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Repairing a vintage Rom Pom Grease Gun

Repairing a vintage Rom Pom Grease Gun

Brand new grease guns are relatively inexpensive these days, but they tend to be quite large and unwieldy for smaller jobs; they are large as they are normally refilled using long plastic cartridges of grease. Medium sized vintage grease guns made by the likes of Enots, Tecalemit, Wanner and Rom Pom are available at autojumbles […]

Volvo V70 Parking Brake Service Required

Volvo V70 Parking Brake Service Required

If you are lucky enough to own a Volvo V70, especially the later P3 version, you may go to start it one day and get a warning message saying ‘Parking brake Service required’. I recently read a post on a Facebook group in which another owner was asking what caused this. The various potential faults […]

Tekaloid Black Paint

Tekaloid Black Paint

At one time all vehicles were offered in black, black…or you could choose black instead. Then came maroon, dark green then some of the more sombre colours British vehicles were famous for. One of the leading brands of paint was Tekaloid by Thornley & Knight, a very durable coach enamel that was originally applied with […]

Lucas Lead Replacer

Lucas Lead Replacer

If, like me, you have a penchant for classic motorcycles and / or cars, you will know that most of them were designed in a time when petrol had no ethanol in it, but did have a small amount of lead. The lead was there to lubricate things like valve stems and other critical engine […]

Volvo Thermostat 31368373

Volvo Thermostat 31368373

Frankly, I would not have believed that in the final weeks of 2021, the thermostat on my car would be conspiring against me…with no other thought than to deprive me of the life giving output from the heater matrix in cold weather. The last time I had to wear a scarf, coat and gloves whilst […]

 
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