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by SCP440
Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:49 am
Forum: Rant and Rave
Topic: Jobs on a car that were easier than expected and jobs that were harder than expected
Replies: 26
Views: 310

Re: Jobs on a car that were easier than expected and jobs that were harder than expected

Oh yes MGF, that was a horror being mid engined. Everything you did on one of those was a mare, I had a girlfriend who had one 15 years ago. Every job turned out to be a problem. There was plenty of access panels but just bad design again and being MGR group everything had been compromised to save m...
by SCP440
Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:26 pm
Forum: Rant and Rave
Topic: Jobs on a car that were easier than expected and jobs that were harder than expected
Replies: 26
Views: 310

Re: Jobs on a car that were easier than expected and jobs that were harder than expected

I`m so glad you put that, I was worrying that it`s so ridiculous no-one would believe me! I have heard so much about some modern cars you actually have to think if the designers are doing this on purpose. It would not be so bad but some cars are so complicated that even the main dealers dont know w...
by SCP440
Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:47 pm
Forum: Rant and Rave
Topic: Jobs on a car that were easier than expected and jobs that were harder than expected
Replies: 26
Views: 310

Re: Jobs on a car that were easier than expected and jobs that were harder than expected

Same with some Porsches, no access to where the battery or even the car with a flat battery, Porsche's recommendation is to smash the window so you can get access to the Fuse box and supply power to that so you can open the boot to get to the battery. Who designes this stuff? Its like the cars that ...
by SCP440
Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:21 am
Forum: Rant and Rave
Topic: Jobs on a car that were easier than expected and jobs that were harder than expected
Replies: 26
Views: 310

Re: Jobs on a car that were easier than expected and jobs that were harder than expected

Just thought of a couple more, a servo on a 2005 Mini. It looks like it should come out of the hole but must be fitted before the engine goes in at the factory. The worse part I was supplied with a used one to replace the one that in the car and leaking. After a couple of hours of swearing levering ...
by SCP440
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:20 pm
Forum: Rant and Rave
Topic: Jobs on a car that were easier than expected and jobs that were harder than expected
Replies: 26
Views: 310

Jobs on a car that were easier than expected and jobs that were harder than expected

As per the title A lot of us have worked on a car and found we were still doing the job that we expected to do in a couple of hours and it turned out to be a complete mare and also jobs that we expected to be a mare and we were putting the tools away in a couple of hours. I will start with a clutch ...
by SCP440
Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:41 am
Forum: Rant and Rave
Topic: Capri Assembly Line
Replies: 61
Views: 826

Re: Capri Assembly Line

So you swapped an engine over in a few hours on a Sunday ready for Monday, that's brilliant. As you say, modern cars are a whole different thing. I often wonder about those book times you mention and how tight they are. They must assume that everything is straightforward and comes off without issue...
by SCP440
Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:50 pm
Forum: Rant and Rave
Topic: Capri Assembly Line
Replies: 61
Views: 826

Re: Capri Assembly Line

Love stories like that, swapping an engine over on a Saturday afternoon on a driveway. That's brilliant Jason. When cars were so much simpler it was easy. I swapped the engine in my first Capri in the 80's on a Sunday as I needed to drive it to work on the Monday morning, If I remember correctly I ...
by SCP440
Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:18 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Fitting kenlowe electric fan in 2.8i
Replies: 29
Views: 443

Re: Fitting kenlowe electric fan in 2.8i

Something I dont understand with a Kenlowe Fan why is the sensor in the top hose? Surely it should be in the bottom hose. The water comes out of the engine hot goes past the sensor and puts the fan on, if you are hurtling down the motorway you have more than enough air going through the rad to do th...
by SCP440
Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:38 am
Forum: Rant and Rave
Topic: Capri Assembly Line
Replies: 61
Views: 826

Re: Capri Assembly Line

Seems to be the same wherever anything once was! Everything being replaced by houses, flats, apartments. Because we dont have the amount of manufacturing we used to have and what we do have is a lot more compact. You only have to look at Cowley Mini plant to see that. It now covers half the area it...
by SCP440
Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:13 pm
Forum: Rant and Rave
Topic: Capri Assembly Line
Replies: 61
Views: 826

