So After All That...

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Great effort.

You keeping it or still selling it?

I have tried :rolleyes: to explain to her indoors that after all the effort of fixing it, I should hold on to it a bit longer. After all, who's to say a more "recent" car wont be any worse? o_O
 
I have tried :)rolleyes:) to explain to her indoors that after all the effort of fixing it, I should hold on to it a bit longer. After all, who's to say a more "recent" car wont be any worse? o_O
Aye!

I'm sure she'll come around ;)
 
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Well.

All my hard work was almost for nothing o_O

Coming back home today after a test run (no overheating or any other such nonsense....) and the car just died on the way up the hill :confused:

Nothing! No power, no engine, nothing!

So I set the parking brake and got out. Then I sniffed...lifted the bonnet and saw the smoke, then the flames :eek:

Actual fucking flames! Clicked immediately what it was, ran to the boot and....fucking tailgate is locked due to lack of power! :confused: So into the rear door & luckily the seat was folded so got hold of my extinguisher and raced round to douse the flames :oops:

Turns out I had got distracted when I put the main feed wire onto the starter and didn't get back to tie it in with clips & cable ties. So it got hot & obviously flopped to the side and touched the exhaust downpipe. Melty melt, sparky spark and burny burn.... :(

Arse!

However, I got it out on time. Called the AA and got the wee man to do what I pay them for :p

The damage was limited to the heavy wire to the starter.

Luckily I had a spare engine loom, so I removed the + terminal & associated wires from it and replaced my doomed ones.

An hour later and she was back on her A game :cool:

Have to say though, I shit myself :confused:

From now on, anyone meandering by to chew the fat will be told to feck off.....o_O
 
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might be “apt”
 
I may have told myself to FOCUS :p

When I installed the new wire, I discovered I had routed it wrong o_O

I went over the engine mount, when in fact I should have gone under!

All those doing a starter or engine out/in need to be aware....
 
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