Talking cars in the pub last night

So basically went to my local pub last night in the R and got talking to some locals who are proper enthusuiats (rally drivers, mechanics, one lad has a prodrive scooby) one of which loved the R showed him round and he couldn't believe how nice the car is (only mine is pretty tatty). so anyway another bloke has got a ford focus st said hed just fitted a short shifter kit, would that be like the BM shifter for the pulsars, he said his car is alot nicer to drive with it on.

anyone else this weekend had there cars complimented or something similar?

I got told mine was bloody ugly......
And yes same as b&m shifter

My girlfriend always says the pulsars are ugly things ..... so i told her " i gave you a chance so theres hope for the r yet "

beauty is only skin deep, its whats underneath that counts!!

BEBB GTIR wrote:beauty is only skin deep, its whats underneath that counts!!

Is that what you say to the sheep

no comment!!

BEBB GTIR wrote: anyone else this weekend had there cars complimented or something similar?

Yeah i was swearing at both for being broke!

How did you get on with it pete did you work out what was wrong ?

Unfortunately not, i dont mind having to fix it but its finding the fault in the first place Bridged the diagnostics port and nothing happened, went on the forum and found manual was wrong so then bridged correct terminals, still nothing. Found a wiring diagram but its a bit small so gonna take it into work and get it blown up and go from there one night...
After giving up with the truck i thought id tinker with the R, tried removing fuel tank cap but stopped for fear of damaging fuel lines...again. Just wanted to siphon out the stale fuel. Dreading it wont be ready for Bobs sprintday!!
In the end moved onto the first of three projects in the garage. Did you have a productive weekend Leighton?

Whenever i take the cap off i always pull the fuel lines off first then tuck them to the side then undo the cap .... not really mate been busy doing other cars not touched either of the cars tbh and got another to do tomorrow night once i finish work ..... only due to the fella telling me it was the nearside drumstick to change but really it was the offside he just got confused wich side was wich lol so got to replace that side aswell now lol .

Couple of years ago i damaged the lines trying to get them off so had to replace the lines, not quite the original way as didnt want to drop the tank. As this happened before dont wanna chance damaging them again. Gonna get some long thin pipe and siphon the worst of it through the filler point.

Take the fuel pipe off the Filter and then turn ignition on and off. Let it pump it's own fuel out... Then put your battery on charge

GTI_R_IOW wrote:Take the fuel pipe off the Filter and then turn ignition on and off. Let it pump it's own fuel out... Then put your battery on charge

Did think of this but with half a tank of juice thought i might be here a while, that will be my last resort.