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[Daisythelandy]

Went down the Clyde valley for lunch and passed a lovely old Vauxhall Viva in orange coming out of the tearoom car park, had a wee wave to each other. And again going home the same guy coming back the other way, full arm out the window wave this time. A few minutes later an old 110 passed us with a wave, it does make one smile.   

[Wittsend]

Today I made some gaskets.

There's only 1 per vehicle, but do you know where ?

Sorry, no prizes.

[Tim Chilcott]

Well, as it’s Sunday I read my bible 
But then I flushed and refilled the coolant system 

[Ironchicken64]

Went to Gaydon. Met some nice people from the club. Great day out.

[nathanglasgow]

Oil change with the obligatory pint of old oil up the sleeve.

[andrewR]

Oil change with the obligatory pint of old oil up the sleeve.

Snap! except it took me two days, because I also took the sump off - first time since ~1993. Cleaned out the sludge. Painted the sump external, and also the filter pot, hence left them to dry overnight. Considered looking at the "filter" on the oil pump too, but in the end came to the conclusion that the Haynes manual has incorrect text as it talks about "simply remove the central bolt", which makes no sense, and also to "remove and replace the filter element". I don't think either exists (drawings don't show them) and it is just a gauze "strainer"?. I syringed some petrol through the bottom of the gauze and it sprayed happily out the top, so I assume this means it is not too gunged up inside, so I left it at that.

Also re-channelled the passenger-side door top, although as I was doing it a whole load of the steel bottom of the door-top came away and left some jaggy edges, so some random aluminium sheet pop-rivetted on to hide the worst of it. It still seems to be stiff enough to the mounting stud, so it will do a couple more years, but it looks like these door-tops have nearly completed their lifespan at ~30 years.

Over the last couple of weeks, re-sealed the tailgate lower. My tailgate has clearly been left down at some stage, while the vehicle has been reversed heavily into something, and one of the the tailgate "hinge" struts is slightly bent, I discovered. I could not see how I could safely bend it back with normal tools, so I elected to leave it as "history", as the tailgate does shut perfectly as is. It did mean a lot of fettling of the sealing rubbers before the tailgate would shut again. However, even without the bend on the one side, the other side required a lot of fettling too, so I am not convinced the seals I got are really the right fit for an old S2. My new riveting tool works a treat, though. The 5/16" long semi-tubular rivets work really well on the vertical seals. On the lower one, I used slightly longer 3/8" long rivets, because my metalwork is not a perfect straight edge, so the longer rivet helps to get the rivet all the way through the metalwork and seal.

[timfoster]

Swapped L488 rear lights for L581s.

Having had a few near-misses from drivers behind me apparently not seeing that I was slowing down and indicating (despite giving *loads* of notice) I wanted to see if I could illuminate things a bit more. No fancy LED bulbs here, just the bigger lenses. Before/after photos below.

Don't mind the weird number-plate-light placement and the fact they're on the wrong side, that's next on the list. I do think I'll keep the number plate light, since the NOS L581s I have don't have the clear glass section at the bottom. I have the reproduction L581 lenses as spares, but am not convinced they'd light up the number plate sufficiently anyway.

[crumbly65]

Took off my "Winter Tilt", for a clean and brush down.  Rendered a few LR spiders homeless.

Replaced it with my new "Summer Tilt" which I got from Undercover Covers.  Effectively, just a roof to stop my rapidly balding pate from getting too sunburned.  Door tops off tomorrow.........

[Daisythelandy]

Been promising to get around to this for a while but finally got it done today, added a fuse to the auxilary sockets, they only get used for the tyre pump or inspection lamp so the 10amp fuse should be enough. Also found the gromit for the speedo cable was missing so that might be the cause of the engine breather smell in the cabin, found it had slid down the cable so I refitted it properly by pushing it through and fitted it from the dash side, much easier to get your fingers in, attached the dash panel and the gromit stayed inplace so job done.
 

[Wittsend]

Took the Panda camper's cylinder head in for refurbishing .... after 2 years I'm on the last leg.

 

[JonB]

Fitted a proper radiator to replace the s3 one at last 👍

[Woodenman]

Found the soft top and engine bay with 5 busy queen wasps making their own nests. I have kindly dispatched them to live in wasp heaven with my rubber mallet.

[Herald1360]

Took a load of hedge clippings to the tip recycling centre. Trailer (small) full and 5 garden bags worth in the car.

[Wittsend]

You must have a big hedge ....

 

[gromet]

Came into work in it this morning as my disco is getting new tyres today