Ian Faulds
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Well done great job
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On 01/03/2019 at 10:59, Colin Lindsay said:
Mon Joo!! I thought I had the only one of those, and it was a one-off.... definitely not safe for fingers.
Sure I saw that in a Bruce Lee kung foo film.
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My daughter likes pastry likes apples hates apple pie ha.
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On 24/02/2019 at 15:09, Colin Lindsay said:
Never tried them, Danny, but in checking eBay for seat covers I found these.... at least they'd be warm!
a good vet will have them up and kicking again colin!!!
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hello big fella and welcome, looks a decent road car, been retrimmed too, is it non overdrive box? or is there a separate switch?
some garage by the way looks professional. oh the joy of having that set up.
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like the old p6 rovers clive they weren't structural either youd be surprised (maybe not) that garages used to fail the cars mot cause sills not welded, sometimes had to take workshop manual in to prove the sills were screwed on. one mot tester said to me once , "I know but I don't think its safe"
digressing though, its easy to screw a sill on to cover up the rust inside , im not saying this is the case here, but as you said needs taking off and a good look in there.
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looks like a sill has been put on some time ago over rusty inners, and your right clive the sill will need to come off and access the area in there. should be able to do a decent job though. good luck.
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Exactly. I know from experience audi and citroen dealers don't have a clue twice they've had to contact the factory.
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Garages these days especially main dealers are not mechanics they just swop bits over. They would not know how to repair or refurbish anything.
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hi, have a mk3 gt6, it had two handbrakes in the box, one straight one cranked, I found out the cranked on is from a spit 1500, it looks better
to use than the straight one, why did triumph change the design? anyone know
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Excellent. I will not be beat engineering at its best. Well done.
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Looks great as it is just lacquer it. 😀 Welcome though keep sending the pics
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OK Richard. If you message me I'll give you my phone number. I have a few things on tomorrow morning but should be OK afternoon bar the school run
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Hi tricky where are you? I'm near motherwell. Anyway I can give you one I have some in the garage. Email me or message and I'll send it to ya. Ian.
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scouring my folders of pics, best I can come up with are these two. might help you out. the dash picture is from Lindsay Dearings beautifully restored gt6 hope he doesn't mind me sharing it, you can see the position of the trip reset winder, and the other is the ignition key light doesn't give much reference as to where but must be near the ignition switch.Hope it helps.
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52 minutes ago, Pete Lewis said:
how many people get any apology from any accident , most leave the insurance to sort out , last time you had a bump or serious crash did anyone say 'sorry'
are you not supposed to admit liability or they can void your policy , leave them to sort out the in's and out's of a collision .
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Haway Pete. We're talking royalty here. Surely they have to be expected to do the honest thing. Trouble is any admittance or charge by police isn't going to happen so they'll just say nowt so he can keep driving.
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it doesn't matter whose at fault in this instance as it wont be him, I bet no charges from police, the man who pulled him out will get a medal.🤴
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Looks great Colin but I don't have a compressor or the space for something that size
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ok badwolf, but I don't know how to do that, youll have to enlighten me(us)
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both my moderns also have stop/start and I switch it off every time, I did find out that you can permanently disable it by bridging the "bonnet open" sensor as it needs this to be closed to work, but I have not done it as its just as easy to switch off. the only other thing the car does is to switch off the radio every ten minutes when iam sitting in the car to save the battery for the stop start, this is a pain, but I live with it.
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hi, I have a ticket for the said day, due to family stuff I now cant go, so if you want a ticket message me ill send you it.
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1 hour ago, Colin Lindsay said:
True, but remember the old joke about the astronaut who was asked how he felt just before lift-off, and replied: "How would you feel, sitting on top of the end results of 1000 low-bidders?"
There's (hopefully!!) a world of difference between £10 Chinese technology and £100 Chinese technology, and I'd like to think it's not just the brand name and the packaging.
Remember the film "Armageddon" with Bruce Willis, where the Russian cosmonaut tells him: "American components, Russian components, all made in Taiwan!"
It all comes down to what you really require, and all I want is a head unit that will fit the available aperture and play music at a good volume, in this case 60w per channel, plus it has the rear connectors for an amp if ever I needed one. I don't need it to connect to the steering wheel, turn the sound down every time the phone rings, or automatically interrupt songs to tell me the local traffic when I'm stuck nose to tail in it, so I'd like to think the price I paid gives me just the basics. It's a bit like my mobile phone; I've just binned my last one as it was too smart for its' own good and drove me demented by thinking it knew better than I what I really wanted, and have gone back to an older version that just makes calls.
I am with you colin, I have an old Datsun radio am/fm live , earth, two speakers, does me fine, all this amp stuff and mobile chargers ill never need.
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2 hours ago, NonMember said:
Looks great but I'm not sure how well the pump would stand up to any petrochemicals that get in there. I know the original pump from my "proper" parts washer became terminally brittle after exposure to residual petrol and carb cleaner. Not as rapidly as the aftermarket screen washer pump I tried using to circulate plating chemicals, though.
Guess you could empty out cleaner after use and fill basin with water and flush through. I don't expect it to last forever and a new pump can't be too costly.
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Yeah failed with the sticky back plastic and wire coat hanger but wait!
Cover the outside of the basin in a sticky back plastic of your choosing. And get your dad to cut the coat hanger into a pair of tweezers to hold the carb parts while washing 🤯
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