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- Tue Sep 07, 2021 7:58 pm
- Forum: Q & A
- Topic: Underbody clean up - 2021 recommendations
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4658
Re: Underbody clean up - 2021 recommendations
I`ve used thinners or acetone: wrap rags/ kitchen roll around item, soak in thinners, cover in foil to stop evaporation, leave to `brew`. It will soften wrinkle and peel off more easily. Depends where you`re working though, on a down facing surgface that would be difficult! Nitromors will probably d...
- Tue Sep 07, 2021 4:13 pm
- Forum: Q & A
- Topic: Confusion over wiring for starter motor
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6469
Re: Confusion over wiring for starter motor
Basically the diode is a one-way valve: current can flow straight to the coil AND the solenoid when you operate the starter, but the diode stops it flowing BACK from the ballast/coil junction INTO the solenoid during normal running. Without the diode, both solenoid and coil are in parallel during no...
- Mon Sep 06, 2021 3:42 pm
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Oooh - err
- Replies: 5
- Views: 918
Re: Oooh - err
Seriously - WHY DIDN`t they????????
- Sun Sep 05, 2021 7:48 pm
- Forum: Q & A
- Topic: Brake shoes / drums size
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2409
- Sat Sep 04, 2021 5:40 pm
- Forum: Q & A
- Topic: Brake shoes / drums size
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2409
Re: Brake shoes / drums size
Having said that, I would imagine as long as the shoes and drums are the same size, 8 or 9, they would fit OK? Unless I`ve massively overlooked something?
- Sat Sep 04, 2021 2:01 pm
- Forum: Q & A
- Topic: Brake shoes / drums size
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2409
Re: Brake shoes / drums size
They should be 8", the 9s being for 2.0 - BUT it really would be a good idea to check before you buy?
- Wed Sep 01, 2021 5:10 pm
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Oooh - err
- Replies: 5
- Views: 918
- Fri Aug 27, 2021 9:26 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Capri On American TV Show
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2438
Re: Capri On American TV Show
a steady down hill decline and now a gender confused side show hanging with a pack of publicity dependant whores .....what next .......pregnant , black , run for president .......all 3 ? Yuk ! I can`t argue with any of that: the decathlete, yes, a REAL achievment, everything else is just the celebr...
- Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:14 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Who Remembers?
- Replies: 1387
- Views: 2301942
Re: Who Remembers?
I`ll assume everyone knows the album sleeve this refers to. Baby featured on Nirvana’s Nevermind album sues band for ‘sexual exploitation’ https://www.aol.co.uk/entertainment/nirvana-sued-man-nude-baby-000436099-085106938.html It`ll be the girl on the test card next. (for those who remember that?) A...
- Wed Aug 25, 2021 7:18 pm
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Who Remembers?
- Replies: 1387
- Views: 2301942
- Tue Aug 24, 2021 11:13 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Lucky Escape!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4540
Re: Lucky Escape!
To be fair, we don`t have much choice re. buying from China, this is a result of decades of poor managemernt, poor political decisions and ultimately globalisation that have left us with no indigenous industry to speak of. Even covid test kits and birthday cards are made in China: really we`re left ...
- Mon Aug 23, 2021 11:15 pm
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: WD-40
- Replies: 84
- Views: 15936
Re: WD-40
I meant to write "when the wind", by the way, not "when the when". Ah yes, it`s a bit like one of those `captcha` robot filters, a human can get the meaning even from incomplete information. Because of this I`ve had `there was an old man...` going round in my head all night - so...
- Mon Aug 23, 2021 11:04 pm
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: WD-40
- Replies: 84
- Views: 15936
Re: WD-40
It is, or was, indeed. Of course it`s changed hands loads of times since then, I think currently it`s Akzo Nobel?
Edit: there are 11 Fiat 132s still on the road in the UK. Nuff said!
- Mon Aug 23, 2021 10:54 pm
- Forum: Q & A
- Topic: Straightening my bendy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1516
Re: Straightening my bendy
You could do with some 1/3" square bar so you can put a piece either side and crush it back into shape in a vice, preferably or a mole wrench, possibly?
- Mon Aug 23, 2021 6:38 pm
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: WD-40
- Replies: 84
- Views: 15936
Re: WD-40
Suddenly I`m six again...
- Mon Aug 23, 2021 9:48 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Lucky Escape!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4540
Re: Lucky Escape!
Resurrecting this cos a couple of weeks ago there was a `crossing the central barrier` incident leaving a car meet at Barton and now this. The thing is, the bad one in Trafford Park where people died, it stopped for a while but then it restarted again. It`s so loud you can hear it at Stretford Nick,...
- Mon Aug 23, 2021 8:45 am
- Forum: Q & A
- Topic: Confusion over wiring for starter motor
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6469
- Sun Aug 22, 2021 9:46 pm
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Modified Capri
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1763
- Sun Aug 22, 2021 8:20 pm
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Modified Capri
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1763
Re: Modified Capri
I`d rather have the Cortina TBH. It`s really well executed, but to me it just loses all the elegance and beauty of the basic Capri shape. Very clever though. Can`t work out if they`ve made the rear quarter bigger or shrunk the rear windows?
- Sun Aug 22, 2021 8:12 pm
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: WD-40
- Replies: 84
- Views: 15936
Re: WD-40
My ancient tin is, I think, branded `waxoyl underseal`. Think at thast time it was made by a company called Finnigans? It`s the only one which doesn`t seem to dry out and crack. It`s kept the Fiat(s) alive!