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mattblack Posted a lot Got patina? Posts: 1,454	IT'S THE LAW....mattblack @mattblack
	May 1, 2005 19:33:57 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	.... that if you 'mess' with old cars, there will be last minute glitches before the MOT ....After waiting 2 weeks for a rear brake flexi for the Sceptre from a Rootes specialist (after being sent a front one... ) I got one on Thursday from a local brake specialist (for half the price... ). Fitted it today, bled the rear brakes, had the drums off and cleaned the dust out. Brakes felt a bit spongy, took off front wheels and pumped some fresh fluid through the front brakes, still spongy. Had a look under the back of the car to see if I could get to the bleed nipples with the wheels on... err, why is there a pool of brake fluid on the floor? Because the 'kin wheel cylinder is leaking, that's why.... and the MOT is booked for 5.00 Tuesday Hopefuly the aforementioned brake specialist will have one in stock... or at a pinch a seal kit, bearing in mind I re-sealed them when I bought the car 3 1/2 years ago...
	Sept 13, 2009 14:01:29 GMT scaryoldcortina said: ... the only injury I sustained was a bumped head when I let the seatbelt of without realizing the car was upside down and that's not really the car's fault.

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ImpJimbo Posted a lot Posts: 2,221	IT'S THE LAW....ImpJimbo @impjimbo
	May 1, 2005 19:55:06 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	A few years back when i first got into Imps i bought a kingpin repair kit from a well known Imp specialist only to find out I could have got it cheaper from A1 Stores This was about ten years ago. That Imp specialist is still expensive and beaten on price by the the other Imp suppliers.
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BenzBoy Probably posted too much Posts: 17,940 Club RR Member Number: 7	IT'S THE LAW....BenzBoy @benzboy Club Retro Rides Member 7
	May 1, 2005 22:04:20 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	That, I believe, is called "Sod's Law". Discovered by Ernest Periwinkle Sod in 1864 after he took it upon himself to take a leisurely stroll around his local park, to enjoy the morning sunshine. As it was a nice day he left his sou'wester on the coat rack. Halfway around the park it proceeded to curse word it down. Ernest Sod was reputed to have exclaimed, "well that's just sod's law isn't it?". And so the legend was born. That's what some bloke down the pub told me anyway. He also says that Porsche engines "just go straight in" to a Beetle engine bay.
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Revolution 9 Posted hell of a lot "Just a loony lefty with an Imp fetish!" Posts: 5,882	IT'S THE LAW....Revolution 9 @revolution
	May 2, 2005 17:05:01 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	I assume he also went on to tell you about all the mechanical problems Imps had, and say that he should know because his brother-in-law's mate's cousin had one in the 70s and it always broke down? I swear these pub bores are all clones of each other, they all have exactly the same patter and always have the same sort of 'a friend of a friend of a friend told me' excuses for knowing all this curse word! ;D ;D ;D ;D In a similar vein, any job on a motor that you go out to the car proclaiming to be "an afternoon's work" or "nae bother at aw'!" (No bother at all if you don't have a ridiculous, outrageous accent like me! ;D ;D ;D) will invariably turn in to a long, expensive, frustrating battle to fix the horrible damage you've done to the car in trying to fix it! ;D ;D ;D
	Last Edit: May 2, 2005 17:05:13 GMT by Revolution 9 "He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"

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BenzBoy Probably posted too much Posts: 17,940 Club RR Member Number: 7	IT'S THE LAW....BenzBoy @benzboy Club Retro Rides Member 7
	May 2, 2005 17:30:42 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Yeah... that one stuck / sheared bolt that stops absolutely everything until it's removed. I think that's called the "f*king piece of useless sht b**ard are fck sht b*llocks bolt". At least that's what I call them . I had the electrics totally die on my Skoda as I was on my way to the MOT! That wasn't fun but was soon found to be a loose battery terminal (held on by one of the above mentioned types of bolt most probably)
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tonycocacola Probably posted too much Whoop Whoop! Posts: 10,138	IT'S THE LAW....tonycocacola @tonycocacola
	May 2, 2005 17:41:47 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	BenzBoy said: I think that's called the "f*king piece of useless sht b**ard are fck sht bllocks bolt". I'm lead to believe that this type of bolt was factory fitted solely to pss us off 20 plus years later ;D
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penski Probably posted too much Posts: 10,429	IT'S THE LAW....penski @penski
	May 2, 2005 17:49:41 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	As far as I can tell, it's the only bolt British Leyland carried... *n
	Top grammar tips! Bought = purchased. Brought = relocated Lose = misplace/opposite of win. Loose = your mum

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Revolution 9 Posted hell of a lot "Just a loony lefty with an Imp fetish!" Posts: 5,882	IT'S THE LAW....Revolution 9 @revolution
	May 2, 2005 18:03:28 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	In that case, my Imp's engine has five sheared off "f*king piece of useless sht b**ard are fck sht b*llocks bolts" stuck in the block as we speak, which is why the engine currently lives all over my garage floor, and surprise surprise removing the head prior to ordering a reconditioned new one was both "an afternoon's work" and "nae bother at aw'!" before I started working on it! /
	"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"

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mattblack Posted a lot Got patina? Posts: 1,454	IT'S THE LAW....mattblack @mattblack
	May 2, 2005 19:58:29 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Rang a local Alpine specialist this morning, who told me he had a cylinder in stock but 'wasn't open because of the bank holiday' ....... The place where I got the flexi wasn't open.... Looks like a day off tomorrow....
	Sept 13, 2009 14:01:29 GMT scaryoldcortina said: ... the only injury I sustained was a bumped head when I let the seatbelt of without realizing the car was upside down and that's not really the car's fault.

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BenzBoy Probably posted too much Posts: 17,940 Club RR Member Number: 7	IT'S THE LAW....BenzBoy @benzboy Club Retro Rides Member 7
	May 2, 2005 22:07:06 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	I'm not sure if I like bank holidays or not.... great having the extra time to do stuff but unless the job you intend to do is planned with military precision, with all the parts collected beforehand, things can go very "breasts aloft" cos nowhere's open! ;D Well, except Halfrauds but I'd rather go to Mothercare as I think they stock more car parts!
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mattblack Posted a lot Got patina? Posts: 1,454	IT'S THE LAW....mattblack @mattblack
	May 3, 2005 19:55:05 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Well, got the wheel cylinder today, brake specialist didn't know if they'd got one when when I rang, wasted an hour waiting for them to ring back.... went to the Alpine specialist, £47.... Fitted it, freed off the O/S calipier which was sticking a bit.... AND IT PASSED THE MOT!!!
	Sept 13, 2009 14:01:29 GMT scaryoldcortina said: ... the only injury I sustained was a bumped head when I let the seatbelt of without realizing the car was upside down and that's not really the car's fault.

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BenzBoy Probably posted too much Posts: 17,940 Club RR Member Number: 7	IT'S THE LAW....BenzBoy @benzboy Club Retro Rides Member 7
	May 3, 2005 20:00:50 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Heyyy! Nice one! ;D It was all worth it in the end!
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