Doesn't help I have been distracted by this purchase a few months ago.
Definitely prefer 'verts over Coupés, especially in the summer. So longer term I think the BGT maybe sold and replaced with another convertible of some sort. Something like a Spitfire or Midget. OR get a BGT with a Webasto - something I should have done instead of buying this one.
Short term I'm going to try getting use out of the bugger.
Right - is none motoring related stuff ok here?
I mentioned on the other forum before the collapse that I needed to change an immersion heater that was well and truly stuck, heat and penetrating oil had no effect and it was starting to twist the boss in the copper tank.
Being a tight northerner I can through the lip of the heater to the card gasket on the boss carefully with an angle grinder twice about 10mm apart. I then chain drilled a big chunk out of the centre of the heater and using a hacksaw blade carefully cut almost through the threaded part of the heater and finally removed the chunk between the 2 slits allowing the heater to unscrew easily.
This took me less than an hour to do and saved £200 for a new tank.
Today I tested the efficacy of removing conifers using only a lwb transit and a strong strop.
'Twas most effectatious and the quickest way to remove them I have found yet!
DodgeRover wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2019 8:54 am
That's an awfully long span for 4x2 unsupported- I think they will be bowing under their own weight let alone the roof and potential snow load?
Fair point - it is a bit greater than what is over the camper (which has survived some fairly hefty snowfalls), so I will be testing as I build, and have the option of bracing/triangulating the widest spans if unsure.
Well I have been busy this evening. I did a bit of work on my Renault 16 then I stripped the old paint off my sons Ferrari F40 and put some etch primer on it
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I then did some welding repairs on his lighthouse.
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Quite hard to weld, it's very thin metal. With my 100 amp mig on its lowest setting it just about did it without melting it
Today: Sanded the fuck out of the paintwork on the Toledo. That is until the genny ran out of dinojuice. Beginners error!Then I doused the bare metal with seemingly lethal but highly effective rust dissolving stuff.... Krud Kutter. Wear gloves children as this fucker stings. Phosphoric acid. Ouch!!
Triumph Licker and owner of a 45 that no-one seems to want.
Not so much today but actually yesterday,I'm just a bit tardy. The BMW hunting issue was getting worse. To the point it wouldn't pull cleanly up Cornish hills. Clutch was dire too. Clutch started to slip really bad pulling up the A30 sliproad from Hayle. Priced up a new clutch,£250 fitted and car be off road for a few days. Then the costs of whatever the issue was with the running. Money I can ill afford especially when on holiday and over 300 mile from home. So I did the sensible thing. It went to be scrapped. I didn't want to but it owed me nothing,was a cat N write off and needed a new rear box,front tyres getting low and wing had sharpedges. With mot due in 3 weeks and no payout from insurance for the foreseeable I did what I had to. Cut my losses and say goodbye. I now own a Citroen xantia td with MOT till September, towbar and a knackered fuel gauge. I'm seriously considering going back to motability.
Thanks for the offer. I don't suppose you have a passenger seat?! My wife says the foam has gone and the bar is sticking in! Shit situation on holiday to be honest but not much I could do. I can't find 300+ quid to get the BMW sorted
