Moving is classed as essential, bit of a pain with no pubs opening etc. But have packed the stove for hot meals. Don't think new owners of the house I have sold would want us sleeping on the floor. Removal company due on the 24th.
Ah, yes, that's pretty essential. Whenever I've moved the first evening at the new place has involved a trip to the local rather than cooking so glad I'm not moving at the moment.
Will have to be home brew, pub would be a ferry ride away in normal times
Replaced radius and trailing arm bushings all around, as well as roll bar links and bushings, all with new OEM parts. Panhards and ball joints still to go. That might include rotors too b/c they’re all rusted on!
I also pulled the heads off my parts engine. Really glad to see that all 8 piston heads were nice and filthy, no evidence of steam cleaning whatsoever. They’re off to the machine shop tomorrow.
1Steven wrote:
Will have to be home brew, pub would be a ferry ride away in normal times
Sounds intriguing, where are you off to? Anywhere up my neck of the woods?
Quite a bit further North of you I understand.......
Orkney, my wife said lets go and live on an Island. Have packed my trunks. Will be stopping at Woodhall Spa on the way.
Fitted a new battery to the Ascot as it hasn't had one on it since August. Immediately got the hazards flashing silently to themselves as the alarm sounder is disconnected, followed by KeyCode Lockout on the dash. Went inside for a coffee while I waited for that to go out. Once that was out, it was immobilised (as expected) so decided to try entering the EKA with the Nanocom. Being an early car (96) the BeCM is firmware V33 so I shouldn't be able to and it wouldn't even connect to the BeCM, so I couldn't. Had to use the waggle the key about method, which worked and it fired up first turn. Poked the EAS button to put it on High, it sat there for a couple of minutes then rose up off it's knees. Had an SRS fault showing but Nano cleared that and went through all the other systems and no faults found. I might even clean it now then think about selling it.......
On mine, all I've done is drive it on a 70 mile round trip to pick up a cylinder of Oxygen Free Nitrogen that I need on Friday (for work obviously).
I thought the Ascot was used by your Daughter?
Anyway, it always is nice to have a spare!!
No, step daughter was going to use it then got furloughed so had no need to go to work. She's currently in Holland until the new year so is now considering a moped should she need cheap transport (as everyone in Holland who doesn't ride a bicycle rides a moped.....).. Wait until there's frost on the ground, then she might not think it such a good idea...
So this last weekend, I'd decided that I was definitely going to fit the new - second hand - drivers window regulator.
The '38 thought differently, "I'll decide what he does next, not him!"
No sooner than I'd got the EAS compressor working as it should last week, she dropped onto 7 cylinders. Bloody ingrate!
So Saturday passed in a blur of relaxation but Sunday morning saw me heading downstairs clutching 8 new plugs, an air filter and, whilst I was there, a new drive belt.
Now, a left hand drive P38 is an interesting beast, in that everything is on one side of the engine bay. Whereas a RHD vehicle has obstacles to plug changing distributed on both sides, on a left hooker, we have steering, brake modulator and associated pipework and pump, EAS kit and lines, air box and feed. The bloody lot. All this conspires to make changing four of the plugs a ahem, challenge. On the upside, having fought, grazed knuckles and sworn for 30 minutes on one side, using every combination of extension bar you've got,, you come round the other and there's nothing, and I mean nothing in the way at all. 10 minutes and the other four are gapped and changed. Good stuff.
To be fair, having seen the state of the plugs, I can understand why she was complaining. Virtually no mileage on them, but many, many hours spent achieving the no mileage. Yeah. they were seriously due.
Filter and belt replaced, although the former could have lived to fight another day, but hey, I'd got one in stock, so...
1st result? eight cylinders all doing their stuff, as they should.
2nd result? No regulator replacement.
In the meantime, I've ordered up:-
Lower tail-gate cables, one snapped last week, the other probably won't be far behind.
Upper tail-gate struts , the last only did six years.
Rocker cover gaskets, as there was some oil in a couple of the plugholes.
Spare set of plugs.
Be a week or so before that lot arrives so, this weekend, if the floods recede enough for lubricant delivery; oil and filter.
I hauled work's new Horsebox/catering trailer around the place and into town for some wiring work. The Duchess wasn't phased and EAS is really a great thing. I did the same journey with the Jeep today for comparison and it was fine but EAS makes it all much easier, especially when the heights don't match up.
i went and payed a bill today came out and the rover would not go . turned the key a couple of times up came engine disable , want the f.... is going on . jumped out locked the car unlocked the car put the key in the ignition ,, still bloody nothing no alarms nothing ,started swearing at the dog , bitched for a bit and then noticed it was in drive not park , put it in park fired right up , bloody safety features !!!!
I've done that!
Took my daughter to school in the Linley today. Lady parked behind me in the line for dropoff got out tapped on my window.
Her words: “That’s so cute that you would put your wife’s name on the back of your truck. Wish my husband would do that for me!”
Didn’t have the heart to explain....
ah ah ah ah ... put a smile on my face! thanks for that!
Automagics, yes. Once when in Burine @mad-as and driving my first auto, a Holden Overlander panel van, built in Launceston as you may remember, I pulled up in the street and parked. I got out, shut the door and went to put the key in the lock ....... only to discover the lock was a foot to the right from where it should have been, and that distance was growing. I always remembered to put it in Park after that..
Marshall8hp wrote:
Automagics, yes. Once when in Burine @mad-as and driving my first auto, a Holden Overlander panel van, built in Launceston as you may remember, I pulled up in the street and parked. I got out, shut the door and went to put the key in the lock ....... only to discover the lock was a foot to the right from where it should have been, and that distance was growing. I always remembered to put it in Park after that..
This whole story is kind of bizarre... It was my first manual transmission'd car and I lived at the top of a long slow grade. I had just come back from grocery shopping. It was nighttime and the road wasn’t that well lit. I parked, pulled the e-brake, got out and brought my groceries in. I came back to lock it and the car was gone. I'm looking around, I keep looking around and asking myself ‘I parked right here. Right? Right? Did somebody steal it?’ It's been 3 minutes. That’s when it dawned on me what may have happened. I refuse to believe it and I can’t see very far down the road but I start walking down the block, down this slight hill. I go one block, then I go another. I’m just dying by now b/c if the car had made it this far it would have been going fast enough to do some damage. A lady is standing on the corner looking at her house and I'm like 'Oh God. Please no.' No car so I keep going. I notice as I'm walking that by some random fluke on that night at that time there's no cars on the side of the street that I had parked on. So my car could just kept going. I walked 3 long blocks to finally find my car humping a VW Bug. Not a belly flop on top of the VW but it had done some damage. I had left the car in neutral and hadn’t pulled the e-brake hard enough to keep it from moving. It was late but I knocked on a few doors, nobody knew who the car belonged to, and finally I left a note. The car sat there and a week later it was towed. Nobody ever called me about it and never again did I not see at least one car per block parked on the side of the street my car had rolled down.
mad-as wrote:
i went and payed a bill today came out and the rover would not go . turned the key a couple of times up came engine disable , want the f.... is going on . jumped out locked the car unlocked the car put the key in the ignition ,, still bloody nothing no alarms nothing ,started swearing at the dog , bitched for a bit and then noticed it was in drive not park , put it in park fired right up , bloody safety features !!!!
Had that a couple of times.
Bloke did that at a car meet in his triumph stag ---- load of guys all stood around it guessing things like starter solenoid wiring etc etc I walked up to it got in put it in park n started it up ---- bloke bought me a burger for that 😊