Board logo

Today - I am mostly going to... UPDATE WITH INEVITABLE RANT!!!
NeilP - 17/4/10 at 07:39 AM

Get my tax disc and...

WALK AWAY EMPTY HANDED BECAUSE THE DVLA'S COMPUTER IS A STEAMING PILE OF RANCID *&$%@#@!!!!!

AAAARRRGGGGHHH

They've got an older date in their system (date of construction) that isn't on the V5C (although the veeeery nice man at DVLA told me it was my responsibility to correct these errors) so technically I've been driving without an MOT for 10 months without knowing and I can't get my tax today because the computer says it needs an MOT even through it's not three years old and apparently only the local DVLA offices (which are now all shut) have the possible power to correct.

I wouldn't bloody mind so much but they cocked it all up three years ago when it first got registered...

Post linky

Go for a blat then...




No - Going for a sulk. In a darkened room. With loud, angry music playing

Start finishing the fettling for Stoneleigh...



Do you think I need to worry about ash?...

[Edited on 17/4/2010 by NeilP]


clairetoo - 17/4/10 at 07:43 AM

quote:
Originally posted by NeilP


Do you think I need to worry about ash?...

Why - whats he doing today ?


coozer - 17/4/10 at 07:46 AM

Get some box section and a bottle of mig gas

Go for a mapping blat session...


v8kid - 17/4/10 at 07:50 AM

Building a hydraulic press to put a new 3rd gear on my gearbox layshaft (again)


adithorp - 17/4/10 at 08:06 AM

...Look at my car wishing it had the roll bar on so I could go for a blat. Then maybe change the clutch springs.

adrian


Daddylonglegs - 17/4/10 at 08:08 AM

I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!

Not really , but I am jealous

My own fualt, should work quicker.

Hope you have a good run out

JB


speedyxjs - 17/4/10 at 08:10 AM

Get my second handbrake cable fitted and working.

Maybe start on the front side panels.


tomgregory2000 - 17/4/10 at 08:17 AM

Sit in a shop "working"


dave1888 - 17/4/10 at 09:05 AM

Finish the dash then cut the sump.


iscmatt - 17/4/10 at 10:00 AM

quote:
Originally posted by clairetoo
quote:
Originally posted by NeilP


Do you think I need to worry about ash?...

Why - whats he doing today ?



haha, that was too easy!


Dusty - 17/4/10 at 10:14 AM

Plymouth to Helston to visit Dad and blow away the winter cobwebs at last.


UncleFista - 17/4/10 at 10:40 AM

Today, our car needs dropping onto it's wheels, the suspension bolts tightening, a brake pipe replacing, then no doubt a fruitless search for an MOT stationopen on a Saturday ;(


welderman - 17/4/10 at 10:58 AM

quote:
Originally posted by adithorp
...Look at my car wishing it had the roll bar on so I could go for a blat. Then maybe change the clutch springs.

adrian



will be back on it next week, two weeks off on holiday in Florida, Haiti, Grand Caymon, Jamaica, Mexico and New York has took its toll mate .

Joe


mangogrooveworkshop - 17/4/10 at 11:37 AM

put the engine back in help
dave with his sump cut
and get my diff swapped out


all with the help of my good friends.


scudderfish - 17/4/10 at 01:24 PM

Borrow a 9" grinder so I can chop out a section of my exhaust. My 4.5" can't get all the way through


Xtreme Kermit - 17/4/10 at 03:33 PM

have been inverted in drivers footwell fighting with new clutch cable and Ford's wonderful self adjusting clutch mechanism...

Fixed now - seat and steering weel back in - nut and bolt check on rear uprights and...

Drive liberally


dlatch - 17/4/10 at 05:38 PM

finished dash and wiring Yay!!!


refilled coolent and ran engine to bleed air from system
good day and the weather was superb


flak monkey - 17/4/10 at 06:34 PM

Finished the manual tensioner for drive belt, swapped supercharer pulley for next size down to see what difference it makes.

Changed header tank cap for one that actually seals, now not blowing water everywhere!

Went for a few runs, picked up Mattc for a ride up the road.

To prevent any more belt slip changed idler near crank pulley for even bigger one to give another few degrees of wrap.

Glued on bonnet supporting brackets which should make the alignment better

Bought the new oil ready for the 1000mile oil change tomorrow!


adithorp - 17/4/10 at 06:55 PM

quote:
Originally posted by welderman
quote:
Originally posted by adithorp
...Look at my car wishing it had the roll bar on so I could go for a blat. Then maybe change the clutch springs.

adrian



will be back on it next week, two weeks off on holiday in Florida, Haiti, Grand Caymon, Jamaica, Mexico and New York has took its toll mate .

Joe


Sorry Joe, it wasn't meant as a moan... might I be putting the old one back for Stoneleigh though? I'll phone you Monday.

Anyway today I... cleaned up at work, did some paper work, removed an Escort D cylinderhead, walked the dog for an hour, cured an oil leak on the Fury, striped the clutch, picked Andy Bates brain, rebuilt the clutch with Barnett springs, walked the dog again (2 hours)and then collapsed in a heap in front of the TV.

adrian