Stuff you have fixed today

[Robotstar5]

Had a Mighty Antar towing a Chieftain tank bridge layer ( 62 tons IIRC ) on a 32 wheeled Dyson trailer , did a Tapley on it .... fail
I had to get it off loaded and check all hubs and brakes four times over two days before it came up braking square . I discovered the uneven braking problem was three knackered bloated tyres .

Here you go....

 

[lee4206]

My "proper" day job is in the boxes, obsolete Vauxhall/Opel/Bedford parts from the 1960s to 2010

Would you happen to have any parts for a Vauxhall omega??

 

[Blobber]

Would you happen to have any parts for a Vauxhall omega??

Yep got some stuff just depends what, how about a new 3.2 crate motor?! send me a pm if you want anything

 

[Barking Mat]

God-damned boats again, that boat which chucked it prop shaft out last Tuesday, did it again today, so I welded it on, crap photo, crap welding.

Then, since I was off on a breakdown, work pays lunch.

The Terrine, (paté).

Baby cow, chips, home made, peas carrots.

Cheese, wasn't posh, was very yummy with the cheap, but entirely drinkable red wine.

 

[DanZac]

Cheese, wasn't posh, was very yummy with the cheap, but entirely drinkable red wine.

I thought I was living the high life having toast for my tea (none of you cheap raw bread lark here), but if that's your lunch then I'm certainly doing something wrong.

Best I get the house on the market and move to that there France.

 

[Barking Mat]

I thought I was living the high life having toast for my tea (none of you cheap raw bread lark here), but if that's your lunch then I'm certainly doing something wrong.

Best I get the house on the market and move to that there France.

It's not often I'm out on a breakdown, but I do profit, if work will pay my lunch I'm game.

 

[Geoffm]

My old series one was always run up the road with a Tapley meter, I think the tester quite liked a run out.

My RR silver cloud always needs to be tested with the Tapley meter. The vacuum booster, designed by Sir Henry Royce, doesn't work below 20kph. The rollers don't go fast enough and you have endless arguments with the testing Muppet. Found a local garage who understands old cars.

 

[Barking Mat]

My RR silver cloud always needs to be tested with the Tapley meter. The vacuum booster, designed by Sir Henry Royce, doesn't work below 20kph. The rollers don't go fast enough and you have endless arguments with the testing Muppet. Found a local garage who understands old cars.

Need photos please.

 

[Geoffm]

Need photos please.

Here it is - the family pet. My father got it 30ish years ago and used it frequently for trips away. We don't use it as much due to time. Work is the curse of the driving class...
Fun fact - a lot of parts are British Leyland parts bin, since Rolls Royce were small volume manufacturers. It "failed to proceed" for my father on a trip away a few years ago when a fuel pump failed. It is a standrd Morris Minor item, and since RR didn't trust Lucas like any sensible company, it had 2 of them as run and standby. We found out the primary pump had been dead for years and the standby pump finally gave up the ghost. At the last WOF it needed a new headlight - standard 6" lucas glowworm in a jar.

 

[northwest]

Been there done that. gone to bed and gone to work next morning in the cad. I no longer try to touch my own cars. Nothing quite like swearing at something at 3AM and hearing the dawn chorus

If you drive down the A1M and take the Mansfield turn off (heading south) driving uphill there is a pub on your left (or there was fifty years ago) and it was the same fifty years ago I changed the gearbox in a Hillman Imp in that Pub car park. I had a pal with me who helped out and we both froze I think ewe were well north of Weatherby before we started to warm up. It was a horrendous experience but two kids on their way home with a knackered gearbox wasn't going to happen so I managed to get a replacement from a scrap yard and fit it. Don't ask how, I have no idea, but we did it.

 

[awemawson]

When I was 18 the clutch release bearing on my Sunbeam S8 500 cc shaft drive motor cycle packed in, and I removed the entire engine from the frame in the yard at the Kyle of Tongue Youth Hostel ( north coast of Scotland on Pentland Firth) and replaced it. Like you goodness only knows how I managed it but I did !

when I got back home to Chelsea and could read the manual I found that it could have been done without removing the engine . . . . Argh

 

[RaceDiagnostics]

Old water pump out.....

Cleaned up....

New one in.

 

[magnet]

Me and wor mick putting a new roof on the ferret hutch

 

[DanZac]

Today I've fixed (again, and for the time being) the mighty 206GTI which had a bit of an MOT failure the other day.

To be honest, I thought twice about saving it. It owes us nothing. I think we paid about £500 for it back in 2018, and since then the Mrs has put 50K miles on it commuting to work and fully abused it (it's been on mulitple track days and autotests, and she's generally thrashed it every where).

But for some strange reason I quite like the old girl, and I'd hate to think of it going through the crusher. Plus there's only 600 or so of the 138bhp GTI's still on the road, (from an original 13000) so its probably worth saving, at least for the time being.

So a reconditioned rear axle (for the second time) and a reconditioned steering wheel COM Unit to fix the fog light issue, and a handful of bulbs and we're back on the road.

It seemed a bit pointless putting 100K mile bits back onto the new axle though, so whilst it's been in bits I've treated it to new wheel bearings, shocks, brake pipes and handbrake cables, cleaned up the underside and slapped some underseal on, and generally given it a bit of a clean up.

Which joins the front suspension rebuild it had last year, when it failed on wishbones (for the 100th time) and front Shocks.

If its really lucky I might even sort out the rust that's starting to appear around the wheel arch lips (or is that one step too far?)

 

[RWD3M]

... if its really lucky I might even sort out the rust that's starting to appear around the wheel arch lips (or is that one step too far?)...

What are you thinking man? That would involve welding! There's no place for that here!

 

[Keithmac]

I don't know what goes through the "designers" heads but this is the state of a 1000ds Multistrada to check / change the air filter..

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

This Care Earth Leakage Tester came my way the other day.

The lid was seized tight, the hinges were the issue.

But opening it, it was complete and even better.
It worked.

Copper on show, this and the new hinges were New Old stock from the manufacture.

In the clean up.

Off cuts from a old car wing were turned into a scraper.

Finished.

Now on its way to its new owner.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

This Gone Fishing Zippo came my way the other day.
It needed a good service and a clean.

Plus a lot of force to get it apart.
The white smears you can see, is glue.
I had to tease Nail varnish remove into the gap between the case and the body.

A good feed and wax and this now is soft and flexible.

It did not need a new flint or wick, just a good clean and the wrong fuel residue removed.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Not really fixed, but tidied up and made useful.

Small wooden box.

With some very useful BA taps and dies.

Gel Shellac and medical alchol.
Made some nice polish.

All More and White gear.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

This was an excuse to see a friend and abuse his copy lathe and coffee.

The Brick hammer was used to the point the chisel point was bent and the working face soft.

I even found a name on it.

W. Gilpin.

Home made wedges.

Filling the voids with resin.

The head does not need the resin for strength, but looks.

A good going over with pure Linseed oil.