The grumpy thread

[messerschmitt owner]

sorry, but I just psml'd myself at your misfortune!

[twosmoke300]

Whats even better is contaminated hot axle oil.

Ie doing a rear hub seal on a truck that has come down country overnight and its your first job on a tues morning (£1 a drink night on mondays ).

 

Trapped under the mudguard and pull the hub off ....................ralph

[Pillock]

It's bad enough but then your typo suggests you licked it!

[dome]

Broke my collarbone at the weekend, giving myself concussion at the same time. Not ideal. Still, being unable to drive a manual means an excuse to buy some automatic shite for a month or two! 

[cort16]

That's not a typo

It's a smell that haunts you .There's just something deeply unpleasant about it. At least this stuff was reasonably clean the original armpit oil had probably been in there for 35 years.

[Timewaster]

The Tony Blackburn Chat Show. It used to be called 'Pick of the Pops'. Bring back Dale.

Rong! TB is perfect for that show!

If you bring back anyone out should be fluff Freeman. Although you would need a shovel.

[MrDuke]

Every time I hear Blackburn's voice, I have vivid fantasies about punching him repeatedly in his Gerry-Anderson-reject face. I'd far rather listen to Freeman's re-animated skeleton being shaken in front of the microphone.

 

Still, at least I only want to do mild violence to poor Tony; there's a couple of others on R2 that I'd rather like to execute slowly.

[Craig the Princess]

...there's a couple of others on R2 that I'd rather like to execute slowly.

 

[jakebullet]

I noticed my ebay bought mail lite envelopes are being drop shipped from office depot. So I contacted office depot for a price 'cos I like cutting out middlemen. Got told to bugger off unless I spend £300 a month, or I can buy from viking. I'm trying to cut costs, not increase them!

 

Also thanks to long weekend post bill for today was £144.

[oman5]

Every time I hear Blackburn's voice, I have vivid fantasies about punching him repeatedly in his Gerry-Anderson-reject face. I'd far rather listen to Freeman's re-animated skeleton being shaken in front of the microphone.

 

Still, at least I only want to do mild violence to poor Tony; there's a couple of others on R2 that I'd rather like to execute slowly.

RIP Alan Freeman, I thought he was fantastic. I don't mind Blackburn too much, there is a touch of the self parody with him I reckon.

[Gerald]

On Landy forums you'll see people going on about how they love the smell of EP90. They must be mentally ill. It's the worst smell in the world.

Nowt wrong wi EP90!

 

The law states that when doing gear and transfer box oil changes, you MUST get old oil up to the elbow and ideally to the armpit.

[retrogeezer]

yeh, I like Blackburn doing pick of the pops...

[myglaren]

When I fitted the speedo drive to the cortina I was caught unawares of the fact that removing the plug that holds the speedo drive in would make all the gearbox oil piss out, down my arm into my arm pit and generally stink up the whole lockup. After fitting the old plug in I found it was leaking so ordered a new one from the interwebz. As we all know gearbox oil is boke enducing so when I had to do the same job to fit the new plug I was prepared with a sawn off coke bottle and a funnel to capture all the oil. It all went to plan, no oil in the arm pit, no oil on working shop floor.

New plug was fitted with no leaks. Result. I went to top up the gearbox oil and while lieing under the car managed to kick over the coke bottle I thought I'd put in a place of safety (the floor) with all the oil in it . It went pissing everywhere including up the trouser leg of my overalsl. Gaaargh, pissy stinking gearbox oil. I really hope that's the end of it. I need to get some sand or something to mop up what's left of the spillage as the workshop stinks!

Try cat litter, supposed to be great for oil spillages.

Never used it myself, just second hand info.

[anonymous user]

Try cat litter, supposed to be great for oil spillages.

Never used it myself, just second hand info.

That's unused cat-litter mind, not the stuff that's already been crapped in.

[alf892]

I noticed my ebay bought mail lite envelopes are being drop shipped from office depot. So I contacted office depot for a price 'cos I like cutting out middlemen. Got told to bugger off unless I spend £300 a month, or I can buy from viking. I'm trying to cut costs, not increase them!

 

Also thanks to long weekend post bill for today was £144.

Try these. www.melrosepackaging.co.uk Not a listed product but they do them cheap if you ring

[beko1987]

Swmbo came home and said her car cut out and put the engine light on. Deep joy! Smells heavily of oil and the sump is covered. Should I have re tightened the sump bolts by now?

 

Will fill it up with oil tomorrow and tighten the bolts at the weekend.

 

Wonder what made it shit itself so the eml is on? Will have a look tomorrow.

[Station]

Have overalls that still have gearbox fluid smell after 10 years. Horrible stuff.

Was carrying a wheel today and tripped over something in full view of the queuing traffic at KFC (it's opposite my garage). I came flying head first out of the garage door and launched the wheel, landing right on my arse/side. I fell like a sack of potatoes, not just a slight trip, but a full on noisey, drop everything fall.

[Bobthebeard]

Son has just got himself a Vauxhall Insignia

http://www.vauxhall.co.uk/vehicles/vauxhall-range/cars/insignia-sports-tourer/overview.html

Went for a drive in it this morning and i quite like it.....

