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Opened one of my pressies on Christmas morning to find the enclosed...... Must be a copyright thing ..... as you can imagine, it's being returned to Amazon!!!!!

Strange, mines fine.....although mine being an XXL perhaps they can squeeze more letters in..?

You've been on a diet?

At the risk of making Julie laugh out loud - I am defo up for a bit of German sausage! Just me as too far for Clare in one day Mad Dog Pete not going to be awake early enough to come. Strangely looking forward to being by myself in The Beast after having 11 people staying at my home over Xmas!

Cracking run out to Llyn Brenig for breakfast then back through Clocaenog Forest. Jeff

Here y'go

Light weight, low cost? Open the garage door.

As for extracting gasses from garage I have fitted a bathroom extractor fan the the front wall above the door. If needed I can connect aluminuim flexible ducting and move it to the exhaust location 10m of ducting costs about £20-£25 plus the cost of whichever fan you need. £10 up tpo £100 plus depending on manufacturer, noise levels etc. This is wired into a plug that can be used as required, although you could just wire it into the garage light, as you would with your bathroom. It generally helps remove all sorts of smells from the garage, such as if you ever use spray paint/ grinding/ cleaning/ spilt fuel / oil etc etc. Lee

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Don't be afraid to ask me anything about the car, I will always try my best to answer for you. Yes mine was similar to that but did not have the charge indication lights

I'd suggest starter motor off and a camera in for starters . I doubt you will be able to see any drips from the slave cylinder but you would be able to see wetness around the hose ends . Happy to loan you my camera i you need one.

@si_salisbury When I had your car I had a ctek charger and I think I left the wiring in the car when you bought it. It was hard wired in from the battery to the 12V outlet on the dash I had the MXS 3.8 and a lead that went from the charger to the 12v outlet. To put it on charge took seconds HTH

I don't see much of a fall in the car culture, more of a shift from one thing to another, in the recent years, I've seen a huge rise in the amount of people buying Nissan S-Chassis cars for drifting. At the moment, drifting seems to be the 'in' thing, and I'm seeing more and more people having the Mk4 Supra, FD RX7 and Nissan Skylines as their dream cars, and there are no kits for them around. As for 7s, I feel like people would only know Caterham from Top Gear and the like, but to anyone who isn't massively into cars wouldn't know what a Westfield is. It'd be good to see at what age people first heard about Westfield/Bought a Westfield, because I'm pretty sure there will be less that 5 people under 25 as current owners (and mine is still being stripped down). The 7 shape isn't as cool as it used to be, people would have seen the 7 shape in The Prisoner and gone on to buy because of it. And on the price front, I played £1,500 for a rolling 93' SE chassis, with bodywork, ali panels, axle and suspension, all of it in, not exactly optimal condition, (bodywork needs hours of cleaning or painting...) and of all the original stuff I'd be looking at using the Chassis, axle, uprights, and some of the bodywork. In all the build will probably cost around, maybe a little bellow £10k. Not many 18 year olds can afford to do that, not to mention, I'd expect a lot of people my age to turn their nose up at a chassis that is 25 years old (even though they're the better chassis), and want a newer one, which would cost a hell of a lot more...

Tickets booked for Friday and Saturday, need to get a new tent now!

As said, starting and idling to temp does more harm than good, it needs to get hot enough to burn off deposits, ie. go for a drive

Hmmmm... Car culture as a whole IS in major decline. Not "some areas of car culture" or "it seems in some parts of the world". No "seems to be" or "may be" or "could be" or "in my opinion". No, the entire car culture is in major decline. Fact seemingly based on there being fewer replica's out there. So the entire car culture is in decline because a niche area seems to have less of whatever was being looked at at the time. Says who? One guy on Facebook? Unqualified claptrap masquerading as fact. Facebook "news" is just as bad and likely more pervasive and a whole lot more damaging to peoples perception of the world than "fake news". I'd forgotten how high it was on this horse...

I think a lot of it is being driven by the insane political picture where car use is to be dissuaded and yet every country wants car production. Young people cannot do what we did, insurance has killed that off and with motorbikes the hoops to jump through before you can ride a full bike is long and costly. Many do not drive and use tube train and Uber to get around. What has happened in the Kit car world is there are no longer cheap cars to build. Quality has risen and so has price. the areas that are thriving are the high end replicas, where the originals are mega bucks so spending £30k on a replica is sound value. I look at say the Enigma, lovely car but MX5 based and £20k upwards to build, you are in really nice Porsche area pricing, so why would you buy a kit instead? The cars we drive are raw, that is the appeal and will continue but for a new manufacturer to build a new car that will capture good sales to give a return on investment it is harder than ever before. We have already seen a decline in the shows, down to one big one, from 5 in the heyday, that is down to money and interest. How far might it decline, that all depends on what we are allowed to do going forward by legislation.

Most likely, it’s usually part of the advice for many if not most engines. Mind you, in part, these days, it’s also an emissions thing, too.

As Ian said, long term, it dos more harm than good, allowing both condensation and nasty chemical byproducts to form inside the engine. If you do start it, “really” it should be taken on a proper run to get fully up to temperature and run under load for a little while. Otherwise, there are better ways of long term storage for engines etc. Though a few months over winter, at least in most of the UK, doesn’t really count as long term storage. Plus every cold start can be that little extra bit of wear and tear...

I'd suggest it doesn't do the engine any good warming up with no load. Better to leave it alone and just keep the battery charged. Pump your tyres up to 50 psi.

Happy Christmas everyone from me and my in progress build!!!

2 words come to mind........................ first one is 'Bell' . second one is 'End' .................... I rest my case , m'lord

How do you get the westy on the wall bracket ??????

I inserted by camera through the starter motor aperture in the bell housing. With a bit of wiggling could watch the slave cylinder moving backwards and forwards. This can be achieved with the engine in situ.

Could you take the plate under the bellhousing out or the starter motor and buy a mini camera to attach to your phone and see if you can see the leak ? If it is the slave cylinder then you will need to replace it. If it is the nipple, then wise to buy the bits to make an external bleed point. Its a bit of work to remove an engine but you will need a crane to make life easier.

On many occaisions at car shows, motor racing events etc Richard Noble has been there getting donations fund raising for this and Thrust projects. I have 2 posters on my wall signed by him and Andy Green (at Le Mans) one year. Working tirelesly (British engineering at its best), Would we all be enjoying our cars if not for this sort of attitude, ignoring nay sayers etc. Good luck to Ian Warhurst.

Has anyone been watching the two Royal Navy documentaries on TV at the moment? One following the new carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth on a Sunday night, and the other about HMS Duncan, which was on last night. (I forget which channels they're on) Both very interesting, and worth a watch.

I have some drops at the bottom of the bellhousing and the reservoir needs refilling every 300 miles ish.