1. Stanleysteamer

    I would just like to say

    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...
  2. Stanleysteamer

    I would just like to say

    Knight all!! 🤣 🤣
  3. Stanleysteamer

    I would just like to say

    For once!! 🤣 🤣 🤣
  4. Stanleysteamer

    I would just like to say

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

    ACE system pipe corrosion

    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.
  6. Stanleysteamer

    I would just like to say

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

    I would just like to say

    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?
  8. Stanleysteamer

    I would just like to say

    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...
  9. Stanleysteamer

    I would just like to say

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

    I would just like to say

    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.:(
  11. Stanleysteamer

    I would just like to say

    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...
  12. Stanleysteamer

    fuel/inertia switch/starting issue

    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!
  13. Stanleysteamer

    fuel/inertia switch/starting issue

    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...
  14. Stanleysteamer

    Getting Gwen the Mini to Run.

    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
  15. Stanleysteamer

    Getting Gwen the Mini to Run.

    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...
  16. Stanleysteamer

    I would just like to say

    I doubt he'll have dug on our patch. one part is fully slabbed, the rest is, as is the whole estate, built on the spoil pile for a long gone pottery of some sort. Digging into it for any animal would be painful. Which is why we have no moles. I once took all day to dig a 4 foot deep grave for a...
  17. Stanleysteamer

    I would just like to say

    W has poison on order although we haven't seen head nor tail of it for a while now, since I disturbed it in fact. Me no shotgun licence, and even if I did we live in the middle of an estate so not far enough away from a road or neighbour to let one off! :)
  18. Stanleysteamer

    I would just like to say

    TBH you may not be far out! 🤣 🤣 🤣 Although its last but one owner was a welder.;)
  19. Stanleysteamer

    I would just like to say

    I have now had time to calm down from the farce involved in fitting the oil filter. Cannot believe that a job I have done many times became so stupid. Just couldn't get the new, correct height, filter to screw on to its spindle thing. To the extent that I even fitted the old one to check I...
  20. Stanleysteamer

    Disco 4 (LR4) Why so cheap

    Maybe someone is just scared the crank is about to snap. Or maybe it was a cheap trade in so the selling garage doesn't need to make too much on it.