My lakes Tour experience . . .

[tony-mac]

My previous lakes tour experience has been this previously . . . . nil !!

Although back in maybe 2009, I did have a place, so thought I`d get the MK2 ready on the friday, oil change etc.

New oil, plugs, filter all at the ready, car up on the ramps, plug out oil drained, sorted, so I thought

When I took the plug out, I thought to myself, I`ve never seen a plug like this before (in my massive experience of sump plugs)

Left it to drain, time to put the plug back in, only to find that it was a helicoil, and a ****ed one at that Are they designed to un-coil when you take them out ?? Don`t think so.

It`s about 6pm on the friday now, getting ready for the saturday, not any more.

Morale of this story, have your car well sorted well in advance.

If I manage to get on the list this year, you can guarantee I`ll be on it a week in advance

My other oil change stories are :

Changing the oil on the XR2, putting new oil in without putting the sump plug back in first.

Changing the oil on the Cossie, draining the oil into my plastic tub about 18" high, when done, I reversed off the ramps, forgetting the tub was still underneath the car . . . . .

Don`t know why I`m sharing this with everyone, might bring a little smirk on a cold February evening

[rsdc1]

Ha ha ill give you a better one than that, my manifold had been blowing for a couple of weeks and I had it over the pit one night to fix it. While it was there I thought I'd drop the oil out of it and stick a filter on.
Just as I was about to climb out for the new tin of Mobil 1, a mate came in to see me. Oh I've fixed exhaust, that peco'll sound great now, started it up revved it up then switched it off. As the colour drained from me I picked up the oil and poured it in. It never gave any problems but we still laugh about that day, in 1987

[tony-mac]

Think I did some questionable things in 87` too . . . .

there was that time when . . . .





actually, better left alone

[jimmer]

Used to have a fitter called G***** working with us some years ago, on a foggy no-fly day we had to do a fifty hour service. He drained the oil and forgot to close the drain valve on a bulldog, five litres of oil all over the work shop floor! That day we renamed him ****wit! it stuck with him for many years.

[taffr]

Don't go on the pith the night before you go

[paul spence]

Don't go on the pith the night before you go

[Chesney]

Don't go on the pith the night before you go

2011 eh son

[mk2mania]

i know the feelin, you need a few anaddin tablets and 1/2 a dozen corona ( works a treat)

all my lakes tours are a trauma days before but it always works out, 2011 me and the boys were on my estate till 3am on friday/saturday mornin fitting a new 2000 zetec, fired it up at about 2am did a few more bits till 3am,, back in the garage at 6.30 am set tracking caster and camber, drove it round the block mint

put it on the back of the sprinter,, got to the heaves for about 9 ish, went to reverse the owd estate of,,,, motor locked solid,,,, my misses was following me in the white rs ( so did the tour in that ),, was still a right good doo