Gilbertd wrote:

That's the one thing I haven't complained about as I don't see them. Adblocker for Firefox is a wonderful thing, blocks 10 or 11 ads per page......

You shouldn't be seeing any ads at all with or without adblock, once you're logged in...

Bolt wrote:

Scot, eh?
Well that would certainly explain why he cannot resist the temptation to fiddle and fettle the site!
What was the famous quote? "All Scots are engineers and the best engineers are Scots"..... Can't argue the point!
Good on ya Gordon!

Well it was Gilbertd's idea, and we were in a pub in Glasgow - the Bon Accord if I recall correctly - when he said "I mean How Hard Can It Be?"

Not all that hard, as it turns out. There are bits of the forum that are a bit flaky and I work on it as and when I get time. It's not run for profit, it's not run for marketing, I stuck some Google ads on for not-logged-in users to try and capitalise on the Russian spammers and maybe offset some of the hosting costs. However, like our beloved Range Rovers (and other cool old cars) there are a few odd little faults that crop up.

Just noticed the copyright message at the bottom, yikes, I'm using a well out-of-date copy of the forum software. That's another thing though, the forum and the systems it runs on are all Open Source so if you don't like how something works you can open it up and have a poke at it!

Pierre3 wrote:

Just out of interest, why can't we click on an icon to agree with a post either here or on the RR.net forum.

How's your Python programming? That sounds like the sort of thing someone suitably skilled could write a little plugin for.

If you're going to do that, you can finish my image hosting plugin for me too.

davew wrote:

Yes, maybe there are no 'thumbs up' and 'smiley' etc emoticons in use as it is mainly adults using these sites Pierre3 ?

There aren't "thumbs up" and "smiley" emoticon graphics on rrpub because I broke that bit when I was installing it and can't figure out how to get them to download now.

RR.net once had a much friendlier atmosphere too of course..... although their latest layout just makes me laugh... !

Their latest layout is a nice responsive design that looks like it might use bootstrap.js as its layout framework. That's what flaskbb uses for its default theme (you can see it by going into your settings and setting the theme to "Aurora") and by extension the three rrpub themes Alveston Red, Oxford Blue and L4Y3R C4K3.

tanis8472 wrote:

My pc is full HD. There's about 6 lines of topics. Should be about 20 on one screen.

How does rrrpub look on it? I'm mostly looking at it on 1366x768 or 1600x1200 but I should try more sizes.

Had a quick look, it's a nice clean modern responsive Web UI rather like the one that FlaskBB comes with I guess. Shame they weren't able to keep the rest of the stuff going.

In an unguarded moment you might catch me wondering aloud about how to scale FlaskBB out.

Obviously the material on rr.net is subject to copyright even if they have removed it, and simply copying it off archive.org and onto another site would Not Be Cricket.

There's a wealth of information if someone wanted to do a proper writeup though.

Can you get to the old information via archive.org?

I wouldn't have expected it to eat the engine in that short space of time. Change it, inspect what you drain for glitter (maybe even cut the filter open?) and stick in 20W50 and see what sort of noises it makes.

Well I've got an MOT tomorrow, my power steering box is pishing fluid, I think I've got a leaking heater O-ring again (they were cheapies and they lasted five years), and worst of all there's an ominous tapping coming from the driver's side rocker box and a fairly lumpy miss... :-/

BPR6ES plugs after 17k on gas will be well knackered

What actually happens to them? I had mine out for a look at the weekend and they looked okay, electrodes not worn, gaps okay. I think they've been in for about 20k so I guess they're well knackered!

Thanks! Panic over though, I've managed to sort something out that doesn't involve inflicting a 45kg piano on unsuspecting forum users :-D

I need a wee favour ;-) I have a synthesizer I need to get picked up. It's pretty big and heavy, and you'd definitely need a car - and what better to ask than a forum for folk with big and heavy cars?

My plan is that if someone can get it from the guy before the end of the month and stuff it in a corner until August, I can pick it up when I'm down in Bradford.

Is it blowing back from the water pump maybe?

There aren't any faults stored, but the driver's side lambda seems to have less "range" than the passenger side - it doesn't appear to go all the way down to 0 or all the way up to 5, but it does switch more or less in time with the passenger side one when it's on gas.

I wouldn't have thought the lambdas would make a huge difference at startup since they're stone cold! One thing I have noticed is that on petrol the fuel trims whang up to +25% at anything above the slightest touch of throttle, so I wonder what's upsetting the whole thing?

Ah, that would work, yes. In fact I think I've got one of the slidey metal tube tyre pressure gauges...

I wondered about that. There seems to be plenty pressure on the fuel rail but I don't have a way to measure it.

Over the past wee while my V8 has developed an odd problem where if it's been switched off for a while it is very hard to start and will eventually splutter into life missing like hell with a big puff of oily petrolly-smelling exhaust fumes. It's like it's severely flooded. Starting on petrol only makes no odds.

If I pull the fuel pump relay I get the usual takes-ages-but-starts-on-gas thing. I ran around with no fuel pump for a bit and while needing it to crank for ten seconds was a bit of a pain in the arse it worked okay. After I replaced the fuel pump it started okay on petrol but started this flooding crap.

Any thoughts?

I'd be terribly surprised if you couldn't find a suitable thermistor and make up a connector for it.

Or just roll it to the far end of the guy's yard, throw a head gasket on, and drive home...