Andy's awful autos: vegetarian able vehicle incoming (not mine honest!)

[SiC]

Just curious, what's the lump of foam insulation used for? Knee rest or catch falling parts?

[Andyrew]

  On 04/04/2025 at 22:17, SiC said:

Just curious, what's the lump of foam insulation used for? Knee rest or catch falling parts?

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Knee rest, Old offcut out of a skip. Cut it into 5 can stack them up and sit on them too. 

 

[Andyrew]

It's collection time, but not for me.

Somethings incoming to get the final little tasks done so it can hit the road and head to the land of square sausage. 

[Andyrew]

Astra the weapon of choice. Tickling the miles up nice now.

[Andyrew]

[Andyrew]

@juular had warned the glowplug relay was dead. So brought along a spare one

[Andyrew]

Covid version 2.0?

[Andyrew]

[Lacquer Peel]

Good to see it on the move and can't wait to see it vegging up the roads of Falkirk. 

[Andyrew]

And delivered

Looks like it got a bit scared on the truck as its had a little green wee

[Tickman]

  10 hours ago, Andyrew said:

And delivered

Looks like it got a bit scared on the truck as its had a little green wee

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That was 51 minutes ago and going by the speed of your work it should be done by now.

[juular]

I owe you one!

  10 hours ago, Andyrew said:

Looks like it got a bit scared on the truck as its had a little green wee

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The return octopus does drip, and the pipe going into the reservoir loves falling out and making little green puddles everywhere. Hopefully that's all it is.

[Andyrew]

This afternoon I finally finished zapping in all the panels for the cill repair and welded in a new bit of tube for the jacking point on the trabby.  @Zelandeth was happy for the repairs to be visible so I just knocked back the high spots on the welds and will slap some primer over it. Its not perfect but its nice and solid. 

[SiC]

Pretty damn good tbh. Much better than many "restorer" repairs I've seen on cars at shows over the years. 

Fancy a job replacing my Dolomite sill? 😅 🙃

[juular]

That welding and fabrication is glorious.

[warninglight]

Yes, no need to hide the welds when you've nothing to hide!

Lovely work.

My dad was just saying at the weekend that his BX he had in 89/90 was probably the best car he ever owned.

[Andyrew]

Bit of red oxide splashed about. Tomorrow, underseal removal, cavity wax scraping and spot weld drilling. Ohhh yay!

[Andyrew]

After zapping the trabby up I really needed to tidy the workshop. So I washed the BX instead.

First up the inside was rocking a bit of musk and all the cob webs. No spiders tho handily!

 

[jim89]

  1 hour ago, Andyrew said:

After zapping the trabby up I really needed to tidy the workshop. So I washed the BX instead.

First up the inside was rocking a bit of musk and all the cob webs. No spiders tho handily!

 

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Eau de Elon ? 🤢

[Andyrew]

A vac, glass clean and bit of trim cleaner stuff later and it's much nicer in here

Washed the mats too as there was alot of mouse turds on them. 

[Andyrew]

[Andyrew]

Much better. 

[Tickman]

  2 hours ago, Andyrew said:

 

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That just looks amazing