THE GUBBERMINT ALWAYS KNOWS BEST

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I've got a set of these plates on my Subaru, they are the wider characters of the pre-2001 font but seem to be halfway between an ordinary plate and a serck job. Anyway I like em and theyre not hugely expensive:

 

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/YELLOW-WHITE-PRES ... 0339435882

[Father Ted]

Lord Sterlings Siggy prompted a period of Sunday Morning time wasting doing these:

 

Using this:

http://625.uk.com/tv_logos/flash/itv_sc ... ock_79.asp

[Richard]

I've got a set of these plates on my Subaru, they are the wider characters of the pre-2001 font but seem to be halfway between an ordinary plate and a serck job. Anyway I like em and theyre not hugely expensive:

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/YELLOW-WHITE-PRES ... 0339435882

That's exactly what I've been looking for, predictably I don't need them now though. I've added them to my favourite sellers.

 

I'm not bothered about them being 100% right, but the post-2001 plates just look so wrong.

[Cavcraft]

Lord Sterlings Siggy prompted a period of Sunday Morning time wasting doing these:

 

Using this:

http://625.uk.com/tv_logos/flash/itv_sc ... ock_79.asp

How did you save those please?

[Father Ted]

Print Scr key then paste into MS paint....

[Lord Sterling]

Lord Sterlings Siggy prompted a period of Sunday Morning time wasting doing these:

 

Using this:

http://625.uk.com/tv_logos/flash/itv_sc ... ock_79.asp

I like the "Engineering for Clowns" one! I thought I'd change it as I'm not sure many people know who Stephen J Canell is - He is the bearded bloke that used to appear in tjose scary logos at the end of the "The A team" and other such shows

 

I also spent some time on TV Ark last night trying to figure out a way of downloading the vid on to my hard drive.

 

Also trying to sell my 1990 Rover Sterling at the moment but avoiding ebay as I really cant be arsed dealing with fuckwits. If it doesnt sell on the other site, I'll try here. Watch this space.

[Cavcraft]

Still struggling there sorry F.T.

 

Autoshite news?

 

Chucked some fuel in the Mk3 Astra yesterday, hadn't run for about 3 weeks and it fired up 2nd turn of the key-WINNAH!

 

Pisshat has decided it'd be better if the interior fan didn't work anymore. Quick Google-age reveals it's a common fault and repair involves taking the glovebox out, or something like that.

The economy is fucking ace, 45mpg is a walk in the park even on the urban runs.

[Father Ted]

Still struggling there sorry F.T.

 

Autoshite news?

Top right hand corner of your keyboard is a button that says Prt Scr / Sys Req

Or similar.

Its how you can grab a picture of whats on the screen - then open Microsoft Paint or similar and go into edit then click paste - you should get a screen grab that looks like this....

 

then edit it down using the cut and paste function to get this:

[pogweasel]

[Cavcraft]

etc.

[Father Ted]

[pogweasel]

LOLOLOLOL @ the FF tabs, Fatha_Ted.

Very clevah.

[seth]

Just going back to this...

 

Yay for summer camping misery/UTTER misery! (delete as appropriate according to weather)

Edited for accuracy.

INCORRECT.

 

Just had a stonking weekend. Campsite was perfect, with one set of facilites inside a 19th century railway carriage and the farmer was a bit of a Ford guy, Mk4 Escort XR or RS , Mk3 Capri on Superlites and apparantly a Mk1 Escort in a barn somewhere. We even got to watch the Red Arrows over Goodwood (about 9 miles away) while chilling at the site on Saturday.

 

The Hillman and trailer worked perfectly on the way there and back, in fact Mrs_Seth brought the combo home yesterday morning as I stayed for the Sunday at the FoS.

[gtd2000]

Make life even easier for yourself rather than fucking around with keys and all that shite - go here:

 

http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/mmedia/FastStoneCapture.html

 

And download FastStone Capture - it's great for this type of shite

[dollywobbler]

Took the Westminster to a 2CV camp at the weekend (and my own 2CV). It went down quite well. I'll get some pics up this evening as there was also a gathering of Wartburgs, a solo Trabant and a beige Citroën LN. It was quite a weekend.

 

However, the real big news is that I collect the CX tomorrow. Buying a hydraulic Citroën blind. A good idea or complete madness? I'll report back tomorrow...

 

Oh and there is the fact that my wife and I will be leaping into the 2CV on Thursday night to go on holiday near Geneva. Via Normandy. All I've got to do before then is retorque the cylinder heads (without a torque wrench...) and carry out a full service. Time appears to be running out... (s'pose I'd have more of it if I wasn't driving all over the country collecting new shite!)

[Father Ted]

However, the real big news is that I collect the CX tomorrow. Buying a hydraulic Citroën blind. A good idea or complete madness? I'll report back tomorrow...

Ian - you have been buggering about with Citroens long enough to know the answer to that. I bought one HP sprung Cit blind and will never ever do it again. It was a wonderful world of wallet raping sand in the Vaseline pain.

 

That said its a CX.... It will be a nice place to sit whilst you wait for the AA man.

