The All New, New "What have you done to your Bay today" thread.

Drove it 220 miles on a return trip to Bristol. It rained and it rained but it looks like changing the spark plugs , cleaning the rotor arm and fitting a different distributor cap fixed a slight misfire pulling away in first or at about 30-35 mph in 4th.
65mph in the rain on the M4 outbound. Passed an incident where somebody in a Golf had demolished about 100 metres of the cables and posts central reservation barrier on the A34 must have been scary being trapped dragging the offside along the barrier unable to stop because the nearside wheel was on grass too.


At 3 pm the barrier was still being fixed. So went via NT Stourhead /A303/A36 for lunch..

Two incidents.. one on the Itchen Toll bridge where the car in front paid double (or our toll) and we got charged for a car...
And the other was while wading a flood that was about 9 inches deep the windscreen fogged up as steam billowed up. And then I had to drive with the handbrake on until the rear brakes boiled dry and started working again.

 

First seat from Slough Swapmeet almost done. Just headrests to go.

£50 ..A bit of welding, a bit of painting.
Memory foam for padding from Dunelm Mills about £40. Old bed sheet for covering foam where it touches springs ..free.
Seat covers £150 from DB Car Trim.
Seat runners for 75-79 drivers seat £50 from Buttys Bits..
Fit headrests and cover passenger seat tomorrow then leave fitting till after
Christmas in case metal bashing snafu immobilises bus..

 

Built up the replacement drivers seat this morning.
Put it on the tub to see what it was like to sit on. Answer a lot more secure than the pre 1975 seats. Needs runners swapped over.

Passenger seat just slotted in so thats staying in for good.

 

Where did you have your roll bar done, Sarah?

 

Churned and churned on the starter. Eventually some petrol appeared, and he burst into life. Electric pump next year...this is getting tedious.

 

Try Wessex Metal Finishers in Salisbury. They did all my powder coating for not that much. Not that far from you!

 

Fitted Led into the dash

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Relaxing after a salty romp down the '303...

 

Hopped into Golf, which announced that one of the headlight bulbs had gone. As I do not not have x-ray vision and fingers like ET, replacing it will likely involve taking the front bumper off, like last time. Gotta love modern cars. Not.

 

Nice and bright,I fitted the blue ones in mine but they’re so much dimmer


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All work and no Bay.

I haven’t driven my pickup for about 5 weeks

Day off today so I put the battery on trickle charge, gave it a general once over and reinflated the tyres.

There was nothing wrong it before, so fingers crossed it’ll start tomorrow morning

Stirlingmoz

 

These are white but the green diffusers inside give that colour.

Mega impressed

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Took the cooker out, fitted anti-cat netting, went and fuelled up for the run to Kent tomorrow. Roads should be quieter.

 

Dived under van to escape Xmas festivities. I may stay under here for a while. Hasn't rotted much since I last looked. I may summon the enthusiasm to do his undersides after Xmas.

 

That’s not the kind of question one hears in polite society Snots!

 

You know it makes sense!

 

To do list:
- spray load floor with Dynax UB
- give mouldy sills a lick of Rustoleum
- run vacuum pipe to front
- run Ebers fuel pipe to front
- replace belly pan (after 10 years in garage) after drilling out/retapping holes
- fit leccy fuel pump

That's enough to be getting on with...