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[Kevin Wood]

(Yesterday) Thought "Hmm. the Jag must be due an MOT soon". Turned out it expired that day.

Fortunately, the garage round the corner from the office had a slot at short notice so it was legal again by lunch time.

[Doctor Gollum]

Didn't your helpful Jaaag dealer send you a reminder?

[TheBoy]

Does your model not have a little man hiding in the glovebox that just sorts all that out?

[Doctor Gollum]

You'd like to think that any failures would have been covered by the warranty 

[TheBoy]

You'd like to think that any failures would have been covered by the warranty 

Can't remember how old it is TBH.

[Doctor Gollum]

You'd like to think that any failures would have been covered by the warranty 

Can't remember how old it is TBH.

It's first test iirc

[YZ250]

Done nothing on the car, but I did fire up the YZ MotoX bike. After an eternity it fired up (2 stroke kick start only, so not a carpet slippers job  ). It sat there idling, and then the revs climbed ........ and climbed ...... and climbed..... until the old girl was flat out. Hit the kill switch, just glad that it stopped and didn't detonate and lunch itself.
It's got the dreaded death revs, symptoms of an air leak on a 2 stroke. The air leak makes them run lean and they scream their tits off. My guess is the ignition side crank seal, but it smoked more than usual so it could be pulling in clutch oil (wet clutch on this), or it could be down to using the petrol strimmer fuel, which is the wrong mix.    Why can't it be something simple, like the reed intake manifold. The downside of very little use I suppose.    This has only done a couple of hours non-competitively since I fully rebuilt the engine.
Oh well, that's my retirement project sorted. 

[JerrOMe]

Done nothing on the car, but I did fire up the YZ MotoX bike. After an eternity it fired up (2 stroke kick start only, so not a carpet slippers job  ). It sat there idling, and then the revs climbed ........ and climbed ...... and climbed..... until the old girl was flat out. Hit the kill switch, just glad that it stopped and didn't detonate and lunch itself.
It's got the dreaded death revs, symptoms of an air leak on a 2 stroke. The air leak makes them run lean and they scream their tits off. My guess is the ignition side crank seal, but it smoked more than usual so it could be pulling in clutch oil (wet clutch on this), or it could be down to using the petrol strimmer fuel, which is the wrong mix.    Why can't it be something simple, like the reed intake manifold. The downside of very little use I suppose.    This has only done a couple of hours non-competitively since I fully rebuilt the engine.
Oh well, that's my retirement project sorted. 

YZ bikes should be fun to play. My buddy got one it is really a nice toy. We'll have a trail run this coming weekend after we finished installing the suspension and black rhino wheels on the truck. I'll be on my TRX quad bike.

[YZ250]

Done nothing on the car, but I did fire up the YZ MotoX bike...........

YZ bikes should be fun to play. My buddy got one it is really a nice toy. We'll have a trail run this coming weekend after we finished installing the suspension and black rhino wheels on the truck. I'll be on my TRX quad bike.

Nice one. 

My son had the Matt Black XD798 8 spokes on his black truck, with General Grabbers on them. Looked pretty cool but the tyres were a bit rumbly on Tarmac. 

[TheBoy]

*Surprise being my lamb naga was actually chicken naga.

Do you EVER get anything delivered correctly that you actually ordered   

Mrs TB is rumbling that Hobbycraft has taken 13 days.  Still, Costco have been over 2 weeks so far, and still most of it hasn't been dispatched

Costco claimed to have dispatched the remaining items a few days ago, but the ArseholeForce tracking number suggests that it hasn't been handed over to them yet...

...so I walked almost to the small Tescos here in order to get some dishwasher tablets.  Got within about 100yrds before realising I'd forgotten a mask. 'dangle berries'.

So walked home again, grabbed a mask, and walked back. Only to find they didn't have any. 'dangle berries'.

So walked home, got the car, and drove to the bigger Tescos to get some.


Costco remain on the shit list for not delivering for 3 weeks (so far).

Costco have now delivered most of the items ordered, after 4.5 weeks.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Planning on washing the plastic french thing today and the Omega tomorrow.
Its firkin cold though. 

[TheBoy]

Planning on washing the plastic french thing today and the Omega tomorrow.
Its firkin cold though. 

All 3 of mine need doing, but as the ground is still frozen from the frost, I don't want to create a slip hazzard for neighbours.  Thats my excuse.

[Doctor Gollum]

Planning on washing the plastic french thing today and the Omega tomorrow.
Its firkin cold though. 

All 3 of mine need doing, but as the ground is still frozen from the frost, I don't want to create a slip hazzard for neighbours.  Thats my excuse.

I got the Albanians to run a sponge over it ready for its MoT a couple of weeks ago. Might let them do it again in January 

[TheBoy]

Planning on washing the plastic french thing today and the Omega tomorrow.
Its firkin cold though. 

All 3 of mine need doing, but as the ground is still frozen from the frost, I don't want to create a slip hazzard for neighbours.  Thats my excuse.

I got the Albanians to run a sponge over it ready for its MoT a couple of weeks ago. Might let them do it again in January 

Ours all seem to be stuck in Kent, or otherwise disappeared.

[Rangie]

Walked past them both in the garage to get some more beers to put in the fridge 🎄🎄🎄