Price difference ???
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 11:53 am
£2 in Tesco....£9.?? something at GSF. It's an outrage!!!
Distributor, Redex, carbon, white smoke along with the one easy piece will be comeplete double Dutch to the younger members on hereCrazy Harry wrote: ↑Sun Jul 29, 2018 8:42 am I got my first ticket to 'produce' at the police station (all your driving documentation) in 1978 using a good glug of Redex. My Mk2 Cortina had been miss firing on the homeward leg of a trip to the midlands - it was early evening and I had no tools so I kept going for about two hours getting slower and slower.
I got home, took the plugs out and they were all black with carbon, cleaned them and twisted the distributor around a little where a slack pinch bolt had let it slip. Big glug of redex and as it was now a quiet mid week evening I razed my way away round the village to let it work - now not all of it was down to the redex alone because there was a hell of a build up of carbon in the engine which promptly burnt away. In fact when I looked behind me it was like the Red Arrows white smoke trail - so I knew it was working!
I had to stop at a junction where unfortunately a beat copper was stood on the kerb (remember those days?) it all when wrong when the smoke trail caught me up and you couldn't see over the road. I thought 'produce' was a good result given the policing methods then - and since I had test; insurance and license. A winning combination and not always available to all of my mates.
You had to be a bit handy to keep those old things going-here’s one of my first cars RobTitanTim wrote: ↑Sun Jul 29, 2018 11:00 amDistributor, Redex, carbon, white smoke along with the one easy piece will be comeplete double Dutch to the younger members on hereCrazy Harry wrote: ↑Sun Jul 29, 2018 8:42 am I got my first ticket to 'produce' at the police station (all your driving documentation) in 1978 using a good glug of Redex. My Mk2 Cortina had been miss firing on the homeward leg of a trip to the midlands - it was early evening and I had no tools so I kept going for about two hours getting slower and slower.
I got home, took the plugs out and they were all black with carbon, cleaned them and twisted the distributor around a little where a slack pinch bolt had let it slip. Big glug of redex and as it was now a quiet mid week evening I razed my way away round the village to let it work - now not all of it was down to the redex alone because there was a hell of a build up of carbon in the engine which promptly burnt away. In fact when I looked behind me it was like the Red Arrows white smoke trail - so I knew it was working!
I had to stop at a junction where unfortunately a beat copper was stood on the kerb (remember those days?) it all when wrong when the smoke trail caught me up and you couldn't see over the road. I thought 'produce' was a good result given the policing methods then - and since I had test; insurance and license. A winning combination and not always available to all of my mates.
Still miss a manual choke on cold mornings at traffic lights
Tim.
Smartbear wrote: ↑Sun Jul 29, 2018 3:17 pmYou had to be a bit handy to keep those old things going-here’s one of my first carsTitanTim wrote: ↑Sun Jul 29, 2018 11:00 amDistributor, Redex, carbon, white smoke along with the one easy piece will be comeplete double Dutch to the younger members on hereCrazy Harry wrote: ↑Sun Jul 29, 2018 8:42 am I got my first ticket to 'produce' at the police station (all your driving documentation) in 1978 using a good glug of Redex. My Mk2 Cortina had been miss firing on the homeward leg of a trip to the midlands - it was early evening and I had no tools so I kept going for about two hours getting slower and slower.
I got home, took the plugs out and they were all black with carbon, cleaned them and twisted the distributor around a little where a slack pinch bolt had let it slip. Big glug of redex and as it was now a quiet mid week evening I razed my way away round the village to let it work - now not all of it was down to the redex alone because there was a hell of a build up of carbon in the engine which promptly burnt away. In fact when I looked behind me it was like the Red Arrows white smoke trail - so I knew it was working!
I had to stop at a junction where unfortunately a beat copper was stood on the kerb (remember those days?) it all when wrong when the smoke trail caught me up and you couldn't see over the road. I thought 'produce' was a good result given the policing methods then - and since I had test; insurance and license. A winning combination and not always available to all of my mates.
Still miss a manual choke on cold mornings at traffic lights
Tim.
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Rob