Nibbler Posted July 13, 2022 Author Share Posted July 13, 2022 Car from the past: Ford Scorpio 24V Cosworth-92. German import with leaking gearbox and noisy cam chain... otherwise it was in quite good shape but I never really fell in love with this car. It was more suitable for autobahn than Swedish roads. Really nice on long drives though. Took it to Germany a few times, highest achieved speed was 235 km/h on the speedometer. Later sold it to a guy in Norway who phoned me just a few minutes after the ad went online. JeeExEll, mk2_craig, Dyslexic Viking and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbler Posted July 14, 2022 Author Share Posted July 14, 2022 Car from the past: Ford Capri 1600 XL 1973. Damn this one was bad! Only held together by the a-pillars, a little tiny bit of the floor and a lot of willpower. If a Capri Mk1 has any. Dragged this one out of a damp forest in Blekinge with the help of a tractor. No keys, no papers, just rust held together by a little bit of paint. Stripped out all useable parts and thought it would be impossible to scrap the remains without papers. It’s not, but that’s what I thought at the time. So with the help of two sturdy friends longing for destruction and mayhem we cut it to small pieces and recycled it! Lacquer Peel, Dyslexic Viking, Jim Bell and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rightnider Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 I don’t think I ever saw that 1600 XL, but I do remember driving the Scorpio 24v! Nibbler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbler Posted July 16, 2022 Author Share Posted July 16, 2022 I love the smell of coolant in the morning. But there is something wrong here... I give you guys a clue: new part to the left. Old part to the right. I ordered 3 different flanges just so this wouldn’t happen. And the boom box has stopped working as well 😕 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbler Posted July 17, 2022 Author Share Posted July 17, 2022 I got it together in the end. With scavenged parts from a Golf III parked outside. So now it’s no longer leaking coolant, has new gearbox oil, engine oil and some other stuff. It was leaking coolant at two different flanges. Both quite hard to reach. One was cracked and the other one was close to disintegrating . Of course I got the wrong part and had to be creative to make it work. Rightnider, Jim Bell, rainagain and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbler Posted July 17, 2022 Author Share Posted July 17, 2022 Car from the Past: Ford Capri 2,0 GL 1978 (Mk.2) This Capri wasn’t too bad. Originally it had a 2-litre Pinto with automatic transmission. That was probably a bit too wild for the previous owner. Because when I bought it, it had a 1600 Pinto with a 4-speed gearbox. My first plan was to get it going but when trying to start it, it caught fire. And it was probably during those seconds when I was shovelling snow like a maniac to extinguish the fire I made the decision to scrap it instead. I did save quite a lot of good parts though. Rightnider, Ghosty, Dyslexic Viking and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rightnider Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 I remember that one vaguely, but as you say it was surprisingly solid. I also remember getting it home on a trailer one icy, cold and dark Friday night. 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbler Posted July 18, 2022 Author Share Posted July 18, 2022 3 hours ago, Rightnider said: I remember that one vaguely, but as you say it was surprisingly solid. I also remember getting it home on a trailer one icy, cold and dark Friday night. 😀 Yes, you were with me. I dragged you straight from work. You weren’t happy 😀 But I can’t remember were I bought it, somewhere south of Kalmar is all I remember. I also remember that the wipers just wouldn’t stop. And then suddenly, the wiper motor released smoke. After that, the wipers stayed off. Indefinitely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbler Posted July 18, 2022 Author Share Posted July 18, 2022 Car from the past: Ford Granada 2,8i GL 1983. This one was hilariously bad! If I remember correctly it was for many years owned by a photo company in Stockholm. Then Rightnider bought it, drove it home and then sold it to me for less then 1 £. It was bad, but it served me well for a few months. Leaking petrol, servo fluid and looking absolutely terrible. It had dents all over and was really rusty. But the engine and C3 automatic worked perfectly. I tried my luck and went to the MOT station together with Rightnider and It failed big time. The tester was probably thinking it was some kind of joke. At the end I remember him being really pissed off! On the way home the alternator failed and we was towed home by my father at breakneck speed fearing for our lives. Shite Ron, mk2_craig, Rightnider and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rightnider Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 You beat me to it! I will give you my story soon. I can also see another one of my Granadas in the background… Me and the ‘Silver arrow’. Photo by @Nibbler Jim Bell, Nibbler, Shite Ron and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbler Posted July 24, 2022 Author Share Posted