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Come Inside... => Petrol/Diesel/Red Diesel/Aviation Fuel Head Zone => Topic started by: Pastis on November 25, 2010, 11:39:42 AM
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Ok, the nice man from the breakdown crew has been and 'sorted' the problem ... the manifold heat shield had become corroded and was messing with the alternator wiring or summat.
I've identified the replacement shield but of course it's out of stock with no delivery date ::)
Whaddya do then? Growler will I'm sure, advise angel1
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On yer bike?
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If you were a gerl you would buy a new car lol:
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I was going to suggest that anyway.............. It's what I would do! spider:
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Ok, the nice man from the breakdown crew has been and 'sorted' the problem ... the manifold heat shield had become corroded and was messing with the alternator wiring or summat.
I've identified the replacement shield but of course it's out of stock with no delivery date ::)
Whaddya do then? Growler will I'm sure, advise angel1
Plenty of second-hand car parts places on the Intermong... I've ordered bits for people over here before...
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Pastis takes Miss D and the Brat for a spin.
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Ok, the nice man from the breakdown crew has been and 'sorted' the problem ... the manifold heat shield had become corroded and was messing with the alternator wiring or summat.
I've identified the replacement shield but of course it's out of stock with no delivery date ::)
Whaddya do then? Growler will I'm sure, advise angel1
Plenty of second-hand car parts places on the Intermong... I've ordered bits for people over here before...
So far it's unavailable; all three places I've tried say the same thing, they've got people waiting but no production is due cry:
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As I recall, it is (cough) a Rover point:
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Yep, it's a Rover ::)
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Yep, it's a Rover ::)
Oh, I thought you said it was a car you were having problems with... whistle:
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If he uses the windscreen washers it doubles as a washing machine noooo:
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If he uses the windscreen washers it doubles as a washing machine noooo:
You were happy enough to be transported in it IIRC ::)
Mind you, you nearly had to put your legs through the sunroof, you gangly thing ;)
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Wait till you see my car next week eveilgrin:
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Wait till you see my car next week eveilgrin:
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I've just had a brilliant idea! bom
If you could lend me that tinfoil hat of yours Nick I could re-model it into the part needed razz:
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Wait till you see my car next week eveilgrin:
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Not far off redface: Bring trainers redface:
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Will that be after you've had men in to shovel out the rubbish will it?
Your car interior closely resembles that of the car belonging to SWWLTBO.
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redface: redface:
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redface: redface:
Plus cigarette ash and dog ends no doubt! point:
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I never quite got rid of the litre of popcorn that The Boy swore he would not spill in the back noooo:
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Was that before or after the Fire Extinguisher incident? angel1
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I've just had a brilliant idea! bom
If you could lend me that tinfoil hat of yours Nick I could re-model it into the part needed razz:
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I'm not sure how the heat shield affects the alternator wiring...? Shrugs:
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Stops it from getting too hot I would imagine. ::)
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Was that before or after the Fire Extinguisher incident? angel1
After, but well remembered. Some pensioners have never recovered noooo:
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Stops it from getting too hot I would imagine. ::)
::)
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I've just had a brilliant idea! bom
If you could lend me that tinfoil hat of yours Nick I could re-model it into the part needed razz:
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I'm not sure how the heat shield affects the alternator wiring...? Shrugs:
In an ideal world it shouldn't and doesn't but if the shield is old, decrepit and falls off it's fixings and starts banging against the wiring ... redface:
You get the picture?
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It may be that that bit is OK and it is the rest of the car which is the problem rubschin:
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It may be that that bit is OK and it is the rest of the car which is the problem rubschin:
No, that's your world you're thinking of lol:
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He could have a point Pastis .... It is a Rover and they roll over and play dead without waiting to be told .... unlike superior hounds angel1
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Point taken. It's a 10 year old with low mileage (34K) and bits of it are beginning to go but TBH it's not worth getting rid of. The manifold heat shield was in a right old state and although the RAC man said it should be replaced there's quite a few opinions on various Rover/MG fora that say it's not necessary.
I'll ask the wise guys up the road shortly because it's due an MOT and a service. The last time their (Polish) electrician fixed the heater switch because no parts were available ~ good to find someone with some nouse and a soldering iron ;D
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Miss D could take it on her next trip to Cuba ~ prolly get a fortune for it.
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I've just had a brilliant idea! bom
If you could lend me that tinfoil hat of yours Nick I could re-model it into the part needed razz:
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I'm not sure how the heat shield affects the alternator wiring...? Shrugs:
In an ideal world it shouldn't and doesn't but if the shield is old, decrepit and falls off it's fixings and starts banging against the wiring ... redface:
You get the picture?
Take it off - wrap the wiring in tin-foil... Bish-bosh job done! happy088
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It may be that that bit is OK and it is the rest of the car which is the problem rubschin:
happy001
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I've just had a brilliant idea! bom
If you could lend me that tinfoil hat of yours Nick I could re-model it into the part needed razz:
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rimmerbros.co.uk%2FProductImages%2FLarge%2FLWQ000070.jpg&hash=b05d9a60d38a4bbf2e3dd8353be4e80c8c9e80b6)
I'm not sure how the heat shield affects the alternator wiring...? Shrugs:
In an ideal world it shouldn't and doesn't but if the shield is old, decrepit and falls off it's fixings and starts banging against the wiring ... redface:
You get the picture?
