The AX man cometh!

Well it's been over three weeks and 450 miles but I've finally used up all the diesel that was in the tank of the AX, so now i am able to test the Veg Oil conversion. Fitting was a breeze, the hardest part being to feed a wire through into the cabin for a switch on the dash - it took about 1/2 an hour to do that, and about 1/2 an hour to do the rest of the job.

And the good news is the little AX runs just fine and dandy on veg oil. I flled up with 40 litres of SVO, no diesel at all, and even in the 4 degrees run home at midnight last night she ran sweet. It takes about 30 seconds to warm up the veg for a clean start by which time the main plugs have gone out, so it's switch on, wait 30 seconds, switch off switch on again to reactivate the glow plugs and then start immediately. There is no black smoke, and unless my ears are deceiving me, less clatter.

Now in true banger style the car will be tested rigouously before it does the banger rally later next year. This means it will be my daily driver for work. Already it is proving to be a suitable banger, the passenger side sun visor came off in my hand the other day. And I got my first puncture in 17 years of driving. Cost to repair......... £15. I love thsi car. It's cheap as chips!

Veg Oil Conversion

My package arrived this morning, a VOW2B veg oil heater conversion kit for the AX. Now I have to find the time to fit it. Time is money, but I'm spending money on diesel when I could be saving by using veg oil, therefore time also equals veg oil. Which begs the question if you eat a chip, are you conusming time? Of course you are. And if you eat too many chips and throw up, do you then travel back in time?.............Sorry gone off on one there haven't I?

Anyhow, let sgo fit it and maybe I'll post some pictures to show how easy it is.

New banger and banger rally plans

Right the Ligier has sold. My nine month flirtation with microcars is over for now at least, althoug I still fabcy another one to convert to electric power. I made a small but reasonable profit on the sale of Kermit, and this has gone towards clearing some credit card debt.
I have now acquired hsi replacement ......a 42000 milr from new 1995 Citroen AX diesel for the princely sum of £125. Now the AX needed an OT whic it gained easily enough needing just a CV boot and a headlamp adjuster to pass........well theroetcially that's all it needed. in realtity it also needed a core plug replacing as the MOT testerrefused to carry on the test with a hot shower going on in the background.
So a bil of £200 quid secured the repair and a new MOT, £115 satsified the taxman to alow me to drive on the road and at a sum total of £440 I amon the road in my new daily commuter.
except of course that it has just cost me another £30 to fill the tamk (it had about 8 litres in already) I have the VOW2 uniton order to convert it ready for Veg Oil next week. That should reduce my daily motoring costs again.
Sadly I lost almost 35 litres of fuel when my settling tank burst last week. I now have a very well oiled garage floor, as wel a lots of highly combustable newspaper.

Anyhow, changing gear slightly, to a new topic, I have decied to enter a Banger Rally in 2008. It's something I have had in mind for quite a while. but never got round to. Hopefully ihave my friends Mark and Graeme onboard as team members, and we jut have to choose the event to follow, or make up our own. More tol follow on the banger rally soon.