kevin the chicken

The only trouble with using them is that it is impossible to just buy the thing you were after! They have so much good stuff and their service is really good too.

Belt and braces. Put some hose clips on, you don't know if they will work loose when they get warm. Then you can forget about them and worry about something else that needs sorting.

My neighbour went last year and said it was a good show so I have booked in for the Sunday.

Hope they are more reliable than the old one. I remember someone telling my that they had travelled thirty miles from bury st Edmunds to Cambridge and had seen four broken down or abandoned by the side of the road. I hasten to add this was probably in the early eighties!

Less than 20miles for me, might go on the Sunday but need to check my diary first

When I sealed around my radiator to ensure that I got maximum flow through it I realised that there was not much air flow to the carbs. Before there were odd gaps for air but most of it had to have come through the radiator. Despite having read that ducting air wouldn't make much difference to performance I figured that it ought to have a dedicated supply so I put in a large flexible pipe with a bell mouth mounted behind the grille. It made loads of difference to performance, really noticeable. Hopefully yours should show an improvement too.

I have plumbed my header tank so that the top hose goes to the overflow pipe on the radiator and the bottom outlet goes in to the bottom hose from the radiator before it enters the engine. This is on a red top engine. I fitted a blank cap to the top of the radiator with just one conventional one on the header tank. Like you because of height restrictions I could only manage to get the bottom of the header level with the top of the radiator but when the tank is half filled that is the highest coolant level in the car. Any air in the system bleeds back to the header tank, I checked the radiator was full by loosening the blank cap and it was, something that never happened before I fitted the header. The header has an outlet for an overflow bottle allowing any overfill to escape. Works well especially with the nightmare air locks I used to get, drilled a small hole in the thermostat too. Now I just fill it up and I'm done, no loosening hoses, taking bleed screws out or continually topping up

Have you damaged a flexible hose when you turned the calliper around?

You could probably reuse the tights too. Make sure you take them off her first. Would have thought that as the oil was still blowing out that it was still being picked up and pumped every where it should have been. Lucky you noticed when you did or it probably wouldn't have ended well.

Is it for cooling or for induction?

Don't wast your money on second hand hoses, work out what you need then go on eBay and order silicone as they are much easier to work with than rubber. They slip on easier and seal much better when you tighten they up as they are more supple. I used auto silicone hoses, they have loads of listings for all sizes, angles and colours. Doesn't work out that expensive either as you only do it once avoiding lost coolant and hassle. I reckon I did my complete set on my red top for less than fifty pounds

Nobody will ever accuse you of being a couch potato!

I don't care if it's another weekend as I found out last week that I have to work that Saturday and all the leave slots are taken

Despite all odds I did make it for a quick blast. Got back changed the oil and filter and the fuel filter. Nice to do something I wanted to do for a change rather than something I had to do.

If anybody is thinking about entering this one you'd better get your skates one because there is a limit of 250 cars and when I looked today there were already 185 entries. My entry is going in the post tomorrow!

I was going out but by the time I had moved the huge pile of wood out of the way so I could move the unimog to allow me get the range rover off the trailer so I could get the robin hood out of the garage it was dark! Tomorrow I am going out even if it snows and damn all the outstanding jobs at home

Petrol should really be ok as it was empty when I got it. I guess I will have to take it to bits tomorrow to see if I can see anything obvious. Funny really I would be happier at fault finding on a multi cylinder engine than this. I guess once I have Sussed it out it should be simple enough.

Make him an offer for it, looks ripe for restoration. Don't worry I've spent my whole life confused and it doesn't get any better

Cant get my shredder to start.its a few years old but looks almost new. It ran fine when I got it home in the autumn and I put it away in a dry shed and covered it up. Put fresh petrol in the other day but it wouldn't start. Tried a fresh plug but there seems to be no spark at all. It is a Titan shredder with an 8 hp Tecumseh engine. Anybody got an ideas where I should start looking?

Better not show this to the wife especially with an M3 engine. It's gonna be something special when it's done

This time of year it probably has young to feed so is willing to take risks. They can be needlessly destructive though. A friend of mine had similar trouble to you so when he heard a commotion in the middle of the night grabbed his gun and raced down stairs stark naked, threw open the front door and on seeing the offender nip past let him have both barrels. Once the roar of the discharge had died away he went to inspect the deceased fox which was when his wife reminded him that he'd parked his brand new skoda behind the hedge. Still got him before he got any chickens

Funny that I was thinking that would be his next move

People like you show me up. I haven't even serviced mine yet. Along with other hold ups I seem to have got a serious aversion to the cold this year, if I'm not being paid for it I'm not going out in it! I was planning to do a tie rod conversion, change the pick up for the fuel pump, put some longer wheel studs on and sort out my fuel gauge sender so that it works. So far nothing

I went to little gransden last year and it was a good day out, especially as there were two lancasters and a Vulcan! It's quite local to me so I shall be going again, thanks for pointing out that the entry list is open.

Shame that. Seems to happen quite often that someone with a bit of power and some daft ideas takes over forgetting that it is the exhibitors at shows that make them happen. Last year at one of the steam rallies that I have been attending for the last 20 years with one or sometimes two tractors they suddenly decided that they were going to limit space for camping (not for all the exhibitors,just the tractors) and that not everybody who had been attending previously would be allowed entry. Consequently not many people attended and this year the entry forms have been sent out with no restrictions. I remember that when the recession hit home and the steam entries dropped through the floor because of transport costs they were glad to have us then