Felly Magic Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 I mustard mit, these do look fine motors, esp the minty fresh one I saw in Needham Market a couple of months ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Rustbucket Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 It is good to see this lovely old car still going strong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted November 14, 2016 Author Share Posted November 14, 2016 I wouldn't call it strong. It's borderline undriveable and will only pass an MOT on a good day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 At some point approximately a year ago SWMBO told me that she wanted the 604 off of the drive.I think she meant get rid of it. Anyway I did what she said (as in, get it off the drive). It took me most of the year. Dave_Q, RobT, Skizzer and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 March 2018. I stretched my harbour freight folding trailer Skizzer, Six-cylinder, Burnside and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 I ordered £700 of steel and met the truck driver at a nearby industrial unit where they had a fork lift Burnside, pshome, Six-cylinder and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 Borrowed some akros and a genie lift, hacked some of the garage wall out and put the steel in pshome, Skizzer, Burnside and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 The steel went front and back. I think that this was April or May. I hired a Romanian to dig a trench on each side of the garage Burnside, mat_the_cat and pshome 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 Dropped four posts into the trench Each post was welded over the end, and I drilled and tapped an M12 thread in it. Then inserted a long threaded rod and jacked it up to the beam. pshome, mat_the_cat and Burnside 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 also put some fence posts into the trench and filled with concrete this was the view from inside the garage towards the neighbours garden Dick Longbridge, Burnside and pshome 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 View from the neighbours garden pshome and Burnside 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 view from my house pshome and Burnside 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 May 2018 Burnside and pshome 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 new end wall up on the other side (towards other neighbour) Burnside and pshome 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 Now that the beams (and therefore the roof) were being held up by the four corner posts I could knock out the old walls pshome, Dave_Q and Burnside 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 giving a much bigger opening (now it was June) Dick Longbridge, pshome, Burnside and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 then I built this huge top hinged door Dave_Q, egg, pshome and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 egg and pshome 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 August 2018. My son helped me to put up a new fence pshome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 December 2018 chadders, somewhatfoolish, mat_the_cat and 37 others 40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Please say you used the handbrake to get the car in. Rocket88, drum, timolloyd and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 15, 2018 Author Share Posted December 15, 2018 On 12/15/2018 at 8:09 AM, dollywobbler said: Please say you used the handbrake to get the car in. Slightly unrealistic Six-cylinder, Tadhg Tiogar, pshome and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panhard65 Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Nice to see the 604 is going to get some love.As you can see the 806 is still giving great service and even though I have tried to replace it a few times over the last year, but it is it's replacement that ends up leaving as it is such a useful old bus. Six-cylinder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 15, 2018 Author Share Posted December 15, 2018 Nice to see the 604 is going to get some love.IMG_5873 (1).JPGAs you can see the 806 is still giving great service and even though I have tried to replace it a few times over the last year, but it is it's replacement that ends up leaving as it is such a useful old bus. That is an 806.It is not the 806. By the way you know that V246KGD had a customer intercooler, oversize injectors and solid flywheel don't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panhard65 Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 That is an 806.It is not the 806. By the way you know that V246KGD had a customer intercooler, oversize injectors and solid flywheel don't you?I put my personal plate on it and the mods might go a long way to explain why it is still with me. It flies along and will still give over 40 to the gallon which for my driving is well impressive. I have tried a few other 2.0hdi's but none as good as this one. It has started to play up a little lately by going a bit gutless, but switching it off and restarting seems to put it right for now. It had a few new panels the other year to tidy it up a bit but not much else since. It could really do with a new exhaust and I suspect it is due a cam belt as well which it might get next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 15, 2018 Author Share Posted December 15, 2018 If I was a betting man I would guess that it needs a new boost control solenoid. They are a common failure on HDIs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Nice to see the 604 is still alive and well. I went with its previous owner when he bought it in 2008 from somewhere near Heathrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 15, 2018 Author Share Posted December 15, 2018 Wow that is interesting.Presumably he had to get it towed?I got it in 2011 and don't think he had done anything so I am guessing it is much as it was in 2008.Do you know where the previous owner had stored it? It's amazingly unrusty for its age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 When he got it it was in an open-sided shed, but far enough in not to get rained on. It was in a dry shed for about a year after he got it, I don't know where it went after that,he had enough cars to require more than one barn. Can you remember where you picked it up from? You're right that he probably never did anything with it during his ownership, another consequence of too many cars. I'd completely forgotten about the smell until reading it earlier in your thread, it was like that as long as I knew the car. Unfortunately the story didn't end up quite so happily for the manual example you traded with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselnutjob Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 The manual one was on ebay fairly recently but now painted mat black. At least it still lives. I have gone back through this topic and reinstated quite a lot of the pictures which had fallen off of the edge of the Internet. scdan4, Six-cylinder, somewhatfoolish and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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