Eddie Honda's wheels of steel (and occasionally alloy)

[Eddie Honda]

AND dem Cheese-munchers have made their online parts catalogue chargeable - apparently changed a month ago. Fucking bandits can GTF.

[Eddie Honda]

Late yesterday, I decided to see if I could do something with Ronnie the Rialto.

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When I was moving it last October, I leaned in to get something and placed my knee on the front edge of the driver's seat. It rewarded me by collapsing.

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With a GRP body and galvanized steel chassis, you tend to forget about the bits that can rust like a bastard. Now I did have this seat out in 2007 to repair a broken back and springing, but I'll be fucked if I can remember what bolts I used to hold the seat down with. Not that it matters because the heads are totally rusted to fuck and are much smaller and irregular than their original size.

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The front edge U-tube is held down by a pair of U-brackets and upon fumbling around underneath the outer pair of bolts decided that unlike the Regal, they screw directly into the chassis leg and cannot be reached from the underside. The inner ones can be reached from the underside, but I couldn't get anything Imperial or metric to fit.

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Swept up and gave up for the night and went back inside to something else.

[Drum]

Is that a green carpet or moss?

[Eddie Honda]

It's a shit thin grey carpet with green moss on top aye.

[Hooli]

Is that a red sandwich toaster in the footwell?

[red5]

Factory or aftermarket?

[Eddie Honda]

Is that a red sandwich toaster in the footwell?

It is my "rubbish" Britool (bought sometime 2007-2010) 3/8" drive socket set. Obviously it's not that rubbish, but it's not that Britool.

The set is nice because it contains solely Imperial sockets and isn't a mixed set.

[fried onions]

I hope you get this thing back on the road.

[Eddie Honda]

So do I. I'll save a fortune in tolls on the M50 here.

[John F]

So do I. I'll save 25% on tyre wear.

EFA