• Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer reacted to tyregeezer's post in the thread Overheating gearbox with Like Like.
    Thanks guys, not to bad a job, really as long as it works Lol Started to put back together yesterday did go backwards a couple of times, bit fiddly but just lights and bumper to do Trying to work out what's issue with egr being unplugged...
    May 25, 2025
  • Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer replied to the thread I would just like to say.
    Lovely sunny day today, for a change. Off in a short while to Lautrec, the town that has lost most of its pink garlic harvest a month away from picking due to the hail. They are having their usual festival and this arvo a soap box derby. Hope it...
    May 25, 2025
  • Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer replied to the thread I would just like to say.
    On another fred someone asked me if I had a brother called Ollie. took me a while to make the (sort of) connection. Stan and Ollie. and they were never even meant to be brothers.:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
    May 25, 2025
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    Stanleysteamer reacted to DanClarke's post in the thread I would just like to say with Like Like.
    Morning All. :D A bit dull and overcast here today. :( Going to see the MIL in hosp this arvo with the Mrs. Can see for myself how bad/good she is. :) The Nurse said yesterday that she was due to go down to theatre today for another...
    May 25, 2025
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    Stanleysteamer reacted to Turktowner's post in the thread I would just like to say with Love Love.
    Overlord show yesterday. Check out the bomber engine.. Can't upload the mp4 of it running though, sorry..
    May 25, 2025
  • Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer reacted to kevstar's post in the thread I would just like to say with Love Love.
    Yup thats the colour.:cool::cool:
    May 24, 2025
  • Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer replied to the thread I would just like to say.
    My dad suffered with "mental health issues" all his life after his fiancée died, from TB possibly contracted from him, when he didn't even know he had it. I once came back from holiday to find he was in a mental hospital. The docs there told him...
    May 24, 2025
  • Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer replied to the thread I would just like to say.
    I had a girlfriend in Lille who owned a white Renault 4. They were so common that she had the sense to stencil a small but easily visible design around the radio aerial just above the windscreen, made it much easier to find in a car park. Pity...
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    May 24, 2025
  • Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer reacted to kevstar's post in the thread I would just like to say with Haha Haha.
    My misses had a pink jag, never seen another one the same colour. She lost it in a multistorey carpark. 🤣 🤣
    May 24, 2025
  • Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer reacted to DanClarke's post in the thread I would just like to say with Love Love.
    Here is a little poem "wot I rote". There is no cause for alarm. I had a brief black dog moment the other day that had me sink rather low for a brief time; and it made me reflect on how we are conditioned to respond to such moods and I thought...
    May 24, 2025
  • Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer replied to the thread I would just like to say.
    They just look so cool on the road. Biggest regret of my life. Buying one for £5 and flogging it for £10 to a scrap yard, feeling I had been a real clever dick/Kevstar!!! 🤣 🤣 🤣 Mind it was pink 😋, the engine sounded like a bag of bolts and...
    May 24, 2025
  • Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer reacted to kevstar's post in the thread I would just like to say with Like Like.
    May 24, 2025
  • Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer reacted to kevstar's post in the thread I would just like to say with Love Love.
    Oh here I got a pic to get out my phone from today. :cool::cool:
    May 24, 2025
  • Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer replied to the thread I would just like to say.
    She was very serious when it came to bedroom antics. War and Peace she would not have had to have brought round as I already had a copy. And when it comes to the bedroom all it would have been any good for would have been as a soporific! My...
    May 24, 2025
  • Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer reacted to kevstar's post in the thread I would just like to say with Haha Haha.
    Why did she bring round a copy of War & Peace. 🤣 🤣 Sophie loren was in the film "les Sequestrés d' Altona" ;)
    May 24, 2025
  • Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer replied to the thread I would just like to say.
    Have done a tiny bit of digging and it turns out that the 3.4 really does seem to be the one to get, if you can. https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=140&t=1556516
    May 24, 2025
  • Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer replied to the thread I would just like to say.
    Why on earth would I make such a connection? I have never heard if it!!! I haven't read every flipping book in the world, not even War and Peace or the Kama Sutra, despite a Gfriend bringing her copy round one day and leaving it under the bed...
    May 24, 2025
  • Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer reacted to kevstar's post in the thread I would just like to say with Haha Haha.
    Tut tut Mr Steamer...... Oliver La Farge.......... I thought you of all people would have made the connection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_Boy_(novel)
    May 24, 2025
  • Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer replied to the thread I would just like to say.
    Funnily I had heard that before, about the crims preferring the 3.4. Weird to hear it confirmed. What he didn't mention was the sheer luxury of the interior. Love it and wish I had one again!
    May 24, 2025
  • Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer reacted to Mike07905's post in the thread Disco 2 Torque Converter lockup too early, and while going up steep hills. Intermittent. with Sad Sad.
    Other things to mention. good: it's done 140,000miles. It's not done any towing. It's been pretty well looked after (insane amount of receipts with it). Bad: I don't get selected gear notifications on the dash. I don't even get the warning...
    May 24, 2025
  • Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer reacted to ROSCO319's post in the thread Unusual sound when starting??🙈 with Like Like.
    So after further investigation found that turbo knackered as not been getting oil! Changed all filters, including fuel and noticed centrifugal filter was difficult to turn and was a bugger to remove. I'm gonna go full monty and get sump off...
    May 24, 2025
  • Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer replied to the thread I would just like to say.
    So sad.:(:(:( Knowing how rally cars are built and the trauma prevention methods employed, as far as what the crews have to wear, I am always a bit surprised when this happens. But if you fly off the track and hit a tree... well, they take no...
    May 24, 2025
  • Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer reacted to Dippypud's post in the thread I would just like to say with Sad Sad.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy3514d733o
    May 24, 2025
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    Stanleysteamer reacted to Hippo's post in the thread I would just like to say with Love Love.
    May 24, 2025
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    Stanleysteamer reacted to Hippo's post in the thread I would just like to say with Like Like.
    May 24, 2025
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    Stanleysteamer reacted to Hippo's post in the thread I would just like to say with Like Like.
    May 24, 2025
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    Stanleysteamer reacted to Hippo's post in the thread I would just like to say with Like Like.
    Wevva app shows an even biggerer rain cloud coming over.
    May 24, 2025
  • Stanleysteamer
    Stanleysteamer reacted to Hippo's post in the thread I would just like to say with Like Like.
    Trying to rain. Just enuff to wet me patio then stopped. Eye hassa family of bobbins feeding from me wurn feeder. 2 black burds seaching me grass and lots ov tweets from burds all around. Can hear a nut being eated in me naybers garden. Rain has...
    May 24, 2025
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    Stanleysteamer reacted to Wimblowdriver's post in the thread I would just like to say with Sad Sad.
    me team just went into the premiership :banana:
    May 24, 2025
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    Stanleysteamer reacted to Hippo's post in the thread I would just like to say with Like Like.
    Extra satdi this weekend
    May 24, 2025
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