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This is a circuit for turning a relay into a latching relay.......

Why?

well you might want your fog lights to come on with your side lights (or dip) but when you switch off your lights the fog lights will trip off and not switch back on when the lights are turned back on.

the 12v supply for the momentary switch can come from ANY convenient place, once…

on my way home from work last night at 20:00 i managed to tear some muscles in my rt leg and it hurts like billy-o.....getting into the Phaeton is just not possible neither is getting  into my wife's Fiat Sciento, just way too painful.

the Hyundai was just about do-able to get me to casualty, but even getting out of bed was a struggle. 

to top it all we told our neighbour that they had some loose concrete hanging off the chimney, and they called a roofer to come and sort it.…

Did anyone get some pictures of the line up at stoneleigh?

i seemed to have failed on that score and i would like a few for the Dutton Torque that is about to go to the printers.......you can email me (full photos dont compress them to heavily) at the club email editor@duttonownersclub.co.uk

Well car has become unuseable, Half filled the oil catch tank in 40 miles, Im a bit disapointed its this early in the season. I have locked it away in the garage and will not touch it just yet. I have to decide weather to change the engine to the SR20det or spend the money on rebuilding my existing engine, The later will most likely be the way I go, with a few extra goodies along the way to beef it up.

Anyone know of link to some thing on converting an S4 to 5 link? also the S4 i recently acquired (and is now in the possession of a new club member who is going to get it back on the road )  also  needs some disc brakes to replace the drum brakes it currently has.......lots to do.

i have nearly finished putting the new DT together but i dont have any pictures from stoneleigh if some could be emailed to me that would be really great.

i saw one of these yesterday so i knew they were available, and a little research i found these.... they are "E" marked.

link below...

indicators with stop and tail

a little thought and these would sit nicely at the rear of a car especially in pairs or threes like the…

been looking at diy dash's and found this ....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-Speedometer-Tachometer-Gauge-Dash-Cockpit-NEW-STREETFIGHER-SP2-/220977699819?hash=item33734c1beb&item=220977699819&pt=Motorcycles_Parts_Accessories&vxp=mtr#shId

looks very…

Saturday morning and the sun is shining making a change up North. We met up at the Black Dog Pub in Belmont just north of Bolton for our first tour of the year. 

Disappointment was on a couple of faces, Ade and Steve Kerry had not met the deadline. Although much midnight oil and elbow grease was used to try and get the Phaeton and Legerra ready it wasn’t to be. 

Ade had the radiator blow on the Leggy on Friday night whilst travelling home from work,…

After getting the Legerra home a few weeks ago, I have been using it as my daily commute. I have done a few things to it to 'improve' it:

1) I have removed the centre console because I could not take my foot off the clutch with it in place because I have to get my knee next to the steering wheel and my calf was hard against the edge of the console. I have still got to find a place for the dials and switches that were there. When removing the heater controls I found that the outer…

Gave the Sierra S2 abit of a run out today, to Islington north London, approximately  328 miles there and back and no problems, i think i managed to do it without being spotted by the southern fraternity ,good job really as i did'nt have my passport !

Ive been doing loads of work on my S3 Phaeton project over the last few months and am now starting to think about bodywork.

I love the front with the ground scraping spoiler, but I'm less enamoured of the rear, even thouhg I've now got a bumper for it.

Any suggestions or good pictures for rear end styling?

All the time i have been in the DOC i have only seen the Dutton power bulge that fits on the O/S of the bonnet hump and with its opening facing forward, i have even seen this hump fitted to the N/S of the bonnet but the opening facing rearwards, so i assumed that Dutton only did one version.

Until today when i got home and i noticed on one of the bonnets i recently acquired has a bonnet bulge of the opposite type/side. so i am going to make a mould of it so it can be copied......