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General Discussion Area / Re: Favourite Indian Meal

« on: 08 September 2007, 21:43:18 »

Just polished off a chicken madras... ...and washing down with a few Stellas...

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General Discussion Area / Re: busy day!

« on: 08 September 2007, 23:05:50 »

Me too, finish the remains of last weeks Guinness.

Blimey   - last weeks Stella was finished, err, last week  

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General Discussion Area / Re: busy day!

« on: 08 September 2007, 22:59:11 »

i'll see what i can do, in need of some serious sleep now!

Tsk Tsk Kids today  . Well done have a few beers to celebrate.

Tunnies' obviously too tired. I'll have a few beers on his behalf

Spoken like a true pal.  

Thats what friends are for

Couldn't agree more. Don't forget to tell him how you selflessly put yourself out on his behalf tomorrow, and remind him how many beers he owes you.

He has to replace my beers?  Marvellous!

Obviously, as you are drinking them on his behalf and saving him the trouble of a hangover in the morning, its only fair he reimburses you your expenses.

I'll drink to that

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General Discussion Area / Re: busy day!

« on: 08 September 2007, 22:53:23 »

i'll see what i can do, in need of some serious sleep now!

Tsk Tsk Kids today  . Well done have a few beers to celebrate.

Tunnies' obviously too tired. I'll have a few beers on his behalf

Spoken like a true pal.  

Thats what friends are for

Couldn't agree more. Don't forget to tell him how you selflessly put yourself out on his behalf tomorrow, and remind him how many beers he owes you.

He has to replace my beers?  Marvellous!

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General Discussion Area / Re: busy day!

« on: 08 September 2007, 22:47:27 »

i'll see what i can do, in need of some serious sleep now!

Tsk Tsk Kids today  . Well done have a few beers to celebrate.

Tunnies' obviously too tired. I'll have a few beers on his behalf

Spoken like a true pal.  

Thats what friends are for

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General Discussion Area / Re: busy day!

« on: 08 September 2007, 22:43:15 »

i'll see what i can do, in need of some serious sleep now!

Tsk Tsk Kids today  . Well done have a few beers to celebrate.

Tunnies' obviously too tired. I'll have a few beers on his behalf

93967

General Discussion Area / Re: busy day!

« on: 08 September 2007, 22:32:50 »

i'll see what i can do, in need of some serious sleep now!

Lightweight

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General Discussion Area / Re: busy day!

« on: 08 September 2007, 22:28:42 »

she does do some good food  

Not sure what i have done wrong on the Elite...  :-/

Will check the tomorow!

Sorry, may not be able to help tomorrow, might be tractor engine swapping...  ...if you sort the leak quickly, feel free to pop round

Plenum is already off just got in injection system to come off and i should be able to source the problem... i may be able to pop over tomorrow afternoon....

Who else is helping you on the change?

LFF64 has offered

You should be able to see the coolant bridge and pipework already.

You shouldn't need to remove the plastic bit of the inlet - the one with all the bolts, unless the cooler plate hasn't sealed...

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General Discussion Area / Re: busy day!

« on: 08 September 2007, 22:24:59 »

she does do some good food  

Not sure what i have done wrong on the Elite...  :-/

Will check the tomorow!

Sorry, may not be able to help tomorrow, might be tractor engine swapping...  ...if you sort the leak quickly, feel free to pop round

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General Discussion Area / Re: busy day!

« on: 08 September 2007, 22:14:02 »

Oh, and I think a thankyou is deserved for Mother Tunnie for feeding and watering us all

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General Discussion Area / Re: busy day!

« on: 08 September 2007, 22:09:33 »

Joking aside, I think YOU should be proud of what YOU achieved today.  Granted, you may have struggled to do the entire job (though I still think you could), but you tackled lots of things you hadn't done before


It is always a larf when James is about, and I thoroughly enjoy his infectious enthusiasm, and we always have a giggle


Sorry I had to leave by 7pm, but I felt a tad guilty I'd left Mrs TheBoy alone all day.  Plus I had an urge for a Madras

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General Discussion Area / Re: busy day!

« on: 08 September 2007, 22:02:15 »

"You done that yet, want me to do it?"

"Dad! Dad! Can I have an ice cream!"

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General Discussion Area / Re: busy day!

« on: 08 September 2007, 22:01:12 »

Well no peace for me this morning, up at 7AM again, off into town and collected the 2.2 head for my dads Omega. Cost £47 for it to be skimmed, quite steep but they did a damn good job. James was impressed when he saw it.

Then off to Vauxhall dealer, got there 8:20 (opens at 8:30) the guy was already there, had all the bits i request. Again impressed!  

Back to mine, Mars bar for breakfast & a cookie, then James turned up in his shinny new facelift. After i gave that a good 'test' over to TheBoy's for some tools, and tempt him with free breakfast at mine  

Got going on my dads 2.2 started around 10:15 ish... car was running by 5PM.... took a while but we plodded along nicely.

Gave my dads car a good spanking to burn off some of the excess oil, runs fine now   - Still needs a bolt on the exhaust joint, as thats not on right. and the Temp sensor seams to have fallen off, thats a job for tomorrow.

I would like to say a HUGE, HUGE, [size=16]HUGE[/size] thanks from myself and father tunnie for James tireless efforts in getting this done. Not once, but TWICE he has driven all the way from Cheltenham to come help me out.

This kind of friendship and kindness is very rare, and words fail me to say how thankful both me and father tunnie feel.

Thanks James  

Also thanks to Jamie for spending the afternoon helping out, although he seamed to be complaining most of the time!  

Any who also putt the oil cooler and 2.5 Elite back together... got it all done. Filled it will coolant, and hear water tricking *uh oh* look under the car, and water is pooring out between the engine and the gearbox  

Its pooring down the front smaller gearbox sump, dunno what i left off but it just poors out  

After that we popped James new facelift in the garage, did a V6 timing check on it, changed the gearbox oil, and engine oil!

What a day....

But want to say thanks again to James  

"You done that yet, want me to do it?"  

An enjoyable day, success with Father Tunnie's 2.2, success with tweaking the cam timing on James' car, and when I left, looked to be going well on your Elite  :-/

Whip plenum off, check hoses on inlet bridge first of all...

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General Discussion Area / Re: Welcome aboard

« on: 09 September 2007, 10:26:34 »

....Is that enough grovelling to earn me a global CURRY CHEF title?!!!!!! [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]  .....

You have competition, Matey!!  

The Thai Curry that Mrs Mick Dundee provided at the Nearly Wales meet was tasty as well....    

 

:)My curries are Indian with rich sauses. I've also learned to cook some vegetable side dishes and can make puris as in prawn puri, but i'd like to learn more about thai cooking which i believe is lighter sauces (although still hot) & more use of ginger, lime, lemon grass etc.
     Looks like i missed out in more ways than one!
       I love cooking, you never stop learning & i'd love to try one of Mrs Dundees curries one day. 8-)

It was lovely - very spicy without being 'hot' (hot in the way that Indian resturants that cater for 'kicking out time' blokes), which is just how I like it.  Could really taste and feel the spicies.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Welcome aboard

« on: 05 September 2007, 21:33:53 »

Late as usual in replying but well done to you both, what excelent choices.  
Does this mean we can mention that lubricating stuff again now  

No!

AA is looking for an excuse to knobble someone