Nice images Mark, especially number 1, 3 and 4! As or the rattle and vibration, I just loosened everything, knacked the exhaust around a bit, after a small knack it floated freely. Only two location where touches a heatshield, just barely, and the chassis, it seems. Some more pushing and...

Ok, I have one last question, and hope someone can ease my, well, unease before going on a 220km round trip to the testing station. When I installed the new exhaust, the right tube going to the manifold was a pain to fit, really really tight. I followed the manual, starting from the rear. I left...

Ha, found it! There are self-cutting nuts, e.g. from Würth. Only need to find someone who sells those in quantities <1000!

Sooo... The new exhaust is installed! Not leaking, as far as I can tell, and it looks great! Once I'm done with my, dare I say well deserved, beer, I'll clean her up a bit. Tomorrow carbs, lights and checkong of the missing paper work and findings from the last MOT / TÜV. Just one thing: One...

How comes I need two weeks for a two hour job? Well, either way, I redrilled the flanges for the new exhaust yesterday, those shoupd fit (I didn't have the courage to try today...). And, today, I cleaber each and every leaky joint between transfer case, gear box, engine and oil cooler thermostat...

Money already spent as well!

Nice one! And if you park ot next to a Classic, you can still see the common heritage!

Today's plan was: - remove the old exhaust - replace the clogged fuel line - install the new exhaust As you might have guessed, this plan didn't survive first contact with reality. The old exhaust needed some serious convincing with the angle grinder to get out, that alone took 1.5 hours...

Doesn't look too bad optically, besides the obligatory upper tailgate. I love the wrench stuck on the rim!

Depends if you are color blind or not!

Fully agree on green hydrogen, that stuff is so usefull for all kind of things!

Yeah, I spend my entire career in supply chain, and once you realize where all our stuff comes from and goes to you become a cynic. There are different degrees of bad so, getting rid of the worst is good even if enough bad remains. This subject is a pet peeve of mine, so please excuse if I go...

8.5% transmission losses globally between 1960 and 2014, measured as the ration of power generated and power consumed. Not nothing, but assuming a modern fossil fuel plant the overall efficiency from power plant to EV wheels on the road is much better than for an ICE vehicle, if you look at...

So true! They peaked, in the places I know, kust nefore covid hit, back when those companies were swimming in cash. Now that the money is gone, the scooter went the way of rental bikes. We had four different brands of eScooters, with multiple standing at every street corner. Now we have one...

EVs as in cars, maybe. EVs as in scooters and as a replacement for small motor cycles on the other hand have a ton of benefits for cities in other parts of the world. Those electrical rent-a-scooter things in our cities so do not replace anything, they allow people to walk less making them a...

Rare earth are a mess, and Lithium mining isn't hreat neither. Still beats open pit coal mining and coal burning. Climate change so is already ruining everything and everyones lives. Generally, I think all of us in the developed world are living lifestyles that are not really healthy, neither...

Efficiency of a modern ICE is somewhere between 40-50% theoretical maximum. Never ever achieved in real life. Thermodynamics are a bitch. Large gas turbines are much better, size helps, they always run near the theoretical max anyway (something a car never can, ship engines are more capable of...

The share of renewables is increasing faster than electricity consumption so. And if memory serves well, the full chain from fossil fuel power plant to electric motor is more efficient than a small ICE (it has been a couple of whiles since I studied that stuff at university). And with central...

Electric cars are fine, just don't buy one from VW! Funny how the same car from Skoda is better, but this was the case between VW and Skoda like forever now. Only reason we don't have one: two kids, range (EVs for this do exist) and budget (just not at a price point yet that is within budget)...

Sold via eBay, someone clicked on the Instant Buy button today.