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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #21750 on: 06 February 2021, 19:15:03 »
Quote from: Sir Tigger QC on 06 February 2021, 19:06:27
Quote from: STEMO on 06 February 2021, 18:35:57
Quote from: Carfix on 06 February 2021, 18:21:01
Removed the filthy steering rack sub-frame from my old Rover 216gsi (1990).

Attacked it with my trusty Black and Decker power file and a wire cup in my angle grinder.

As usual with this 31 year old car, a number of rust holes have appeared so out with the welder!!!

Paint will go on tomorrow. That's another job done  :y
Must be the only part of the country where it hasn't hissed it down all day. Unless, of course, you have an indoor workshop.

It's been dry all day here and quite sunny too!  :y

Same here, been a nice day.  :y 
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #21751 on: 06 February 2021, 19:31:06 »
Nothing. Went for a walk with swmbo and on the way back found a short 3/8 socket extension bar with SNAP ON etched along the top, lying at the side of the road.
A more than suitable replacement for my knackered Halfords one.  :)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #21752 on: 06 February 2021, 19:32:05 »
Quote from: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 06 February 2021, 19:31:06
Nothing. Went for a walk with swmbo and on the way back found a short 3/8 socket extension bar with SNAP ON etched along the top, lying at the side of the road.
A more than suitable replacement for my knackered Halfords one.  :)
That might be a weapon in a murder case  ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #21753 on: 06 February 2021, 19:33:51 »
Probably fell off the Omega last time you worked on it ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #21754 on: 06 February 2021, 19:37:20 »
Nothing SNAP ON has ever been used on any of my cars.  ;)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #21755 on: 06 February 2021, 20:16:42 »
Most things have snapped off my car ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #21756 on: 06 February 2021, 20:20:09 »
Quote from: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 06 February 2021, 19:31:06
Nothing. Went for a walk with swmbo and on the way back found a short 3/8 socket extension bar with SNAP ON etched along the top, lying at the side of the road.
A more than suitable replacement for my knackered Halfords one.  :)


It cost more than a Halfords ratchet.......
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #21757 on: 06 February 2021, 21:40:09 »
It cost more than a Halfords (ratchet.......).  Franchise.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #21758 on: 07 February 2021, 00:39:53 »
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Quote from: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 06 February 2021, 19:31:06
Nothing. Went for a walk with swmbo and on the way back found a short 3/8 socket extension bar with SNAP ON etched along the top, lying at the side of the road.
A more than suitable replacement for my knackered Halfords one.  :)


It cost more than a Halfords ratchet.......

I know, which is why I had a huge grin on my face when I picked it up.  :)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #21759 on: 07 February 2021, 14:09:45 »
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Quote from: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 06 February 2021, 19:31:06
Nothing. Went for a walk with swmbo and on the way back found a short 3/8 socket extension bar with SNAP ON etched along the top, lying at the side of the road.
A more than suitable replacement for my knackered Halfords one.  :)


It cost more than a Halfords ratchet.......

I know, which is why I had a huge grin on my face when I picked it up.  :)
Are you sure that your "walk" wasn't across some poor buggers drive?  ;)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #21760 on: 07 February 2021, 17:12:31 »
Quote from: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 06 February 2021, 19:31:06
Nothing. Went for a walk with swmbo and on the way back found a short 3/8 socket extension bar with SNAP ON etched along the top, lying at the side of the road.
A more than suitable replacement for my knackered Halfords one.  :)

Didn't TB have one in his garage when it went up?

Perhaps it's finally landed
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #21761 on: 07 February 2021, 19:44:26 »
Brave.  :y ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #21762 on: 08 February 2021, 13:41:13 »
Quote from: Carfix on 06 February 2021, 18:21:01
Removed the filthy steering rack sub-frame from my old Rover 216gsi (1990).

Attacked it with my trusty Black and Decker power file and a wire cup in my angle grinder.

As usual with this 31 year old car, a number of rust holes have appeared so out with the welder!!!

Paint will go on tomorrow. That's another job done  :y
I miss my old 1990 216GSi.  The only fault I could gripe with it was lack of power steering.  I think only the autos had PS as standard.

Also, on mine, 3rd gear was a bit whiny. But then it was the only gear I used, as it was good from about 20 - 115mph, and the Honda lump in mine did like to rev.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #21763 on: 08 February 2021, 13:43:06 »
Quote from: Marks DTM Calib on 07 February 2021, 17:12:31
Quote from: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 06 February 2021, 19:31:06
Nothing. Went for a walk with swmbo and on the way back found a short 3/8 socket extension bar with SNAP ON etched along the top, lying at the side of the road.
A more than suitable replacement for my knackered Halfords one.  :)

Didn't TB have one in his garage when it went up?

Perhaps it's finally landed
Yeah, yeah.  But only around your neck of the woods do you see a VW Golf park on a wall.

So Brakkers in normal compared to Nottingham. So ner ner.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #21764 on: 08 February 2021, 13:46:01 »
Needed a fuel receipt ready for my next trip to pay for London layabouts to have even more money spent on them, and the Battlebus didn't have much.

So took it to fill up, only with only half a glow plug, it was a bit shitty starting, rather predictably.  But as ever, it did start, and got its fuel.

Now its plugged in the mains getting all the electricity put back in it ;D


Incidentally, that last tank was 29.9mpg.  Thats pretty shite from a 2l soot chucker ;D
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