Podcast 112 - Saturday Cambelt
Added 2022-06-12 17:00:05 +0000 UTCJonny's had a new TV show idea. Also in this episode, the excitement of real life jousting, Honda Insight magnesium sumps, being sick behind an ornamental bush, the old days of boozy car launches, putting onions into an orange juice machine, worrying about parking on a slope, the love of house bricks, a dusty Jubilee, Scandinavian crime fighter Torsen Diff, and a listener has offered to name a mountain after us.
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San Franciscan here - it's actually illegal not to turn your wheels into the kerb when parking on an incline over 3% grade. Parking wardens check for it, $68 ticket!
Matthew Carpenter
2025-01-13 09:39:12 +0000 UTCExactly what do in my old Mercedes 👍🏻
Chris Jarrett
2022-06-16 12:22:02 +0000 UTCThere is a conversation about 'parking' brakes (as the crazy yanks call them) on Reddit every 10 minutes... https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/vdanfd/do_people_ever_complain_about_you_using_your/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Zoona
2022-06-16 02:58:20 +0000 UTCSaturday Morning Cambelt should definitely feature a Fiat Coupe with the 5pot 2.0 engine; changing the cambelt on those was an absolute arse involving lifting the engine up, or removing it completely if you followed the Fiat guide.
John Hammond
2022-06-15 12:05:25 +0000 UTCYes exactly! This is what I do. I've tried it with an electronic handbrake and it also worked well.
Dieter Lottmann
2022-06-14 09:17:04 +0000 UTCHaven't tried it on a car with electronic handbrake, but when i park a car with an autobox on a hill i hold it on the brake pedal and engage the parking brake with the car in Neutral. Then i release the foot brake till i feel the parking brake holding the car and put it in park after that. If the parking brake is good it will take the strain off the pin in the transmission. When starting again i hold the brake and put it in gear and then release the parking brake.
Robin Johnsen
2022-06-13 18:04:08 +0000 UTCRichard, don't be worrying about park pawls; you don't worry about gudgeon pins or track rod ends do you?
Fergus McIver
2022-06-13 16:54:54 +0000 UTCAuto dark welding helmet is the pro tip....
david marden
2022-06-13 13:22:41 +0000 UTCJonny, has your daughter not seen Herbie Rides Again?! There’s jousting in that film - the Chicken Tournament! If she hasn’t seen “Rides Again” that should be addressed at once!
Rob Smith
2022-06-13 12:57:06 +0000 UTCI listen to you guys via my headphones in my workshop…… who was having their garden heavily strimmed while recording this? 😆 Also, I have done the “close eyes, WELD” thing… replacing both sills on a mk2 fiesta in the noughties. Yes it was stupid.. yes I had a great face tan after a few days and the redness faded
Adam
2022-06-13 12:43:26 +0000 UTCJousting at Knebworth House fathers day weekend?, not far from you Mr Smith
Chris Jarrett
2022-06-13 11:40:32 +0000 UTCWe’ll be there Thursday and Friday. Maybe Saturday too.
Smith and Sniff
2022-06-13 11:21:06 +0000 UTCWhat day(s) will you be at Goodwood? I'm concerned that my love of an uncrowded paddock will see me leaving on the Thursday evening without a sticker.
Ronnie Whelan
2022-06-13 09:46:57 +0000 UTC😂 with the modern jousting, a must would be a "No Fear" sticker on the back of the helm and some more sponsors names further obscuring the riders vision down the left side. Royal armouries in Leeds is a great day out to have a look at some jousting armour (slightly used) close up. Pointed a Lotus Elise out to the eldest (5) yesterday, "Like the biscuits?" was his response. "No!" I said, but then, light, low and slightly spicy. He may be on to something...
Maurice Barnes
2022-06-12 20:58:12 +0000 UTCOr just re-grade it as a homage to Lombard Street.
Maurice Barnes
2022-06-12 20:30:25 +0000 UTCRichard, would it be possible to create a 90° left or right turn at the top of the drive? Allowing you to park cars on a side slope rather than the concerning front to back slope? May require minor groundworks but perhaps less so than Jonny's funicular?
Michael Lyth
2022-06-12 19:46:35 +0000 UTCModern welding masks are auto-dimming, so you can see relatively normally before the arc is struck
Sean Hamerton
2022-06-12 19:30:22 +0000 UTCWhen Richard was talking about his WhatsApp groupchat, I thought he was going to say there's someone in the chat called Torsen Diff.
Julian Hale
2022-06-12 18:48:46 +0000 UTCRe parking on steep inclines I can offer no better advice than the excellent click and clack the tappet brothers https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-best-of-car-talk/id253191823?i=1000566072367 As you have both a large capacity engine and an auto however I think you are worrying pointlessly and as for the e-up what could you damage?
Robert Clay-parker
2022-06-12 18:48:04 +0000 UTCBook report - Steel Flies by Roy Lanchester - Roy Lanchester’s refreshing approach to fiction is a breath of fresh air. Too many novelists leave the reader wondering exactly which route their protagonist takes to arrive at his destination, whether their characters ever feel the need to park their breakfasts or just how untrustworthy is a Frenchman. Lanchester eschews the doctrinaire dogma of your average penman and ploughs his own furrow, much to the relief of the reader. Highly recommended.
Tim C
2022-06-12 17:31:15 +0000 UTCTorsen Diff - I haven’t even listened yet and youre already cracking me up
Jim Galbraith
2022-06-12 17:06:27 +0000 UTC
