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May 12, 2018 22:22:05 GMT
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Spent a bit of time with my car today. I've realised that I won't even have enough time to clean it before RRG now... My dreams of making it look halfway decent have now completely died in the swirling mayhem of a work project that should have finished early last week but is now going on until the day after RRG ends. I have to remind myself that I did at least build a lower dash and console, replace the windscreen rubber, and dither around with a few other things. Car does still look like hell though, especially as my amazing roof lining invention melted in the sun and has had to be jammed back up quickly and using whatever was at Hans... a shabby offcut, now bolted crudely and approximately down the middle to keep the melted roof slats out of my eyes.
So I grabbed a few hours today to try and tune the carb a wee bit and find the best setting for the new regulator. Car ran like a dog for my first few carb twiddles and with me trying different fuel pressure settings.
Eventually, I got it running quite sweet, if not quite as feisty as it has been previously... But maybe that's just my imagination. It just doesn't seem to bark and lurch forward like an attack dog, but it does feel settled and stable after a good few hours of driving, fiddling, driving, fiddling, starting again, driving etc. It didn't seem to suffer the bogging down from stationary, so that's good.
Was about to cocoon the sump plug in ptfe, copper wire and Loctite 577 with a chemical metal finish when it began raining heavily, so hopefully that can happen tomorrow morning.
If there's one thing that bores me silly now about this car, it's the insistence in maintaining at least three leaks. Stopped the fuel pump dripping, stopped the windscreen rubber leaking, close to stopping the oil leaking again, hopefully, so naturally my temporary roof panel - which has been totally water-tight so far - has now started leaking again, as has something on my driver's door. Can't catch a break with leaks on this ruddy car.
It just loves a leak in much the same way as an Alfa can't live without at least one electrical problem on board.
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This was the NAUGHTY CORNERfr€$h&m1nt¥
@freshandminty
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Main thing is you’ve sorted the fuel pump leak and almost sorted the oil leak.
Leaks into the interior are merely an inconvenience when it rains rather than causing mechanical issues so much easier to put up with or at least resulting in smaller consequences.
As for cleaning it you could always do it on site.
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Well, true they are an inconvenience, but they do also rot door hinges and mounts, outriggers, and can pool in places where knackered old wiring lurks. But for me its more the extreme frustration that 3 months ago I set forth with a plan to make this car look as good as possible, but predictably work (and family a little bit) has completely nixed that idea. So every little set-back just makes it all pointless clinging to the idea that anything else will happen in one day. And therefore cleaning and polishing it and shining up the wheels is now only going to highlight what a mess this still car is. It was meant to have had fresh paint blown over but that fell through a while back. I then planned to touch up the paint work myself... No time though. So it's coming unwashed and unloved, as a work in progress. A filthy dog of a car on the BNMAC display.  |
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Now we've got rid of the boring guy who's been banging on about brakes for days, can the new one get back to the all-important sump plug, please? Oh God, got a cold one in front of me and Tina Turner giving Proud Mary big licks in the earphones. Goodnight.  |
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I am sorry to say that the only sump-pluggery that will happen this week will be a very slapdash attempt at curtailing the drip Thursday afternoon when (if) I've delivered my work.
What might follow RRG though is a photo-illustrated post about prepping my replacement sump and then fitting it. Which will be a veritable sumpfest of joy.
... Unless I do a really good job of bodge-stopping this leak on Thursday, in which case there will be no more Sump Club until my next oil change late Autumn.
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May 13, 2018 10:03:57 GMT
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Damn, got my old account back now. I prefer "overthinker" as a username.
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bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member
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This was the NAUGHTY CORNERbstardchild
@bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member 71
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May 13, 2018 10:32:17 GMT
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Damn, got my old account back now. I prefer "overthinker" as a username. If you get the "overthinker" account deleted as it's no longer needed - you can change your username to that and keep your posting history |
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May 13, 2018 18:05:02 GMT
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You're overthinking it  |
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May 13, 2018 19:15:27 GMT
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|||| T-R-I-G-G-E-R |||| W-A-R-N-I-N-G |||| THIS POST CONTAINS A BODGE THIS MAY BE UPSETTING TO PEOPLE WITH HIGH STANDARDS |||| T-R-I-G-G-E-R |||| W-A-R-N-I-N-G |||| I decided it was time to introduce those of you daft enough to read my thread to my sump plug. I wiped all the oil off the bottom of the sump last night, and then wound PTFE tightly into the cracks between sump plug, washer and sump pan. Then I wound some bonsai wire round the outside to hold the PTFE tape in place. I did it all without jacking the car up because I just couldn't face dragging the jack out, cranking the car up, sticking the stands under, and doing it all semi-properly. As a result I had to evolve extra wrists to wind stuff around, and I had to do it blind due to my face being pressed hard against the inside wall of my tire. I haven't run the engine yet, and I think it's when the oil is hot that it finds its way out. But... it has remained dry overnight so I'm currently deluding myself that this might work to get methrough RRG and then I can tackle this properly. Ladies and Gentlemen, it is my tremendous privilege and honour to finally introduce you to my famous sump plug...   |
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Last Edit: May 14, 2018 8:51:56 GMT by Deleted
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Ladies and Gentlemen, it is my tremendous privilege and honour to finally introduce you to my famous sump plug... My life is complete. |
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Its such a shame you live so far away George. Maybe we could set up a video conference call sometime, and I could give you a quick video tour of the sump plug from different angles.
