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You are going to have poly bushes installed all round No, never.... I prefer rubber. Always have. They last long enough for me and the way I drive. I've never been seduced by the polybush. Quite fancied a Duster when the came out. Couldn't live with the conflict of DAY-SEE-AH vs DAT-CHEE-AH so resolved to not buy one at all. Personally I really REALLY want one of these...  Every time I see one I get a massive purchase pang. I think they look really cool. If I hadn't previously experienced Suzuki's tin foil panelwork and motorway asthma I'd probably go and get one. Just change the ruddy shocks and have done with it. Then put life insurance in place for when the rear wheel bearing seizes at 70mph and spins you up an motorway embankment with the whole car busting into flames. I have to assume you are not hugely popular over on the owner's forum with that kind of philosophy Mr Reviver... I've seen people flayed at the pole for being this blasé  The rear wheel bearing can be heard, but it's very quiet and I only ever hear it when I'm coasting at idle revs downhill. I have previously assured myself it might just be some crud. So it's not like it's screaming in agony... yet. It can definitely wait a while if I want to cut down any potential budget bloat. |
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Ermmmm, am I right in thinking the Essex and the Cologne have different firing orders?  |
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Opinion g is "buy a Dacia" by the way. If the bushes and bearings are MOT worthy, then what's the hurry, you've got more important, plug-shaped, worries to be concerning yourself with. Hmmm, now... this is where the conversation dips dangerously towards the heated ethical debate about MOTs on old cars. This car passed it's MOT last year with just two very minor advisories (no rear bumper, a slight oil leak). At that time, I knew the bushes were in bad shape. I fully expected to have to have them done but after the fiasco of getting the car to the garage for some new brake components I, and the Mechanic/MOT inspector, were clearly keen to just get the car off the premises. So I accepted the pass and assumed I was possibly overthinking/overworrying. This, for me, is the flaw in the MOT argument. There is no doubt in my mind, at all, that it is possible to get an old/classic/retro car through an MOT when realistically it shouldn't. The problem with that is opwner/driver complacency... "it passed, so I'm legit. I'll drive it without any further thought". For me personally, I like to worry about things until I start frothing at the mouth, rolling around on the floor until someone comes along and smears mustard over me and starts beating me with a large wet sturgeon whilst singing lullaby's at high speed in a thrash metal high pitch screamknow they are good. If somebody hands me a pass, it diminishes my capacity to worry things better. I should buy a Dacia. There, fixed that for you |
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I intend to brief them fully on what I've already learned about the rear bearing. I know that this is the dark horse in this motley selection of maintenance jobs and as good as this garage is and as varied and interesting their client's cars, classics, race-tuned retros and hot rods are... I know they are going to be challenged by the Scimitar rear axle. Opinion g is "buy a Dacia" by the way. Hmmm, now... this is where the conversation dips dangerously towards the heated ethical debate about MOTs on old cars. This car passed it's MOT last year with just two very minor advisories (no rear bumper, a slight oil leak). At that time, I knew the bushes were in bad shape. I fully expected to have to have them done but after the fiasco of getting the car to the garage for some new brake components I, and the Mechanic/MOT inspector, were clearly keen to just get the car off the premises. Actually, the bloke at the garage was absolutely desperate to get me off the premises because my constant crying was putting off the other customers and he couldn't get his work done with me clutching his leg and slowing him down. So I accepted the pass and assumed I was possibly overthinking/overworrying. This, for me, is the flaw in the MOT argument. There is no doubt in my mind, at all, that it is possible to get an old/classic/retro car through an MOT when realistically it shouldn't. The problem with that is opwner/driver complacency... "it passed, so I'm legit. I'll drive it without any further thought". For me personally, I like to worry about things until I start frothing at the mouth, rolling around on the fllor untill someone comes along and smears mustard over me and starts beating me with a large wet sturgeon whilst singing lullaby's at high speed in a thrash metal high pitch screamknow they are good. If somebody hands me a pass, it diminishes my capacity to worry things better. Without the MOT looming (< potentially... I still haven't decided yet) I feel the pressing need to make this car better in