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Feb 13, 2019 16:56:23 GMT
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how about a still from the Sisters vid for Black Planet? Inexplicably most of them sleeping through Eldritch driving the Monkees GTO coupe Arff hahahaha they so very obviously would have had plans to paint that car black for the video but were told they couldn't so they just decided gay Californian pink and yellow would probably be okay. It's like Lemmy performing Ace of Spade in a tellytubby onesie... and not ironically for charity.
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Feb 13, 2019 17:00:23 GMT
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Bauhaus Stone Roses Sisters of Mercy Killing Joke Spacemen 3 Happy Mondays New Model Army House of Love Psychedelic Furs Conflict Orbital Pop Will Eat Itself Eclectic enough? Anyone who spent the 1980s listening to synth-pop dross because that was what was on TOTP or Radio 1 and looked no further than that deserves everything they got in terms of musical abominations I have long assumed I am the only person on the entire planet who remembers House of Love. "Sitting lonely on a plastic chair"
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Feb 13, 2019 17:23:20 GMT
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House of Love with Terry Bickers on guitar are one of the best things about the 80s. The end, they just are. Even post-Bickers they were superb. Recently re-formed and still well above the average
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Feb 13, 2019 18:50:38 GMT
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I haven't heard any of the new stuff. The first two albums were the soundtrack to my final years in Birmingham and my lonely first years as an art student in London. I did also buy the album they did around 2006 but I didn't ever listen to that enough for it become ingrained and right now I can't remember it at all.
I'd add to the 80's list
Talking Heads The Fall Jesus & Mary chain The Weddoes TheSmiths (I don't care, they were ace) Furniture The Blow Monkeys (I don't care, they were ace) MBV Sonic Youth The Pixies Cud Sod it, I'm also adding Julian Cope/Teardrop Explodes
And this, musically, is what pop is really meant to be. It's right on the over-stretched edge of adolescent angst, barely able to hold itself together. Bernard Sumner's voice is about to split his throat because the song has one foot outside his vocal range. The music is like an epileptic fit of bleeps, stammers and twitches and all of it is fairly cheap sounding synth drums and demo mode gimmicks... yet despite being close to tearing itself up it's a perfect symphony of tense anxiety and mundane aloofness... exactly what adolescent pop exists to reflect.
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Feb 13, 2019 19:40:16 GMT
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I suppose as I'm back here already (what happened to staying away? It's Bstard's fault. I'm so thrilled to have RR royalty posting in my thread I can't stay away now) that I should probably add a car related update to my progress log.
I wasn't going to. I felt I needed a break from that for a while, but I do feel that there ought to be one progress style post per three pages of naughty.
Well.... sigh... it turned out my problems STILL weren't over. Can't recall where I was last time I updated, but the car was running and I'd done everything I could... discovered my power-valve or whatever it's called was stuck open and there was some grit holding the floats up every 5th time they were moved up and down with a finger.
So it seemed like that would be the problem... a gritted up carb.
Cleaned up but done so out in the street with two people doing it which I always find a little difficult to control in terms of what I want to do and how I want to do it. Don't get me wrong it was great to have the classic electrics guy there and I was grateful for his help with the electrics diagnostics and that he was wiling to stick around to help me get the car going after I declared it must be carb related.
But, if I'm doing my carb I prefer to take the whole carb indoors and do it on the table rather than take the top off in the street to do it there. But that's what we did and the car got running again.
It ran fine for a few journeys but that told me nothing as I'd been here twice already previously and then it had crapped out again, so I had no confidence at all about driving the car. Each time I took it for a non-essential drive round it seemed fine though.
Monday morning I decided it was fine and I should stop being doubtful about it, so I decided I'd drive in to Brighton and park it on a car park to do some Valentines day shopping and not worry at all about it refusing to start on a £2 per hour multistorey car park when it was time to go home.
Got in the car, fired it up adn was just going to let it idle for a few minutes before I set off. Old man Ted trundled past with his massive hearing aids and started gesturing to me to switch the engine off through the window. Knowing Ted, it was nothing, but he did seem to have the urgent air of an old man trying to stop a neighbours car from burning completely to the ground, so after he'd persisted for a few minutes I reluctantly switched off.
Ted said "I see you've got it running again" and then told me about his lawn, and then he wobbled off to buy his daily ration of Cheese & Onion McCoys.
Naturally, the car wouldn't fire up properly or run right when I tried to restart it. I knew it was fouled plugs once more.
So I thought "curse word this. I can't keep cleaning and cooking the plugs every fourth trip I take". So I pulled the entire carb off and took it indoors.
Top off again. More grit in the bowl. Not loads, about 4 grains in the bottom, and this time is was black. It would have blown in as we investigated the top, leaving the base open to the wind tunnel of my road.
So I decided that maybe to get to the bottom of this, I ought to re-fit the original jets (yes Rev, now's your moment) and run it as it was... even though I'd done about 600 miles on the rejetted carb with absolutely no trouble at all.
