Can you guess why im sleeping on the sofa tonight!

Can you guess why i'm sleeping on the sofa tonight!

First one to guess what it is gets a...cable tie?

You're sleeping on the sofa because Em realised that you'd put the rocker cover in upside down in the dishwasher?

the jets spray upwards on ours smartly pants!

See, I thought about it first!

jerked off to my Coupe pics?

Yes, and that would mean it is more efficient at removing the oil

Anyway, what a terrible waste of energy and water! You could at least have put in the pots and pans at the same time!

You love Coupes more than her?

don't be silly! the coupe doesn't make my tea collect a trolled Sam from a pub at 1am!

Because you wanted to be around when the wash cycle completed?

I can see your problem, you took the dirty plates etc out of the dishwasher before she could? and she is not happy?


Mate, I look on it as a night camping, living rough on the old sofa, a chance to reconnect with the young man inside of you. Alternatively it's known as broken TV, you know you have a picture and no sound?

OOhhh, you could build a Den!:D

The things we get up to!

you slept with your mother in law then posted the pictures on facebook ? Am I close ?

Link?

Sam, you're like that kid that tries to shove his pushbike into the dishwasher

I should have known what kind of conversation this was going to de-generate in

Did you use a power ball ?

lol, I did use a power ball!

its actually come out very very clean. I have not long finished cleaning out the dishwasher with some special cleaning stuff. Jobs a goodun

to be honest, after drilling holes in the dining table, she is no longer supriced by anything

Here's mine when I put it in the dishwasher

The coil pack cover is on the top shelf



Can't believe it's over 2 years since I did that now

"Oh honey why does my dinner have an aftertaste of 10/50?"

Honestly you guys - go buy a pressure washer some gunk and a few brushes

Does anybody have an after shot of the dishwasher clean? I want to weigh up if it's worth the grief or not?!

That's straight out of the dishwasher.

The dishwasher was handy, just to get the dirt out of all the holes and awkward places.

dirty



clean



as above, Just clean out the dishwasher after. jet wash is good but does not get everything hot enough for the oil just to wash off (tried that in the past)

Hmmm very tempting, cheers T & Sam.

cool.

If only I could find yellow crinkle paint!

Black with yellow lettering? Yellow Hammerite IS broom yellow, well near enough.

thanks yell, Im going to do yellow with gloss black writing

Make sure you spell it correctly

should look good, you doing the coil pack cover gloss black too??

Im going to keep it all yellow with just black writing. I might photoshop your idea to see what it looks like. I have a boat load of gloss black from a set of wheels i did

baring disasters ill be finished tomorrow, I spent the re-cleaning my kit and priming the plug cover and rocker cover

cowboy had his coil pack cover lime green originally and I think it look too much all the same colour, his looks better with the chrome as a contrast.
maybe get a spare and paint up both so you can see which looks best

lol, I thought quite the opposite, as the spark plug cover isn't symmetrical it looks odd, every one has different tastes though

Ill get some photos of it tomorrow and have a look, I also plan to do the strut brace and clean the washer bottle

the plenum would probably look pretty good in yellow too as well as the strut brace

can you do mine if i send you it!! lol

Dave, after looking at it, I took your advice, the plug cover is going to be gloss black (done that) and the rocker cover is going to be yellow (bloody paint shop closed early!)

Keithc, I would love to mate but I dont get as much time out in the workshop as I would like...and im slowly packing it all away at the moment

I think it would look best with the rocker cover black, with yellow writing and a yellow coil pack cover. but then again its not my car....

either way it will look nice and shiny and clean

the gloss is black is a lovely color but it shows up every tiny little mark, dust, finger print... With the amount of checking the car gets oil and levels wise, I would spend the next month of sundays polishing the rocker cover

well im almost done!

not happy with the yellow, its fine in day light but under non natural light looks musted like





i'm debating what to do with the letters, if I paint them gloss black, leave them, or polish them

I vote for black lettering Sam

I vote for black lettering too.
Nice finish there Sam

your wish, is my command, although im not happy with the finish at the moment, may well pull out the sander and start again

Getting there Sam

The Black lettering doesn't look as good as I thought it would.. hmmm, would red lettering look crazy with the yellow or maybe polished is the way to go?? looks like you did a great job though, well done

dam you maastiff! I like it, and thats all that matters!

It needs to be yellow or black, anything else would make it look to much

I may well sand off the top and give it a blow over again

I was expecting that, and well deserved too!! I'll be doing the same to mine soon so you will have an opportunity to even the score

And I just took a tin of nitromos to it!

its not right, I did sand it back but the paint just would not stick so its start over again

what paint did you use Sam??
if you used hammerite apparently it takes about 6 months to cure properly and would stay gummy underneath.
i have tried sanding it before and it was a nightmare

No, this was commercial standard paint from the local body shop suppler.

I started painting it and thought my god this yellow is horrid, hi vis style. So I added some gloss black to the mix. All looked good under strip lites, under day light there was a defoliant green tinge to it (cowboy would have loved it!)

So I went to sand back tonight and repaint, the lacker although cut back a lot just caused the paint to run about and not set. it was a hard desesion to make but it was going to be less peeing about me taking it back to metal than not being happy with it once on the car

Mine needs rubbing down and another couple of coats of paint and a couple of coats of laquer putting on it.




It looks better in the flesh to be honest, very pearlescent, it's Ford Electric orange as on the focus ST's, bit garish but wanted to be different!!!

I take you used a primer for alloy first ?

I did yes, I have taken it back to metal now and will start again with the aloy primer, sanding, primer, then paint

Take it to your local powder coat place and exchange some cash for nice yellow and black parts

Nice Samsite, i like the idea and it will look stunning on the bumble bee!

I tell you what, its not looking stunning at the moment

haha hmm... Maybe that because you have stripped it again

i have to re- do my head too.. I will just use wrinklepaint next time though.

finally finished this again after a couple of weeks on hold, Half way though doing it again, I did something very very silly and ended up spilling 300ml of paint all over the rocker cover again as it was drying

I need to have a tidy up in my shed!

any how as it looks now, and as its going to stay, the black letters are to hard to do well, so I wont do them at all!

Not going to paint the lettering black then? lol. Good job

looking good sammy

lol no Patch, been there, done that, and got the t-shirt!

work it quiet on the Christmas run up so ill order a new rocker cover gasket tomorrow, install emms goodys before Christmas (we never, ever, ever wait till Christmas!

When you next up at mr CC's? I have a bottle of beer for you as a Christmas present!

Up there on the 18th Sam to drop the car off for it's body kit .... Don't worry about the beer, we'll grab one or two at Spa

looks great Sam, you got there in the end!