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Author Topic: Best use for a Metro  (Read 316 times)
camillitech
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« on: July 14, 2011, 06:47:25 AM »

With the price of scrap rocketing I managed to convince my neighbour to part with her Metro that had been festering outside her chalet for the last three years. Of course I had to move it for her  Roll Eyes However it wasn't all bad for it gave me an ideal platform for moving 26m of 150mm pipe for my mates hydro scheme  hysteria  hysteria



sometimes you just have to think 'outside the box'  Grin

Cheers, Paul
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« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2011, 09:10:13 AM »

Paul they must not salt the roads up there, the body work looks great. You breaking it then?
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« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2011, 11:06:46 AM »

Nice.  Cool All you needed was a couple of old skateboards lashed on the ends of the pipes to save them scuffing on the road.

I broke a metro up a while back. It had the little 1.5 Peugeot non turbo diesel in it. Thought it would make a fine power plant for a generator or CHP.
The older diesels with Bosch VE pumps are far happier running on alternative fuels than the later electronically controlled nonsense that fault and glitch up with amazing regularity, and expense to sort.
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