I went over the whole carb meticulously, gave it all a blast through with canned air and carb cleaner, swapped all the jets back to the originals, put it all carefully back together on my kitchen table and then re-fitted it.
Removed the plugs, cleaned them, cooked them, stuck them back in.
Car fired up perfectly and has run perfectly about five times since. I keep going out and driving it, bringing it back, letting it cool down. It was fine yesterday, and its fine today.
But who knows if it will be tomorrow, or Friday, or whether I will be pulling the plugs again and cooking them at 60º for half an hour before going to Sainsbury's for some eggs.
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At this point now I have two thoughts:
1. It's still ruddy cold in terms of air temperature. My carb is fed this very cold air through a very large foam filter. There's no recirculation system, no source of internal air to draw upon. Fuel is less likely to atomise, and its possible that ... along with some grit, a weak battery, and the ruddy cold weather... I had not adjusted my starting method to account for the icy winter air. I may have just impulsively been giving it too much fuel when cranking it from cold and it was simply trickling ice cold petrol into the chambers and instantly flooding them. I need to remember to adopt a winter starting method each time I fire it up for the first time in the morning.
2. I've completely forgotten for now how the throttle linkage and the choke mechanism are supposed to operate together.
Next day edit: the old dementia receded just enough last night for me to remember what's meant to happen between choke and throttle. When the choke is pulled it has to tug the throttle position a little way open... which it does.
*sinks back into a cloud of barely-formed reminiscence*
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Feb 14, 2019 10:51:19 GMT
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Sell it and buy another Humber. You'll be much happier.
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Tales of the Volcano Lair hereFrankenBug - Vulcan Power hereThe Frankenhealey here
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Feb 14, 2019 12:12:26 GMT
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Sell it and buy another Humber. You'll be much happier. No, I'm fine ta very much. I'm amerely adding progress to the small element of this thread that's still a Scimitar owners's progress thread. I've just started tearing out the old felt lining in the back. I just made a couple of covers for the rearmost mini storage compartments and I'm figuring out how to turn the empty rear seat hollows into covered storage bins. By the time I've done that I'll have a two-seater with a full width/length flatbed in the rear... ... Covered in yoga mat foam. It's a theme now.
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Feb 14, 2019 13:35:17 GMT
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But is it big enough to do a nodding dog or whatever its called yoga pose ? Would have thought it a bit cramped ?
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Feb 14, 2019 14:20:30 GMT
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But is it big enough to do a nodding dog or whatever its called yoga pose ? Would have thought it a bit cramped ? James Cutting, drilling and fitting that rollcage from inside the car, with the seats still in it for a lot of the process created a whole new genre of yoga moves. I would be banned if I told you the various names I came up with whilst inventing them though.
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Feb 14, 2019 19:11:17 GMT
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If your carb turns out to be borked I may have a spare one tucked away in't shed that I would happily donate to the cause, or summat.
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Feb 14, 2019 20:28:28 GMT
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oh that's a good word.
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Feb 14, 2019 21:08:49 GMT
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Just flicked quickly thro my CD collection AC/DC Alan Parsons Project Alexander O'Neal Bon Jovi Bruce Springsteen Bryan Adams Buzzcocks Chicago Clash Culture Club Deacon Blue Def Leppard Del Amitri Dire Straits Don Henley Duran Duran Eurythmics Fleetwood Mac Foreigner Genesis George Michael Guns N’ Roses Huey Lewis and the News INXS Iron Maiden Jim Steinman John O'Kane Joy Division Julia Fordham KD Lang Lisa Stansfield Luther Vandross Meatloaf New Order Oleta Adams Paul Carrick Paul Young Pet Shop Boys Peter Gabriel Phil Collins Pink Floyd Pretenders Queen R.E.M. REO Speedwagon Robert Palmer Rush Scorpions Simply Red Stiff Little Fingers Tears for Fears The Police Thompson Twins Tracy Chapman U2 Utopia Van Halen Was not was Waterboys Wet wet wet Whitesnake Yello ZZ Top I appreciate my tastes my not be for all but I never stuck with one Genre PS the reason the list is in alphabetical order is because that's how they are stored in the CD racks
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Feb 14, 2019 21:10:41 GMT
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curse word - who the heck did I lend ABC Lexicon of Love to..........
Edited to add - Ahh it's in the Merc - panic over
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Feb 14, 2019 22:04:55 GMT
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If your carb turns out to be borked I may have a spare one tucked away in't shed that I would happily donate to the cause, or summat. Thanks Zeb, but I'm okay for a spare if I needed one, it would just need to be cleaned up and a choke fitted. This carb is good anyway. It's just been a little unwell this winter. Hasn't messed up again so far. I think a contributing factor has been my heavy footed start up habit. === Ordered the materials today for the rear deck developments. I'll try and remember to take pics and do my best to make it seem like a fascinating bit of restomod progress.
