Turns out I owe the members of the Petrol Hose Manufacturer’s Association of Great Britain an apology… it wasn’t the hose that was leaking but the Filter King regulator I got all the way back in 2006. It was dripping unseen onto the overbraided hose which then got soaked. At least needlessly going to the motor factors to get some new hose gave me a walk in the fresh air The glass bowl…
The man from the Ministry … he say “yes” Advisories on the sills and the exhaust, but they’ve been advisories for at least the previous two MOTs and are on the to-do list, so don’t bother me. I think the issue with the handbrake is most likely simply the cable stretching (it’s probably still the 29 year old original) combined with the self-adjusters already being at the maximum travel of their…
I managed to get a quick spray of blue onto the car when I got home last night and to allow suitable drying time we nipped out to the pub for a swift half When we got back at about 1am I got the mirrors on and adjusted, the doorcards fitted and gave the windows a quick clean. Changing the mirror mounts over to studs makes the job infinitely easier No pictures,…
Amazing as it seems, this thread is now almost a year old Thanks for all your help and encouragement folks All of which means that the car’s due for an MOT . I took the opportunity at college this week to get the car up onto the ramps and have a good look around underneath, attack any surface rust on the chassis sections with a wire brush, clean up old fluid…
Woohoo, it’s passed second time round Mr MOT had a look at the welding and said “Oh, that’s nice to see, that is. Proper old-timer’s welding – you don’t see much of that nowadays.” It was nice to be able to tell him that the chap who’d done it was (at most) half his age. Next task for this weekend is clean up the engine bay, try and keep…
Well, to answer one of my own questions, the discs are the drain plugs for the wheel well, which, for reasons best known to Ford are metal. Quite why you’d put a metal plug in a metal hole in a bath of water and then expect your customer to remember to pull the plug out just once in 26 years … Alex The Welder came round this afternoon and patched…