colr6 Posted July 25, 2015 Report Posted July 25, 2015 All started with not been happy with the clutch, so I thought pull the box splash out and get a twin paddle helix kit. While I was at it put a skeleton ultra light flywheel on. So hey ho £1200 later. While the box was out might aswell have a look because it was very noisy Straight cuts normally are but this is noisy so hello Mr Quaife send me an overhaul kit couple of late nights found lay gear was too long by 1.25 mm hey presto found out why it's noisy lay gear under stress when fitted. Shims turned down lay gear fitted perfect! Optimist of a quieter box. So back together she goes Bleed the clutch Drop off the stands. Fire it up. Gearbox still bloody noisy New release bearing noisy. Press clutch set off judders like twat. So all in all £1400 lighter and worse than when I started! So sat down in my Shackleton chair looked at the old anglia and thought don't like you any more So if it gives me any more problems there will be a lot of top notch parts for sale. Having a cup of tea and a fag putting prices on the parts I wish at times like this I could drink at least you get pissed and forget all about it. Closing the garage door off to kick the dog and sulk see you all at silverstone with a complete car or one in bits for sale!
PeteRS8084 Posted July 25, 2015 Report Posted July 25, 2015 Chin up..........could be worse! Catch you at silverstone
Admin Vista Posted July 25, 2015 Admin Report Posted July 25, 2015 Hey, what did the dog do? Kicking the cat on the other hand....... Commiserations mate, been having some issues with mine since Classic Ford Show too.
colr6 Posted July 25, 2015 Author Report Posted July 25, 2015 Don't think the neighbour would be too pleased about kicking his cat! Though I'd love to it always craps in my garden!!!
Admin Vista Posted July 25, 2015 Admin Report Posted July 25, 2015 Same (re neighbours cat) I have threatened to deport it several times! 1
luckyjim Posted July 28, 2015 Report Posted July 28, 2015 give it another week or so,visit a show and your enthusiasm for the Anglia will come back,dont do anything rash you may regret later. 1
jamie956 Posted July 28, 2015 Report Posted July 28, 2015 Sometimes I feel the same these cars just fight you at every corner and drive you insane I could go on for ever with all the issues ive had, but when you get that one day a year where every thing is just right and it fly's down the road as it should it just sucks you back in. 3
colr6 Posted July 28, 2015 Author Report Posted July 28, 2015 Will find out on Saturday it goes for its mot. Luckily the guy at the garage is into his osfs he has three escort 2x mk1 and a mk2so hopefully on a winner to start with!
brettp Posted July 28, 2015 Report Posted July 28, 2015 I've been pushed to th limit with mine but now it's getting to the point where most of the problems are ironed out and anything that you can do to make it more enjoyable to drive is the way forward even if it makes it slower
PeteRS8084 Posted July 28, 2015 Report Posted July 28, 2015 Hope your tester passes you, even if he has escorts.....you know what you said about them lol. Good luck, keep smiling
colr6 Posted July 28, 2015 Author Report Posted July 28, 2015 My brother inlaw has two the numbers are stacking in my favour or can YOU prove otherwise. He He should have put a bet on this!
Moderator Rally Pack 2000 Posted July 29, 2015 Moderator Report Posted July 29, 2015 Same (re neighbours cat) I have threatened to deport it several times! Ive been at war with my neighbours cats for the past couple of years. It started when I painted the car using a softer acrylic paint as it was my first attempt and its easier to get a reasonable finish with the end result. However it does chip very easily for the first year. A few days after sanding it back and buffing it to a great finish I found a whole series of lines down the front guard. The cat on route home to next door using my car as a platform to get over the fence had scrambled up the side of the car and must have found it more slippery than usual and proceeded to scratch its way to gain a foothold. As such I was forced to paint the guard all over again. Hearing my vocal response the neighbour said later that she would have paid for the damage but knowing I liked to do it myself she didnt see the point! After this with the paint looking better than it had in a while I put some new rear taillight lenses on the same Mk2 Escort and every morning I was finding the right rear had a line of liquid running down it that I simply dismissed as condensation dripping from the carport roof. After a while I noticed that the lens (being one of those cheap Chinese ones that are more painted than tinted) was going white with the red and orange parts beginning to bleach out. So I make a closer inspection of the condensation and the smell was unmistakable a cat was pissing in the same spot over and over. It was using the rear spoiler to sit on as a flat platform to pee from. So I had to get better made rear lenses that wouldnt bleach as easily. After all this one morning I heard cats fighting under my carport and came out to see them going at it on the rear of my Mk2 and chased them off with a watery hose down. Upon inspection I found the replica fibreglass spoiler on the back has been cracked in the fight. At the time I fitted the fibreglass one there werent any rubber replicas that I knew of. Later I was fortunate to discover the guy here in Australia that makes replica rubbers ones only a mile from my home. So