WTF?

Just looked at this first time in ages; where have all my pictures gone?!

Not on the road yet

OK, so it's nearly June and the Beast is still under covers. The excuses are three fold...

. Decorating the back room has taken ages and cost too much;
. Holidays. I have an enormous caravan and I like to use it!,
. The To Do List. It's massive. I don't really know where to start and I don't really know how to do it and I stutter at the likely cost.

But a start has finally been made with the carpet and the seats. Still to do: gearbox, clutch master cylinder, tune engine, weld the little hole (more later), unrust and paint the sills which is getting a bit crucial now ...

Oh deary me

I shall not be going to the Peopleton show on Saturday then. Got it out today, what a disaster. Its backfiring all of the time, and when it's not backfiring out of the exhausts, it's frontfiring out of the air filters. How?! Why?! I haven't even touched the carbs this time. 

I took it to the garage to put some more fuel in it and then took it straight back in favour of an old Peugeot 206 that never goes wrong and is worse less!

The Spongey Stuff

From the earlier post "Post Winter Update 2014", I found out during the last TRDC meeting what "The Spongey Stuff" that is falling out around the N/S front suspension spring/strut.

It's a dead UKC1101. Now these are a ridiculous £15 each via Rimmers. However, I'll also need spring compressors at about £35, the spring is rusty, another £20, the shock is only £100 (!), the gaiter is £7 and various other bits of rubber appear to be another £20.

Classic cars are great.

De Ja Vu

It's not going to rain today so out came the Beast for it's first run out of 2014. And once again, it's a pile of crap. I appear to have lost several cylinders again. I had to keep my right foot constantly bipping the throttle through fear that the engine was going to stall, braking only on the handbrake. At least that works. Why didn't I buy an MX5?

Biblical rain storm imminent?

Post Winter Update 2014

The Winter To Do List was vast. But I didn't get round to doing very many of them. I did do some under-sealing the other day though. I need to have a go at the rusty sills and there is some sponge coming out of the N/S front suspension ...

What's The Spongey Stuff ?

Rusty Sill 

Another rusty sill