July 24, 2022 Out driving Volkswagen. Picture from later today up on the Hardanger Plateau in Norway. Dyslexic Viking, Jim Bell, Rightnider and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbler Posted August 10, 2022 Author Share Posted August 10, 2022 I have a theory: that the engineers at Volkswagen were truly evil. We discussed this during the engine swap that all over Germany hordes of retired Volkswagen engineers gets a hard-on when they thinks of all the misery a T3 owner has to endure. Crappy engines, crappy gearboxes, rust, instant death when you crash, and crash you will because it has a rear engine, gear linkage and all kinds of stuff destroying itself for no good reason. Really late one night we also found out that the oil cooler had a black hole inside or possibly another dimension. It’s true! One of the many things that can go wrong is the odometer. So that was the task for today. The axle that drives the odometer via some plastic gears gets worn and starts to move sideways and the gears lose its connection with each other. My solution was to deform the end of the axle and glue the axle to the gear to limit play. Only time will tell if I have outsmarted the evil engineers of Volkswagen or not. Rightnider, AnnoyingPentium and Dyslexic Viking 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbler Posted August 14, 2022 Author Share Posted August 14, 2022 Car from the past: Ford Escort CL 1,8 Diesel 1992. Yep, it’s Rightniders old one. Started out it’s life in Berlin but got crashed and then imported to Sweden. It was a poverty spec model with no extras at all!I loved this car even though i had quite a few problems with it. Gear linkage falling to pieces. I had to drive on second gear to my father to get it welded. Starting problems in cold weather, below -8 degrees it was impossible. Bought the biggest battery I could fit and a electric engine pre-heater. The amount of smoke it produced during starting in cold weather was hilarious! Before I bought the pre-heater it usually fired up on one cylinder first. Then I gave it full throttle and just waited for the other 3 to join in, meanwhile it was spewing out black smoke! Electric gremlins that made it suddenly impossible to start due to water in the relay box. One of the worst things that happened was that it refused to start when we should enter the ferry from Denmark to Germany and in front of what felt like 100 000 people we had to bump start it... and we failed spectacularly at our first try! One Friday on my way home from Västerås to Öland it failed completely. Had to rent a Skoda Fabia 1,4 to get home. After I changed the relay box those problems stopped. Charging problems due to the fact that the small generator couldn’t cope with a massive stereo and the extra lights needed for the Swedish winter, melting the cable from the generator up to the battery. Still loved it! I realised that I really enjoyed the struggle and the planning ahead that comes with a slow Diesel. At one time going home from a metal festival in Germany we did a 0-60 mph test. Loaded up with two people, camping stuff and a lot of cheap German beer the clock stopped at 35 seconds! When I scrapped it due to rust and that the gearbox was on it’s way out it had done 250 000 miles. A car I miss to this day! LightBulbFun, Rightnider, Jim Bell and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbler Posted October 15, 2022 Author Share Posted October 15, 2022 Changed the clutch slave cylinder today on the VW Transporter. A little bit fiddly but it went okay. Except the part when I got stuck under the car and had a bit of a panic attack... Confident I had a working clutch I tried to drive to the recycling station. I got as far as the picture shows, then I lost reverse gear and it started to rain... Dyslexic Viking, Rightnider and Jim Bell 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbler Posted October 16, 2022 Author Share Posted October 16, 2022 After a bit of tinkering with the gear linkage I found reverse again. My theory is that when parked on uneven ground and the car flexing a bit the gear linkage was unable to move into reverse. After I adjusted the linkage today the gearbox is bloody perfect. I was so happy, so I started cleaning (see before picture) the garage were the Capri is parked and took the T3 to the shite capital of Sweden: Fågelfors! Worthy of a photo thread! Jim Bell, JMotor, Dyslexic Viking and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rightnider Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 What happened in Fågelfors?! Tell us more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rightnider Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 Did you buy a Transit Connect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbler Posted October 18, 2022 Author Share Posted October 18, 2022 On 17/10/2022 at 10:42, Rightnider said: What happened in Fågelfors?! Tell us more! I picked up a trunk, chest or coffin or whatever it’s called in English . Not the kind you lay in when you are 6 feet under. