Chaseracer's chod: French tat a speciality

[hairnet]

did you join the 21st century and put a german engine in ya frog yet

[Stinkwheel]

Nah, 65 in lane 1, me.  Usually*.

 

Think back to the time when I was in a 2CV 'pied au plancher' on the A1 when you came flying past in the Dyane.  Also thinks back to the time I was also 'pied au plancher' on the M54 in a different 2CV and you came flying past in the Dyane.............just saying*

[Floatylight]

Think back to the time when I was in a 2CV 'pied au plancher' on the A1 when you came flying past in the Dyane. Also thinks back to the time I was also 'pied au plancher' on the M54 in a different 2CV and you came flying past in the Dyane.............just saying*

Over the years I've spent quite a bit of time as a passenger in Chaseracer's Blingo, if you look carefully in front of all the dashboard shite you can still see the fingernail marks..

 

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[chaseracer]

I do like to 'make progress', it's true...! 
 

Think back to the time when I was in a 2CV 'pied au plancher' on the A1 when you came flying past in the Dyane.

See also: M6 southbound, on the way back from the 2CV World Meeting in Kelso, in convoy with ShedReg.  And he was towing a trailer...

[Stinkwheel]

I do like to 'make progress', it's true...!

 

 

See also: M6 southbound, on the way back from the 2CV World Meeting in Kelso, in convoy with ShedReg. And he was towing a trailer...

I was also towing a trailer. Was still doing errrr 70ish on the motorway (obviously I mean I was doing the legal trailer speed) never did understand why everyone thinks 2CV’s, dyanes, ami’s etc are slow.

 

 

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[chaseracer]

Don't forget: Laurence Broadhurst built and balanced that motor as if it was going in a racer... 

[chaseracer]

Blingo latest: it's fucking fucked again m8...

 

Ran fine for a while following its new MAF sensor last week, then started dying on its arse coming back through Wolverhampton this afternoon.  Disconnected MAF sensor: started/ran OK, though still not entirely 'right'.  Back to Tame Mechanic on the morrow.

 

Arsebiscuits.

[hairnet]

newer one on teh horizon (talbot)

 

IR DIAPOINT - NOT REEL UPDATE

[chaseracer]

Runs OK again now.  Everything is crossed, which is most uncomfortable.

[hairnet]

no fun at your age

 

logan mcv dizzle ftw - px lingo niaow

[chaseracer]

When he did the clutch on the Blingo, for some uncharacteristic reason not even he can fathom, Tame Mechanic managed to replace the front wheels (with rotational, directional CrossClimates) on the wrong sides.  So, yesterday was the day to have them swapped back.

 

Obviously, being late Friday afternoon, two of the ageing wheel studs decided to round off and his long bar sheared leaving the 17mm socket stuck, meaning - amusingly - he had to hammer a larger socket over it.

 

He must have wondered why I was grinning like an idiot, but I didn't consider the situation would be helped by an explanation...

 

[chaseracer]

205 latest...

 

How many 23yo cars - French or otherwise - can you park up on returning from Chumblebumley in early September, ignore completely for ten weeks, then hop into and it starts first time?

 

[chaseracer]

Gave the Blingo its biennial hoovering this afternoon.  Being a nice chap, I did Domestic Management's staff car as well.  Currently, there is about half a metric fuckload of loose aggregate in the Dyson's triple-hooha-cyclone thingy.

 

Where DOES it all come from?

 

[ruffgeezer]

Gave the Blingo its biennial hoovering this afternoon. Being a nice chap, I did Domestic Management's staff car as well. Currently, there is about half a metric fuckload of loose aggregate in the Dyson's triple-hooha-cyclone thingy.

 

Where DOES it all come from?

 

Kidney stones?

[Richard]

I strongly suspect that the true purpose of Dyson's Cyclone system is to spin the dirt like candy floss and make it look as if it's picked up much more than it has. The massive cone in the middle of the dust collector helps in that regard too.

[chaseracer]

Mebbe aye, mebbe naw - but the interior no longer looks like a builder's hack!

(For about ten minutes...)

 

[chaseracer]

The Blingo is in disgrace, as described elsewhere, having eaten its clutch cable/slave cylinder/(depending) at Newport Pagnell services on Xmas -1, thus leaving me with a box of neutrals and nothing in the way of forward motion.  It is currently on the drive having a severe word with itself.

 

This means that the theoretically-still-for-sale 205 has been promoted to daily duties pro tem.

 

Silver linings, etc. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....Where DOES it all come from?

 

All the lonely people?

[Floatylight]

Did you order a LEAF? If so when when will they finish knitting it out of puppy dogs and nuns?

 

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[chaseracer]

It's not happened yet, Steve - I will annoy the boss when I get back next week.

 

Just like old times! 

[Floatylight]

It's not happened yet, Steve - I will annoy the boss when I get back next week.

 

Just like old times!

Shudder

 

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[chaseracer]

FOOK.  Looks like it might be the pedal box.  Tame Mechanic has returned from his jollies and will have a gander tomorrow.  

 

Electric glue stick action AHOY, possibly.  Still, even if so, it'll be the first welding it's had since it was nailed together 15+ years ago, so not too shabby.

 

(Well, it is, but YKWIM...) 

[hairnet]

C4 could be help?

 

ps we go 205 innit bruv

[chaseracer]

FOOK.  Looks like it might be the pedal box.

 

And so it proved.  But all it needed was clamping back into shape and the fractured cross-pin replacing.  Huzzah.

 

In other Frog shite news, Tame Mechanic (who is in fact a time-served Cit specialist under the Black Country bonhomie) has been invited to consider recommissioning the Dyane before the HubNut shindig next month.

 

I can hear the laughter from the other side of the hill.

[hairnet]

so he wont be working on anything else then

[chaseracer]

Gosh, it's been a while...

As related elsewhere, the 205 is now in the north country with @loserone, a fine chap who seems to be working his way through the jobs I never got around to in five years of ownership.

The Blingo is on SORN; it refuses to run properly and something appears to have gone PING in the back end.  Which may not be entirely unrelated to its current role as a secondary storage unit.

The Dyane is being eaten by mice.

[loserone]

1 hour ago, chaseracer said:

The Dyane is being eaten by mice.

This is not a proper way to treat a vehicle.  Howay chap

[hairnet]

give it to sparrow ffs

 

[Stinkwheel]

give it to sparrow ffs
 

So he can put a VGS 720 in it....

[chaseracer]

The LB602 will have to do for a while longer ?