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    So it'd be ok to braze copper pipe in? Speaking of which, what happened to 02GF74?
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    Nothing can go wrong here...
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    People badmouth them, but www.bronco4x4.com reckon to have sorted their construction problems. They wear fast, but you can't beat ££ for your rubber.
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    Shandy? I need vodka now, after discovering the resonant speed for your bar stool's steering.
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    A chance to spam piccies of my car? Why yes... Gwyn Lewis bumper, very strong, quite light, very impressed thus far.
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    Heavy? I was surprised at how light my Milemarker is, but then it's not full of copper in one end.
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    Have Paddock got any of those ex-mil 109 ambulance bodies left? They were flogging them 5 years ago for £30ish, well insulated and make excellent garden sheds.
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    Well, I spent ages with my shoes and socks off working out the numbers when my engine was coming apart, I'm damn well going to show it off!
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    What bits are thin on the ground for Sankeys? Series wheel bearings, steel, alu, a couple of lights... what else is there?
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    For my 300Tdi, which has a 2-hole gasket as standard, the compression ratio afterwards is shown. If you're going to run higher boost or play silly with the engine, go for the thickest you can but otherwise standard will be fine.
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    If I had to fill in an extra form every year but was then seen as 'responsible' enough to use green lanes, I say "aye".
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    Oxygen, someone, please! It's a bloody good job Will's got a sense of humour...
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    If you weren't too fussed about transient differences, you could put a water temp sender in the manifold and wire it through a switch to a gauge (if yours is marked in degrees, obviously). Not sure how accurate it would be, or how accurate you want it. For a qualitative measurement it could be quite adequate?
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    But 205 tyres are cheap as chips anyhow - is it really worth creating an MOT set and running on 'others' anyway?
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    I've got harnesses in a daily drive, and it's more of a pain than you'd expect or imagine as they're restrictive and don't adjust easily, to the point that most of the time I use them as a lap-belt only, which somewhat negates the point. If you're dead-set on them, I use the cage as the top mount.
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    True (mine's similar), but if a car had been built by someone I didn't know rather than the factory, I'd want to run over it with a fine toothcomb to look at the quality of the job and not snap it up expecting there to be no chafing pipes, panel fit issues and non-standard parts. Actually, all those appear on factory cars too
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    To my mind there's an awful lot of post-1985 parts on that car. Wings, rear tub, smooth roof and doors are all later items. The bulkhead has two washer jets though and I can't see the windscreen hinges. How much of the log-booked car is there?
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    Mark - if you're looking to offload them at a knockdown price, give me a shout
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    Are there really only 7km of BOATs in Derbyshire left? That's saddening. Do some of my former favourite routes including Roych Clough come within this, or are they omitted as UCRs? Letter written and posted anyway, the report doesn't even mention us if it doesn't have to.
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    Machine Mart do a set of three sizes for £25 or so - don't bother. Despite good purchase on the pulley the 'feet' just deformed and passed it by. Attention from Mr Grinder didn't improve matters either - I eventually used the spider and threaded piece and made my own legs from steel, not cast ally.
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    ... but on your 110, further away
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    Why do you think I'm called Turbocharger? There's a pile of ten of the things at home, and they interest me because there's as much engineering in one as the rest of the engine...
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    In fact, if you're working in a soft material like aluminium for a disposable/consumable part, you could use the spark plug to cut the thread. Bung the scrap man £5 for as many old plugs as you can carry in a bag and put a hacksaw cut at an angle on each side of the thread (a "farmer's tap"), then screw it in.
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    Or for what you want, hacksaw a piece of old exhaust out and weld the lambda sensor holder to your pipe?
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    The paper I read said he was doing 100mph, prompting calls to ban them. And Astras. And 40 limits. Ban everything. Me, I say rock on.
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