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May 14, 2018 10:08:25 GMT
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I now see why it was leaking! It has a Peugeot sump plug wanged in there  Oh mate, you don't know the half of it. The first oil change I did I discovered the sump plug was a plumbing stop valve off a radiator. The hole is now an entirely unknown entity shaped and evolved by numerous artistic contributors over many years. So the answer to this will not be to fit the right Ford sump plug. I know that, because I tried. I could have thrown the entire sump plug inside the sump through the hole from about 6ft away. I eventually found a sump plug that fitted, but it still dripped. Then the MOT bloke kindly stopped it dripping by recutting the sumps thread and fitting this sump plug very successfully and I had 8 months of no leaking, until I changed the oil again and discovered he'd driven an incompatible thread into the hole and, presumably, added something to seal it up. I am thinking of trying a tennis ball next. |
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Last Edit: May 14, 2018 13:02:34 GMT by Deleted
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May 14, 2018 12:59:03 GMT
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self abuse is not the answer sandy , but ,if you are going to try the tennis ball , i would advise lubricant and have your phone handy ...
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May 14, 2018 13:29:55 GMT
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Not sure if my phone goes before or after the tennis ball Julian. or alongside it. I'm sure there must be a market for some kind of inflatable or adjustable universal sump plug. When you've wandered the sump plug wastelands as much as I have, you realise quite swiftly this is a very widespread problem. I often console myself as a silent lurker on car forums for which I have no other vested interest, purely because they have a long running thread about the woes of leaking sump plugs. This one warmed the cockles of my heart quite recently. It's very short, and 13 years old, but still, it gives me hope. My people are out there somewhere. I am not alone in this universe of leaking oil. www.celicasupra.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-14597.htmlI purchased one of those screw in universal sump plugs where you have a T-bar at the end of a rod and then a rubber disk on the outside. One of these...  ... but I didn't ever try it because it looked like a 'get-me-home-if-I'm-lucky' kind of solution, and I wanted to stick it in and forget about it. But I've been thinking. There must be a way to create a semi-permanent and entirely reliable univseral sump plug, even if it's disposable at the next oil change. I was thinking about those tapered rods Jewellers have for measuring rings....  and maybe one could buy one of them in some kind of nylon or hard compaound. It would have snap-off / saw-off sections, so you ram it in until you find the right size, then pull it out and snap the excess off. Then you sleeve it in something ptfe-like that will bite to the thread and you screw it in. HARD. It could have a reverse taper hole running down the middle of it so you also insert a rod before hand into that hole, and when you have screwed your sump plug in tight, you pull that rod out as far as you can with some pliers, and it forces the sump plug to expand, and then you bend that rod over and cut the excess off, and it makes sure the thing stays in. I'm going to make millions. I'll be the sump plug king.  |
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Last Edit: May 14, 2018 13:40:21 GMT by Deleted
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May 14, 2018 19:11:30 GMT
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IDIOT !!!! the phone is if you cannot get the ball out !  |
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May 14, 2018 21:52:37 GMT
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I'm so ridiculously excited about this weekend now that I've stopped caring that I never got my car done. I just don't care. I'm probably not even going to clean it because I just don't care.
But I'm so excited that I know there are only two possible outcomes that I can expect:
1. I catch fire, as per the prophecy
2. All my excitement turns into nervous exhaustion by Friday evening. I burst into tears about some mustard being wrong on a hot dog, and eventually get sent to my tent after screaming and thrashing about on the floor in front of everybody for 40 minutes.
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Frankenhealey
Club Retro Rides Member
And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider's name was Death
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This was the NAUGHTY CORNERFrankenhealey
@frankenhealey
Club Retro Rides Member 15
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May 15, 2018 16:43:23 GMT
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Don't forget your spill kit. You can't park on the hallowed Goodwood track on Sunday and leak oil!
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Tales of the Volcano Lair hereFrankenBug - Vulcan Power hereThe Frankenhealey here |
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May 15, 2018 17:40:23 GMT
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Fear not, it's on my packing list. I might just ziptie it beneath my sump for the entire journey.
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