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For once I am reverting to the theme of this thread. How many remember the time when hotels were part of the motoring adventure. Remember the AA and RAC signs outside of them. My wife and myself travel from Glasgow to Beaconsfield to see our daughter several times each year. We like to break the journey mid way and stop in a good hotel. However they have become so expensive and their marketing wou...

I agree Dave.

Starmer won't let the Chagossians have a say on who they want to control the Chagos Archipelago, but insists that the Danes control Greenland, and that the greenlanders should have a say in whether or not that control goes to the US.

Inconsistent? Too bloody right.

Diego Garcia is vital to Western and US security.

You wouldn't think a US ally woul...

Ray, I'msure you're probably right. I just know that I got my best mileages when I did that - but perhaps they could have been even better!

I just tried it on a run up to Oswestry: 'coasting' in 6th gave a 0 MPG reading; foot on the clutch gave 200 MPG.

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"This car has also cured me of the habit of sticking my foot on the clutch and coasting down hills. Leaving it in a high gear keeps it legal and I have the satisfaction of seeing the consumption screen showing 0."

I spent some time back in the 1980s working with commercial fleet engineers, at MIRA, testing fully laden trucks and very accurately measuring fuel consumption. As I was drivin...

It might have been a better idea to give the Chagos Islands to the US. At least it wouldn’t have cost us anything.

Speaking of dictator types and election meddling Guy; ---

Ray I think, mentioned earlier that Starmerovsky's Socialist mob are enabling the cancellation of a significant number of May's local elections.

Mostly Labour, but a couple/few Tory, and at least one ILLIBERAL (small 'd') democract council seizing the opportunity to act like 'dictators', and hang on to power.

The...

Exactly Willi. Thanks for doing this. The 'outer' nipple ends must originally have had no check valve and only had the inner check valve. Someone had replaced the outer ones on mine in the past with ones that did have check valves-hence - the double values and lack of greasing capacity. The internal valves have a longish spring (which tends to kink easily) and a larger ball.

The new com...

Got me thinking Merv. so, I have 2 genuine new / old stock '49 MGY tierod ends that I removed the grease nipples from and inspected for you---- Both the main bases have check valves but neither of the upper nipple ends have valves--They just have very small holes through them which measure just a tiddle over 1.5mm as in a 1.5mm drill bit slides through but a 1/16" drill is a tight fit.

I'm thinking the 14.5 g one probably isn't rising much at all,at least without enough force to hold the needle shut causing the fuel level to keep increasing.
The gap between the meetering needle and jet is only a thou. or so so not much fuel can escape there so out the overflow she goes-----

Hi Bill,

I'm not an expert by any means, but I did encounter quite a bit of information when I was doing my research. One of the main reasons for crankcase ventilation is to prevent oil contamination from the crankcase gases. The road draft tube can work quite well for this, but it does nothing when the car is not moving. The crankcase gases can also be quite noxious when sitting at a sto...