Mopar Muscle Association UK

G'Day Mate!

Danscharger , post away mate , the site has gone stagnent , be nice to get some questions up. Always remember doin me colledge course askin all sorts of questions , the ones who asked no questions were the failures.

Gotta admit , i was a pain in the bottom , this was from the teacher who took me on.

Kev wrote:Not silly at all, mate! Wing, bonnet and boot for me! No fender, hood and trunk here mate!

Wing ? Guard, shurely, Kev

Hi Dan,

The only Amercanism I don't like is Rockers! As in Sills/Cills.

For me, Rockers go to Hemsby in the Summer to annoy the holiday makers!

Best place for 'em is under the Rocker covers bolted down to the heads, preferably with a hardened shaft running up 'em!!! (Jones says to Captain Mainwaring).

They don't like cold steel up 'em, its a Dads Army thing, you're probably too young to know that stuff?

Baccy.

didn't Haynes manuals have a list of translations in them?

Yeah, never understood Rockers. If you're car's rocking on those, you've done some very bad parking.

Hood means convertible top in UK and the engine cover in USA

Double pumper i took to mean it has throttle pumps in all venturis, not just the front ones. (squirters) but I assume if it has those, it also has mech secondaries too.

Double pumper means 2 accelerator pumps, 1 front , 1 rear, always mechanical secondary.

Hi folks,

Had the same conversation in the US a couple of years back! A septic had found a MG Haynes manual and was laughing at the English terms!

They couldn't understand propshaft, they reckon they use them down the mines to hold up the ceilings?
I then went on to explain that it was a term taken from ships to drive the propellor, that got a good laugh!!!
In the the US I believe its a driveshaft, now I said, that would be for a front wheel drive car?
Then we went on to the trolley jack, they scratched their heads, so I pointed at one, another laugh, thats a floor jack! Surely you mean a car jack I said? Axle stands are Jack stands they said, as we don't just put them under the axle, so I gave up!!!

I knew I was fighting a losing battle, Baccy?

My fav is anti roll bar/sway bar/track bar/anti dive bar...The world would be a boring place if we were all the same.

baccaruda wrote:Best place for 'em is under the Rocker covers bolted down to the heads,

Don't you mean the "valve covers"?

no

they stop dust getting into the air inlet for ya tires.............


Dave

in Oz wings are Guards
inner wings are inner Guards

a car park is 1 single space

hey mate can you see an empty park from there?

A Toyota Corrolla is refered to by Toyota Au Ltd Pty as a

European style sports car

The tag line is Where did heeee get a caaarrrr like that?????

what? he owns that europeean style sporrrrts caaaar

you got to stress the right bits and go up at the end to sound right

but they are a bit odd.

you sit on a lounge cos a lounge is a 3 piece suite and the room is the lounge room cos thats where you keep the lounge.

so it follows if you kept a tiger then you would have a tiger room
bath bathroom well method to madness i suppose

and carpets curtains towels and bed linnen are called collectivly manchester. why? dunno and neither do the Aussies

as in

Did you see the fantastic matched manchester that Nolean had her room done out in.

rugby well they don't know what that is either

Nutterz


but i as usual I digress

Dave

Well bikes don't have rocker OR valve covers, they have cam covers. Yank bikes have axles, ours have spindles.
The crank is in the gearbox, the dizzy is on the end of the crank and every cylinder has it's own carb

I don't remember either my old BSA or AJS having cam covers. They did have push rod tubes though.