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General Discussion Area / Re: hand tools

« on: 31 January 2008, 15:40:10 »

I've had a couple of Elora sockets, IIRC. Bought them for something that was a challenge to undo, IIRC, and didn't manage to break them.

Kevin

33017

General Discussion Area / Re: hand tools

« on: 31 January 2008, 14:14:14 »

I agree the Halfords pro stuff is pretty good on the whole and readily available to purchase when you need it - which is why a lot of my tools are from that range.

I've got a CK "Sure drive" 1/2" drive socket set for the heavier work and that's been fantastic too. A little bit chunky in some respects but very solid.

It all depends what you need though. It you're only tackling occasional, simple jobs you won't appreciate the benefit of snap-on stuff. If it's getting daily use on challenging jobs you might, although I'm not sure I'd pay their prices even then...

Kevin

33018

General Discussion Area / Re: ABS meet tonight

« on: 01 February 2008, 12:00:17 »

.... whta's wrong with that?

Nothing at all. I was just pointing out that that's what you had to do. I missed it the first time round and perhaps others have too.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: ABS meet tonight

« on: 01 February 2008, 11:51:17 »

I signed up to ABS for the card, not used the forums yet  

Had a look in the forums over the last week or two. Mostly straight 6 stuff although did have some interesting things.

You have to register with a username in the format :
<Membership no.> <first name> <last name>

IIRC, otherwise it just tells you to get stuffed.

Kevin

33020

General Discussion Area / Re: She's a menace

« on: 31 January 2008, 21:46:15 »

I have it on good authority that she won't break one of these:

http://www.scholarengines.net/EVO4.htm

Good for 230 BHP so should hustle the Rover along a little too. [smiley=evil.gif]

I wish someone would use the ZX10 - its done precisely 2m since the MOT last August

Can I use it to build a bike engined kit car?

Kevin

33021

General Discussion Area / Re: Why is this an 03 plate when its old?

« on: 31 January 2008, 20:58:27 »

It's called Administration Fee and it is used to pay the salaries of various administrators. You wouldn't want them to go hungry, wouldn't you? After all. they have to provide for their families. So there.

Having been in a VRO for hours trying to register a kit car. No, I wouldn't want them to go hungry.....


I'd want to do the job properly and let them starve, thereby removing themselves from the gene pool.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Why is this an 03 plate when its old?

« on: 31 January 2008, 12:33:02 »

Yep. He's lucky every buyer isn't as thorough as Brucie, I suspect.

Kevin

33023

General Discussion Area / Re: Why is this an 03 plate when its old?

« on: 31 January 2008, 12:26:17 »

Imported second hand cars can be built in say 1990 and if imported in 2008 get an 08 plate.
Alan

Only if they are declared new at registration. Some supporting evidence that they are new would be required (probably an inspection by VOSA, especially if its A.N.Other declaring it new rather than Vauxhall Motors).

If no evidence of "newness" is available it will get an age related plate with the year of manufacutre, and if there is no supporting evidence of its' year of manufacture it will get a Q plate.

Of course, the manufacturer can leave cars in a field for as long as they like before declaring them "new".

Having said that, VROs all seem to apply different rules and the whole organisation is just a nightmare. It wouldn't surprise me if someone just pushed the wrong buttons in this case.

Kevin

33024

General Discussion Area / Re: Change date - mini lift to facelift?

« on: 21 January 2008, 10:00:19 »

True. Could be that someone (Police / Military?) bought a batch of Omegas and this one never got used for some reason. It was then registered when sold off and the owner was able to declare it new.

As I say, it all depends how it's been stored (field / dry warehouse), whether it's had parts nicked from it or it's been kept complete, etc..

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Change date - mini lift to facelift?

« on: 20 January 2008, 17:06:02 »

Even if it were an import it should be impossible to register it on a plate that makes it appear newer than it is. Since date of manufacture is known by DVLA and consistent with the car, I'd say the manufacturer must have declared it new in 2003. Where it sat between 1999 and then is a mystery, of course.

Could be a bit of a find or a bit of a lemon really. :-/

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: 2.5 TD in Hants/ Berks area

« on: 30 January 2008, 19:49:43 »

I've heard some pretty awful reports of that place food wise

Only been there the once and survived. If you want anything more technical than a fry-up it's probably best avoided, but they do a damned good one of those.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: 2.5 TD in Hants/ Berks area

« on: 30 January 2008, 19:42:35 »

I could pretend my V6 is a TD if that would help?

Was thinking it's about time we had another meet as I drove past the venue of the previous area meet today (Max's diner on the A4).

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: The Rangey tries to Fire

« on: 31 January 2008, 19:56:55 »

Cheers Kev I will try that in the morning, but again how will i know which is the firing stroke or exhaust stroke? the rotor arm will be pointing at a different cylinder if its on exhaust shouldn't it? so if i rotate the crank twice or more i should get an idea which it is pointing too....
Does that sound about right?

Daz

Assuming the ignition leads are in the wrong place, so not relying on the rotor arm at all, if you loosen the plug in cylinder no. 1 (in fact, remove all the other plugs to make it easier) you will feel compression and hear gas hissing from around the loose plug as you turn the crank up to the TDC mark, when no. 1 is on the firing stroke. When you reach the TDC mark, no. 1 is at TDC on the firing stroke and the rotor arm should then be nearest the lead for cylinder 1.

It's harder to explain than to do.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: The Rangey tries to Fire

« on: 31 January 2008, 19:25:12 »

I would confirm the leads are on correctly. Turn to the TDC mark on the crank with no. 1 on compression. (loosen the spark plug in cyl. 1 and you should hear air hissing out on the way up to tdc) and then make sure the rotor arm is under the plug lead for cylinder 1. Then follow the firing order (1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2) round the cap checking that the right lead is to the right cylinder as you go.

Can't remember if the dizzy rotates clockwise or anti-clockwise but you need to follow it in the direction of normal rotation. (rotate the crank clockwise and see which way the dizzy turns).

Kevin

33030

General Discussion Area / Re: Thoughts

« on: 29 January 2008, 23:58:35 »

Depends what you're doing, I'd say. For normal polishing with a decent polish it's really not that much work doing it by hand and you'll get a better finish. If you're G3'ing new paint or restoring neglected paint it might be worthwhile but I'd get a mains one in that case.

Whereas you can easily get a new bit of rag, stocking, etc when it gets contaminated with too much polish when buffing it's more of a faff with a polisher too. :-/

Kevin