Cack slop.

oh dear thye snow up north has obviously frozen there brains lol

well it seems he wants to proceed with getting this back on the road so is buying a battery for it tomorrow ,
what fun changing a battery in minus 3 , and theres me cant get any of my cars off of the drive

redline wrote:oh dear thye snow up north has obviously frozen there brains lol
and theres me cant get any of my cars off of the drive

Jap crap and Korean cack

redline wrote:oh dear thye snow up north has obviously frozen there brains lol

well it seems he wants to proceed with getting this back on the road so is buying a battery for it tomorrow ,
what fun changing a battery in minus 3 , and theres me cant get any of my cars off of the drive

That does not sound bad, -10 and replacing dizzy cap that is located so that I can just about reach it when I lie in engine bay feets hanging in air, it must have looked like car would been eating a man

It is not cold when you are doing replacement, but brain says it is cold so getting started with task comes pretty hard

Clutch on a 400??

Engine out or scrap the car - those are your choices.

volvosneverdie wrote:Cack slop.

Which reminds me of this traditional Finnish easter meal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:M%C3%A4mmi-2.jpg

nomead wrote:

volvosneverdie wrote:Cack slop.

Which reminds me of this traditional Finnish easter meal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:M%C3%A4mmi-2.jpg

Looks yummy!

A bit like three lumps of reindeer poo covered in milk.

Full of fibre and good for your heart.

well for those of you still "on topic "

the young man in question arrived at my front door this morning carrying a shiny black twelve volt electronic cell (battery to you lot )
which was duly connected ( dont know who Duly is but she did a good job of it )
a quick spin on the starter and the 480 burst into life , a couple of squealy belts but she runs ,
neither of the pop ups work but will start by buying the proper daylight running light bulbs as , as Chris pointed out , they could be the problem.
still too much snow to take it for a spin and am a bit concerned that after running for about twenty minutes the temp gauge hadent moved , could be a sender or might need a new thermostat .

still its progress , all the lights work ok except one of the dlr's ,lecky windows do what they should and the central locking works ok.
I just want to take it for a spin now but its started snowing again

Great stuff mick, btw i thought duly was your wife??

any way keep us posted on how she drives/if she drives id quite like a 480es

Good work fella.

Even gets work done in the snow.

Surely some kind of medal/drink would be appropriate.

the battery drained in no time but traced it to a dodgy earth terminal , managed to adjust it so it tightened up properly and have run the car three days running , one pop up works ( oddly the drivers side which is the side the daytime running light dosent work ), took it for a drive and I think the clutch is ok , might have had some rust on the plate surfaces through lack of use which I have "freed off " with a little spirited driving ,
found a replacement door mirror in the right colour so that leaves one pop up to sort out , a windscreen washer jet and the handbrake which does nothing

redline wrote: and the handbrake which does nothing

Typical 400 then

Glad the clutch is ok as that is why I got shot of Vickys one

anyone know how to change the daytime running light bulbs on these ?, cant seem to get to th bulb holders from inside the bomnnet and I dont want to break the clusters trying to remove them.

also how do I get the headlamps up if they wont come up on there own ? I dont want to break the one thats not working

I have also just started to strip down the inner door trim so I can replace the door mirror.
if I can get these little jobs done it will be worth putting through an mot

changed the dlr bulbs one bulb holder was quite corroded so gave it the emery paper treatment and it now works fine , the n/s headlight still wont come up so guess it might be the motor ( you can wind the headlamp up manually )

good progress man.
were the dlrs hard work?