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[Keith ABS]

 Took the battery off charge for the Monza.
Could not get to start it as the other half had pilled a heap of stinking horse rugs down the side of the car
Hell will hath no fury like a man with a scratched Monza if one of the metal buckles from said stinking rugs has left a mark

Keith ABS

[Shackeng]

Took the battery off charge for the Monza.
Could not get to start it as the other half had pilled a heap of stinking horse rugs down the side of the car
Hell will hath no fury like a man with a scratched Monza if one of the metal buckles from said stinking rugs has left a mark

Keith ABS

I remember that as an issue in a recent divorce.

[dave the builder]

Took the battery off charge for the Monza.
Could not get to start it as the other half had pilled a heap of stinking horse rugs down the side of the car
Hell will hath no fury like a man with a scratched Monza if one of the metal buckles from said stinking rugs has left a mark

Keith ABS

I remember that as an issue in a recent divorce.

Divorce 
Does it not come under
justifiable homicide
noun
the killing of a person in circumstances(e.g she scratched my car) which allow the act to be regarded in law as without criminal guilt.

[annihilator]

Finally refitted the rear xenon sensor on the elite estate, nice to have no more nagging from the MFD.

[biggriffin]

Took the battery off charge for the Monza.
Could not get to start it as the other half had pilled a heap of stinking horse rugs down the side of the car
Hell will hath no fury like a man with a scratched Monza if one of the metal buckles from said stinking rugs has left a mark

Keith ABS

I remember that as an issue in a recent divorce.

Divorce 
Does it not come under
justifiable homicide
noun
the killing of a person in circumstances(e.g she scratched my car) which allow the act to be regarded in law as without criminal guilt.

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There might be a new patio being laid at Keith abs towers this weekend,if there's a scratch on the Monza.

[dave the builder]

Took the battery off charge for the Monza.
Could not get to start it as the other half had pilled a heap of stinking horse rugs down the side of the car
Hell will hath no fury like a man with a scratched Monza if one of the metal buckles from said stinking rugs has left a mark

Keith ABS

I remember that as an issue in a recent divorce.

Divorce 
Does it not come under
justifiable homicide
noun
the killing of a person in circumstances(e.g she scratched my car) which allow the act to be regarded in law as without criminal guilt.

.

There might be a new patio being laid at Keith abs towers this weekend,if there's a scratch on the Monza.

So, cheap out on the funeral ,to pay for the respray ?

[Viral_Jim]

Changed the oil and filter (again!) 

Also changed the little plastic runners in the passenger side window regulator, so it now goes up and down without sounding like the door’s going to drop off. 

[TheBoy]

Changed bonnet strut. Absolutely thrashed the living daylights off it, pissing off a VX220 driver in the process. 80 miles, over quarter of a tank of fuel


Then went to see chrisgixer to measure the resistance into a gearbox, and promptly decided we'd have to take the sump off. Now got the ATF out of my hair.

[amba]

Spent the morning and 2 hours after lunch replacing the Condensor/coolant radiator on SWTSMBO clit TCE.

Not the simplest of jobs as you need to remove so much just to get the radiator out..bumper/intercooler/headlight andit went on and on.

Eventually got it all back together and its coolant tight but sad news.

Took it to have air con re-charged and the damn thing still has a leak as they coulnt pull a vacuum on machine below 12 ? and said 10 was the maximum they could re gas.

Now need to take it back to specialist next weekend tofind the leak/leaks and more grief I expect.

[Dr_Syn]

Made a start on changing the rear discs and pads today and almost everything that could go wrong, went wrong.

First thing I found was the drivers side caliper was siezed.  When I did the fronts, my neigbour was able to refurbish the calipers with little difficulty, but this time the rear caliper proved too far gone and he ended up damaging the siezed piston when trying to extract it

I also found that the brake shoes were severley worn and the friction material was beginning to seperate on one shoe.  I had hoped to get away with not replacing the shoes as they should be just for holding the car still rather than stopping it, but I do now recall the previous owner telling me he liked to pull the handbrake one periodically to clean the brakes, methinks he did it too much.  A trip to ECP got me some new shoes for £16.

I also found the back plate to be severley corroded, one of the shoe pins for the retaining springs had actually rusted free from the back plate with a rusty hole where it should have sat.  I was able to fabricate a bracket for the pin using a mending bracket and was able to locate it as an interference fit on the back of the plate. 

The final problem came when trying to remove the siezed caliper, the union to the brake pipe had also sized and we ended up rounding it off trying to free it.  In the end I decided to snap the pipe and source/make a new one.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

At work today so a bit restricted, but plan is to filter 20l of fuel and put it in the tank, change the oil and filter, and give it a much needed wash.
Will probably bring the Omega to work tomorrow and give the interior a good clean.

[amba]

Seems a "good job" you have there Albs.

Go to work and work on the car ...cant be bad and I assume being a weekend its time + half 

[Doctor Gollum]

Seems a "good job" you have there Albs.

Go to work and work on the car ...cant be bad and I assume being a bank holiday and its at least double time 

Fixed

[Doctor Gollum]

Broken it

Slave cylinder failed driving home from work

[STEMO]

Broken it

Slave cylinder failed driving home from work

I'm old and get confused easily. What car are you driving currently?