A Dry Weekend?

[teamster1975]

Thanks for that, *added to favourites!*
Lovely British weather

[mbell666]

Anyone ever had it or tried it?

Yup, had it few times, walkabout (Australian themed pub) sells it and few posher beer shops. thought it was ok, probably wouldn't want to drink it all the time thou

[steve_earwig]

*checks EUMETSAT* Oi! Will you selfish barstewards let go of that sodding cloud?

[mjb]

I prefer the MET Office animations:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/satpics/latest_uk_ir.html

[steve_earwig]

Each to his own I guess, the Met always seems to be wildly inaccurate for this part of the world so I haven't looked at it in a few years.

I've been playing

[mjb]

and to finish it all off (face it, ME clean the car???), I tackled the ICV and TPS after work this evening. See, if I do work like that then I've earned my kebab meat & chips (with chilli and mint sauces. mmmmm)...

Bit of a pain in the arse I must say - MUCH easier to do on the tubby. To get the ICV off I had to take the airbox top and rubber hose off, because the pipe was too inflexible. Then to increase the fun, to get to the bottom torx screw on the TPS you need to separate the throttle body from the inlet manifold! Didn't realise there's a gasket there, so I'm going to have to redo it soon I think.

Then (of course) I put it all back together only to find the car idling at 2000rpm and taking about 10 seconds to return there from 4000rpm Took a while (and an ECU reset) before I actually thought about it and realised I must have buggered the TPS. Thankfully I'd just not clipped the connector back on properly

Got it on the road for a spin, worked up through to 5th without touching the accelerator - NICE, rock solid idle - NICE, held it on a hill just using the clutch with rock solid revs - NICE and of course that 0 to lots acceleration you only seem to get with an ECU reset - NIIIIICE

Yeah, the pipes were a lot bigger than I thought too, so I need to get some jubilee clips on there when I get the gasket. Also the TPS may need replacing soon. It's sealed with some sort of epoxy so I just sprayed contact cleaner at a few tiny holes and turned it for a few mins until it smelt dryish. Probably asking for corrosion doing that


Interestingly, there's a small pipe going into the underside of the rubber air hose between the air box and throttle body. It just went towards the engine block somewhere and when I dismantled it, it wasn't connected. It was a push fit with a plastic clip holding it on. Anyhow, I've reconnected it but does anyone know what is it supposed to be?

[steve_earwig]

Crankcase breather?

Meat?? YOu earn meat??? All I earn is peanut butter (bluddy diet )

Ooh, big news - it rained here last night! I reckon we had a massive 2mm of the stuff and I collected a whole 50 litres!! (Not even worth getting the pressure washer out )

[mjb]

Meat?? YOu earn meat???

I said kebab meat...

Ooh, big news - it rained here last night! I reckon we had a massive 2mm of the stuff and I collected a whole 50 litres!! (Not even worth getting the pressure washer out )

Pressure washer. Bah! If I had a house that supported the use of one of those I might actually clean the car now and again

[steve_earwig]

Is that a euphamism? (Or any other brass instument?) I once did a job in Vatans, in Tottenham Hale, it's a factory for making those things they heat up and slice bits of (and heat up and slice bits off, and heat up and give everyone food poisoning). There was even gore in their pbx, I've never eaten one since. Even the word puts me off food (ewww, Jade Goody, excuse me, I need to run to the bathroom)

[teamster1975]

There was even gore in their pbx

How the hell did they manage that!
I must be honest I am a sucker for a doner kebab with chilli sauce

[mjb]

I must be honest I am a sucker for a doner kebab with chilli sauce

Doner meat, chilli sauce and mint sauce. The holy trinity. I even eat it sober

Sucks around here though compared to the Fordhouses Chippy in Wolverhampton (1/2 mile south of M54 J2). If you're ever going anywhere near the area I really recommend a visit. I go there almost every time I go past on the M54 or M6 in the evening Chicken doner meat and battered chips. With chilli and mint sauce... *drool*

[Welly]

Sounds like you've done a good job there m, it is nice when you can iron out a few wobblies (especially at no cost) I'd say you earned your Kebab meat for sure (just don't breathe over anyone this morning ).

[mjb]

Just looked up the cost of a new throttle pot on servicebox...

£140.73!!!!

Think I'd rather shove a multimeter over it and duct tape a replacement from Maplins on for ooh about 50p...

[steve_earwig]

Cor, you could buy a whole car for that... (one for the XUD11 is 240 quid! Then one for an HDi is 70, make any sense?)

[mjb]

£240 for one of these in a fancy plastic case... http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=2205