Rob King - FistsOfHam(6)

Oh my, that is lovely. Damn the fact I already have too many cars.

Switching the risk of death for the risk of indecent exposure. My man!

"why aren't you wearing any trousers?"

What do you think I am, some kind of maniac?

It also creates a nice new market of renting out your phone with said ID so they can obtain work while you get paid.

Sounds like a new design idea in the making. "Enraging fascists since..."

I cannot for the life of me remove the remains of the broken anti roll bar bolt from the Boxster. I have replaced the AC condensors and ordered all the little broken bits behind the bumper to sort while it's off. Loads of money spent and can't finish the job thanks to one shitting bolt

Such a ridiculous man-child

AI, taking the computers greatest strength, and after huge amounts of processing...making it shit at that strength.

At Le Mans I will be flying the flag for... anybody willing to give me a free flag. Currently it's Porsche, Peugeot and Toyota

We're traveling down in a Citroen Berlingo. It was meant to be the GT86 but although the engine is rebuilt, it's still on a stand awaiting a new uprated clutch

Getting ever closer to Le Mans. I can almost taste the beer

The Boxster lights were pretty yellow and went back to yellow fairly quickly. The V70 lights have remained clear with just the ceramic coat despite being awful when I got it. The 86 is now turning yellow as well

I tried plastic ceramic coating from carbon collective but it didn't seem to last. As as experiment on the Boxster I sanded and clear coated one light with UV lacquer, wet sanded and buffed. Too early to say how that'll last

I have really missed these, tears in my eyes

Colour pencil drawing of Cal Crutchlow on his LCR Honda in its white, red and green Castrol livery with the bottom of a bright yellow advertising hoarding in the top right. Cal's bike has a bright yellow 35 and has yellow accents on his helmet

Its the British #MotoGP this weekend so what better time to bring this one out of the vault! Drawn a few years back now

I dropped it as the majority of it was engagement bait and the old Facebook/Instagram algorithm was all too present.

The Boxster passed the MOT retest after new rear coil springs, coffin arms, and anti roll bar links. I'm back to having one working car! The clutch feels like it has air in the system so hopefully a quick bleed will sort that out.

Why won't it come out? All bolts removed from the gearbox bellhousing yet it absolutely refuse to come apart from the engine, not even a hint of splitting and there's barely anywhere to lever against. Frustrating

Car update
V70 - unable to keep its gearbox oil inside
GT86 - death rattle from engine, suspect a spun bearing
944 - suddenly developed a horrific clattering noise from the rear under load (waiting for recovery now)
Boxster - booked in for an MOT on Tuesday

All in all my luck is shit

Next up, the air fryer with AI but it's been trained on data from Reddit and it only knows how to burn things to an absolute crisp before alerting you that they're cooked to perfection.

I was overtaking a learner who was too scared to go over 30 on a straight unrestricted road. They may be more scared now considering the cloud that was rejected mid overtake

Suspension isn't too bad, just the alignment that's a pain. I've done the 944 several times and fitted full poly bushing to it. The V70, 940, and Boxster all have soggy shock syndrome and n ed doing

A blue 1983 Porsche 944 in the sun, not breaking down (currently).

Old reliable, apparently. Nobody saw that coming

And to finish off this episode of car disasters, I will be drinking Scotch while ordering a replacement 944 ignition switch. A mere £15 since it's a Beetle/T2 Transporter part

Yup I remember that, I offered you the old radiator from this very car if you were that stuck. I currently have a V70 that has gearbox oil incontinence, a GT86 that with a death rattle, Boxster waiting on tyres, and a 944 that sometimes forgets it has a starter motor

A bit of pipe to bypass it has been applied so I could limp it home for a proper fix later

Heater control valves are meant to be a two piece item, right?

The car death continues with the Volvo 940 saying bye bye to coolant

Still no idea what has happened. The engine turns over fine, not a single code logged in the ECU and it sounded like it was firing on all 4 before cutting out. Surely if the chain went slack and it jumped teeth the ECU would be screaming about it?

Yesterday went well. Engine had a sudden drop in power and started rattling at part throttle. When pulling into a layby it died completely. Not sure what the problem is yet.