Re: Capri Assembly Line

Major_Tom wrote: Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:41 pm
They do 'Educational Tours' too, from £16 per pupil, but I think we're a bit old for that :lol:
We could lie about our age ? :xd:
by SCP440
Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:31 pm
Forum: Rant and Rave
Topic: Feeling safe at night
Replies: 16
Views: 315

Re: Feeling safe at night

In some parts of the world its dangerous to leave your home, a good friend went to Brazil for work last year. in the evening he got dressed up and was about to leave the hotel and was stopped by the doorman, apparently if he went out of the hotel on foot he would be abducted and his family would be ...
by SCP440
Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:24 pm
Forum: Rant and Rave
Topic: Capri Assembly Line
Replies: 61
Views: 826

Re: Capri Assembly Line

You can get tours of the Mini plant in Oxford, very interesting and it takes about 2 hours. It starts at the body assembly showing how it is built up from 100's of parts and you end up at the end of the line with cars having there wheels put on and driving off. The only part you dont visit is the pa...
by SCP440
Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:14 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Anyone know or got a Veetech 3.5i Cologne?
Replies: 13
Views: 727

Re: Anyone know or got a Veetech 3.5i Cologne?

Something I have learnt is the USA sometimes has a bigger version of European engines and quite often a lot of components are interchangeable. There are several websites that make ordering stuff from the US very easy if you do need something from that side of the pond and in some cases it can be hea...
by SCP440
Tue Mar 12, 2024 12:43 pm
Forum: Rant and Rave
Topic: Shed & Buried Classic Cars
Replies: 25
Views: 501

Re: Shed & Buried Classic Cars

Anything that Allen Millyard does is at another level, I watched him make the V6 Kawasaki Two Stroke out of 2 Triples on You Tube. It was the way he started by using a hacksaw on a couple of crankcases and joined them up. Even the Exhausts he makes look like they were made in a Factory not a shed. W...
by SCP440
Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:06 pm
Forum: Rant and Rave
Topic: Who Remembers?
Replies: 1315
Views: 1834351

Re: Who Remembers?

£20k was some serious wedge in the 70s! The great North/South divide is really evident in property prices. I can remember my Dad buying a new car a few months after it was all sorted out I think we had new carpets in the house so yes it was. We recently visited Grimsby and we were shocked at how li...
by SCP440
Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:06 pm
Forum: Rant and Rave
Topic: Who Remembers?
Replies: 1315
Views: 1834351

Re: Who Remembers?

If you happen to know the number I can have a look I can tell you that number 9 Mortlake Road is a 2 bed semi and sold in August 2023 for..... £730k Yes really That is crazy, it was 3 rooms downstairs and 2 room up stairs with a corridor along one side. If I remember correctly it was 29, no proper ...
by SCP440
Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:36 pm
Forum: Rant and Rave
Topic: Who Remembers?
Replies: 1315
Views: 1834351

Re: Who Remembers?

My Gran had one of the ''Electric Fires'' in every room she used in her house, she was to tight to pay for Central heating to be fitted. She fell asleep in front of one and nearly set the house on fire. While on the subject of her, she bought her house in 1921 for the pricely sum of £90, in the 60's...
by SCP440
Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:43 am
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Misfiring when flooring it from idle - 2l Laser
Replies: 47
Views: 1391

Re: Misfiring when flooring it from idle - 2l Laser

EightyFive wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2024 8:55 pm
Also Major Tom and Pbar - Just to clear my name I’m not in prison :lol: , but currently living in Aus. I’ll be home over the christmas period which is why I won’t have access to the car until then.
Are we still sending criminals to Australia? I thought that stopped in 1868 ? :xd: :xd: :xd:
by SCP440
Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:11 am
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Whining
Replies: 39
Views: 685

Re: Whining

Have you checked the oil level in the diff? I know it sounds odd but you be surprised at how often the oil level in the diff is low. Might be worth draining and refilling to the correct level.
by SCP440
Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:18 pm
Forum: Cars For Sale/Wanted
Topic: 3.0S
Replies: 17
Views: 853

Re: 3.0S

A lot of classic car '' dealers'' have got lazy. A few years ago you went to look at a potential purchase and it had been prepared. Some were polished to within a mm of there lives and you had to look past the shiny tyres and other bits that used to be common place. These days I have seen cars not e...