Swift... eh? Nah!

[Jikovron]

Should have lit up those landsails down to the canvas like a well skidded grifter and driven in ATS with the tread flapping like nothing happened 😄

[tooSavvy]

...... skidding like on a grifter..... 😮

Well, some 'ooooohhhh,errMissta!' WET power wooliness was definitely a 'feature' of Landsail helming 😱

These are 'tyre rated' as good WET..... 🤔

The coming winter will be an interesting sesh....... 🚙💨

[tooSavvy]

Nothing worth watching on TV......

Run out planned 😋

Hexham services/Subway [yup, OPEN!! 👌]

Teesdale, Killhope Wheel, Frosterly, Consett & home (via Killingworth MaccieD ice-cream) Seaton Sluice and along the seafront.....

Not many cars out but all the shops were shut.... Ah Well 🎉🥂

[loserone]

Did you spot my Xantia? Should have hollered! 

[tooSavvy]

Oooof! Email of Doom [d.d.] 😮

£180 at/or about Oct 1st.

*Cheaper than ToMM© ✔️

🥂...🚙💨

[tooSavvy]

45k..... Up 2day..... 🚙💨

[tooSavvy]

Well...well...well (not)😱

..... I pulled up, dropping anklebiter @No1 boyf, and I'm 'Sniffinn... Sniff.Sniff.Sniffin' 😮

Bar-B-Qd rubber something 🤔....

Pops bonnet and sniffin..... Yupp, fan belt 😟

Get home and give the hand around the world jobbie .... Red Hot alt pulley + belt has fibreglass white whiskers/is sandpaper crusty on the flat back (toasted!!)

Ah well, trusty spare is in boot so that's a job for the morning 🔨✔️👍

[tooSavvy]

Aye......... Ffffiiiinnnnellll 🙄

#1. Requires Mr Tickle arms & fingers.

#2. Alt is tiny (to grapple with) and trapped under inj/brakes vac booster.

#3. LEVERAGE (see YooToobs  👁️)

..... All done 👌

[Matty]

Gates FTW

[tooSavvy]

Whilst doing the fan belt I spotted an oil leak/general oily mist mess, at the gbox end...

Ahh..... Dizzy O-ring [TADTS] 😟

Drilling *expertly into the 'hive mind' (of Geo forum USA) I gleaned the dims. Std Jap P-24 = 30.7 x 23.7 x 3.5

eBay to the rescue.....

..... No, I'm not paying 'Suzuki o-ring kit' prices, I'm a cheapskate FFS 😉👌

[tooSavvy]

Oooof..... Quick!

[tooSavvy]

Well I Never...... I have received 'the mark'!

..... The 'mark of Cain'🙄.....

The rivet counters, over on US Geo forum, have opined that I'm "off piste" with the use of a generic 24mm i.d. O-ring... Factory is 23.7mm 😱

..............................

[AnnoyingPentium]

Rebellious behaviour... you'll send them into panic.

[tooSavvy]

1 hour ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Rebellious behaviour... you'll send them into panic.

Hmm..... paid £2.22 for an air filter (saw the current one a bit coally, when doing Alt belt)

🙄

[tooSavvy]

Yo Ho-Ho.... Anklebiters No1 bf turned up, from his college, and planned to chill for an hour waiting schools out 🙄 ..... Not Bloody Likely, m8!

All he knows about cars is opening the door...

Never too young to learn.... I pitched him into the street, I pointed and he unscrewed/unclipped ".... reassembly is reverse of dismantling!" & 'Lefty Loosely - Righty Tighty' had useful demonstration 🔨

Air filter is in 😉

[tooSavvy]

Ah $hite.... 😮

..... No T40 Torx bit hiding in my toolbag/rummage sock... 😟

Need it for Dizz bolts.... £2.79 Toolstation 😉

[tooSavvy]

👍 ..... 😎

*O-ring not a problem for fitting, blue Hylomar squishing out all round base.

Nice 13mm a/f bolts c/w thick washers subbed Torx, for clamping duties ✔️🎉

YES... Scratchmark to re-align 100% 🧐👌

Fired straight up 🚙💨

[tooSavvy]

Renewal in, for insurance..... £186

*Less than last time (Woof!)

🍾🥂

[tooSavvy]

I have no idea why the 'giveaway' price of this POS caught my eye....

 

Well..... Unused @£12 🤔

Astra MK2 Jetex ... Kosher part, too! 🚙💨

*I will stare at it for a VERY long time 🤡

[tooSavvy]

46 1/2 k...... Oil filter dropped off - KerrChingg ✔️🔨

Now..... Rainydayzz this week 😟

[tooSavvy]

Actually completed the oil change @46,930.

..... Well, forced myself outside [before the rain]= Bloody Freezing 😵

Charging was a bit limp, at tickover, so I nipped my new flat alt belt a 'smidge more' 😵 ..... Deffo some stretching since fitted 😕

Topped up washer bottle.

Car runs like a Swiss watch, meh 🍾🥂👌

[tooSavvy]

As I'm driving a lot in the dark..... My dipped is a bit 'meh'😕

Hi beam is good, but short in reach....

I'll try these 😮

*Pair...

[AnnoyingPentium]

Found this yesterday... think you'll like it.

[tooSavvy]

^^^^ oof! At least one other one, then 👍

Mustard mitt ..... prefer 'my' LED brake light 😎

*That one hasn't been MOT between 2010 - 2021.... 🤔

[tooSavvy]

F.T.P.

....... Ah! 😟

...... Jack Frost nippin at yerr Nose = read 'Grim Reaper winnows out flaky batteries @-2°' 😱

[tooSavvy]

....... Well..... Not Quite, or so it seems 🧐

When I unclamped the battery and went to remove the +/- clamps >>> the Red + just came off... No twisting or undoing [funny 🤔] the Plain - Earth was good and nipped ✔️

No corrosion or anything, no damage to posts [skinny Jap style].

After an hour & half, green light came on the charger. I plonked the battery back in (I put a nail in under the + clamp) and that is now yarking tight 👍

I have immediately notice that the Voltmeter doesn't go below 11.9/12.2 on tickover and sits at 13.6/14.0 on the main road = all the headlights on!

I think I shall give the battery a reprieve.... 

We Will See 🚙💨

[tooSavvy]

What's all this about...... I thought it 'might be' part of ECU re-learning (after having the power cut/battery out) but it is just looping.... forever! Gahh 😱

The Idle Control Stepper motor is quite clearly pushing the throttle stop back &forth, when watching it with with bonnet up 🤔

[tooSavvy]

...... Bit-the-Bullet.....

Hope this is the heart of my maladies 🙄

*I volt tested the old one, on my meter, 12.4V after a run out = not good 😕

Platinum HD ..... read of that what you will 🧐

[tooSavvy]

I have gone a step further, with this.... 🙄

No breaker on FleeBay had an Alt, so, cast net further.....

B-Parts [Portugal] had the exact part (+ photo of 3potta/car body) and £60 delivered + promised in 4 days!!

Just a bit concerned about Brexit tax 😕

🚙💨

 

[Spurious]

1 minute ago, tooSavvy said:

I have gone a step further, with this.... 🙄

No breaker on FleeBay had an Alt, so, cast net further.....

B-Parts [Portugal] had the exact part (+ photo of 3potta/car body) and £60 delivered + promised in 4 days!!

Just a bit concerned about Brexit tax 😕

🚙💨

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, the threshold is £135 for VAT and Duty on the declared value. Under that and you're golden.