What did you do today?

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Diesel.

Fill it with the horrible stuff, leave it for a day or 7 and then start tweaking the crank with a BIG spanner.

I was gifted a Chinese pit bike 4 wheeler thing with a Honda copy engine that had been left outside for years and was seized solid. Worked a treat and the youngest (Sammy, I do miss her) had much fun flying around on it
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Also, I did do wash the car, with both water (from my new 100foot long hose!) and one bucket filled with wash and wax, maybe only one bucket but two sponges! :)

I dried it and put the roof down and when I just put the roof back up, the poxy carbon fibre I put on the 'C' pillars has gone all milky in places. Seems to be drying out okay but why did it do that?
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Ran the VW T2, eventually.

First of all the alarm must have been triggered overnight, although we didn't hear it, so I had to go through all the arm/disarm/arm/ disarm cycle and then switch the immobiliser on and off until it had finished freaking out.
It started ok but then I noticed a tyre was a bit flat so I switched off and pumped it up.

Bad mistake. The automatic choke does not like the engine being switched off until it's gone through its full 'cycle' so I ended up tap dancing on the accelerator to keep it going. During all of this the button, on the gearlever, you depress to get reverse stuck so I found myself facing a stone wall from about 2" away without being certain that I was not going to go forward and with an engine that was on the verge of dying unless you gave it some welly. By using The Force as a third hand I managed to get into gear, control the handbrake and steer all at the same time.

After all of this it ran fine, thank God.
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I never switch mine off until the cooling fan cuts in. Otherwise it taps like a tappity fucking tap-dancing Talbot to show its displeasure the next time I use it. I've had that wall-of-death thing as well - once in the barn when I was what felt like millimetres from somebody's XK150.

Glad yours seems OK now! We have had a couple of nice al fresco dinners out in the New Forest these past few days, almost as good as a holiday.
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I checked the Impala's tyre pressures and pumped up the fronts which had a lost a couple of pounds. Checked under the bonnet, okay hood, and all looks okay. Tomorrow weather permitting it's off to put some fresh fuel in it and give it a little bit of exercise as it hasn't been driven since September.
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xtriple wrote: Tue May 26, 2020 4:27 pm Diesel.

Fill it with the horrible stuff, leave it for a day or 7 and then start tweaking the crank with a BIG spanner.

I was gifted a Chinese pit bike 4 wheeler thing with a Honda copy engine that had been left outside for years and was seized solid. Worked a treat and the youngest (Sammy, I do miss her) had much fun flying around on it
The V4 has a balance shaft with a puny 17mm nut on t'end so you can't bully it much, the end of the crank is hidden within. If I had the spline off a suitable gearbox I could rig up something at the other end to put a bit more torque on.
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Also, you do know that the Saab V4 runs the opposite way to the Ford applications?
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Well the balance shaft does. The distributor is clockwise. I imagine the crank runs clockwise too so actually it effectively runs the same way as the other mills.
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Ah ok. I was just repeating what the chap I sold my 96 to said. Then I thought if I put it on the worldwide web it would make it true
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Mmm- now ive re-read that. In Saab the balance shaft runs anti-clockwise....so in a Crapi the same V4 bance shaft and rest of Taunus engine does the opposite? Really?
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