invacar LightBulbFun's Invacar & general ramble thread, index on page 1, survivors lists on Pages 24/134 & AdgeCutler's Invacar Mk12 Restoration from Page 186 onwards, still harping on...

[beko1987]

Nice work! 

Now, when you get bored at 3.45am later, have you checked there's no parasitic draw? I doubt there could be but you want it stone cold dead when not in use. 

Also, now you've scoped the wiring a bit, is there room for a hidden unless you know where it is kill switch? Bit of extra security. 

My green zx 1.9td had one! The previous owner lived in Tunbridge Wells and worked Mon-Fri in London. Monday morning the zx would be dumped on a street and he'd flick a switch hidden under the dash that killed the glow plug power. Friday evening it got flicked back on and down south he drove for 10 years before I bought it at 270ish k 😂

I rarely used it tbh bar to prank Amy the rare times she drove it. The deep rich cloud of unburnt fuel and shite that came out after several minutes of cranking before out of mechanical sympathy I gave the game up and flicked it back on was always amazing

[Landy Mann]

Great work, really enjoyed the last couple of pages in this thread

[Mr Pastry]

It's certainly a 5/16" bolt.  It looks like UNF to me - to be sure you would have to count the number of threads in a given length.  5/16 UNF would be 24 threads per inch, and BSF would be 22, so they don't look very different unless you see them side by side.   Happy to send a few nuts over for you to try.  

[Snake Charmer]

At a glance I would declare that thread to be 5/16" UNF. 

[ETCHY]

Great job.

I really like that Petrol Only Stencil under the bonnet (I find stuff like that cool). Good to see that you've finally got your dream home 😊

However please tell me you've now wiped the bird shit off the battery !

[Snake Charmer]

16 minutes ago, ETCHY said:

However please tell me you've now wiped the bird shit off the battery !

Part of REV now, classic "splatina". 😆

[auntiemaryscanary]

Great stuff LBF, well done. Hopefully you are a little more confident on the electrical side now and you get a couple of drives in this weekend.

 

[Agila]

This is actually getting quite interesting now, getting out and about in it and doing some tinkering etc.

Significantly better than just talking about it constantly.

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 01/11/2024 at 08:15, chadders said:

Given the height of a lot of modern cars, never mind SUVs, wouldn't they just over ride the chassis and their engine would end up where the driver was, especially if the driver was sitting low to the ground?

1. no wheels on pig so sitting too low
2. conveniently pig parked in front of tree so as to squash pig

[Agila]

2 hours ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

1. no wheels on pig so sitting too low
2. conveniently pig parked in front of tree so as to squash pig

Don't think the lack of wheels make a massive difference. Just a different point of impact.

Of course the tree gives it something chunky to crumple against, instead of it being shunted down the road. In the real world that could be a parked car, brick wall, railings etc.

[captain_70s]

44 minutes ago, Agila said:

Don't think the lack of wheels make a massive difference. Just a different point of impact.

It moves the chassis, the only source of strength in the car, well below the point of impact.

Not that it matters, modern cars are so high that they'll run right over the structure of most pre-2000s cars.

[garbaldy]

On 01/11/2024 at 01:18, wuvvum said:

That's only because salad doesn't actually exist up there.

Oh we grow it up here but since we're not stupid enough to eat that shit we send it south to sell in swanky over priced restaurants to southern Jessie's 😁

[Missy Charm]

On 31/10/2024 at 18:24, plasticvandan said:

Scary 😟 

Be careful out there,it's not you that's the problem,it's all the other nutters on the road

 

He'll be fine; that type of Fiesta disappeared off the road years ago!  

[LightBulbFun]

after Fridays battery change I was utterly knackered, to steal a phrase from @Zelandeth (I think!) I was hurting in places I didn't know I have, I mean I dont even know how I managed to bruise myself here of all places!

but after resting up yesterday, today I set out on another trip in REV, this time going a bit further afield taking me to places somewhat unknown following google maps sat-nav, she picked up a rather large friend!

where I needed to go took me through brick-lane which was "fun" guess who had no idea that Sunday is when they have a massive market there? but I did rather accidentally however appropriately find  a rather fitting sign!

eventually I manage to navigate through that cluster-fuck and get to where I needed to go, got the goods and shopping for the household and came back home  

I was more or less on the road for a maybe couple hours I think? and REV performed flawlessly  I could of certainly done without the brick lane palaver, but I am pleased I managed to navigate around it further practice for when I encounter stuff like this later down the road!   

[beko1987]

I drove down Highgate Road/West Hill Road last night (just, 11.30pm).

I almost wished I was in something like rev. Dad's massive skoda and some big vans parked in the parking side made for some tight places, I had to stop a couple of times. 

You'd be away off up the road whilst the cars are stuck navigating it in rev 😂

The bit after you joined the a1 north all the way to j16 wouldn't be as fun though... 

[Yoss]

On 30/10/2024 at 20:18, Yoss said:

I use the passenger side window winder on the Škodas but I realise that's something not many people will have any more. 

Like so. Perfect, that's not going anywhere. Unless the winder snaps but I do have spares. 

[rustdevil]

great to see you out and about Des.

[Pieman]

21 hours ago, Yoss said:

Like so. Perfect, that's not going anywhere. Unless the winder snaps but I do have spares. 

Just don't do what a Range Rover owner did once according to a chap on Pistonsheds who did leather seat repairs.  The RR owner had hung his takeaway curry from the hook above the rear door, and a combination of a leaky container and the swinging motion of the bag splattered curry grease all over his leather rear seats, which subsequently had to be replaced at huge expense!