LynehamHerc wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 7:30 pm I think Ben compares everything with those he tests on a daily basis at Fiorano.

Have you driven a Mayflower?

Ben

angrydicky wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:54 am
It genuinely drives like a new one

As badly as that?

Ben

mercrocker wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:42 am
Rolls-Royce Corniche (assuming we haven't had it, I did see Camargue nominated)

Is Corniche a place?

I thought it just meant road by the sea?

Ben

Broke down yesterday. Car refused to do 55, fuel starvation. Had just fueled up, got about ten miles and it started to splutter. Pulled the fuel filter off and it was blocked solid with refinery sand. Removed the filter and replaced it with a barbed fitting in the AutoZone parking lot and that fixe...

mercrocker wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 5:23 pm Given the age of the car is it worth changing the cap and would failure of this contribute to/cause fluid loss?

It must be worth trying.

Ben

I’ve got a similar thing to that. Stick one end of the tube into the pump, it should be obvious which end. Stick the other end down the dip stick tube (take the dip stick out first). Pump away. You should see the oil sucking up the tube. Easy as that. Warm the engine up first to make the oil flow m...

TOOLAGE It's getting a bit a of a hassle transporting my Clarke 3T jack around when required as it's a heavy steel bastard, so I thought I'd spunk some money away on another one, this time a bit lighter. c1_20240210_19310447.jpeg c1_20240210_19434625.jpeg c1_20240210_19434685.jpeg And with the Real...

Got a new tool delivered this morning. I imagine the van is desperate for an oil change. They didn't do it on the last two services I paid for. No idea how it works and the instructions are pish. I’ve got a similar thing to that. Stick one end of the tube into the pump, it should be obvious which e...

LynehamHerc wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:38 am Part of the reason the water prices etc. go up is that they have to pay their foreign shareholders (and bean counters).

EFA

Ben

- Clutch delay valve removed. What's one of them? Ben It's a valve that delays the clutch.... I've seen them on Tdi LRs too, basically a restrictor in the hydraulic line. In theory to stop you dumping the clutch too hard, but in practice seems to make zero difference except one less place to leak w...