The Silver Porka is here!

thinfourth · Post by **thinfourth** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:39 am

Block paving

Are you Mad with a landrover S1, an e-bay spec elise and a crappy old 924 have you any idea how difficult it is to get oil stains off block paving

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:45 am

The landy doesn't leak anything but petrol, and it's run out of that now so it's clean

I fixed the tank with some chemical petrol tank fixer, took about an hour to be eaten away and then it dropped about a gallon of fuel onto my parents garage floor. Great seeing as it's attached to the house with an adjoining door....

Mind you it lifted the worst of the oil stains where the rest of it's fluids had dripped, so not all bad

Landy is still at my parents needing either a decent fuel tank (New one was quoted at £230! GTF I said!) a suicidal welder to fix it or me to spend some proper money on proper petrol tank fixer not any old crap off e-bay (Fuel resistant my foot!)

gorrie · Post by **gorrie** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:25 am

Sounds like you need a Jayes Fluid rewards card.

robin · Post by **robin** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 2:05 pm

RICHARDHUMBLE wrote:
Landy is still at my parents needing either a decent fuel tank (New one was quoted at £230! GTF I said!) a suicidal welder to fix it

Fill the tank with water before you weld it - then no risk of explosion? If you tack on a panel first with something like tiger seal, then the water coming out of the tank will actually cause the tiger seal to seal; of course the welding will melt the tiger seal, but by then the tank will be welded, so who cares!

BTW, you probably want to braze (sp?) rather than weld? I mean you don't want to melt your original fuel tank, just bond on a fixing panel I think.

Cheers,
Robin

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 2:17 pm

I think the original was soldered, I tried that to fix it but my enthusiasm exceeded my skill by a large margin....

I have found some POR15 fuel tank sealant that makes a rubberised tank inside your old tank for £22 which will be worth a shot I reckon

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:34 pm

Going to have a look at this one on Tues! £550

Any shed buying tips? It's got a bit of surface rust on one wing but other wise solid. The boot rattles a bit but it's otherwise in good nick apparently.

Well for a 1980's 90k mile porker at any rate!

TAMBO · Post by **TAMBO** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:19 pm

Not wanting to put you off mate but i have had a 924, about 4 years ago.

had it for 6 months, it was a dog, never ran good at all and it handled like a sponge on a rollerscate.

it had a horrible miss about 5000rpm and i tried everthing to fix it.

had it into a few highly recomended guyz and they could not fix it.

finally got told from main dealer that this was a comon fault.????? who knows, i got shot of it.

if your going to see this one make sure sure she revs clearly. or you might end up pullin your hair out.

cheers

Tam

thinfourth · Post by **thinfourth** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:26 pm

RICHARDHUMBLE wrote:The landy doesn't leak anything but petrol, and it's run out of that now so it's clean

the only time a landrover stops leaking oil is when it has no oil in it

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:08 am

RICHARDHUMBLE wrote:Any shed buying tips?

Aye, tinworm is your biggest enemy - check all structural areas like bulkheads & suspension turrets, but I'd assumed you'd be wise to that malarky Richard?

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:49 am

Oh yes, I'm well tuned to tinworm detection. My brother has a Mk3 Golf GTi... Well I suppose it's more metal detection under the rust in that case!
Bodywork is galvanised so the rusty wing is a little suspicious but I'll have a good rummage about. Also I need to check the tyres are good, don't want to have to spend $$$ straight away.

It did have a missfire but this fellow says it's gone, it's got a new ignition system in installments, coils, leads the lot. I'll be sure to fully explore the performance envelope!

As for the landy, you think after standing for 5 years there is anything left in mine?!? I did refill it last month so I could find all the leaks. It will elp that I have done up the diff and gearbox drains properly... It was in preparation for an MOT, until the fuel tank dropped it's guts

Would have been amusing in the MOT station....

I'll sort out the extra piccies today. The biggest problem I can see is there the car would appear to have a shocking pink interior

but I'm hoping (Please God!) that it's a camera thing... You'll see what I mean...

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:30 pm

I hope that's faded red.....

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:39 pm

RICHARDHUMBLE wrote: I hope that's faded red.....

PINK

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:00 pm

WHAT THE ??!!

loving the shade of pink Rich

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:01 pm

I'm sure it's just the lighting...

"Every silver shed has a pink lining??!?!?"

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:20 pm

That INTERIOR!!!

Scottish Elises

The Silver Porka is here!

924???????????????????????