Shitefest 23...???

[hairnet]

2 hours ago, catsinthewelder said:

 

 

 

 

 

so much nuts in the first pic and

CELTIC SOUL BRUTHAS  in the second

 

[hairnet]

42 minutes ago, hairnet said:

It did take 9 hours

But I stopped 3 times so maybe 8?

Filled up in holyhead yesterday did maybe 30 miles in that and it still has one square left

Sainustys next door so fk frog petrol

 

 

edit theres two squares left took 29.59 ltrs and did 400 miles today and maybe 175 since friday (to sf 100 miles lap of anglesey was 75 or so) on same tank and its not been treated well

 

[davidfowler2000]

3 hours ago, 320touring said:

I shall allow @davidfowler2000 to tell the tale

<Placeholder post for when (if) I bother posting my own big-ish post with pictures>

The 205's starter motor doesn't like the heat. I think there's a dead spot on the commutator so when the solenoid engages the ring gear, the motor won't spin because it's on the dead spot. What I've been doing up 'till now is putting it in gear, turning the key and giving it a little push to rotate the motor enough off the dead spot to let it cough. Then I can key off, put it in neutral and start it normally. This time at Gretna it didn't work and needed a full on bump start by messyrs @320touring and @jaypee.

Suggestions have been made by @320touringand @Ghostythat it could just be the usual 205 degraded starter wiring which I am willing to accept but why would a wee shove of the car with the starter engaged allow it to then start as normal? It's due an MoT in a couple of weeks so I'll get the guy who's doing other wee bits of work to have a look at it.

[Lacquer Peel]

2 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Cracking weekend all round.  Journey home was less painful than the journey there - apart from a jam on the A494 due to a phantom lane closure it was clear until just before Newmarket when the A14 was closed due to an accident and everyone had to divert down some amusingly tiny Suffolk B-roads, which was interesting (and lost me about 45 minutes).  I caught up with 3VOM half way down the A55, and MrDuke overtook me just as the M6 becomes the A14.  In an interesting colour inversion of my spots on the way there, I saw a yellow Commer PB camper and a blue Mk2 escort hooning down the outside lane in the opposite direction.  I also overtook a Ferrari FF and a Dodge Charger (the driver of which surprisingly* declined to acknowledge me as a fellow Dodge owner...).

Thanks to Sunny Jim for enabling the event to go ahead and organising accommodation.  Also thanks to Maxxo for the ride out in the XM and to Conrad D. Conelrad for the very enjoyable drive of the Marina.

Was it yourself who bid up to £1500 for the diesel Marina? If so thanks for the smooth Marina passenger experience. 

[wuvvum]

It was, although I must have got my figures wrong as the Marina is only on £1220 at the moment and I'm not the high bidder...

[MrDuke]

I'm genuinely shocked that my cack-handed OMGHGF repair has held up over a 500-mile round trip at prolonged *allegedly* excessive speeds in 30º+ temperatures.  I made Bedford in around 3:40 with no explosions. Go me.

@Sunny Jimis a solid-gold legend for organising this, it was an awesome weekend all round. $hite cars, forum legends, and alcohol, all in one of my absolute favourite parts of the UK. Also, BEST_DUG_EVAH.

Thanks to everyone who put up with my inane semi-drunken blatherings and industrial-grade snoring, and apologies to @davidfowler2000 for despoiling one of his spoons (my offer to effect a repair with wob and sandpaper still stands). I loved finally meeting all the people who I'd 'known' for years, even if I was too inebriated to actually express it.

Cannot wait for the next one. If @Cord Fourteener could just put in a few more hours on the Highland pipes before then, it'll be 100% perfect.

[beko1987]

4 minutes ago, MrDuke said:

I'm genuinely shocked that my cack-handed OMGHGF repair has held up over a 500-mile round trip at prolonged *allegedly* excessive speeds in 30º+ temperatures.  I made Bedford in around 3:40 with no explosions. Go me.

@Sunny Jimis a solid-gold legend for organising this, it was an awesome weekend all round. $hite cars, forum legends, and alcohol, all in one of my absolute favourite parts of the UK. Also, BEST_DUG_EVAH.

Thanks to everyone who put up with my inane semi-drunken blatherings and industrial-grade snoring, and apologies to @davidfowler2000 for despoiling one of his spoons (my offer to effect a repair with wob and sandpaper still stands). I loved finally meeting all the people who I'd 'known' for years, even if I was too inebriated to actually express it.

Cannot wait for the next one. If @Cord Fourteener could just put in a few more hours on the Highland pipes before then, it'll be 100% perfect.

That's a fair shout, if your engine survived today then I'd say that's a good repair 😂

[Lacquer Peel]

What did you bring @MrDuke? 

Did you use some of the HGF repair* juice in the free pile?

[beko1987]

1 minute ago, Lacquer Peel said:

What did you bring @MrDuke? 

Did you use some of the HGF repair* juice in the free pile?

