se parents are away to fit some new suspension bits to the Meriva and stop the clonking it's had for over a year...

 

Being as orl vauxhalls r shit however, the lower ball joints are riveted on, so the wishbone had to come out. Not a bad job tbh

 

The first side took about 20 mins to get off

 

 

Bare space

 

 

My mate got his dads grinder out and made light work of the rivet tops, a persuasion device was utilised to break the rust seal and remove the joint (he wears glasses, so got the job due to health and safety, and I stood back and watched the sparks fly)

 

 

aha!

 

 

This will make the job 46% easier to do next time

 

 

I nearly gave up on the droplinks after making the whole nut and stud turn within the link. However, matey noticed 2 flats on the back of each, and backed up by a quick question in the grump thread, a spanner and whack with the persuasion device had the old, fucked ones off and new shiney ones fitted

 

 

Drivers side done, the passenger was much easier. Wishbone out in under 10 mins, and we did the droplinks before refitting the wishbone as there's more space. 15 minutes, boom!

 

 

Grinder out again, balljoint changed, and all back in much easier as we knew how hard to smack everything with a big hammer to align it all up.

 

The old, original, 83,000 mile joints. Drivers side was much more fucked than the passenger

 

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equally fucked droplinks, although on both the lower joint was more goosed than the top, I presume the bottom ones get more of a hammering

 

 

And the verdict? Well I asked my mate what the most fucked road in chinnor was, and we went over to Amys mums, and drove up her road and all the noises are gone! Another job ticked off the list. Just the dodgy rear caliper and exhaust to fix/replace now. Then it'll be time for a service, 2 reat tyres next summer-ish barring any punctures, then my list of shit to do to it will be done, and we should* get many more trouble free miles out of it. Amy was asking about a new car back in the summer, and to be fair to her, asking about 52 plate ish mondongos, which apparently she likes, but with another child arriving in 3 weeks, and the pram we have only just fitting into this, I thin we're gonna try and get a few more years out of it yet, then change it for her. Sunk about £350-£400 into it now over the last few months, and pretty much everything is done now.

 

It's blatently going to shit its engine out of its clutch early next year now isnt it...

[fordperv]

That school bus picture is brilliant

[M'coli]

I've just got back from seeing a Deltic on the ECML just south of York, I could hear it for about a minute or so before it scudded under the bridge I was on!

[Cavcraft]

Just on the way back of a shit motor collection, when coming back near town in front of me was a Vectra with a  couple of wankers in it. The driver slowed down as the passenger was throwing some sort of liquid out as passers by, though they didn't have the bollocks to do this near some traffic lights I noticed.

Anyhow half a mile on the road reaches a roundabout and as the were pulling left and I was going straight on, I lobbed a ten pence piece at their car and heard a satisfying 'ping' as it connected with something.

[beko1987]

Swmbo just went to get a kebab, and apparently a jaguar was right up her arse on the way back, so she started to do her thing of slowing down, when he overtook her and shot straight through the speed camera thats on the way home from that end of town! How she apparently laughed, especially when he slowed to about 20mph afterwards, so she went right up his arse! Shes happy with thr car roo "it doesnt make those horrible noises when I hit potholes anymore".... Ffs woman, ill buy some more parts now in readiness I think

[tooSavvy]

.... I posted [somewhere] that I bought a 'USB/fone thinggie... on a bendy wand' off Amazon.

 

WELL... got it all set up today 

 

 

*note to other users = Format stick as FAT.. or it won't see the MP3s (ask how I know).

 

Well chuffed, like....

 

TS

.... update....

 

Because I'm using the only port in the cab for the music thinggie, I have extended the cable of my Ciggy Adapter/USB power rack :-

 

 

... by twisting the 4 strands (twice) I have got the 12V running from the rear 12V socket, by the back doors.

 

Now have the phones charging in the seat locker 

 

 

TS

[Bucketeer]

@cms206 - I've missed many goings on here recently, is that bus Crazy Dave2000's latest purchase or one you're piloting?

[cms206]

@cms206 - I've missed many goings on here recently, is that bus Crazy Dave2000's latest purchase or one you're piloting?

It's Decker Dave's Decker, it's stabled at my work. I had nine buses of my at one point, quite happy just tinkering with someone elses for a change.

[andrew e]

Had my best ever minicab experience yesterday across rush-hour Paris in a Traffic with a wafer-thin DMF, and more body damage than the Blues Mobile. Highlights included honking a Police C5 out the way, and inspecting the still fresh scrape down the side inflicted whilst a customer in said vehicle. But by Christ could he drive!

 

Then today I see an actual Panhard crossing the river walking to Longchamp, and a black plated V12 XJS walking back! €10 entry was pretty refreshing for world class degenerate gambling event too.

[cobblers]

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Hanover system done on the computer? Or one of them flipping Gorba ones where you can hold a few buttons at once and get into programming mode?

[Noel Tidybeard]

Mega.

That deserves re-posting for the vertically-necked.

 

on second thoughts maybe this needs a bentley mulsanne headlight "upgrade" and perhaps a mesh grill lol

[fred]

^^^^^^^^ That pic HAS to be on the AS calendar

[fred]

A mate of mine Txted me today - ''Ive done something silly, sorry mate''

Read it and thought Shit he has topped himself -  called him straight back ''You OK buddy''

'Yeah Im goodish................Ive just bought a Princess unseen - got a MOT but thats all I know ''

 

''FUCK - you a my new Hero sir''

[Ghosty]

[philibusmo]

A mate of mine Txted me today - ''Ive done something silly, sorry mate''

Read it and thought Shit he has topped himself - called him straight back ''You OK buddy''

'Yeah Im goodish................Ive just bought a Princess unseen - got a MOT but thats all I know ''

 

''FUCK - you a my new Hero sir''

Oh Christ, its not from Devon with the number plate OKK160W is it? If so it will probably ruin his life. Get him on here.

[willswitchengage]

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