Tommy's A-series Misery - Poland or Bust - Headgasket in a field in Poland

[hairnet]

polish donut

or kotlet

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[Tommyboy12]

Hello from IMM Poland 2026! Bit of a queue to get in...

[Matty]

You going straight in and buying all the exhaust hangers Tom? 🤣

[Tommyboy12]

44 minutes ago, Matty said:

You going straight in and buying all the exhaust hangers Tom? 🤣

Absolutely!

Now I've set up camp I'm off to buy things! 😅

 

[N Dentressangle]

You got those enormous tents in it? 🤣

Brilliant work. Mine now sadly looks like this:

Maybe next year, Rodney

[Matty]

3 hours ago, N Dentressangle said:

You got those enormous tents in it? 🤣

Brilliant work. Mine now sadly looks like this:

Maybe next year, Rodney

Progress is progress bud. It was upside down a page back 🤣

[N Dentressangle]

19 minutes ago, Matty said:

Progress is progress bud. It was upside down a page back 🤣

Very true.

I'm aiming for this:

https://www.facebook.com/events/praia-de-mira-portugal/international-mini-meeting-2027/759346510316570/

[Tommyboy12]

IMM Portugal would be great. It's very reasonably priced too. Less than €90 for two free meals, a t-shirt, four days of camping plus all the entertainment. I don't think I'll be going as I have other plans for next year but word on the grape vine at this event is that 2028 is in the Netherlands which I will definitely do!

Today has been a bit of a mixed day. I spent over two hours trying to diagnose my overheating issue and pinned it down to a pressuring cooling system, which I knew already.

Unfortunately that meant off with her head!

Working in 30C heat has only been helped by the tarp I had set up over the tent.

The old gasket was blowing between 1&2 and 2&3. So the head is likely warped. However I can't fix that here. So on with a new gasket.

And all back together.

There's no pressurising now. I'm going to take it easy on the drive home tomorrow and Sunday. Hopefully it holds but if not it's got to come off again when I get home.

[Tommyboy12]

Despite the headgasket change I saw some cool cars last night and today at the show. My favourite thing about IMM is all the Minis from other countries. It's nice to see something different from the same cars at all the UK shows.

The black Moke towing the trailer is actually towing a hearse! Apparently in Germany the smaller villages used to have a hearse trailer instead of an actual hearse. He was sleeping in it of course.

[Tommyboy12]

Tomorrow is the start of our return journey. A couple of stops we plan to make en-route including the POW museum at Stalag III (from The Great Escape) and they were also going to stop by a bucket wheel excavator that's been abandoned in the German countryside, Bagger 1473. It's going to be a long trip tomorrow so I'm glad I've spent the time doing the work on the car today.

 

[hairnet]

os hotel hasbergen?

[N Dentressangle]

Looks amazing - glad you're (mostly) enjoying it. Bugger about the HGF, especially as that's not really the A series' party trick.

I wonder if a doubled up HG might help mitigate the warp, should it be needed? Hope you don't need the phrase 'meine Zylinderkopfdichtung ist am Arsch' at any point in the next few days... 😉

[hairnet]

if you can do that 1000 miles from home in a field the words ADAC hilfe wont be needed

 

[Matty]

2 hours ago, N Dentressangle said:

Very true.

I'm aiming for this:

https://www.facebook.com/events/praia-de-mira-portugal/international-mini-meeting-2027/759346510316570/

Oh bloody go for it. I live in perpetual awe of madheads like @Tommyboy12 who'll take an owd thing amd drive half way accross the world. Guess im scared of failing to complete. Getting that Mini done and doing that would defo win my eternal respect 😁

[Tommyboy12]

3 hours ago, hairnet said:

os hotel hasbergen?

Might be 😅

[hairnet]

49 minutes ago, Tommyboy12 said:

Might be 😅

remote access watch that also dont use any crockery on the induction hob lmao