He changed the hgf in his blue rover at the FoD a few weeks ago 😂

[Lacquer Peel]

You can't keep Class down. 

[davidfowler2000]

2 hours ago, Jim Bell said:

Did I fucking sneeze or something when you took that photo or am I just naturally blurred in person?

[brownnova]

I tried to score some brownie points at home by bringing my daughters a book about princesses home… 

Apparently it wasn’t the right princess or something 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
 

[Jim Bell]

1 minute ago, davidfowler2000 said:

Did I fucking sneeze or something when you took that photo or am I just naturally blurred in person?

You're always moving, never sit still. Hard to capture via conveniential photographic methods. Like a rain drop striking corrugated iron or a humming birds armpit. It's all a blur. 

 

[MrDuke]

Either that or he'd just spied someone using one of the plastic cups.

[davidfowler2000]

They ended up dotted all over the bastard place!

[Jim Bell]

16 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

You're always moving, never sit still. Hard to capture via conveniential photographic methods. Like a rain drop striking corrugated iron or a humming birds armpit. It's all a blur. 

 

[Jim Bell]

Might have just sneezed mind. 

[Lacquer Peel]

Choo-Choo

@davidfowler2000 how did you rate his driving? 

 

[EightMegs]

@wuvvum for scale.

[davidfowler2000]

Quick roundup for the weekend.

As usual, Shitefest is always a fucking tremendous activity even if your only activity is sitting about drinking tea. Seeing loads of friendly faces old and new it's always a a fucking hoot. As everyone else says, big thanks to @Sunny Jim for organising it / conversing with Ted the site owner and helping out with the brekkie on the Sunday morning. And bringing a Shitefest doggo!

I wanted to convoy for the simple reason that heading around Manchester / Wigan / Warrington / Lymm / Chester at any time after lunch time on a Friday afternoon is grim. Noone else was up for leaving at "Railway time" (I suggested 0630 meet at Cairn Lodge services) so I ended up making my own way.

0620 departure from the parents' house 'cos that's where the trailer lives...

A Tebay breakfast was had and the next stop was the British Commercial Motor Museum. It's a cracker wee wander about and it's only about 5 mins off the M6 at J28. Well worth the £8 to get in.

There was lots to see from horse drawn stuff to steam stuff to petrol stuff to diesel stuff to modern hybrid stuff. I'll post a miniscule selection...

                

They had a few engines on stands which always catch my attention. This Cummins L10 is a truck variant (you can tell by the way that it is) but it's the same engine my bus had. Mines was 180bhp and this one is either a 180 or 215bhp just by looking at it. The ratings plate was missing. For more power you need an intercooler which would designate it a LTA10.

       

Then there was this. Something quite special.

A Gardner straight 8 diesel engine. I'm personally guessing it's an 8LXB although one of the volunteers at the museum said it was donated recently by a random person who had it in their garden and they reckoned it came out of a boat which would more likely make it an 8LW. Thing is, though, 8LWs have individual cylinders and individual priming pumps for each cylinder on the injection pump. This one does not. The other thing that makes me think it's an 8LXB is...

...it's fucking turbocharged! Which would make it an 8LXBT or 8LXCT. Rare enough seeing an 8 banger never mind one with added windy pops. Oh and it's also got a radiator fan and a compressor mounted to it. You don't get those on marine engines.

Anyways onwards to Shitefest. I took the wiggly road toward Wrexham then Llangollen then the A5 to Bethesda then the REALLY wiggly road straight over the hill to the site. It was quite nice...

And onwards to the festivities.

As the first to arrive I was tasked by the other Scotoshiters to set up "Scotch Corner"...

  

@juular and WOMAN_juular were the next diciples of Scotoshite to arrive before being joined by messyrs @320touring, @jaypee, @Supernaut, @cms206, @aldo135 @sdkrc and @captain_70s(very laterer on)...

And then the rest of Shitefest happened (Not all the photos I took)...

@binhoker668 even had an art gallery installation set up at the bottom of the field...

@cms206 turned up a couple of hours later than most of Scotland in what can only be described as a mobile mansion...

And in typical, hundred year old buildings, it wasn't 100% structurally sound...

Nice view though from the roof

Once it was shunted up to Scotch Corner, we rolled out the welcome banner. @Ghosty has been custodian of the banner for a few years now. I've heard through the rumour mill it may have accidentally made it's way to Scotland in the back of said mobile house...

@cms206 also bought me a present!

Fucking ace! Disappointed though as the 205 has a tape player. Will need to get it on to the computer and in to MP3 format before I can listen to it.

Next day a railway and slate museum happened...

 

To be honest, I couldn't be arsed taking any photos in the museum because I was too busy looking at stuff, it was hot and I was tired. So have a gratuitous photo of a dog instead...

I think that's everything. Oh aye the 205 shat a fuel leakoff pipe on departure from SF22 on the Sunday morning so it was leaking to outside the car rather than back to the tank and I reckon I lost about a litre. It was replaced with a section of newer hose from between the injectors and the old hose was long enough to be swapped in to that position.