I had to wait a bit till he made his next batch and fitted it looking like new. Not two days after fitment the pissing cat came and left one of his little puddles on it. Now you would think rubber would be impervious to liquids but the cat pee left a mark that wouldnt wash off. As you could imagine I was furious. Then if some may remember I was doing up the rear brakes on my Twincam. It still has its original period drums from 1970. I had them skimmed ever so slightly so as to keep the thing as original as I could. One of the springs however was basically corroded closed and ordered some from the UK and left the newly machined drums underneath the car which was also under the carport so no rain or anything would get on them however one day I noticed that they were full of moisture, yep you guessed it they can had used the drums as its personal toilet bowl. (lesson never leave drums upturned) Seeking advice from a local Vet as to the fascination with peeing on my cars and if he had a deterrent he determined that the cars being parked along the neighbours fenceline and there was a rival cat challenging them on my cars on the same fenceline that the peeing was a territorial thing and it was so ingrained in the cats head there wasnt much I could do about it. So I spoke to my neighbour about it (a little old lady) said she couldnt believe her cat would do something like that and wasnt prepared to keep it locked up. So I declared war effectively and put up netting along the entire side of the carport just off the neighbours fence. I furthermore purchased a motion activated wildlife camera that would film the thing if it tried to break the perimeter. The first film footage below shows it being deterred by the netting from the fence. The camera is sitting on the roof of my Twincam and then you see the footage in the second video! Outsmarted by a pissing cat! Im currently trying a new thing called an anti cat walker which are these plastic squares that clip together and they have a spikey like surface that the cats hate to walk on. I havent had a incursion since but its still early days. But the whole exercise has cost hundreds in parts and spoilers and paint. The cats name is Chopper and I feel its name should be its fate! My families response oh dont be mean to the sweet little kitty cat. Grrrrrrrrrr. Apologies for venting in someone elses thread. I have been wanting to scream about it for ages LOL PS. Sorry I just tried uploading the two AVi files from the camera but an error came up that I cat upload that type of file. As such to add the second video shows the cat within inches of the camera on the Twincams roof trying to pee on it! 1
Admin Vista Posted July 29, 2015 Admin Report Posted July 29, 2015 Just shoot the bloody thing, aren't all animals fair game for the BBQ in Australia? I have no truck with people wanting cats as pets but when they're urinating and defecating in the garden my kids play in they get as violent a treatment as I can dish out. There's one in particular that if I could catch, I'd put it in a box and drop it off a hundred or so miles away. Grrrr stinking animals!
colr6 Posted July 29, 2015 Author Report Posted July 29, 2015 Totally agree with vista! Why waste a cartridge when a free plastic bag and brick will do. Then you can do a mythbuster challenge to see if said three things cat/bag/brick will displace enough water to float. In my tests prove conclusive THEY DONT problem solved. Sorry to any cat lovers.
Admin Vista Posted July 29, 2015 Admin Report Posted July 29, 2015 Sorry to any cat lovers. I'm not! This is what Ocular Toxoplasmosis from cat faeces can do to your eyeball. I was infected, the eye infirmary thinks, as a child in a garden somewhere as some of the scars I have are very old. It last flared up in 1996/1997 and I spent a long time on steroid drugs trying to control it. I won't have my kids exposed to that same risk just so Tiddles next door doesn't have to stay indoors and shit in a tray.
SmokeEm Posted July 30, 2015 Report Posted July 30, 2015 For gods sake you lot, don't let MrsSmokeEm hear you! She'll have contracts taken out on ALL of you
colr6 Posted July 30, 2015 Author Report Posted July 30, 2015 Tell you what. At my age glad of anybody after me HaHa
khanlad Posted July 31, 2015 Report Posted July 31, 2015 Yeah but not sure mrs smokem sticking your knackers on a stick is the kind of after you'd be looking for? But then again..................
Danish Posted July 31, 2015 Report Posted July 31, 2015 Yeah but not sure mrs smokem sticking your knackers on a stick is the kind of after you'd be looking for? But then again.................. Internet rule 34 (if you can think of it, there is internet porn of it) 2
colr6 Posted August 1, 2015 Author Report Posted August 1, 2015 Just come back from test station, talking to the guy who tested it telling him his escorts were brill/ awesome (being a two faced twat) hey presto it worked got a PASS. Couple more jobs to do then load up off to silverstone.
PeteRS8084 Posted August 1, 2015 Report Posted August 1, 2015 You know escorts are awesome! You angle box would have passed anyway lol. Good luck and see you there.
khanlad Posted August 1, 2015 Report Posted August 1, 2015 You cant lie about escorts being cool great brill, because they just are. I used to give the bloke that did my mots lemon sherbuts, and guide him away from anything i knew was.... dubious! In the good old days before heath and saftey bull.... viewing areas 2
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