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Cars for Sale & wanted / Re: 2.6 Saloon
« on: Yesterday at 19:10:27 »
Ah, 'Modify' has never been available on the for sale board. For obvious reasons really.
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Cars for Sale & wanted / Re: 2.6 Saloon
« on: Yesterday at 19:09:13 »I hadn't noticed that.Sorry, once more my posts are duplicating!!You're becoming a right old 'boardhog' Lizzie.
Hence my failure to add to the previous post of mine!
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General Discussion Area / Re: Experiments to 'dim the Sun' to be given green light by UK government
« on: Yesterday at 17:11:06 »NothingReading through that article, one suggestion is to spray aerosols into the atmosphere. Now I am no engineer or scientist, but isn't that apparently what caused the problem in the first place
Presumably this modern type of aerosols would be CFC free.
But what do I know....
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General Discussion Area / Re: Sticky for Jokes
« on: Yesterday at 10:47:49 »A newly wed couple on their honeymoon night are in the bedroom getting undressed when she says.
"Darling, now that we are married, I have a little confession to make, I was a hooker before we met, are you OK with that"
He replies "Of course I am darling, we hadn't met then and to be honest it turns me on,so tell me more
She says "Well, my name used to be Brian and I played for St. Helens
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General Car Chat / Re: Cylinder Head Question.
« on: Yesterday at 10:46:27 »They'd do as they were fickin told if I was paying for it. Them or someone else.I've lost count of the number of engine manuals I've read that say the head can't be skimmed. It's just @rse covering, surely?I've a 4k mile head on the way for less than the cost of skimming it, Notwithstanding that they wouldn't skim it anyway.
I the face of F-all to lose I know what I'd do.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Experiments to 'dim the Sun' to be given green light by UK government
« on: 24 April 2025, 22:39:47 »People attach too much importance to these 'ideas'. Very few of them ever come to fruition.They are also planning to charge people in the South more for their electricity than people in the north.Only cause you live down south
To call them moronic is an insult to morons.
That's Labour's version of 'Levelling up'!
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General Discussion Area / Re: Experiments to 'dim the Sun' to be given green light by UK government
« on: 24 April 2025, 20:53:36 »They are also planning to charge people in the South more for their electricity than people in the north.Only cause you live down south
To call them moronic is an insult to morons.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 24 April 2025, 12:39:29 »Collected our new caravan with it this morning, our previous caravan was a 2006 model had it for 14 years & it has been absolutely trouble free our new one is a 2020 & boy have things improved we're both really impressed with it, was a bit dubious about the extra width as they have gone to 8 feet wide seems much more spacious inside but on the road didn't notice any difference, so here's to a few trips away beginning next month.. 👍Enjoy it, Mick, summer is on the way
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General Car Chat / Re: Cylinder Head Question.
« on: 24 April 2025, 12:10:54 »Don't let him get to you, Mark, you know what he's like.If you can provide the engineering drawings to confirm the factory tolerances then happy days.It can't be skimmed. The issue is that no one knows what is an acceptable amount of distortion.
As I understand it, the reason it can't be skimmed is that the head is triangular with the timing cover attached to the block, head and cam covers so any deviation has the potential to make it impossible to reassemble and seal.
They will take quite a few thou, they won't have been made to that level of accuracy in the factory and the gaskets and sealant would take up the delta.
Unlike you, I have spent enough years in engineering design to know dam well that the parts on that engine will not be machined to a tolerance that would not tolerate a fraction of a millimetre mismatch. If you were to add up the tolerance of all the mating items they will easily be closer to the 0.5mm level.
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General Discussion Area / Re: A Good NHS Experience!
« on: 24 April 2025, 06:41:44 »Well the good news is that there was no sign of blood clots, so it looks as though the Dr was right about the infection.That's good news, provided the infection doesn't kill you
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General Car Chat / Re: Cylinder Head Question.
« on: 23 April 2025, 12:42:00 »
It can't be skimmed/machined!
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General Discussion Area / Re: A Good NHS Experience!
« on: 23 April 2025, 12:05:39 »
Going off tangent .....I know, unusual on here......my wife's pain turned out not to be DVT. It was really painful, in the middle of her calf muscle. After further blood tests, it was found she had virtually zero vitamin D. No one connected this with the pain, of course, but the minute she started taking the huge doses of vit D the doc gave her they disappeared.
When she finished the course of capsules, it came back. Doc didn't believe her because there's no way they can be connected. We now order 20,000 iu vitamin D from sunvit, and the pain hasn't come back. Go figure
When she finished the course of capsules, it came back. Doc didn't believe her because there's no way they can be connected. We now order 20,000 iu vitamin D from sunvit, and the pain hasn't come back. Go figure
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General Car Chat / Re: PHEV
« on: 23 April 2025, 11:58:44 »Just been offered a Chevy Equinox evIn little elastic bands?
Brand new high spec from a friend, her Mum is in hospital with terminal cancer, They both live in Florida and the car is a gift from a fan but is in Germany so she asked me to try sell it but I cant help her at the moment and my cash is tied up as i maybe would have helped out and maybe bought it myself.
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General Discussion Area / Re: A Good NHS Experience!
« on: 23 April 2025, 10:55:49 »I'm going in for my scan this afternoon.Right, not half eight when I said, then.