Even pissing out as much fuel as it did, I still managed 46.8mpg on the way back to Scotlandland at a steadyish 60mph towing the trailer. We used the A55 rather than the wiggly road this time. On the way south I only* got 41.7mpg.

Right, I think that about covers everything.

 

[RoverFolkUs]

Looks ace, will have to attend a future one!

[nick]

I really enjoyed that! It was nice to meet a few of you for the first time and see a few familiar faces from a previous Autoshite event I had attended too. I'll go back to posting very little on here and look forward to another meet. Thank you for organising it.

[hairnet]

obvs the longest the trailer has happened

13/12 for it?

was it ok over shap and shit?

 

[davidfowler2000]

4 minutes ago, hairnet said:

obvs the longest the trailer has happened

13/12 for it?

was it ok over shap and shit?

 

Aye was pretty good. The 205 doesn't slow down on any motorway hills pulling it. It did drop to 50mph on the big hill on the A55 though and it got hot enough to trip the electric cooling fans just before the top

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

It was a great event. Big thanks to @Sunny Jimfor organising it and @Six-cylinder for arranging the train ride. The slate museum was very impressive too. 
 

Really happy I got a chance to catch up with you IRL for the first time in a few years. 
 

I didn’t take many pictures as I knew there’d be better ones posted in the thread, but here’s a Carina trying to reverse through a bowls game. 
 

Marina achieved a very impressive 35mpg on the trip. 

[Lacquer Peel]

Convoying with @jaypee, @Supernaut and @320touring it was good to have their company on the way down the road. But I got sick of the slow traffic and clusters of lorries and ditherers at some points, booting the Expert TurboD through and past them. 

Excellent to put some faces to names, lovely place and lovely people with lovely vehicles.  Thank you @Sunny Jim for hosting, organising and sending the autoshite signal with a BX on ramps near the entrance. 

What a beautiful place North Wales is, would like to visit again. 

On the way back I convoyed with @juular and Mrs juular through the mountains, enjoying the odd aroma of unburnt hydrocarbons from the 240 then went back via Shipley to purchase a spare gearbox. Despite needing three fuel filters on the way back due to not very well settled vegetable oil the van was great, had the tyres screeching and what felt like wild roll angles on the mountain roads and it managed an indicated 102mph on the M6 before I bottled it. 

[aldo135]

Thanks for a great weekend everyone, and to @Sunny Jim for organising the beautiful location! So good that the kids and me are still here! Getting harder to ignore them and look at Volvos now though 🙈

[Saabnut]

This morning I am slightly* miffed! I had planned on attending and had everything organised and booked accommodation. Then work told me I was required so cancelled everything. Thursday I travelled in the Saab 9-3 to Sheffield for a meeting and to collect required stuff. Friday, instead of heading to Shitefest I returned home to fly out Friday evening, but on the way I received a call saying flight delayed to Sat morning. Sat very early it became Sunday afternoon. Sunday morning it became first flight Monday. Today the job was postponed, probably to the end of August  

So instead of enjoying my self at Shitefest, I have spent the weekend near the phone and today I was told I am not going anywhere after all and so could have been at Shitefest. Thanks for all the pictures, it looked like fun!

The joys* of being a contractor!

[beko1987]

23 minutes ago, Saabnut said:

This morning I am slightly* miffed! I had planned on attending and had everything organised and booked accommodation. Then work told me I was required so cancelled everything. Thursday I travelled in the Saab 9-3 to Sheffield for a meeting and to collect required stuff. Friday, instead of heading to Shitefest I returned home to fly out Friday evening, but on the way I received a call saying flight delayed to Sat morning. Sat very early it became Sunday afternoon. Sunday morning it became first flight Monday. Today the job was postponed, probably to the end of August  

So instead of enjoying my self at Shitefest, I have spent the weekend near the phone and today I was told I am not going anywhere after all and so could have been at Shitefest. Thanks for all the pictures, it looked like fun!

The joys* of being a contractor!

There's a FoD meet in mid August though 👌

[dollywobbler]

14 hours ago, davidfowler2000 said:

<Placeholder post for when (if) I bother posting my own big-ish post with pictures>

The 205's starter motor doesn't like the heat. I think there's a dead spot on the commutator so when the solenoid engages the ring gear, the motor won't spin because it's on the dead spot. What I've been doing up 'till now is putting it in gear, turning the key and giving it a little push to rotate the motor enough off the dead spot to let it cough. Then I can key off, put it in neutral and start it normally. This time at Gretna it didn't work and needed a full on bump start by messyrs @320touring and @jaypee.

Suggestions have been made by @320touringand @Ghostythat it could just be the usual 205 degraded starter wiring which I am willing to accept but why would a wee shove of the car with the starter engaged allow it to then start as normal? It's due an MoT in a couple of weeks so I'll get the guy who's doing other wee bits of work to have a look at it.

Why is the starter weird? Because French. Glad you got back ok.