The grumpy thread

[dugong]

Fossil fueled bus to a climate change rally.

 

Does not compute?!

I hope FPB7 sits there revving it.

 

While smoking.

 

Cannabis.

[MarvinsMom]

even better, i hope the bus has a proper engine....

 

a gardner one....

 

a 6LX prehaps.....

 

which blows smoke rings*,

 

lots and lots of smoke

[chaseracer]

After what Andy's eaten over the last few days, he won't need to use the engine...

[MarvinsMom]

just as long as he doesn't try to set fire to a fart...

 

cos you and i know it will not end well.

[Inspector Morose]

I did do a climate change rally in London with a veg powered 6lxb once, that's another story.

Tin pot Cummins C this time though.

Arse may be haggis powered though!

[drum]

the windows on the wood burner need cleaning again. I hate that job..

Scrunch up some newspaper, dab it in the ash pan, wipe the black soot off the glass, report back with how easy it came off.

[bub2006]

Well chaps that's it now. I've decided to throw towel in. Looks like Vectra and saxo be going over bridge Monday.

[The Moog]

Well chaps that's it now. I've decided to throw towel in. Looks like Vectra and saxo be going over bridge Monday.

Is saxo terminal? I thought you had the parts for the vectra?

 

Bearing mind scrap is worth fuck all, isn't it better getting vectra finished?

[pompei]

DW, according to FIL, Lakeland stove glass cleaner is the one

[bub2006]

Is saxo terminal? I thought you had the parts for the vectra?

 

Bearing mind scrap is worth fuck all, isn't it better getting vectra finished?

Got most of the parts for Vectra and saxo fine just no third gear. I've had the horrible thought of impending bills this week that cant be paid and the money I borrowed for baleno needs paying. Road tax and insurance ,insurance being the biggy. Nothing I can do but say fuck it now.

[Sloth in a bowl]

I've just come through Solihull where they've finished messing around with a junction.

Messing around seems to mean "make the pavement now jut out into the road", so there's a corner that protrudes into the nearside lane of a dual carriageway - come through with a car on your offside and it's quite easy to do what I just did, clip the kerb and get two burst sidewalls.

 

Three hours late home because I had to limp the car off the double red lines, park up a side road without knackering the alloys, and call the lease company who sent the AA out. AA man turns up with a jack but can't swap offside front onto nearside rear, so can't use his dolly, because you can't get diagonal wheels off with one jack and an axle stand. So we have to leave the car on jack and stand, take the wheels to Kwik-Fit, deal with the grumpiest Kwik-Fit manager ever because I hadn't written down the DOT code from the tyres still on the car, and then battle back to the car in rush hour.

 

I've just seen the junction as we went back, the kerb sticks out 18" past the yellow box on the junction! And has plenty of impact marks on it already, it's only been there a week.

 

 

Changes around Kings Norton are similar to this, deliberate narrowing of roads before and after roundabouts. As I go through it in morning and evening rush hour were everything is moving slow, it just causes traffic jams and not damage. I have also seen 20 painted on roads that are 30mph roads. Really do not know what the councils are doing round here but it seems to be based on taking the piss as much as possible.

[purplebargeken]

The last 3 days have seen a deterioration in my right leg/back. Driving any further than a short distance has become very painful now and I went out in the car this morning and had to turn back.

 

I hope this is just a glitch and not another stage of the deterioration. That would be very grim indeed. Very grim.

[dave21478]

FFS bub, get a grip.

You have previously implied that you NEED a car....what are you going to do, buy another one?

You will be lucky to get anything at all weighing them in - you might get the taxi fare home.

 

Just rift the saxo around as is. High revs in second then bang it into fourth - third gear is for pussies anyway. Whats the worst that could happen? it breaks? you were going to scrap it anyway so nothing is lost.

 

What do you NEED to get the vectra running? Forget air con rad and brackets and bumpers and shite like that. You have the engine rad, yeah? zip tie it in place, gaffatape the bumper and forget about anything not crucial for forward motion. Unless the sump is completely flattened, it can be bodged with a bit of flat tin, some self tappers and a tube of sikaflex. Get some part worn ditchfinders on it and either drive it or bang it on gumtree or your nearest auction. An afternoons work and fifty quid invested to get a working car or a return of a few hundred is way better than weighing it in and getting a couple of tenners if you are lucky.

[Pillock]

 

 

Nice to know I haven't completely blotted my e-copybook; plenty of folk have offered loan cars in the interim.

Add the Saab to the list, it's sat doing nothing.

[bub2006]

FFS bub, get a grip.

You have previously implied that you NEED a car....what are you going to do, buy another one?

You will be lucky to get anything at all weighing them in - you might get the taxi fare home.

 

Just rift the saxo around as is. High revs in second then bang it into fourth - third gear is for pussies anyway. Whats the worst that could happen? it breaks? you were going to scrap it anyway so nothing is lost.

