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Old 9th Apr 2009, 19:26
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I suggest you squirt some lubricant straight down the throat of the old girl.
It's the quickest way to free all those seized up parts and really get her started!
Best get an assistant though, you don't want her revving up un-manned!
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Old 9th Apr 2009, 19:40
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The engine and the wife have the same problem, too many hand starts and not enough swinging.
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Old 9th Apr 2009, 20:03
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Why not start her off by hand and jump on while she's still moving ?
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Old 9th Apr 2009, 21:19
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Trade her in for a Cirrus as if it all goes wrong again you can always pull the chute
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Old 10th Apr 2009, 05:21
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i agree!
my old mum (bless her) used tosay to me: "son, if it floats flys or f*cks...rent it"

she said some wise words!
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Old 10th Apr 2009, 07:07
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dragqueen120 said:

Excuse my spelling I am a bit or a lot dislexic (seriously).
So, it could have been a horse and cart parked in your paddock and a tibetan monk in bed with your great grandmother teaching her the finer points of backgammon!

Well at least if anything, we have learnt that a lot of the forumites have imaginative minds and are stereotypical when it comes to sexual humour.

Being a lateral thinker myself, I shall be forever pondering why the tibetan monk was over here in the first place and not at home fighting the Chinese!
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Old 10th Apr 2009, 07:58
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Backgammon is a game for two players, played on a board consisting of twenty-four narrow triangles called points. The triangles alternate in color and are grouped into four quadrants of six triangles each. The quadrants are referred to as a player's home board and outer board, and the opponent's home board and outer board. The home and outer boards are separated from each other by a ridge down the center of the board called the bar.

Figure 1. A board with the checkers in their initial position.
An alternate arrangement is the reverse of the one shown here, with the home board on the left and the outer board on the right.

The points are numbered for either player starting in that player's home board. The outermost point is the twenty-four point, which is also the opponent's one point. Each player has fifteen checkers of his own color. The initial arrangement of checkers is: two on each player's twenty-four point, five on each player's thirteen point, three on each player's eight point, and five on each player's six point. Both players have their own pair of dice and a dice cup used for shaking. A doubling cube, with the numerals 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and 64 on its faces, is used to keep track of the current stake of the game.
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Old 10th Apr 2009, 17:36
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Did you prime fully?
I think I've figured out your problem.

Over priming. More than three strokes of the Knob BEFORE turning the old girl on, often leads to erratic performance. If you stroke too many times, it can lead to a prematurely flooded bore, and that leads to erratic behavior for quite a while especially if by that time your battery has gone flat! In that case you have to wait a while for he battery to recover before giving it another go, but whatever you do, don't overdo it this time or your battery will be done before you manage to get her going. You might as well give up for the day in that case.

Equally you have to be careful not to UNDER PRIME. There is nothing worse than not pumping enough, not getting enough into the bores. If that happens she'll never get going and you'll be looking at some heavy maintenance bills if this continues for any length of time. If you are constantly under priming, it may be that you have a worn primer. As these get older they start to fail, not pumping enough in or leaking. In that case you should go and see someone who maybe able to give it an overhaul to increase pressure again.

I can never understand my old girl. One day she fires up at the first touch, others I can be pumping quite a few times and she never wants to gets started. In that case I just pump like mad for a few seconds then go for it, that normally gets her sparks lit.

I guess they all are a bit temperamental - even modern ones who like the red knob all the way out to start with then shoved right in at the first cough with no pumping or anything....

Anyway good luck.

PS What sort of Van was it?
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Old 10th Apr 2009, 21:21
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"PS- white van man was involved i an accident today...fell down an elivator shaft!"

Cryptic! (or Cctiryp for you dislexics)
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Old 10th Apr 2009, 23:06
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It really depends on how long you have had a drop in RPM ? the plug in the hole is sometimes foul and it just needs a good sorting from time to time ! you will find that once you have taken it out ..given it a good scrub..then you watch that baby ignite !

P.S. Any idea if the the Tranny was a 115bhp or 130bhp? the 130's go like a gud un !!

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Old 11th Apr 2009, 08:40
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How come we're now talking about Trannies?
Way too complicated for me,but the Kinks had it sorted in Lola
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Old 11th Apr 2009, 23:15
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Excuse my spelling I am a bit or a lot dislexic (seriously). I once went to a toga party dressed as a goat!
Reminds me of the dyslexic Christian who got thrown to the lino.

Despite all of the joviality on here marital problems are no joke; I should know, I've been sh@gging my secretary for months (not continuously, you understand) and last week we both fell asleep afterwards, I woke up and realised that I was going to be very late home, while I dressed I got my secretary to take my shoes outside and get them good and muddy. When I got home I faced the inevitable questions about my tardiness and confessed all about my affair, my wife took one look at my shoes and answered with "Don't you lie to me, you've been down that airfield again".

Dragqueen, is your wife my secretary?
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Old 14th Apr 2009, 09:05
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Notsure if shes your secratery. Ill try and post a photo on here for you to check.
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