August 2009
looking at the post below , regarding the A series and other engines ,
What is/was the longest production run for an engine , using the same engine block?
the a series was of course modified , to make the FWD , and the later marina was an "a" plus (ital was)
maybe the anglia engine , that ended in the fiesta?
maybe the VW beetle?
myself , I can only comment on motorcycle history
Royal enfield DOB 1949 , finally outlawed 2008, due to emissions Read more
Help needed please. A friend took his car to a garage for a serious repair. A swirl flap had been injested and damaged a piston. After a long time and a bit of a falling out with the garage the car was withdrawn with its engine already in bits. I was asked to help. I have put the engine back together which involved the purchase of some parts which had gone missing. We are at the final stages now and we have a white nylon shaped pipe of about 1" o.d. and about 2.5 ft left over. It has had a jubilee clip on one end. I can't understand what this is for. Any help please. Thanks in anticipation. Read more
Sussed it out today. It is the return from the high pressure pump back to the tank. Just have to work out all the plugs and sockets now. Regards.
Guys,
I've not long had my Saab 2000 9-3 after driving very modern machinery for many years now. Had to drive in the dark a few evenings ago and was astonished at just had bad the headlights were on this car. I decided to upgrade the bulbs for Philips X Treme +80 bulbs and the difference is amazing.
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light years old?
ROFLMAO ! :-) :-)
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I'd certainly entertain one, strategically placed at the bottom of the garden to frighten the starlings, etc. Read more
Best to round em all up & ship em all orf to Milton Keynes!
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Another day and another death by dangerous....
This time it's three years. Read more
Yes, so I have. If only for the reason that too many conclusions being jumped to and assumptions being made.
i would like to say thankyou to the person driving a ford focus estate towing a caravan who let me out to overtake today.
i was stuck behind a slow moving classic truck on the M5 southbound just below bristol in heavy trafic.
i didn't get a chance to get a full reg but it started wa54. it just shows that us so called 'ignorant and dangerous' coach drivers are not all the same. i can't imagine it cost you more than 5 seconds on your journey and i thank you for recognising that.
now if only there wasn't the small number of tow-ers (as there is with any motorist) that choose to flowt or ignore the law.
snip - you've been asked nicely at least twenty times
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I see someone who killed a pedestrian by colliding into them on their cycle has been jailed for 7 months under the 19th century offence of "wanton and furious driving causing bodily harm".
Full story here: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/8197430.stm
But he's also been banned from driving for 12 months... (so it is driving related)
Not heard of this old offence before. Read more
Time for cyclists to be licenced and insured?
Please no. I think we might have enough rules to be going on with. Whatever happened to the encouragement of common sense ? It's getting daft now.
...what HJ's tried & tested(?) formulae was for beating-down the purchase price of a new motor was:
RRP;
less VAT (15%);
less any Registration/Admin Fee(?);
less the number you first thought of...
...also to include:
a tank of fuel;
mats;
expensive gift from the 'boutique' for Her Indoors (only joking).
Going in on Friday to (hopefully) do some serious negotiating, gulp!
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Might be worth checking out drivethedeal.com for best price on a new one which is often less than nearly new at dealers and often much more than 15% off.
At the time of course.
I saw a 1980 W reg one the other day and noticed:-
3 Circular heating controls
Front and rear head rests
Rear middle LED brake light
Nice thick rimmed steering wheel and well padded in them middle
Alloy wheels
When you think the Brits were still making Cortinas and Marinas in 1980!
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You have to wonder (or at least I do) why that one hasn't dissolved into
a pile of rust like all its brethren.
Bought by someone who rarely used it (typically retired), then kept garaged whilst dry and clean?
Can't think how else it can happen really.
Hi all,
More of a warning than anything else, just one of those things to look at every now again especailly if you smell petrol.
I've not long brought my second XSi, low millage full peugeot service history... that said not worth the paper its written the previous owner spent a fortune and i mean a fortune servicing and repairing the car all at a peugeot main dealer. Looking over the car im starting to find the small things that are wrong... to be honest the when the garage have done the servicing they have done the bare minimum and charged through the earth!
on saturday i could smell petrol so i had a good look round all the fuel pipes with no sign of a leak. a couple of days went past with no smell of petrol until yesterday there was a particulaly stong smell petrol i parked the car to have have a look and from under tank petrol was runnitn out like a tap had been left switched on.
had to park making sure the filler side was higher than the rest of the car to stop the leak. turned out to be a small split in rubber bend that joins the filler neck to the tank.
after temp sealing it with tape and getting it home i had to wip the pipe off my old car and swap it with the one on my new car, oh yea had a full tank so technically needed to drain it first but being in a rush with daylight running out one off one on with the petrol gushing out in to a bowl did the trick loosing only a minimal ammount.
just one of them things i dont think this is very common but if you are servicing your car or can smell petrol but cant find a leak its worth checking if it looks perished or split at all its worth replacing as it will save a lot of pain not to mention nearly half a tank of petrol i left all over hampshires roads.
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talking marine engines, what about the perkins 4 pot? they were in everything from tractors to diggers and didn't they put it in the sherpa?