Noooooooo.......!

The Dark Side awaits and is evil. You will become Darth Dave. Resist....

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[MrDuke]

I've been trying to save a few quid by painting my bike frame myself, rather than sending it to the powder-coaters. I only want a satin finish, so how hard can it be to make it presentable? I've been dead careful about degreasing, and rubbing smooth between primer coats - but have somehow ended up with something resembling Freddie Krueger. I could just about put up with the lumps and runs, but not the inexplicable reacted patches that have bubbled and peeled.

So despite my attempts to economise, I shall have to pay to get it blasted & powdered after all. And I really wanted to have it built and rideable by next weekend. ARSEBISCUITS

[Station]

Unless you were using 2-pack paint, it'd chip easily anyway! I did it years ago, and my then quite expensive GT bike (for a 17 year old) looked completely rubbish!

 

I did a bit of tidying up on my [insert 1980's Japanese car name here] today:

 

Why does anything like this end up in a foot wide pile of rusty metal?

 

1989 Toyota MR2 AW11 by david.blakeboro, on Flickr

 

I also put it back on standard 13" Vauxhall steel wheels (don't want the alloys getting damaged), and removed the side skirts and mud flaps, and it looks completely pathetic!

[MrDuke]

Unless you were using 2-pack paint, it'd chip easily anyway! I did it years ago, and my then quite expensive GT bike (for a 17 year old) looked completely rubbish!

 

Oddly, the first layer of primer was almost impossible to remove even with coarse paper - although the topcoat was a bit flimsy, true, even after a coat of lacquer. Oddly, my frame's a GT as well (1992 Richter) so maybe that's the problem

 

 

Oh, and you were lucky that a mk1 MR2 only produced a foot-wide pile of rust. I'd have been expecting at least a wheelbarrow-full

[dugong]

Unless you were using 2-pack paint, it'd chip easily anyway! I did it years ago, and my then quite expensive GT bike (for a 17 year old) looked completely rubbish!

 

I did a bit of tidying up on my [insert 1980's Japanese car name here] today:

 

Why does anything like this end up in a foot wide pile of rusty metal?

 

1989 Toyota MR2 AW11 by david.blakeboro, on Flickr

 

I also put it back on standard 13" Vauxhall steel wheels (don't want the alloys getting damaged), and removed the side skirts and mud flaps, and it looks completely pathetic!

 

France any good, Dave?

[beko1987]

I think I didnt put the sump gasket in - bother... Just phoned our local vauxhall dealer and its sealer only, not a gasket. Might pop up friday lunchtime and pay £15 for a tube of their sealent, dont think the bead of blue hylomar I put on did the trick

[daveb47]

Fuckin bastard performance direct.

Took out classic insurance with them a few months ago,paid deposit by debit card.

Cancelled it. after a month

Was paying by monthly direct debit.

They have just taken the full balance  from my account through debit card.

PERFORMANCE DIRECT ARE THIEVING SHIT.

 

To add insult to injury a couple of direct debits that should have been paid out havnt been as it has taken me overdrawn with all the attendant charges and aggro that causes..

[dugong]

Fuckin bastard performance direct.

Took out classic insurance with them a few months ago,paid deposit by debit card.

Cancelled it. after a month

Was paying by monthly direct debit.

They have just taken the full balance  from my account through debit card.

PERFORMANCE DIRECT ARE THIEVING SHIT.

 

To add insult to injury a couple of direct debits that should have been paid out havnt been as it has taken me overdrawn with all the attendant charges and aggro that causes..

Get back to them and say you want a full refund, NOW, by BACS or you're taking it to the Insurance Ombudsman. Also, you want your bank charges back and a grovelling apology letter. 

 

Cancel any direct debits you have with them (if they say they're cancelled, they're obviously lying) and instruct the bank to block any further attempts they make to take money from your account, but allow them to refund it, obvs. 

[nigel bickle]

Not necessarily. It may be an annual contract with no refunds for early cancellation. 

If Dave signed up for that -even unintentionally, then they will claim their forfeit.

 

Tis the law of the jungle when it comes to Insurance. Add Third Party cover to fuel, I say!

[Spiny Norman]

Unfortunately that's often the deal with classic insurance, it's usually part of the spiel they hit you with on the phone or buried deep in the T&C that no bugger ever bothers to read.

When I sold my old Saab last year the policy still had a few months on it, I knew I wasn't going to get a refund but I'd heard somewhere that you're not supposed to have an insurance policy on a car you don't own so I phoned them up to cancel it and they wanted £25 just to do that.

The car insurance industry really is a mess in this country, especially if one person has more than one car, but they'll never do anything about it while they're raking it in....

[vulgalour]

Dad, I don't want to discuss whatever is happening on the Jeremy Vine show.  I don't.  It does scary things to my blood pressure.

[cort16]

The insurance biz defo seems to have a massive contempt for it's own customer base.

[trigger]

I've just spent the last 2 hours arguing with a cretan on Facebook about Triumph Acclaims. I feel so ashamed of myself for getting sucked in.