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horriblemercedes Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 9 minutes ago, Nibbler said: I picked up a trunk, chest or coffin or whatever it’s called in English . Not the kind you lay in when you are 6 feet under. I think a trunk or chest, depending on context. Coffins are only for dead people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbler Posted October 18, 2022 Author Share Posted October 18, 2022 2 hours ago, Rightnider said: Did you buy a Transit Connect? Nope, but if you look closely to the left, you see a crappy American camper from the eighties. Didn’t buy that either, but it was nice. Rightnider 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbler Posted October 18, 2022 Author Share Posted October 18, 2022 2 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said: I think a trunk or chest, depending on context. Coffins are only for dead people Or for perverts! Thanks for your correction 👍 Rightnider 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbler Posted October 19, 2022 Author Share Posted October 19, 2022 Car from the past: Ford Capri 2,0 GL -77. Bought this Mk2 really, really cheap! Knackered Pinto, quite rusty and with a release bearing that could wake the dead. On the good side it was unmolested and with good interior. Abused it for a month until the cambelt decided it no longer could tolerate the abuse. After that the top speed was 60 km/h and when it finally died a couple of hundred meter from my parents place I just let it roll down the hill to their house. I entered my parents garden at speed! But I hit the clutch pedal instead of the brake pedal and went straight into my dads garage doors... Lacquer Peel, Rightnider, Dyslexic Viking and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rightnider Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 I remember this one vividly. When you bought it in the outskirts of Ruda. When you overtook me in it on the way home (I was driving your 1600 GT) and even then, in another car at speed the clatter from the valves was VERY loud. When you visited me with it, and we both said ‘believe it or not, isn’t it going a bit better now’?’ Ten minutes later you called and said it had caught fire. Nibbler and High Jetter 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbler Posted October 21, 2022 Author Share Posted October 21, 2022 On 20/10/2022 at 19:07, Rightnider said: I remember this one vividly. When you bought it in the outskirts of Ruda. When you overtook me in it on the way home (I was driving your 1600 GT) and even then, in another car at speed the clatter from the valves was VERY loud. When you visited me with it, and we both said ‘believe it or not, isn’t it going a bit better now’?’ Ten minutes later you called and said it had caught fire. I can’t remember the caught fire part. But it probably backfired quite badly and set itself on fire that way 😀 But I do remember trying to adjust the valves... damn that camshaft looked bad! Like someone with an angle grinder had gone apeshit on it. Rightnider 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbler Posted November 20, 2022 Author Share Posted November 20, 2022 I would say that today is probably a good day to put on winter tyres. AnnoyingPentium, Jim Bell, MiniMinorMk3 and 3 others 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 I would say that yesterday would have been better! Nibbler and Rightnider 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 8 hours ago, Nibbler said: I would say that today is probably a good day to put on winter tyres. cold hands and wet knees Rightnider 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbler Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 Car from the past: Ford Scorpio 2,9 Ghia -90. This was my first car to be driven all year round. Bought it dirt cheap with a broken MT75 gearbox. The gearbox turned out to be unbroken, the bolts connecting the prop shaft to the gearbox had snapped. We talk serious high mileage here... when I scrapped it due to rust it had done 540 000 km or 335540 miles. Still on it’s original engine, gearbox and rear axle. It was worn! Belts screaming due to worn pullies, windscreen wiper mechanism falling apart and the transmission play was hilarious. But it took me too Germany several times, to Norway, around England and Scotland and to work. I loved it!!! Jim Bell, JMotor, AnnoyingPentium and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rightnider Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 That was a lovely cruiser! Nibbler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbler Posted January 7, 2023 Author Share Posted January 7, 2023 A couple of days ago I was offered a Skoda Fabia 1,4 Classic 2006 for free. My wife’s friend had her car in for MOT and it failed. Some minor stuff and a leaking brake hose. So she wasn’t even allowed to drive the car home. Spanish flag as we call it here in Sweden. Her plan was to scrap it, but offered it to me for free. I like the Fabia but I have too many cars already so I sent a message to my friend Eskil who was up for a free Fabia. He took the bus down from Stockholm and we fixed the Fabia outside the MOT station. You could feel that it wanted to be saved. Everything went smooth. So today with a fresh MOT, Eskil drove it the 5 hour journey back to Stockholm. Rightnider, mk2_craig, FakeConcern and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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