SO what did you you do with your Stag today?

[LAMBRETTLAD]

Derek did you swim with Fungi the lovely Dolphin ?

[Guest]

Failed to remove the down pipe to get the oil pump off.

[DJT]

Got mine out of the garage for the first time in over a week. I've been too busy playing with my new daily driver...

Spent some time cleaning under the bonnet and generally getting it ready for our biggest local show this weekend; the Crashbox Car Club Vintage Vehicle Gathering at Powderham Castle. http://www.powderham.co.uk/events/cr...assic-car-show

[Carboy0]

carboy..Chris We were coming back from Ireland three off us I saw you to .1988 miles the cars were fine to .Robin is going to put a bit in mag 'All the way round the Kerry Ring .The best place was Dingle.I tell no more wait to see what Robin put in mag .Derek Hicks

That's what I call a round trip. Should make interesting reading.

[Tdm]

Thanks goodness for a bit of cloud cover. Not as hot as usual this morning which gave me the opportunity of doing a bit of routine service work on the Stag as it is parked in the open in the Communal Car Park.

Checked oil, water, transmission & PAS fluids and topped up where necessary, including the carb pistons.
Ran the engine and made a minor adjustment to the tickover (it was a little fast), and oiled some other places that needed it.
Pumped the tyres up as the right rear one always seems to lose some pressure more quickly than the other 3.
In view of the recent thread on here about tyres, I checked what mine are and they are Courier 185/70R14H that were put on in year 2000 when I bought new alloys, and they are are still not showing any signs of wear although I only do a small mileage.

Next I lay on my back under the rear end and adjusted the handbrake cable as the handbrake was not working as well as it should.

The Sun then came out so called it a day.

PS. As usual had only been working on the car a couple of minutes when I was stopped by a couple of people enquiring about it - one British, one Spanish, and not one of them asked if it overheated, both being very complimentary about the car, the Spanish chap wanting to buy it off me.

[Andrew S]

Presume you were wearing your matching white shorts Always worth looking your best

[mike@thenook]

I had a set of Couriers a few years back too, good tyres they were but mine were 195/70's..

Any signs of cracks at all after 17 years.....?

[Tdm]

Old blue shorts Andrew, and matching blue T-shirt - my car fix gear, and no Mike, the tyres look good and can't see any cracks, it's just me that's full of cracks, and the dripping car engine oil that gets into them goes well with my sun tan!

[Andrew S]

You've got to be careful with hot oil dripping in your cracks Terry.

[Tdm]

You've got to be careful with hot oil dripping in your cracks Terry.

Can't think of an answer to that Andrew - well not off hand anyway.

I did think though when I was under the car that there were nicer places I could be lying down on my back, but I won't go into that.

You know if I had a £1 for every time someone over here offered to buy my car off me, I would be a rich man.
Am I doing the right thing always refusing to sell it!?

[mole42]

if I had a £1 for every time someone over here offered to buy my car off me, I would be a rich man.
Am I doing the right thing always refusing to sell it!?

Well, you could always ask for a £1 to enter them into a raffle for the car, then you'll be a rich man and still have the car. You don't need to tell them that the raffle will be drawn at your funeral!

[Tdm]

Well, you could always ask for a £1 to enter them into a raffle for the car, then you'll be a rich man and still have the car. You don't need to tell them that the raffle will be drawn at your funeral!

A raffle is included as part of the Quiz that we will be running in our Bar tonight.
The normal raffle prize is a chicken & wine takeaway, I suppose I could change it to the Stag -
but no, there are not enough people who attend on one night, although we have been running the Quiz for 8 years now
and if we had started off in week one, then that would have been a fair bit of money.

[MandM]

Removed my rear light clusters and fitted the rubbers the right way up, had the ribbed side against the light, which was the way round the old ones were when I removed them, now corrected.

[StagJonno]

"I checked what mine are and they are Courier 185/70R14H that were put on in year 2000 when I bought new alloys, and they are are still not showing any signs of wear although I only do a small mileage."

May look good and handle well in the dry as my old tyres did. In the wet - lethal

[Tdm]

"I checked what mine are and they are Courier 185/70R14H that were put on in year 2000 when I bought new alloys, and they are are still not showing any signs of wear although I only do a small mileage."

May look good and handle well in the dry as my old tyres did. In the wet - lethal

But it never rains here (well hardly ever). By the way it was me who said the 1st part above in my post.