Thread: I must be insane

It's only your second rangie, wait until you have a shed full and some in the yard

That's when everyone in town will think you are crazy

Good luck with the fancy new one.

Crazy is cool.

Originally Posted by Corgie Carrier

It's only your second rangie, wait until you have a shed full and some in the yard

That's when everyone in town will think you are crazy

Good luck with the fancy new one.

I dunno ... would a yard full of them get along well with a yard full of slowly decomposing Citroens .... And a ****ed wife 'cos she's sick of all my "garden ornaments ".

seeya,
Shane L.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

I dunno ... would a yard full of them get along well with a yard full of slowly decomposing Citroens .... And a ****ed wife 'cos she's sick of all my "garden ornaments ".

seeya,
Shane L.

I'm sure the rangies would get along with anything, my 2 door is outside with my landcruiser troopy and I haven't heard any arguements

Can't give advice on the
Washing
Ironing
Fornicating
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I once had a woman I was living with tell me to get rid of some of my cars, my reply was "It's been nice knowing you"

Now I spend my money on what I want and have as many "garden ornaments" as I want.

Gee she's a bloody ripper ... It's amazing how much quieter the later models are too. how on earth is it so quiet it the same car underneath.

My first job is to always remove or repair the "added wiring" ....



Lovely right? speaker wire twisted onto the back of the cigarette lighter (there's no power to it ... I can't find the cigarette lighter fuse, but it'll be blown). The speaker wire runs upto the dash top through then using crappy crimp on spade terminals all somehow plugged together there is 3 cigarette lighters housings with a scrap of blue duct tape wrapped around them dropped down into the dash... and a scrap of blue cloth tape around the live "bunch" of terminals. The radio is also wired in with the good old "twisting the wires together and bit of insulation tape " trick.

Lovely, plenty of soldering iron and heat shrink practice for me. I'll have to chase up some good dash plastics, whoever did this mess smashed there way in rather than unscrewing the dash bits.

This car will be a bloody ripper when tidied up a bit

seeya,
Shane L

Looks fairly clean except for the butchered wiring setup.

Any pics of the outside?

Originally Posted by Corgie Carrier

Looks fairly clean except for the butchered wiring setup.

Any pics of the outside?

It's the Rangie that was for sale here in the "for sale" section. It's the ideal car to buy ... Mechanically sound and sorted, not too buggered with, but slightly scruffy around the edges Of course the best bit about it is my wife likes it!

I'll wash all the bird **** and dirt off and take some piccies tonight (yeah I'm one of those people that tend too wash cars twice too .... once when I buy them and once to sell them ).

The fun bit of course will be seeing what they want for a roadworthy. If it was 2year younger I'd have put it straight onto club plates!

seeya,
Shane L.

The drivers door was taking two attempts at the door handle to open ( yeah I need fix that before the roadworthy ... or more importantly the wife notices ) I'll be buggered, that's one of the easiest fixes ever... And I've been putting up with a dodgy door handle on the other Rangy for two years Does the connecting rod bend slightly in use so need adjusting over time

I think the electric mirrors will need to work too for a rwc. The passenger side works, and the drivers side make noises in the up and down plane ... but the noises come from the passenger side and nothing moves I found two broken electric mirror wires in the drivers door where the catch to stop the door opening too wide had munched them .. but still the same thing happens. Has anyone struck this before ?

I figured I'd see how leaky the A/C was ... And stuck the vac pump on there ... and proceded to buggerise around with it for over and hour .... WTF ... AAAARRRhhh, I unscrewed the dodgy quick release fittings ... none of the hoses or connectors would work... Finally I wondered what was behind the aluminium caps at the base of the service ports .......... Yep you guess it ... valves to shut off the service ports. How dumb am I ... I've never seen that before on a car I've tinkered with. Amazingly it vac'd down fine. There's a really, really small leak (I can tell as the 'vac pump give the occasional gurgle)... but it's the sort I'd never find myself. I figured I had nothing to loose, so dump a charge of bang gas in there and was rewarded with 4 degree vent temperatures. If it holds the charge, I'l lwhip the compressor of an give it an oil change and replace the drier.

I was going to post some piccies but my camera "lost" them ... that's a first. I'll have to re-take them in daylight.

I'll have to chase up some interior plastic to replace the broken ones at some point. I wouldn't be surprised there not all broken ... it's not the best quality plastic I've ever come across

I still haven't come across much that I think needs fixing for a Roadworthy ... I wonder what they'll find.

seeya,
Shane L