Our summer has been a wash out tbh your welcome to the rain.

Ours was today & I forgot to put the half bin out :mad:

Ive never smelt a tampon 🤣 🤣

Your servicing of it with a new filter and fluid will do no harm at all.

April too, its been dryer in January

Oh aye theres a few boats damaged & our boat tent is trashed (used for yachts with no masts on for repairs ect) so that will be 10k for a new one. :eek:

Isn't Summer in Scotland May 31st till June 2nd though?

I've still got one. And use it.

Nope, never seen one. I am told that IF I heat the plugs up with a MAP-GAS torch they will all burn off back to clean, but I have not tried it.

Always smelled like a burnt Sunday dinner 😤

Remember them small boxes that most garages had like mini sand blasters stick the sparkplug in the top press a button for two seconds, clean as a baby's bum

OOPS. Wondered why nobody else has put their bins out. I'm a day early :rolleyes:

Same here. Modern bins for general waste are green here, but mine is grey - it is date marked 1988, so made before green-washing wokery. And its wheels are a bit wobbly. It must have had nearly as much rubbish in it over the years, as one of...

You're impressed? I'm flipping gob-smacked. Never ever heard that one before!

Well, I was a bit gob-smacked on that timing line but I cleaned plugs off to remove all trace of the carbon firing line took it out for a pretty good thrash and pulled the plugs and well blow me down the firing line had moved down in the...

Oh it won't take that long!!! she's been doing it via whatsapp already, hence the shopping list! 🤣

Good to hear you will be reunited. :D I hope she is well and her recovery is as short as possible. :) Then she can get back to bossing you around as per usual, of course.

The pressure release vaalve bolt check is a good one, and yup, I was going to do that one as if not I'd have to go throught the whole rigmarole of removing the sump again. Not seen the oil pick-up O ring change, but that too makes sense. Just...

Has to be said this is also par for the course with an auto, the torque converter has to power itself up, and there may be some electronics involved which might also be a factor, but not sure about that. @sierrafery will tell us. You get used to...

Still got to finish the spring clean of the living room, then get myself some grub. I have cooled down now. Tis hot here today, :rolleyes: Dog feeding comes first though. Enjoy your evenings folks!:):):)

Seriously...are you planning to do other task beside the oil pump bolt when the sump is off?

I assume you changed the gearbox and didn't weld that cross member in place? 😄

No, I had neither the time nor the facilities, (nor the good secondhand autobox to replac it with) so I put it out to a local indy. He did it just before we left for Frogland. Have to confess, I am being lazy, I could just crawl under and have...

Decided that I need to check the oil pump sprocket bolt on my 2000 TD5. First job was to remove the front crossmember. Air chisel, breaker bar and 2 hours of fighting with rusty bolts and it's done. Knocked the captive nuts off with air chisel so...

Having just got all the bits to do the exact same job, and some advice about resealing the sump one I get it off, now you come along with this. :rolleyes: I had the gerbox changed 4 months ago, PLEASE tell me that this means the cross member...

He does....kinda......drawl................and repeat himself........... a lot! But yep, love old skool!! Such a shame plugs are not as cheap as they used to be!!! :)

Old skool, enjoyed that:). J

....that I did some more tinkering with the Mini. :) It is clearly an obsession. I watched a really informative YT clip (below) on reading spark plugs and I could not resist hoiking mine out to have a look. I did not know that you could...

TBH we could do with a bit of rain, maybe not sideways but a few inces of wet stuff wouldnt hurt:). J