You make it sound like I went searching for something to deliberately make some weird point, I didn't I just searched for "most humane way to kill a rat" The UFAW is a respected bunch They combine with the RSPCA and the IAT did you actually bother to find out who they were...

Knight all!! 🤣 🤣

For once!! 🤣 🤣 🤣

I don't remember having to do this very often in a steady relationshship, or even in an unsteady one!;)🤣

Not all D2s had ACE, so calling it a "non-original conversion" is stretching things a wee bit. Put it this way it wouldn't bother an insurance comapny nor an MOT tester.

Have you got some nice fancy nuts and bolts or screws to hold the piano hinges with? ;)

Yikes, I can see exactly why the bonnet lump would be a problem. I have seen kit cars with a bonnet hinge on one side, but many also, like the one on my Marlin, which is a one piece you have to take off each time. Can you not hinge it at the back somehow?

We has gotted neebs coming over for dins tomoz so today W has gone out to do lots of errands and a hospicle visit, pre-op for her injections in her fingas. So I am on dusting, polishing and vacuuming duties, plus hosing out the downstairs bog. I will have to put a mask on for the cleaning as...

I take it you mean a long central cut followed by a piano hinge?!!! My fingers are all crossed for you!!!:):):)

Can only sympathise. Recently I get painful knees from kneeling on them even on carpet. The only way to avoid it is to use one of those cushioned mats, which are a pain but there you go. Age is not fun.:(

I dug into this and this is what it came up with. Basically the only humane way to do it is to bash them over the head or body with something. Any sort of humane trap is seen as cruel, and any sort of poison is a "last resort". From UFAW: "It is therefore recommended that live caught rats and...

Before spending the money give @sierrafery a chance to jump on and give his opinion, it might be something simple and he is the biz when it comes to the electronix on these trucks!

TBH I'd not worry about a Nano for a while. Why not try doing what you did to get the fuel pump going then try to crank it again to see if it fires up and runs. Even if you have to jury rig wires to it. But be aware that if the ECM doesn't get a signal that the pump is running it still might not...

I'm assuming it's an RC40. common enough at the time I did mine. Not expensive. https://www.minispares.com/rc40-twin-box-rc40-exhaust

PLEASE don't ever work under a car on a jack ever again. :eek::eek::eek: Axle stands are cheap and easy to use. Glad you made it back safely. ;):) Must admit I'd have picked up the back box and driven it home with its rorty exhaust. W did exactly that not too long ago with the exhaust...