Shogun gear crunching and cylinder head gasket...

Just got my '94 Shogun repaired after the head gasket blew, and I noticed
as soon as I drove it home that a previous problem - that we could never
diagnose the cause of - has also vanished. It would occasionally 'crunch'
into gear. Sometimes it would happen (usually first thing in a morning),
sometimes it would not. Yep, I was driving it properly (!); the
brand new, correctly fitted clutch was fully depressed when I was changing
gear, revs were low, etc.

Everybody says "no! It's not related to the head gasket," but could the
work on this inadvertantly have caused the mechanic to solve that gear
crunching problem without realising it? Could it somehow be related to a
loss of compression...perhaps at first on such a small scale that it
wasn't noticed until it deteriorated?

I'm just at a loss to understand the magical resolution of this problem.
--
Lee J. Moore

FFS do you think you could be less obviously homosexual?

The gears crunch a bit, you can't see the dashboard thru
the steering wheel, you don't know how cruise control works,
the differential lights are erratic...
Next you'll be telling us it's absolutely /filthy/ or
that it doesn't match your new pink shirt!!

Just sell it! and buy one of those 'lovely Beetle
cabriolets'! You're obviously not cut out for the 4x4
world.

One may as well begin with Willis Bivins's letter to the newsgroup:

> FFS do you think you could be less obviously homosexual?

Well you would know, seeing as Gaytoday write articles about you:

http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/tech/041398te.htm

A gay gardener eh? Perfect credentials for spotting pink shirts and
pansies.

> The gears crunch a bit,

Yep, a mystery even to my mechanic for many months. The same old issue
once posted about before.

> you can't see the dashboard thru

The week after I had my *first* 4x4.

> the steering wheel, you don't know how cruise control works,

In the weeks after I had my *first* vehicle *ever* to have cruise control.

> the
> differential lights are erratic...

Which they were, and they were fixed.

> Next you'll be telling us it's
> absolutely /filthy/ or that it doesn't match your new pink shirt!!

No. Next you'll be telling me that you're a troll, googling ****wit, so
much of a featherweight that he has to adopt a pseudonym.

> Just sell it! and buy one of those 'lovely Beetle cabriolets'! You're
> obviously not cut out for the 4x4 world.

Oh yes. A lovely Beetle cabriolet is really cut out for driving over the
Roaches on a weekly basis eh? **** off. ****wit.

--
Lee J. Moore

Willis Bivins <[email protected]> wrote:

> FFS do you think you could be less obviously homosexual?

FFS do you think you could be less obviously homophobic?

BTW, 4x4s, very common in Brighton. A more gay car than a 4x4 is
difficult to imagine. If you're that scared of gays perhaps you had
better change to something that more matches your image. I suggest a
clapped out Astra with a National Front sticker on the windscreen.

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One may as well begin with Steve Firth's letter to the newsgroup:

> Willis Bivins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> FFS do you think you could be less obviously homosexual?
>
> FFS do you think you could be less obviously homophobic?
>
> BTW, 4x4s, very common in Brighton. A more gay car than a 4x4 is
> difficult to imagine. If you're that scared of gays perhaps you had
> better change to something that more matches your image. I suggest a
> clapped out Astra with a National Front sticker on the windscreen.

I suggest he doesn't forget the Burberry seat covers.

--
Lee J. Moore

Lee J. Moore <[email protected]> wrote:

> A lovely Beetle cabriolet is really cut out for driving over the
> Roaches on a weekly basis eh?

k3wL have you got the roo bars for the wallabys?

When I lived up at Wildboarclough I used to think about putting roo bars
on the Landie. Mostly so that when some ****wit started giving me
earache about not needing such things because they were only needed in
Australia for kangaroos and wallabies I could say "well, actually"...

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One may as well begin with Steve Firth's letter to the newsgroup:

> Lee J. Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> A lovely Beetle cabriolet is really cut out for driving over the
>> Roaches on a weekly basis eh?
>
> k3wL have you got the roo bars for the wallabys?

As it's for urban as well as rural use, I compromised and get an A-Bar
(bull bar). I might not have done that if it hadn't been for a close
encounter with a couple of sheep!

> When I lived up at Wildboarclough I used to think about putting roo bars
> on the Landie. Mostly so that when some ****wit started giving me
> earache about not needing such things because they were only needed in
> Australia for kangaroos and wallabies I could say "well, actually"...

Heh! Yeah, I've heard about those. It is still only a *probably* that
there are no more remaining. I've not seen any on the Roaches (or the
rest of the Staffs/Derbys Peak District either), but I think the bars are
a wise precaution anyway. You don't wany any dead mammals embedded in
your engine. Some mechanics are squeamish.

--
Lee J. Moore
"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted." - Mae West

Lee J. Moore <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've not seen any on the Roaches (or the
> rest of the Staffs/Derbys Peak District either)

There were some bad winters probably did the trick. Our postman killed
one about 1983(ish) last I heard of them.

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