The Ford Capri Laser Page

Anyway, after all this 50th talk, is there anyone left on here who came to the 30th Birthday do at the Norfolk Showground in 1999? I tried to get a 'Mile of Capris'. Failed, but we did get 133 there and it was a brilliant day out. Had people from Manchester, Newcastle, a mini-convoy from Brighton (p...

Not_Anumber wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 28, 2019 4:26 pm

Are you saying that should be a bog standard process.

Well I didn't think it would work, but I was flushed with success

I used a plunger designed to clear your toilet blockages.
Push it on tight (bit of grease on the lip helps - as elsewhere in life ) to get a suction seal, then pull. Lean it to pull the bolt hole side first as there is a locating pin set opposite to that so a straight pull doesn't work.

And a big hand for Mr Richard Head!

Probably uses all the extra power to overcome the wind resistance.
There is obviously a page missing from his dictionary, with the word 'subtle' on it!!!

I used the original spring clips. Cut the spacer in half and put a small spacing 'tube' on the retaining pin to hold the two halves in place. Fiddly to set up, but worked for years on all th Capris I fitted them on. Bit of a giggle cutting spring steel in half though. Wear googles cos if they slip t...

Surely he also said "tell my wife I love her very much, she knows'.

Can you hear me Major Tom??

Hope you were able to field all their questions?

Major_Tom wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 19, 2019 3:56 pm

Give it a couple of years we can take a loan of a few hundred thousand pounds out on our cars!

Any more bright ideas likely to sprout from you Tom?

Is yours a 2-leeker or a 3-leeker

Major_Tom wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 19, 2019 7:40 am

Ha! If only he had "red" the highway code he would see it doesnt apply to pedestrians.

Ah, but Tom, is he still pedestrianising if he is in the road.

We shouldn't really make light of it though.

I am trying to start a new minority group.
For the most persecuted, vilified people in the country.

We will be called WHOMs

White Heterosexual Omnivorous Males

Just because the wiring is ok, doesn't mean the connectors are getting a good connection.
99% of gauge related issues seem, in the past, to have been due to faulty connections on the sender unit.
Try cleaning them and crimping them a bit tighter? They live in a pretty harsh environment.

Air travel went backwards 50 years when they grounded Concord. Modern aircraft aren't much if any faster than the VC10 or Boeing 707 were in the sixties and they're a darned sight less comfortable to fly in as well. (In economy at least). The VC10 was the fastest passenger aircraft before Concorde....

It wasn’t a drivers car by any means. I’d be interested to try a 335d although I suspect it would be more of the same, just a bit quicker still. My daily is a 335d X-drive touring shadow edition (thank goodness they don't write all that on the boot!) For all the initial excitement about a diesel es...

Certainly upset a few south americans, when they found out about 'viffing'. Vectoring in forward flight. So, lets say a erm, Mirage?, for example, got a Harrier in it's sights from behind. All the Harrier pilot had to do was simply pull back on the nozzle control and his aircraft slowed, started to ...

Holy thread resurrection Batman!

Nice one. Forgot it had Brimstone on it. Good representation really as that is one of the main uses of it during Op Shader and ISIS seriously didn't like those things. My lad spent 3 months in Cyprus on that Op as ground crew. When the crew they strapped in actually dropped something in Syria, they ...

That's the GR1. Very early version as they almost immediately disabled the droop facility on the main undercarriage doors. Bringing them back in that little bit did nothing for aerodynamics and hurt your head when you tried to get into the bay :) The GR4 is in the Battle of Britain hangar, in the fa...

Had to pop back in to comment on this. I worked Tornado for most of my 23 year RAF career, from Junior Technician through to Chief Technician, as a Propulsion/Airframes Technician. 9 years on 617 Sqn while they were at Marham, then 13 Sqn, before ending up running a team doing the Major strip/rebuil...

I'm not trying to be derogatory at all. Fair enough Martin, I wasn't suggesting that you were, just that there's been many such comments, in general, which always does surprise me as I see Ford as being one of the greatest car manufacturers ever. And most everyone here is in love with a Ford which ...

There's always a know it all who knows someone who worked on the Capris at NASA etc, etc, yawn yawn. Cars could have been requested from new to have had a special Suspension set up, But trust me, they weren't thrown together! Near the end of the run cars were built to order, any shells that didn't ...