Scorpio Meeting.....

Sunday 30th October 2006..... Scorpio forum Borders Meetup.

I had initiated this meet up of fellow owners, but somehow had to travel the furthest to get there!! Anyway it was at the scotish meuseum of flight at East Fortune Air Base, Near Edinburgh.

5 cars made the trip. (3 x 24V) (1 x 12v ) ( 1 2.3 DOHC )

We had a good chat, and a look round the air meauseum and generaly had a good day.

We did a bit of fiddeling with cars, My indicators packed up so we spent some time sorting them. And Tintin's 24V had been put back together very wrongly in terms of it's vacume hoses.. So we started to sort that out..

My car is 4th from left in the photo, and you can see how low it sits on the wrong tyres...

A Grand day out... next time.. KESWICK...

Rob

Fix one, create a load more.... PROBLEMS....

ARG...

I decided to find out why my rear speakers would not work, and to replace a blow front speaker..

After taking half the dash appart I found the speaker outputs from the amp and they were fine, so I checked at the rear speakers themsefls and found that the speakers were DUD....

Anyway, I replaced 2 faulty dash bulbs so that was that fixed...

Next I looked at the speaker, I had to Muller it to get it out, and none of my spare speakers was a direct fit... So that is wedged in at the moment.

I then discovered my CD and Stalk was nwo dead.... BUMMA... Dash will have to come appart again...

And then next day my indicators have packed up!! Marvelous as I was on a Scorpio meet 120 miles from home...

Dam thing...

Fixing problems...

The scorpio continues to keep me busy in my spare time...

I replaced the tailgate release motor last weekdn and happily that has cured that problem and I can open the car from the remote :D, I also strapped up a loose exhaust shield that was dragging.. And replaced a dodgy lambda sensor. ( that code has now cleared... )

This weekend I sold the horrid 15" wheels to another guy from the scorpio forum.. He got about £200 of tyres with them!!

www.fordscorpio.co.uk

so spent half the day dropping them off,

I then fitted a replacement wiper stalk so I now have
wash on front and back!

I also continue to investigate the cause of my rough idle, I did find a melted vacume hose which I have replaced. But there is still a problem and I still suspec a vacume leack on the EGR and EVAP systems...

Otherwise I am still relaly enjoying the car. with over 2K covered in 7 weeks.

Getting down to the volov dregs now.. I have sold over £2K worth of parts and recon I can squeeeeze anotehr £500 if I am lucky. Lots of auctions runnign now...

Rob

A busy week!

It's been a busy week.

I sold one of my 24V Granada engines on saturday in exchange for some new alloys for the Scorpio, it looks much better but the tyres make it sit 2cm lower and the exhuast is scraping...

I also finished taking the volvo to bits and today ( Wednesday ) it's off to the scrapper..

Lot's of parts now on auction and stuff is selling well.. On course for a reasonable return on investment.. Leather interior was collected :) and hopefully someone is up for the gearbox on sunday...

Went to Gateshead in the Scorpio and it was very well behaved. Going back across on saturday to pick up a spare 24V Scorpio engine!!

So the drive is now free :)

Rob