 

Good Luck

[Polystratus]

. All I've got to do before then is retorque the cylinder heads (without a torque wrench...) and carry out a full service. Time appears to be running out... (

..and you really need a torque wrench, suprised you haven't one unless you don't do diy servicing.

[dollywobbler]

Well, I blagged a torque wrench and retorqued the head, drained the oil, popped in some nice new stuff then went to fit the new spark plugs and realised that the thread for the RH one had come out with the plug. Fucksticks!!!

 

So, I could strip my spare engine for the head, then fit it to the engine that's in (a word of pain as while the engine currently in has brass manifold nuts, the spare engine has plain ol' rusty ones ready to round), forget sleep and swap the entire engine (and then have to service that one as well) or just give up and take either the trusty BX (well, unless you try to start it when hot as the starter motor's knackered) or the completely unknown and not yet actually owned CX.

 

Gah!!

[trigger]

Take the CX! (you could have been doing this trip in a 35 year old BMW... )

[dollywobbler]

I think I'll get the CX home (picking up in Stafford, then going to Manchester for a mission, then back home!) and see if it's still working, and what issues it's got, then weigh up which Citroen is least likely to f*ck up completely.

 

Really quite sad. Have been very much looking forward to a 2CV adventure, though I s'pose the more modern Cits offer a more relaxing cruising experience.

[garethj]

Fitted new brake discs and bearing seals to the Ginetta yesterday so I can now brake without the steering wheel giving me wankers cramp. How does it reward me this evening on the way home? The temperature gauge starts going up...

 

By the time I get home it's barely 2 notches off the red. For the last 3 miles the car had pretty much put itself on ebay for £50, what the hell was I going to get instead and what was the bus route to work

 

I got home, popped the bonnet and there was rusty brown water everywhere and a gentle hissing sound. I ate my dinner in anger.

 

After the car (and I) had cooled down a bit, I poured some water in to try and see where the leak was coming from - obviously mental images of head gaskets were tormenting me all this time - and I can hear a bubbling sound from the other side of the engine. More water and I can see bubbles are forming around the hose to the autochoke. A bit more water and have a closer look.

 

The jubilee clip was loose

 

I took the hose off to check it was ok, found the clip wouldn't tighten properly and put a new one on. All is well again, except it looks like someone's had a bad case of the two-bob-bits all over my engine.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

When I scrapped my sister's Escort saloon last week (it overheated because of a loose jubilee clip letting all the coolant out ) I took the boot seal just in case I could find a use for it.

 

Tried it on the Herald's boot and it fits perfectly, just leaving a small gap by the latch . What are the chances of that?

[Angrydicky]

Well the 2CV left on a trailer this afternoon bound for its new home in Bury St Edmunds - a company who build replica vans. The guy who bought it said he already has a buyer for it when it's finished - a small garden centre in Suffolk - so hopefully it should be a pretty quick turnaround

 

Been doing a bit of paintwork on the Maestro. Rubbed down all the surface rust on the front valence, primer/top coat and it is looking very smart indeed. Also sorted out the door shuts and sills whish had scabs of surface rust on them. I'm considering fitting new front wings as there is a bit of rot in the arches, so if anyone has a pair of front wings for a Maestro van or steel bumper saloon let me know!

[Vin]

I'm now into the second week of my holiday. I'm holidaying at home this year. This is so I can watch football and put the rear of my Panda 4x4 back together (leaf springs and axle going back on tomorrow, if all goes well). And also do lots of mid week drinking.

[Guest]

Last week I drove the old 626 up Holme Moss and it started hockering a bit. It improved as the altitude decreased, by the time it got back to Huddersfield it was pretty much back to normal (providing you didn't floor it). Suspected the fuel filter - it's a funny-shaped one, so I went to Mazda for it a few days later. Parts desk were incredibly helpful, didn't have one in stock, but could have it for the weekend. Didn't want cash up front, astoundingly. Weekend rolls on and the filter lands - £4 (including VAT!). Decided to fit it this afternoon, took all of about 2 minutes even with my mediocre mechanic skills. Fired it up, drove it around - not only does it drive smoothly again, it feels faster than it has ever done. Excellent!

 

Why can't it always be that simple?

[dollywobbler]

Why indeed. Tried helicoiling the 2CV's knackered spark plug hole. It didn't go well. However, someone has kindly donated another cylinder head, so yet more tinkering to come!

 

In other news, the CX is home, but that already has a growing issue log all of its own. Including non-working cooling fans... (not much fun!). However, it is waft-tastic!

[dollywobbler]

2CV is fixed! A truly superb club member helped me change a cylinder head tonight, and the test drive was successful. That'll have to do as we're off on hols tomorrow evening after a final day of work. ROLL ON THE HOLIDAYS!

 

Portsmouth tomorrow night, then a few days in Normandy, then off across France to Switzerland to stay in an Alpine chalet not too far from Geneva. All with 2CV power. Excellent.

[Vin]

Great news DW. Enjoy your 2CVing on the continent.

[Claypole]

I haz convertable.

 

[trigger]

Oh that's a rare lightweight 2002!