whatever order of attention I can manage. I reckon if you drove this car you'd say "hmmm, that drives like a pig" and would probably get all this stuff addressed ASAP. It really does feel rough. It's why I wasn't sure about driving it to Goodwood. In short, I personally don't feel the MOT is a good thing. It allows SOME people to abandon their responsibility towards a safe well maintained car. If there's nothing on the MOT certificate there's nothing to worry about. Not true. If you have an old car you need to look at it, worry about it, write endless theoretical scenario arcs on retrorides, and mither for days on end about working in the kerb versus paying a fortune to have the work done by professionals. I should buy a Dacia. There, fixed that for you You missed a bit. |
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Meeting inconclusive. Revised proposal requested. Potential client seems even less clear about what he wants than before. Don't you just hate it when they do that? Mind you, the consultants have to take some of the blame. I get a feeling of despair when I see the shoddy work they do in this part of the world, the big names too. The railways are a mess and the client needs educating, so he understands what he needs, and then you make sure he gets it. He does not need stitching up with a bloody cut and paste from some completely different job in Tokyo. "Why have you recommended this..?" "It's how we do things in Japan." "Tell me, is it true you live in paper houses and eat with sticks?" "But it's better!" "Better than what?" Okay, so I paraphrase, but the real conversation went something like this... "Railway will have CBTC" Communication Based Train Control - or signalling to you. "But you want the north end to operate at 160kph?" - Let's ignore the fact that it doesn't need to and probably never will. "Yes." "You do know that so far there's only one line that claims to be operable at over 130kph with CBTC, but the track's not designed for that, so it's never been over 120 yet? As a consequence, it's still not proven to be safe operationally." "Yes, but we have Japanese system that probably okay, we've never tried it, so we'll try it here in Philippines." A bit like the nationwide Dengue vaccine plan? Only a few dead. "Roll up, roll up Ladeez and Gennulmen. Climb aboard for what could be the (last) ride of your lives!" Sorry, I've got a bit anti-Japan these last few months! Mind you I work with one who's absolute tops. If he's finished his work, he goes to sleep at his desk. If we're in a meeting and he's said his piece, he goes to sleep. Got all the work ethic of a '70's BL shop steward, but a great bloke, top sense of humour and bloody good at his job! |
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start frothing at the mouth, rolling around on the floor until someone comes along and smears mustard over me and starts beating me with a large wet sturgeon whilst singing lullaby's at high speed in a thrash metal high pitch scream There, fixed that for you Didn't mustard used to be thought a cure for Yellow Fever? Mind you that's when they reckoned you caught it off toilet seats, so things may have moved on. |
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Don't you just hate it when they do that? I do, but in this case I have to concede that it's a combination of unwise elements. WE are a start up using what is commonly called "A.I" to provide an automated service to clients. It's taken us two years to build the system and at this point it's a distinctly Heath Robinson affair. I think we're the only people deploying zip ties and blu-tack in A.I software development. So being really honest we're going out on a bit of a limb and don't exactly know for sure (not completely, not really) what our jerry-rigged contraption will actually do under real-world conditions. The client is a massive global brand with huge budgets set aside for trying new stuff and seeing what happens. So they are very vague about what they want, they just want something and they'd like it to be worth the money we're asking for, in an ideal world. We are not able to explicitly state what, precisely, we will deliver. Not until they state, explicitly, what they would like us to do. So between them and us there's a massive vacuum and neither party can fill it. They are interested enough to call us in for a face-to-face yesterday, but after batting it around for an hour (an hour which amused me greatly because it couldn't have been written by the finest workplace satire comedy writers) we were asked to go back and revise our proposal to tell them what it is they actually want, what it is we'll actually do, and what it is they'll actually get. Three very simple questions. We're almost across the finish line therefore. We really just need the answers. Once we have the answers, we're fine. I'm thinking about it. Give me a day. I'm very confident we'll nail it. *Sweating, Clenching, Crying* |
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George, take it from me... you can't get mustard from toilet seats.
