The 'look at what I did today' thread

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 10:59 pm

Nope! Only mildly luke warm on that one.

Post by **Pushki** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 11:14 pm

You dropped a spark plug into the abyss?

Post by **Doggo** » Sun Oct 26, 2014 1:08 am

Man looks into the abyss...
sees a spark plug staring back at him.
That's when a man finds his bendy retrieval tool.
And that's what saves his car from the abyss

Nice work on the concrete, BTW.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sun Oct 26, 2014 8:33 am

Pushki is sort of close...

Anymore thoughts from anyone? Or shall I just spill on what a complete drokk up it is!

Post by **Doggo** » Sun Oct 26, 2014 9:46 am

It looks to me more like a bleed valve that's been over tightened and sheared off, in a very inaccessible place. Which is pretty horrible if true. I don't know what's as horrible looking to get to as that on a lude though...

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:03 am

Ok... Good guesses but no banana I'm afraid, so I'll just spill...

What you can see there is a view down the back of the engine on my recently acquired CX (the one with the leather interior).
At the bottom (hard to make out) is on one side a driveshaft intermediate joint and opposite that, the back of the ali sump.
In between those 2 you can see the old oil pressure switch that I had replaced, nestling in a nice freshly formed hole in said sump.

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:06 am

not good

Post by **Donald** » Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:42 am

wurlycorner wrote:Neither of us had ever used a cut-off saw before, but after taking a while to work out how to put the petrol in...

To be fair it was the smallest filler hole I've ever seen.

A good day though and I think given the time we were actually there we did well

nitin_s1 · Post by **nitin_s1** » Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:48 am

Post by **Doggo** » Sun Oct 26, 2014 11:13 am

wurlycorner wrote:Ok... Good guesses but no banana I'm afraid, so I'll just spill...

What you can see there is a view down the back of the engine on my recently acquired CX (the one with the leather interior).
At the bottom (hard to make out) is on one side a driveshaft intermediate joint and opposite that, the back of the ali sump.
In between those 2 you can see the old oil pressure switch that I had replaced, nestling in a nice freshly formed hole in said sump.