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Caddy is back from the garage. They had a good dig into the front end and aside from the little bit of play in the universal joint at the bottom of the steering column I had already identified it was all deemed good. The tracking was another matter. It was set up with just over 4mm of toe in. Correc...

Removing those stickers from the Caddy earlier in the week reminded me that this one on the van had been bugging me for a while. "A while" in this case meaning around three years. https://i.ibb.co/QdPgcw4/IMG-20220629-170011.jpg It's not bugging me any more. https://i.ibb.co/vmrQkdB/IMG-20220629-170...

Tiny, tiny but satisfying job done on the Caddy today. These absolutely sun-baked stickers on the front windows were annoying me no end. https://i.ibb.co/L9R8Cq7/IMG-20220627-164108.jpg Especially on the passenger's door which was obviously massively off-level even when it was applied 20 years ago. ...

Been a while since I've had to wave any tools at the van. Starting to get back into a functional state for my part again I figured that starting to tick off a few things on the to do list on it wasn't a bad idea. One of these has been changing the thermostat. Pretty certain it's never fully closed a...

Hey look a package! That was quick. https://i.ibb.co/8gMcxJv/IMG-20220614-142131.jpg Oh why can't all sellers on eBay package things this well? This was after I'd taken the bundle filling the void in the box out. https://i.ibb.co/kJsz91k/IMG-20220614-142154.jpg Everything nicely individually wrapped...

Continuing the "Zel has COVID and feels too awful to do anything involving more than 30 seconds of physical effort, today was the turn of the Spectrum to be tested. Though before I could do that I needed to either dig out a 9V power supply (remembering of course that Sinclair used a centre negative ...

"Occasional Distraction" time! A friend was kind enough to drop this box of goodies off a couple of days ago. https://i.ibb.co/X8NjvtV/IMG-20220606-113435.jpg This is well timed as me (and the entire family) have come down with COVID, and I have about as much available energy as a 97 year old who's ...

A very well packaged parcel arrived a couple of days ago containing a replacement air conditioning compressor for the Caddy. https://i.ibb.co/BrpJHm4/IMG-20220530-160126.jpg I just need to find someone to recover the charge now who's not going to charge me through the nose for the privilege. If I ca...

A whole bunch of programming was going on through the weekend, but the main thing I'd been looking forward to was getting TPA along to our little car show. Well, show is maybe overselling it. Basically the hotel staff give us the staff car park to ourselves for a few hours where anyone with an inter...

As usual my plans to have everything ready yesterday never worked out. So this morning TPA was treated to what absolutely definitely wasn't the first wash she's had since returning to the road two years ago. Yes I do feel guilty. The amount of grime that came off was horrific. The engine cover regul...

The oil pressure test gauge turned up this morning. https://i.ibb.co/kyF646j/IMG-20220526-130327.jpg Time to (hopefully!) confirm that the oil pressure light in the Caddy is telling lies. Cold startup suggests yes. https://i.ibb.co/fxsbrB1/IMG-20220526-123932.jpg Shot up to about 80psi before settli...

Not had a great couple of days. First bombshell was finally getting a roofer in to try to track down the one intermittent water ingress issue we've had. I have been trying to get someone to look at this since we moved in in 2014. Turns out that we need the entire roof replaced...aside from the tiles...

Am I seriously going to end up with two vehicles in succession with reputedly highly reliable engines with severe mechanical maladies? A couple of minutes into driving this morning I had another oil pressure warning ping up - which vanished about five seconds later. I knew the level was fine this ti...

TPA was out and about a few days ago and following on from the recent trend something else fell off. Albeit rather less important than the last couple of things. https://i.ibb.co/z2WsNjM/IMG-20220517-144021.jpg Just a bit of trim. Only myself to blame, don't think I used anywhere near enough glue wh...

Been a while since I've had a chance to update here so have a couple rolled into one. Have been doing a bit more of a detailed look at the rotor arm on the Trevi because it seems like there's some incorrect data out there in the catalogues. Here are the three rotor arms we currently have. https://i....