 

What do you NEED to get the vectra running? Forget air con rad and brackets and bumpers and shite like that. You have the engine rad, yeah? zip tie it in place, gaffatape the bumper and forget about anything not crucial for forward motion. Unless the sump is completely flattened, it can be bodged with a bit of flat tin, some self tappers and a tube of sikaflex. Get some part worn ditchfinders on it and either drive it or bang it on gumtree or your nearest auction. An afternoons work and fifty quid invested to get a working car or a return of a few hundred is way better than weighing it in and getting a couple of tenners if you are lucky.

No,cant buy another due to insurance being twats and that wasn't my intention anyway. Just feeling pissed off at myself for confusing dates etc. The gear isue don't bother me at all. Vectra needs gasket,tyres and fluids. Saxo needs quiet a lot but nothing major.

[captain_70s]

Nobody who's said they're coming to look at my crap car for sale have actually turned up to look at my crap car for sale. This is just with local old fashioned advertising, I don't dare to open myself up to the world of Gumtree mongs and eBay wankers.

 

Becoming increasingly tempting to cover it in wax, purchase a car cover and just let the thing sit in the drive until warmer weather rolls around...

[beko1987]

I agree, keep the saxo for now and skip third. Cant you take the wheels off the vectra and leave it on bricks and get some part worns on?

 

Sump will then be an issue, I trust everyone is still looking for a sump for you

[bub2006]

I've got sump,rad pack already Sam. Need gasket and fluids now and that's it.

[The Moog]

What is the insurance issue? Is it due up? If so then that is one thing that can't be got round.

 

As Dave said try to keep saxo for now. You have said it is quite economical and I am sure once vectra is finished someone on here would be interested.

 

If it is just gaskets and fluid there are people on here who have offered to chip in for you. Take them up on their offer and then see if anyone fancies coming to twirl some spanners.

 

Nice thing about this place is everyone tries to help each other out without anything expected in return.

[bub2006]

Once Vectra us done its not going anywhere! I've put too much into it so far to get rid when its done,thinking about it it's worth more to me than just monetary value. As for the saxo I honestly do like the little shit. Insurance have said I've made too many changes so wont change again. The issue I've got is the insurance due on Monday (pay monthly) and I've miscalculated when I get paid cos I iz twat. I may be able to rectify that but I'm unsure yet. All vec needs is everything fitting obviously with sump gasket,fluid top up and its good to go. I'm just in a mood this morning as I realised I'm a complete dickhead

[Tetleysmooth]

Mrs Tet's Pajero had a FTP yesterday. Flat battery apparently. These Mitsi's have two batteries, according to the RAC mechanic*, the front one is dead. It's not, the little window in the top is showing a lovely bright green. Hateful effing thing. She's nicked my V70 for work. I went out this morning, and the Paj fired up first time. The alternator belt is very loose and at the end of its adjustment.

Got to go to Romford now, daughter giving me a lift. New alternator belt and radiator pressure cap for the Paj.

God, how I hate working on the Paj, thank the lord for Volvos'.

[chaseracer]

Bub: bridging the cars does nothing to improve your situation and makes no logical sense.  Spending a bit more time (and maybe a little more money) on the Vectra does.  Get that done, flog the Saxo on here as a project, and Robert's your dad's brother.

[bub2006]

That was the plan originally Dave. Just feel like I'm in a bloody mire. The saxo is a good honest little car. Admittedly overtaking took planning and now due to no third gear joining a bypass will be fun but its life. I just having a bad day,feeling pissed off with it all

[Craig the Princess]

As the others have said after the shit you have been through so far you're too close to the Vectra working to bridge it.

 

I'm sure I'm not the only one who would give you bridge money + a bit for the Saxo when the time comes.

[bub2006]

I know Craig. I'm broke but too much is on the vec now.

[drum]

Just shat ma pants.

 

I was welding some hydraulic pipe for the hymac when a battery I was charging blew up about three feet away. Blew the top casing clean off.

 

Was I a retard by welding close to it? Did it just overcharge? I've had batteries swell up when the voltage regulator stopped working but they usually give off a smell first.

 

I've fixed* the battery with gaffa tape and it started the hymac no problems. Whether it holds charge remains to be seen. Some of the compartments above the cells are letting the water mix together because of explosion.

[Eddie Honda]

Was I a retard by welding close to it?

Yeah, you were a retard.

[cobblers]

Yeah, charging battery - hydrogen. They don't gas much unless they are overcharging, but they will generally just boil away happily unless you MEGA overcharge or perhaps are doing something stupid like perhaps welding a few feet away,

 

I once filled a workshop glove up with the gas out of a charging battery and lit it to show my mate it was explosive and was shocked to fuck by literally how explosive it was, my ears were ringing for days.

[twosmoke300]

Bin bag of well mixed oxy/acetal yen with a broken bulb taped into the end works well !

Fit bulb holder to bulb - take out wire to safe distance and touch on battery . BOOM

[Eddie Honda]