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Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 10:01 am Post subject: |
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Down to Sleap again yesterday to watch a few more airfield movements, and sample their fine sausage butties. Once again the fan belt has slackened off a little, causing some slippage, so I think I'll look into a replacement belt. I think it may be a little narrow, and having slipped on a number of occasions has probably worn it away a little more.
Here with an old wartime building on the approach to Sleap, or what remains of the building anyway...
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BigJohn
Joined: 01 Jan 2011 Posts: 954 Location: Wem, Shropshire
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Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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I intend to visit Sleap next time I drive down to my sons house, he lives at Wem. |
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 10:14 am Post subject: |
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Out and about in the Moggy the other day (a stormy and ominously dark afternoon), shown here parked up in town and raising the tone of the area immeasurably.
Oddly, just as I was taking this snap, a family walked by and told me that they too have a '52 Minor. There's still has the sidevalve engine in it, for which they have a Shorrock supercharger on the shelf and are looking for an Alta head.
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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The Moggy was due a run out, so a cross-country route to a friend's place in Shropshire was plotted on a map (remember them?), and a very pleasant journey along almost deserted back roads was undertaken.
Salted roads were avoided for the most part, the only downside being that in places the back lanes either had fairly large puddles, or as in the scene below, flooded sections. Although not obvious in this photo, the road was flooded as far as the distant bends, and the depth was significant. The car was due a clean anyway!
I noticed a spot of steam coming out of the radiator overflow pipe at journey's end, a check of the rad (which is the one it had when I bought it, after standing idle for years) revealed that only the centre part of the core was warm, the remaining 60% or so either side was stone cold. I've no idea how old the rad is, the core doesn't look brilliant to be honest, so I've ordered a re-cored replacement which will hopefully be here in the next 2-3 days or so.
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Bitumen Boy
Joined: 26 Jan 2012 Posts: 1735 Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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There's a bit of back lane near here that's more often than not flooded 2-3 inches deep, and I often use it for removing salt from car underbodies. |
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Rick Site Admin
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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For "Drive It Day" junior and I headed out for a spin in the Moggy, down to Sleap to watch a few circuits and bumps at the airfield, then back home, then off again to my folks to drop junior off there for a while. Quite a few miles covered, and a good test of the replacement radiator.
Dad exercised his Traveller during the day also
It was also pressed into service again today for a few local errands, got to keep these old things mobile!!!
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