Take it off - wrap the wiring in tin-foil... Bish-bosh job done! happy088
Says the man spending a fortune on buying new parts for old.
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I've just had a brilliant idea! bom
If you could lend me that tinfoil hat of yours Nick I could re-model it into the part needed razz:
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rimmerbros.co.uk%2FProductImages%2FLarge%2FLWQ000070.jpg&hash=b05d9a60d38a4bbf2e3dd8353be4e80c8c9e80b6)
I'm not sure how the heat shield affects the alternator wiring...? Shrugs:
In an ideal world it shouldn't and doesn't but if the shield is old, decrepit and falls off it's fixings and starts banging against the wiring ... redface:
You get the picture?
Take it off - wrap the wiring in tin-foil... Bish-bosh job done! happy088
Says the man spending a fortune on buying new parts for old.
Parts which are available and therefore render such temporary repairs irrelevant... ;)
Seems odd that I can buy every single part for a 40 y/o Mini and Pasty can't get a bit for his (relatively) recent Rover... rubschin:
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TBH 10 year old Rovers were never, ever, going to be a sought after collectors item.
The Mini was an icon and as such has always attracted people who want to do what you are doing (upsetting the wife spider:)
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TBH 10 year old Rovers were never, ever, going to be a sought after collectors item.
eeek: How very dare you!
lol: lol:
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Dunno what you are worried about.
My parts are all well worn out and I am certainly not a collectors item surrender:
In fact I suspect that SWWLTBO is just waiting for the men with a black van to collect me in a zipped bag.
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The friendly mechanic at Honest Dave's Motors looked under the bonnet yesterday. He smiled and said:
"To be honest, (he always says that ~ that's why we call him Honest Dave), to be honest the main thing that heat shield does is to protect anyone when they're working on the motor when it's been running and hot. You could get a nasty burn off of that manifold.
Yer water pipes are well clear of it but keep an eye on them; if yer find a replacement shield, buy it and we'll fit it but don't worry."
Well, it's either thumbs up or famous last words ~ time will tell razz:
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The friendly mechanic at Honest Dave's Motors looked under the bonnet yesterday. He smiled and said:
"To be honest, (he always says that ~ that's why we call him Honest Dave), to be honest the main thing that heat shield does is to protect anyone when they're working on the motor when it's been running and hot. You could get a nasty burn off of that manifold.
Yer water pipes are well clear of it but keep an eye on them; if yer find a replacement shield, buy it and we'll fit it but don't worry."
Well, it's either thumbs up or famous last words ~ time will tell razz:
yay!
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The friendly mechanic at Honest Dave's Motors looked under the bonnet yesterday. He smiled and said:
"To be honest, (he always says that ~ that's why we call him Honest Dave), to be honest the main thing that heat shield does is to protect anyone when they're working on the motor when it's been running and hot. You could get a nasty burn off of that manifold.
Yer water pipes are well clear of it but keep an eye on them; if yer find a replacement shield, buy it and we'll fit it but don't worry."
Well, it's either thumbs up or famous last words ~ time will tell razz:
cloud9: "Village life" in the city eh? cloud9:
I lurve small communities like that.
It's why I never went back to live in Southampton .... it became less and less of a community and more spiteful as a consequence.
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The friendly mechanic at Honest Dave's Motors looked under the bonnet yesterday. He smiled and said:
"To be honest, (he always says that ~ that's why we call him Honest Dave), to be honest the main thing that heat shield does is to protect anyone when they're working on the motor when it's been running and hot. You could get a nasty burn off of that manifold.
Yer water pipes are well clear of it but keep an eye on them; if yer find a replacement shield, buy it and we'll fit it but don't worry."
Well, it's either thumbs up or famous last words ~ time will tell razz:
cloud9: "Village life" in the city eh? cloud9:
I lurve small communities like that.
Wot he said. ;D
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I blame "Executive" housing developments and those that live in them for a couple of years and then move on.
Oh and the Teabag ~ invention of the devil ~ that lost us an Empire.
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'Tis very true; it's well worth engaging with the folk that live and work around you ~ some I find are those that stay a while and move on but there are others whose lives are firmly rooted locally and they make the place richer, be they wealthy or poor.
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My Neighbours are English one side, Scottish the other and across the road are from the Isle of Man, Russia and The Ukraine... eeek:
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...and not a Cypriot in sight noooo: noooo: noooo:
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...and not a Cypriot in sight noooo: noooo: noooo:
noooo:
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...and not a Cypriot in sight noooo: noooo: noooo:
noooo:
They're all over here...
The barber's Cypriot, as is the cleaner, and Sophocles the Baker, and the dry cleaners, and the wumman wot works in the Bank, to say nothing of the other dry cleaners who are Turkish, and the local Turkish coffee house, etc etc ... rubschin:
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Didn't arrive just after Barman settled over there did they ? whistle:
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Good point! rubschin:
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sad24:
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He could have a point Pastis .... It is a Rover and they roll over and play dead without waiting to be told .... unlike superior hounds angel1
Beagle 2
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He could have a point Pastis .... It is a Rover and they roll over and play dead without waiting to be told .... unlike superior hounds angel1
Beagle 2
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