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- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:48 am
- Forum: Q & A
- Topic: A9 paint code
- Replies: 6
- Views: 108
Re: A9 paint code
Danny, when you lift the board that covers the spare wheel there would have originally been a sticker that gives the paint name, code and XSC number. It's on the left hand side as you look at it normally. If your car still has this it may solve your problem. Be careful with the black, get your man t...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:07 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Who Remembers?
- Replies: 1394
- Views: 2503627
Re: Who Remembers?
One of the best for me has to be Basil Fawlty whacking fuck out of that Morris 1100 with a tree branch. Also Del Boy falling through that bar. Loads of others come to mind and I agree it was a golden age of TV comedy.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:01 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Capri on TV
- Replies: 14
- Views: 285
Re: Capri on TV
Well I thought the first episode was tremendous, enjoyed it a lot. Gorgeous Capri the guy has, not a colour you see very often. I think it is Nevada Beige. I had loads of Fords in that colour back in my dealing days; it was very popular. I think the car is a 77 or 78 1.3L with optional vinyl roof a...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:43 pm
- Forum: Q & A
- Topic: Misfiring on 5 and 2
- Replies: 9
- Views: 273
Re: Misfiring on 5 and 2
Hi all,wonder if you could help a new member.Just recommisioning my 2.8 and it has started to misfire on cylinders 5 and 2. I have changed dizzy,cap,rotor arm,swapped leads around ans still nothing on 5 and 2.I put a strobe light on each lead and that is how i found out which ones were playing up.A...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:01 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Jobs on a car that were easier than expected and jobs that were harder than expected
- Replies: 33
- Views: 620
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 ...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 8:52 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Who Remembers?
- Replies: 1394
- Views: 2503627
Re: Who Remembers?
I didn't realise you could do that with a dynamo?! You must have been travelling at some speed. I was keeping up with the cars so probably 40 ish. :xd: It was a Puch Pursuit racing bike. Do Puch still make Bikes ? I had a Puch Free Spirit 10 gear racer - with dynamo lights and mileometer! The thoug...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:22 am
- Forum: Q & A
- Topic: Valve Seat Recession questions
- Replies: 29
- Views: 543
Re: Valve Seat Recession questions
I would say VSR would cause a loss in compression and if anything make the starter spin faster.
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 3:13 pm
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Who Remembers?
- Replies: 1394
- Views: 2503627
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:01 pm
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Who Remembers?
- Replies: 1394
- Views: 2503627
Re: Who Remembers?
I've still got my VCR and it still works unlike my DVD player!
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:59 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Jobs on a car that were easier than expected and jobs that were harder than expected
- Replies: 33
- Views: 620
Re: Jobs on a car that were easier than expected and jobs that were harder than expected
My pet hate is CV boots. Not especially difficult but all that yukky muck. Also front springs on W123 Mercs if you (like me) haven't got the right compressor. Anything with corroded, snapped off or rounded bolts.
I will think of more later no doubt.
I will think of more later no doubt.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:16 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: First drive in an MG
- Replies: 32
- Views: 635
Re: First drive in an MG
Not a fan of modern day MG cars. In fact I rank them as cheap Chinese takeaways and I wouldn't piss on it if it was on fire. (Which a lot of the electric ones will be at some time).
Yuk.
Yuk.
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Capri Assembly Line
- Replies: 65
- Views: 1191
Re: Capri Assembly Line
Looks like a Corsair in the background.
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Feeling safe at night
- Replies: 16
- Views: 351
Re: Feeling safe at night
Police these days are revenue raisers and data collectors. PC doesn't stand for Police Constable these days, rather the other meaning and they are too busy trying to be PC rather than effective. To feel safe as I live on my own I have a cricket bat under my bed. The bastards would be knocked out of ...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:42 am
- Forum: Parts For Sale/Wanted
- Topic: master break cylinder
- Replies: 9
- Views: 504
Re: master break cylinder
If the car didn't have a servo in the first place then I would guess so. If you want a servo I would suggest getting a remote servo and mount it in the engine bay somewhere - this is relatively cheap and easy to do with a single circuit brake system.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:22 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: AA Battery Car.!!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 374
Re: AA Battery Car.!!
Brilliant. Loved it and forwarded a link all round the world!
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:11 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Reasonable eBay seller?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9219
Re: Reasonable eBay seller?
Is he a religous man too? Or was the merchandise of heavenly quality?Andrew 2.8i wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:36 am I've bought a few items from this seller and can report that it's all god stuff.
Andrew.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: Parts For Sale/Wanted
- Topic: master break cylinder
- Replies: 9
- Views: 504
Re: master break cylinder
I may be wrong but I would imagine getting one listed for a Capri may be difficult. However Girling master cylinders are popular and plentiful and were fitted to most makes of British cars in the sixties, seventies and eighties so you should be able to match it up. You may have to swap the push rod ...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 9:49 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Where is everyone from?
- Replies: 296
- Views: 290493
Re: Where is everyone from?
My best mate had a V- reg Highland Green 1.6 GL. Lovely old car in beautiful condition and he only sold it because his wife was a short arse and couldn't see over the bonnet.
I really like that colour, had a 2.0GL Cortina in it years ago as well.
I really like that colour, had a 2.0GL Cortina in it years ago as well.
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 10:26 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: she's not the Queen
- Replies: 22
- Views: 746
Re: she's not the Queen
The old Queen, QE2, decreed that she was to be called Queen Consort. Upon Charles becoming King he altered the decree so that she would be known as the Queen. It's a pity that the old Establishment stuffed shirts didn't allow him to marry her in the first place before she married Parker -Bowles and ...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:40 pm
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: You Stupid Boy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 423
Re: You Stupid Boy
Ian Lavender - last of a great cast of one of this country's funniest comedy programmes. Rest in Peace.
Also Jonny Irwin, presenter of A Place in the Sun, a show that gets a lot of people dreaming of going elsewhere, robbed of his life at just 50 years old.
RIP Jonny.
Also Jonny Irwin, presenter of A Place in the Sun, a show that gets a lot of people dreaming of going elsewhere, robbed of his life at just 50 years old.
RIP Jonny.