Stop immediately.
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If you do see mustard on a toilet seat, do not eat it, I repeat DO NOT EAT IT!!! It tasted really horrible and all the big boys laughed  |
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"They are interested enough to call us in for a face-to-face yesterday, but after batting it around for an hour (an hour which amused me greatly because it couldn't have been written by the finest workplace satire comedy writers) we were asked to go back and revise our proposal to tell them what it is they actually want, what it is we'll actually do, and what it is they'll actually get.
Three very simple questions. We're almost across the finish line therefore.
We really just need the answers. Once we have the answers, we're fine.
I'm thinking about it.
Give me a day.
I'm very confident we'll nail it."I know you'll nail it  I just have this lovely vision of a bottle of Snake Oil wrapped in zip ties... I'd love to have been the fly on the wall at the meeting  Just done the front end on the Scimmy Chassis we have here. It was really straightforward - including the trunnions (but we have massive amounts of room to work as there's no Scimitar bodywork in the way...
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Look what just arrived in the postal service delivery vehicle...  A box, from the smashing Graham Walker people. What could it be?  Two pogo sticks, some shelf brackets, and a bunch of liquorice. And you were right Rev.... they've sent Polybushes, because that's all they stock now apparently. I'm not keen on polybushes but at least they're Superflex. I do have some rubber bushes I purchased last year though (also in shot) so I can make my own mind up nearer the time. ; ) |
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AND.. AND.. ! a busty girl with short legs in a tight denim top !!!!
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Robert...Robert...ROBERT! Just because Mark & I gave you BAAAAAD ideas over on the 'other side'...  Liking the new front-endy bits for the Scimmy! Like you, not always a fan of Polybush ride - fitted rubbery bushes to ours  Oh yes, just remember to photograph the setup before you dismantle (or have the garage do it), the Scimmy upper wishbones are handed & are only swapped over when converting from PWR to manual rack (with relevant trunnions). At least you'll have a point of reference to compare when you get it back/finished. Have the garage checked the trunnions for play? Are they well greased? Bottom caps OK? Just checking...  |
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Cheers Moosevan. I asked them to inspect the trunnions as part of the general inspection they did for the diagnostics. They didn't mention them in the report back to me. Trunnions are my perpetual worry point and in a strange way I'd have preferred to hear "You need to replace the trunnions" because then I'd know and thereafter I wouldn't need to worry about them for a few years (aside from greasing them, obvs).
I am going to ask them to check them again, and also to grease them, although those trunnions have probably been greased on a weekly basis for the last two years, such is my nervousness about them!
= )
As for Polybush... no... I never go for polybush and I was a bit disappointed when my preferred supplier told me that's all they supply now. I do have a bag of *some* of the the bushes I need, but not everything, and one of the metal-lined rubber bushes came to me with some very rough looking surface corrosion down the barrel... which I have never felt was a very good start for a suspension bush!.
I think I'm going to replace that one corroded rubber piece and aim for the new rubber on the suspension and then polybush on the steery stuff.
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AND.. AND.. ! a busty girl with short legs in a tight denim top !!!! We see what we want to see Robert! |
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Mmmm......I like liqourice  and shiny bits . . . . . . . . ....and busty girls in tight denim tops  |
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oh now look sandy , you have got Mark going , now we are in trouble ..
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I haven'tgot time to think about busty denim... I'm now thinking I really should go the whole hog and get new trunnions. The ones on my car must be as old as the rotten suspensiona nd bushes.
DAMMIT.
I CAN'T AFFORD THIS.
I ALSO CAN'T AFFORD NOT TO.
DAMN YOU, OLD CARS.
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don't panic mr (quatermass) mannering!
Trunnions last almost forever - especially if greased every 14.7 minutes by people worried about them.
If there is no play in them then they are fine.
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