Forkliftfred's Quarantine garage. Cleaning, painting etc

Yeah, that’s what I’m after. I’ll look up how to discern which is which!

AH yes. I think Glen is correct. I got my ratios the wrong way round.

My neighbour (also named Rob) loves a bit of banger racing. He sent me these pictures of cars some of his friends have built and raced.







I'm not sure what the current market value of E types are but I bet it's eye watering. The yank (not sure what it is) didn't seem to last too long.

My Discovery of dailyness decided it didn't want to let me get into it last weekend, despite my best efforts to try and break in. The sunroof's have been leaking for a while and after the biblical deluge last week, I was thinking to myself "I really must sort these leaks". Well, now I have no choice. A bit of internet research showed that the receiver for the key fob is located just in front of the rear sunroof,so when it leaks the small box of tricks fills up with rain water. I found a breakers in Chelmsford and borrowed Mrs Fred's car to go collect a new drivers window a good used receiver unit. Several neighbours came out to see what the noise was all about when I broke the window. Receiver changed and all the doors unlocked.





The offending item.



Window has now been replaced and central locking is currently working. My job this weekend is to strip out the headlining and repair the leaks before it happens again. The headlining has come away from it's backing board so i'll need to retrim that too.

There is a private road leading to the garages in our terrace of houses (7 in all) which the residents are reponsible for maintaining. Last year myself and a couple of neighbours attacked it after it had become wildly overgrown. Well last weekend, the same few neighbours and myself turned it from a wet, boggy overgrown jungle, to sturdy compacted space we can use.






Digging out 2 tree stumps



You can see how the water sits and doesn't drain in this picture.






Tree stumps removed and digging out underway.



4 skips of mud removed and 13 tons of crushed concrete and a good wacking down later we have this.



One neighbour works for a plant hire company and so managed to borrow the digger. Neighbour Rob works for a demolition company, so he supplied the skips and crushed concrete. I rented the wacker plate and manned the shovel and brrom. Mr's Fred kept us supplied with tea and sausage sandwiches. Thankfully only really cost us some time and fuel. All the aching muscles was definitely worth the effort. A much more usable space now and significatnly less chance of one of the neighbours cars sinking in the bog. There's just one skip load of mud left to dispose of, we will have to load that one by hand!!

I spent a few evenings chipping the flaky paint off the side strips of the E30.



The bumper inserts were scuffed so I rubbed them down and layed on some satin black and screwed on some new number plates.






Just need to get rid of the DTM style exhaust from the 90's, give it one final wash and then take some pictures so it can go up for sale.

glenanderson of this here parish want's the 200tdi engine from Daryl the Defender to put into his Series 2 Landy (Series 2 rolling resto) which has suffered from fuel pump failure. So in between laying new roads, breaking into the Disco of dailyness and painting 1980's BMW bumpers, I whipped out the pulsating power plant.



Once the E30 sells, I'll be on the look for a Beemer 3 or 5 series with a 3.0d 6 cylinder preferably with a manual gearbox, to replace it.

Well, I’m not very big. 🤣🤣

Nice work, that's some proper neighbourliness going on there with a useful result.

The BMW has now been sold. Thanks to all who enquired.

They look great. I'm glad you appreciate them.

Had an epic day at the Festival of Speed. Some of my favourite pics















And a modern Ineos Grenadier (named after a pub), a modern take on the original Defender by a brand new British company. I'm sorely tempted to reserve one.






Back in the real world, and the last pile of dirt has gone from the access road and 4 more tons of crushed concrete poured in it's place.



I scored a bargain from FB Marketplace. Listed as a hydraulic press turned out to be a homemade press frame with a porta power for the ram complete with pump and a box full of accessories for £20!!!!





I was hoping I could use it to split logs, seems like I can. The ram has a slight weep so i'm on the lookout for a seal kit to repair it. The homemade frame could do with being a little taller so some modification is needed or I may try and relocate the ram a little higher.