SO what did you you do with your Stag today?

[Guest]

Took mine out for a 60 mile drive around Hereford, ledbury, towards Worcester and Bromyard. Saw another Stag in Yellow near Hereford, and then a first for me....... A Deloren!

Is it it getting better Nigel?

[StagJonno]

Nice one Richard - must have been fun - reasonable weather. Must be great to sleep in your own bed again. How much did you raise for your charity (Guide Dogs, wasn't it?).

Jonno

[Rubce]

Cracking weather for the RBBR. Wish I had managed to get a crew organised so I could have entered it.

Bruce

[Rubce]

Fitted a new slave cylinder to the clutch on the GT6 yesterday after it let me down earlier in the week. Fortunately the failure happened less than a mile from our house and I arranged for a friend to tow me home. Glad it didn't do that trick when I was up in Scotland in it with E-Lad in August during the CT Border Raiders event.

Bruce

[mole42]

Nice one Richard - must have been fun - reasonable weather. Must be great to sleep in your own bed again. How much did you raise for your charity (Guide Dogs, wasn't it?).

Jonno

Fabulous weather, great event. That's twice I've done it, probably don't need to do it again.....

Our crew raised £584.41 so far, Club Triumph total was over £50,000 last night.

[LAMBRETTLAD]

First class

[mole42]

I've just done the fuel calculations. From the numbers we were getting between 31 and 38mpg on a Triumph V8 with a ZF gearbox and 3.45:1 differential. I observed that the speedo was reading about 3% fast so reduce the mpg figures to 30 and 36.

Not bad, we weren't driving economically at all. I must pull the plugs, we may have been running a tad lean!!

Oil consumption was pretty close to nil.

[Nigel W]

Is it it getting better Nigel?

Yes I think it is. Can't be sure exactly, but I think its gone from about 100 miles per pint to about 150.

[PhilB]

Went to my Heartbeat exercise class in it.
Got home and decided to swap the drivers door card for another I got with the car
The top frame is cracked and regularly jumps off the rear top carrier and plays a rattling good tune!
Got the old one off ok then spent ages locating the trim clips I bought ready for doing the job
So tomorrow a bit of cavity wax and then the replacement goes on.

[Richard G]

Took my Stag to the Ace Café London (Classic Car night) a round trip of about 160 miles, went very well.

[mike@thenook]

Whens the next one at Ace Richard? I've got to get along to that one time

[Greengiant]

Bought new brake master cylinder, disks, pads, drums, shoes, cylinders, pipes and track rod ends, time to get the spanners out.

Martin

[Richard G]

Whens the next one at Ace Richard? I've got to get along to that one time

Second Tuesday each month, but check their website events. That makes it Nov 8th. I go also as a meeting with Harrow Car Club. Not so many cars there last night. Let me know if/when you go, you can see your old engine block!

RG

[trunt]

Stripped my power steering pump, had a seal set which were x-ref to XJ6, but need the bearing shell as well as its a bit scored.

It seems that 70s pumps were all the same so ordered an XJ6 repair kit.. looks like it will fit... I'll find out next week!

[richard w]

Weldone mole, Richard also took part in his Triumph 200 mk1. Hope he made it ok

Thanks Jason, finished ok, but not in the 2000!

The engine decided to throw a wobbly 48 hours before the start After a lot of misery and frantic emails and phone calls to the organisers I ended up co-driving with another entrant in his TR5 whose original co-driver had bailed out at the last minute Roof down all the way - what a car! Great sound and handling, very quick, very hard ride!

It wasn't the way I had intended to do the run, but it was better than not doing it at all and I am very grateful to Tim for sorting it out and obviously to Chris who let a total stranger drive his very valuable car.

That's 2 runs now in 2 different cars, roll on 2018 and hopefully do it in the 2000 next time - and I expect to see you entered next time too Jason!