Archev's adventures in the Berlingo

[T1 Terry]

Load up with various Imperial/ Metric socket sets , and a V2L kettle and I'm sure you would be welcomed .

And a heap of spare parts ... nuts and bolts probably, and a drill so they can bolt the bits back on Maybe a tarp and umbrella as well

T1 Terry

 

[Archev]

Load up with various Imperial/ Metric socket sets , and a V2L kettle and I'm sure you would be welcomed .

Don’t want to join the smelly things, just want to follow to better weather

 

[T1 Terry]

Don’t want to join the smelly things, just want to follow to better weather

The fun is in the camaraderie developed travelling with a group that are hoping and praying the vehicle stays together for the trip.

T1 Terry

 

[Ian Key]

And a heap of spare parts ... nuts and bolts probably, and a drill so they can bolt the bits back on Maybe a tarp and umbrella as well

T1 Terry

You forgot the WD40 and gaffer tape

 

[OriginalBigAl]

You forgot the WD40 and gaffer tape

Archev can pack his own medical supplies !!!

 

[siteguru]

Load up with various Imperial mints/Werther originals Metric socket sets , and a V2L kettle and I'm sure you would be welcomed .

FTFY

 

[Archev]

You forgot the WD40 and gaffer tape

…. a few spark plugs, points, condensers, HT leads, carb jets, floats and the myriad other other doodahs that make ice cars so far superior to our beloved ev’s

 

[Archev]

Guys I’m struggling to really get into ev driving - even after about five electric years. It’s worrying that I’m still doubting myself.
Nothing to do with the two fine MGs I had nor the superb Citroen e Berlingo I now pilot around the country. It’s all in my mind I’m sure.
I’ve been aware that as I’m about to start away, I’m sensing ive missed something, then it dawns on me that there’s no clutch and I can rest the left leg, there’s no gear lever so everything is so much simpler and I like it.
But I suffered a massive regression just yesterday and again today. I sat in and went through the usual checks and palaver and all was well so I set off.
But niggles took over and I searched in vain for whatever I felt I lacked. Then I became aware that I was checking the dashboard and all round the steering column but I knew not what I sought.

Later in the day it suddenly lit up in the brain that the control I had been seeking on this cold morning was one I’ve not used for many years. In fact I’m sure it was last available to me on the 1959 Morris Minor

Yes folks I am certain I was thinking it was time to push the choke back in

 

[MG Clive]

I'll just pop this here for our younger viewers, and your sanity @Archev

 

[OriginalBigAl]

Morris Marina with broken choke lock , pull out choke and clip on two clothes pegs ( wooden ) swear and attempt to start car , after eventual success , drive off, after quarter of a mile , slide off the outermost peg , when temperature gauge shows one quarter unclip the remaining peg . On both occasions choke automatically pulls back in. ( 1981 ) surprising what you remember once prompted. If no success, run back into the house and get out push bike. Arrive late for work and get quartered / halved.

 

[siteguru]

I'll just pop this here for our younger viewers, and your sanity @Archev

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Or:

 

[Archev]

Or:

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Are those two gentlemen trying to work out the positioning of the two clothes pegs referred to above ?

 

[Archev]

Morris Marina with broken choke lock , pull out choke and clip on two clothes pegs ( wooden ) swear and attempt to start car , after eventual success , drive off, after quarter of a mile , slide off the outermost peg , when temperature gauge shows one quarter unclip the remaining peg . On both occasions choke automatically pulls back in. ( 1981 ) surprising what you remember once prompted. If no success, run back into the house and get out push bike. Arrive late for work and get quartered / halved.

Now I recall why there’s two wooden pegs lurking in my toolbox connected jaw to jaw

 

[OriginalBigAl]

Or:

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A quick righthand jab to the unprotected goolies would release that choke hold quicker than a squirt of WD40.

 

[Archev]

A quick righthand jab to the unprotected goolies would release that choke hold quicker than a squirt of WD40.

Nuh - no idea what you’re on about now. Is that CCS or Chademo ?

 

[OriginalBigAl]

A sticking choke cable can be loosened with the WD. Being brought up in a rough Northern industrial town the other method could be useful in previous times either on a Friday/ Saturday night confrontations , terrace entrapments and escape tactics, or even a bit of avoiding good old horseplay violence aimed at the naive engineering apprentice as a ritual rights of passage ordination event, involving copious amounts of Castrol grease.