The Dark Wob

Any advice on the American forums? I can't imagine it not being removable as a lump but who knows what order it was assembled in.

Keep at it mate. Can you not fall back on the old Austin for your transport?

fried onions wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 8:05 pm Keep at it mate. Can you not fall back on the old Austin for your transport?

Cheers! The maestro is probably the best bet for the daily commute as the allegro needs a new starter motor. It disengages as soon as the car fires so takes about 20 attempts before the engine catches. I tried extending the brushes (bodge) to no avail.

In transit tipper mot news, we have a fail on welding, welding and some more welding. Nothing desperate and should get it done this weekend if the weather plays ball. The oil light has been coming on when it has warmed up. I'm hoping it's the oil pressure switch and not a fucked engine. Maybe the sump and oil pick up needs a clean.

I can always trundle to work in the Perkins powered 109.

Forgive me if I'm missing something but disengaging as the engine fires/tries to fire sounds correct behaviour for a starter motor. The ignition timing isn't too far advanced causing it to kick back is it?

The merest of coughs from the engine and it disengages and you have to try again. If it could even turn the engine a whole revolution after the cough, it would probably start. It will bump start in its own length.

Transit sill welding for mot joy*. Has to be done by Tuesday along with the inner wing and a new brake line.

Was hoping to finish it tonight but daughter has her maths exam tomorrow and needs my help. I'd rather lie on my back and weld sills

After too much procrastination I'm going to miss the retest for the tranny. What a prick.
I almost got it all done but spent Saturday jumping about in a mosh pit half pissed and Sunday setting out the foundations of the new house. That left today to weld the inner wing and put some new brake pipe in which I didn't start until late afternoon and then it started raining and hail stoning.

Some monkey had put the the wheel nuts on so tight I snapped a decent socket.


That was using about two feet of leverage and my 16 stone standing on it, so about 400 ft lbs.

I found my impact sockets and got an acro jack





They let go with a bang

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Good grief what a damn nuisance. Thanks God you got them undone. I hate it when whatever ape tightens them up so much, I'd like to set about them with the wheel brace. Fucking meatheads.

Aye there's no way that wheel was coming off at the roadside with a wheel brace.

I expect tight nuts on something like the hymac with its 1 1/8 big nuts that haven't been off for 30 years, but the transit has nearly new tyres on the front. Some dolt with a big fuck off windy gun while breathing through his mouth with an empty head.