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Feb 14, 2019 22:51:39 GMT
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Oh the 80's
King Kurt, Guana Bats Basement 5 Mark Stewarts Mafia The Dark Cocteau twins Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Spear of Destiny Meteors, Milkshakes, The Vibes The Mud Club - The warehouse/ Electric Ballroom - The Fridge - Dingwalls. The odd places I found myself and the bands and people I hung around with at that time.
At the moment - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
As for the power valve in the DGAS - it is open at rest - It's a vacuum operated (make that closed) poppet valve - The main jets and this acceleration enrichment port don't really come into play in the carb circuit until the airflow gets going enough to energise the auxillary venturi.
Webers do not like electric pump pressures and at idle yours will be being over pressured without the pressure reg fitted.
Have some Liberty City - with an accomanying video that would appear to be perfect for this thread !
Was I ever in another place in the 80's...... Driving around North London in a '67 Chamois Coupe with race tuned 875 going to see bands like those. Between that and a KH400 with allspeeds it's a wonder I made it here at all.
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Feb 14, 2019 23:42:09 GMT
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Just flicked quickly thro my CD collection AC/DC Alan Parsons Project Alexander O'Neal Bon Jovi Bruce Springsteen Bryan Adams Buzzcocks Chicago Clash Culture Club Deacon Blue Def Leppard Del Amitri Dire Straits Don Henley Duran Duran Eurythmics Fleetwood Mac Foreigner Genesis George Michael Guns N’ Roses Huey Lewis and the News INXS Iron Maiden Jim Steinman John O'Kane Joy Division Julia Fordham KD Lang Lisa Stansfield Luther Vandross Meatloaf New Order Oleta Adams Paul Carrick Paul Young Pet Shop Boys Peter Gabriel Phil Collins Pink Floyd Pretenders Queen R.E.M. REO Speedwagon Robert Palmer Rush Scorpions Simply Red Stiff Little Fingers Tears for Fears The Police Thompson Twins Tracy Chapman U2 Utopia Van Halen Was not was Waterboys Wet wet wet Whitesnake Yello ZZ Top I appreciate my tastes my not be for all but I never stuck with one Genre PS the reason the list is in alphabetical order is because that's how they are stored in the CD racks Bstard, I would just like to formally welcome you to The Naughty Corner. You've been in and out before, I know, but... well... this is different. You've just presented an extensive list of your CD rack contents, and it's in alphabetical order. And that, on a forum dedicated to retro car ownership, is very naughty. *Secret handshake ensues*
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Feb 14, 2019 23:48:24 GMT
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Webers do not like electric pump pressures and at idle yours will be being over pressured without the pressure reg fitted. Yes, I have a pressure regulator fitted. Admittedly there were times - when I suspected a fuel problem - that I took it out and did some 'trying to start it' things. But it's been back on there since that. Twas simply a perfect storm of cold weather/atmospherics, bad battery, the thingy you just explained (went over my head and I just sat here with wobbly eyes as your words flew past like the red arrows doing a new low flying horizontal corkscrew manoeuvre), some grot, a stupid driver with a massive foot, and Ted with his massive hearing aids. Hopefully. It won't start in the morning now I've written this. === He's a lovely old bloke is Ted. He's almost like a character from a great British sitcom. I might try and secretly video him one time. Not to be mean, just to share in the joy of there actually still being nice old blokes in trilbies who stop and have a chat and have hearing aids that look like RNLI equipment. You can always tell when Ted's approaching because all the cats and dogs suddenly turn to face North East and vibrate, and everyone's WiFi enabled tech starts whistling.
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My Grandad had one of those allegro coloured hearing aids with a wire going from his chest to ear. He confided he never turned it on and used the NHS supplied batteries in his torch. 99% of people on seeing the wire would speak that little bit louder so he could hear them so all was good.
As a point of order do we have to behave better now that there are official visitors in the corner ?
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Feb 15, 2019 10:23:43 GMT
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As a point of order do we have to behave better now that there are official visitors in the corner ? James Not really, we just need to make him feel like part of the family here, because he's now our inside man at RRHQ. If we play our cards right, the BNMAC stand will get top billing at Goodwood this year. We get free RR air fresheners to bolster our car's anti-theft systems via extreme olfactory repellence. We might get advance warning of when the official annual RR newsletter email is going out so we can be the first to read it. I can't think of any other advantages yet but most importantly of all; through Bstard we can reach Hotwire, and when we've got Hotwire we can, we will... it..... ehhhh I'm not sure what advantages that will bring yet. We need to brainstorm ideas. Just keep him happy for now. That's all. Give him anything he wants. Make him feel special. Ask him to tell you stories about the 1980's.
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Feb 15, 2019 11:11:32 GMT
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I got the annual RR newsletter 4 days ago?
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