Practically Classics Forum

Today would have been a great day for getting work done on the cars...Instead I wound up spending the entire day faffing around replacing the weatherproofing on our shed roof. https://i.ibb.co/T8B6BMg/IMG-20210321-175919.jpg Would have liked to get it a bit flatter, but despite messing about for wel...

Finally managed to find time to get the webpage for the BX live on my website yesterday. I really wanted to get caught up on there as my intention is to keep updating it as things progress...which is far easier when I'm not playing catch-up! Nothing on there you've not seen on here as far as I'm awa...

While it was a bit breezy really for driving tiny three wheeler vehicles with a kerb weight roughly equal to that of a postage stamp today, I wasn't about to let that get in the way. I wanted to see if the last few jobs I'd done on TPA had any impact on the way she drove. So she was the chariot of c...

(Pedantry alert) "to finally hopefully properly sort." You may have split the infinitive, but at least you did it in style. Looking at some of the grammar in my posts makes me cringe. Probably the biggest problem is that while I'm writing them I'm usually juggling three or four other things at the ...

Package arrived this morning to allow me to finally hopefully properly sort the throttle cable on TPA. https://i.ibb.co/5hNWwC1/IMG-20210310-131224.jpg I know I probably still have a load of cable somewhere in the garage...but this was all of £0.88 a metre so I wasn't going to lose sleep over trying...

The LHM leak is definitely somewhere up above the nearside rear suspension arm. https://i.ibb.co/VNdmHMH/IMG-20210309-170514.jpg Didn't have time to get the wheel off to investigate today - the offending line is totally obscured by said wheel so no clear view of it today. You may recall a few months...

Well I didn't see that coming! https://i.ibb.co/vLKwKhh/IMG-20210308-165403.jpg I was expecting a battle of biblical proportions to get these off. Nope...They just unscrewed absolutely fine. No huge explosion of LHM when they came off either so the diaphragms are probably still intact. https://i.ibb...

Hey look what was dropped off for the BX today... https://i.ibb.co/5GZqTwz/IMG-20210307-172604.jpg These are actually rear spheres for a non-hydractive Xantia rather than BX ones, but they're pretty close spec wise. Will be absolutely fine for the purposes of getting the car into a driveable state. ...

Today's unexciting update...TPA has had an engine oil & filter change. https://i.ibb.co/hZzhJST/IMG-20210306-171159.jpg https://i.ibb.co/GsTfc0c/IMG-20210306-172724.jpg I had another shot at a Slow-Mo video of the distributor working in daylight. Given we've got a clear cap on at the moment it seeme...

Nothing much today, mainly just got an oil & filter change done on the BX. No more horrible rusty oil filter. https://i.ibb.co/8gd78rF/IMG-20210305-165019.jpg That wasn't the worst filter to get off I've dealt with, but it wasn't far off. I had to get the chain wrench and breaker bar involved. Pulle...