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[Lazydocker]

Fuel lines tomorrow.  8-)

Guessing that means you're nearly there then... Who's got to do the electrickery for you this time... Kevin or TB?

Am I soldering next weekend then

Well, hoping not to encroach in LD's jobs list too much. See how it goes. Is it a long job?

Is it just the 4 in the relay box, the 4/5 in the gas tight box, and the switch/buzzer ones?  2hrs at most if the relay box ones don't fight back too much...

Hopefully just the relay box stuff. Should be able to handle the other stuff.

It's cutting into the loom by the plug that gives me the willys.  :-/

Man Up and get on with it!

[PhilRich]

Today Mathew I have been mostly ruining the paintwork on my bonnet while trying to repair stone chips after watching howto's on Youtube 

[BlueBridge]

Replaced the drivers door handle, after several weeks of having to get in via the passenger side. Jobs a goodun
Thanks to the forum for the door card removal guide.

Jon

[jonnycool]

Haven't done anything to my own car, but I noticed that a mate in work's car was sounding rough when starting up and pulling away. In fact it sounded worse than a deisel. So at the end of work today we had a look under the bonnet (a 2006 Mini Cooper).
   Turns out he hasn't changed the oil since he's had it, at least 40,000 miles ago 

Had a look at the dipstick and the treacle oil is only just registering on the bottom, waaaay below the minimum. The header tank is only half full of opaque, brown water which has splashed all over the engine at some point and stained it all, and he just hasn't got a clue about looking after his car at all

I just wonder how these people expect their cars to keep going, they pay through the nose for the best they can afford and think they look after themselves 

[feeutfo]

Haven't done anything to my own car, but I noticed that a mate in work's car was sounding rough when starting up and pulling away. In fact it sounded worse than a deisel. So at the end of work today we had a look under the bonnet (a 2006 Mini Cooper).
   Turns out he hasn't changed the oil since he's had it, at least 40,000 miles ago 

Had a look at the dipstick and the treacle oil is only just registering on the bottom, waaaay below the minimum. The header tank is only half full of opaque, brown water which has splashed all over the engine at some point and stained it all, and he just hasn't got a clue about looking after his car at all

I just wonder how these people expect their cars to keep going, they pay through the nose for the best they can afford and think they look after themselves 

Typical BMW owner. What does he do, out of interest....?

[jonnycool]

Haven't done anything to my own car, but I noticed that a mate in work's car was sounding rough when starting up and pulling away. In fact it sounded worse than a deisel. So at the end of work today we had a look under the bonnet (a 2006 Mini Cooper).
   Turns out he hasn't changed the oil since he's had it, at least 40,000 miles ago 

Had a look at the dipstick and the treacle oil is only just registering on the bottom, waaaay below the minimum. The header tank is only half full of opaque, brown water which has splashed all over the engine at some point and stained it all, and he just hasn't got a clue about looking after his car at all

I just wonder how these people expect their cars to keep going, they pay through the nose for the best they can afford and think they look after themselves 

Typical BMW owner. What does he do, out of interest....?

Manager in a supermarket, like me

[feeutfo]

Haven't done anything to my own car, but I noticed that a mate in work's car was sounding rough when starting up and pulling away. In fact it sounded worse than a deisel. So at the end of work today we had a look under the bonnet (a 2006 Mini Cooper).
   Turns out he hasn't changed the oil since he's had it, at least 40,000 miles ago 

Had a look at the dipstick and the treacle oil is only just registering on the bottom, waaaay below the minimum. The header tank is only half full of opaque, brown water which has splashed all over the engine at some point and stained it all, and he just hasn't got a clue about looking after his car at all

I just wonder how these people expect their cars to keep going, they pay through the nose for the best they can afford and think they look after themselves 

Typical BMW owner. What does he do, out of interest....?

Manager in a supermarket, like me

I knew it!  .   ...and your not a BMW owner, clearly. So it's ok for you to be a manager. Just don't buy a Beemer, OK?  . 

[TheBoy]

Looked at my Omegas longingly as I clumbered into the back of a Hyundai i10 for a 120m round trip, only to be pleasantly surprised how little I ached at the end...

[aaronjb]

Looked at my Omegas longingly as I clumbered into the back of a Hyundai i10 for a 120m round trip, only to be pleasantly surprised how little I ached at the end...

A future replacement for TBE? 

All I did was get in, drive to Detling in Kent to be slightly underwhelmed by a field full of (very few) kit cars, wedged myself into a few Cobra replicas, got slightly insulted by one of the manufacturers and then drove home .. which would have been a nice cruise in the sun but was ruined by 7 chavs in a Zafira who decided to sit on my back bumper when they caught me in roadworks traffic, then undertake me, cut me up and do 2mph more than the middle lane for about 20 miles while washing their windscreen and looking back & laughing at me (as I was in the MR2 with the roof down, I presume they thought I was getting wet..).

Finally found a bit of clear road as myself & the Maserati behind me undertook them (which prompted them to try to ram me off the road) and I found the rev limiter in 3rd gear.

Bloody Vauxhall ow...er I mean.. 

[albitz]

Plenum/fanimold/LPG gubbins/ inlet plate/coolant bridge/ oil cooler plate/ oil cooler off. Cleaned up all the crap which had congealed around everything in the V of the engine. Put cooler and cooler plate back on - with a fresh smear of grey sealant around the plate.
Tomorrow - on 2 wheels to VX for dowty washers and banjo bolt washers. Then put everything else back together.

[feeutfo]

Today I have been mostly...

Getting grit in me eye while fitting fuel line clips... While I lay on me back, head under the car, next doors cat wondered over and curled up on my chest ... WTF is that...  "ah!  Hello Bonnie". As she licked me nose. 

[2woody]

intended to finish fitting the new exhaust to the Holden and to rebuild the gearbox and fit the aluminium flywheel and new clutch. Oh yes, and change the headers, too.

fell down on the knackered spigot bearing, so didn't get finished. Anyone got a spigot bearing for an LS1 Chevy engine ?

still, managed to get a caliper and the exhaust changed on the Disco.

[feeutfo]

intended to finish fitting the new exhaust to the Holden and to rebuild the gearbox and fit the aluminium flywheel and new clutch. Oh yes, and change the headers, too.

fell down on the knackered spigot bearing, so didn't get finished. Anyone got a spigot bearing for an LS1 Chevy engine ?

still, managed to get a caliper and the exhaust changed on the Disco.

Is this Holden work on the latest one?

[Crazycarzowner]

Well I've finally squeezed the Miggy into me garage (that was a work of art in itself). Now to start work on that major service - Oil, air, fuel filters, leaky oil cooler plate to sort out, new plugs, and new camcover seals too.Take off plenum & give breathers a bloomin good cleanin (well & truely gunked up). Then front wheels jacked up & off to check discs & pads and creaky rattling noise at front off-side. Repeat disc & pad check at rear & maybe adjust handbrake. I might be finished by teatime    ..................
..........next week!!!

[2woody]

intended to finish fitting the new exhaust to the Holden and to rebuild the gearbox and fit the aluminium flywheel and new clutch. Oh yes, and change the headers, too.

fell down on the knackered spigot bearing, so didn't get finished. Anyone got a spigot bearing for an LS1 Chevy engine ?

still, managed to get a caliper and the exhaust changed on the Disco.

Is this Holden work on the latest one?

yes - it's getting a trans rebuild & some other stuff. Nice big knobbly cam on the way, too