Show us the last picture you took on your phone. (VW related or not!)

Thats not good ...

 

Did the balljoint fall out?

 

Yes.

I was lifting the spindle with a floor jack to put the suspension rubber stop in place,when the floor jack slide. It gave a good whack to the spindle and suspension arms, but I was not expecting to see the balljoint falling out!
They are 10 years old Febi Bilstein that I had, pressed in last November and installed today.

 

The moon was so bright last night



No street lighting or flash - just moonlight. Nature is amazing.

Stirlingmoz

 

Around a 1/3rd of my VW magazine collection.

 

Trip out in the bus, first time since Christmas day.

Back home now doing my bit for global warming with a nice open fire.

 

Just after lunch my father in law popped round as he was giving his MG a bit of a spin. I missed him as it was a flying visit and I was pottering in the back garden at the time. Anyway, 15 minutes later the good Lady Norris and myself were just off to the supermarket in the car, came out of our road, to find my father in law parked up.

Of course we stopped to see what was up. It was firing on only two cylinders. Now also bear in mind that my mother in law is at home alone, and has dementia. So Mrs Norris goes off to sit with her mum while I lend a hand.

He got his tools out (so handy to have a built in toolbox under the hood) and took out the spark plugs - steam, steam, steam, water. Obviously the head gasket has gone. Off comes the rocker cover, to find the some of the head bolts had worked loose during it's 8 mile round trip. So he nips those up and turns it over again. Nope, still water spraying out of the number 1 plug hole. So then he starts dismantling more stuff.

It took rather a lot of persuasion to get him to put the spanners down and let us push him round the corner to our house - mainly to get off the bus route! It then took a lot more persuasion that it wasn't going anywhere today, and we really did need to go shopping. The dismantling can continue tomorrow within easy reach of my garage and the tools therin

Anyway, yes, a photo...



It a 1939 MG TA Tickford

 

Lovely old car, hope you get it back on the road soon

 

What was the fault code when scanned, lol

 

He will sort it out, but will need to order another head gasket. He's got another TA that he's just put the engine in, towards the end of the restoration - not Tickford coach built though like the one above.

He puts me to shame with the progress on my engine

 

Code aqua

 

Here's another photo from a few years ago...



Edit: apparently this is my 1000th post on TLB!

 

"POP!" went the Borrowers' balloon as they hit the pylon ......

 

Bet those gluten free vegan types are pretty "regular"

 

The first cut won't hurt at all...



Nice to get some stripes back, even if it's just a high cut

 

Nice pedal out this morning