I’m sure there’s a funny line in there with a bit of creative quoting…..
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What have you been doing today?
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Problem solved. - TFFT! I went over there, started it up, it coughed and locked several times just turning it over because it was firing waaaay too early- had to be ignition related. Started it up, was running really rough and I mean really rough. I disconnected the coil pack and it spun over with good compression so that ruled out "slipped timing belt" or valve damage. It had to be the coil pack. I stupidly didn’t bring my scanner with me so I got the DiL to call out the AA, they got there in 20 minutes! Connected up the scanner and said "coil pack"! The AA bloke went off to Colchester to collect the part - £151. I could have got it cheaper next day but she just wanted it running so I let him collect and fit the part. Took all of 5 minutes to fit. My DiL had asked a garage near to the vets she works at to look at it last night. They left a voice note on her phone which she sent to me. "All spark plugs not firing so we changed all of them, fixed that fault then found bad correlation between crank and camshaft sensors. We suspect the timing has slipped either because of a broken tensioner or water pump. Our next step is to strip out the side of the engine to check the cam belt and timing". When she told them that I had replaced the belt, tensioners and water pump a few months ago, they said to take it back to me. They charged her just short of £90 for that. Anyway, all fixed and running now but I did tell her to call the AA out last night and if she had, she'd have saved £90 on spark plugs but will 'kids' listen? Will they fùck!
Just my front door to fix and I’ll be back to how I was this time yesterday!
* I had to kill a baby wood pigeon today. As I was going down my sons road, I saw two crows pecking at what I thought was roadkill.They flew off when I got near but I could see a young pigeon, probably a few days off of fledging, underneath a tree - it had either fallen from its nest or the crows had dragged it out and it was on its back with its wings flapping and its legs moving. When I stopped and looked at it, the bastard crows had pecked its eyes out and ripped it crop open, spilling all the food it had in it. There was nothing I could do but put it out of its misery by clubbing it with a stick. I hate all types of corvids.
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Fixed! Having repaired it once nearly a year ago, I was confident of another successful fix. It was the inner handle cam that broke last time. The lock was always a bit stiff afterwards. Anyway, so confident of what it was, I ordered the part in advance of stripping the lock down. Sure enough, it was the same cam that had snapped but it did look like a pretty cheap and lightweight replacement that I had fitted previously.
The new cam this time looked to be made of a better quality metal. Only £9.20 instead of nearly £200 for a complete unit. Took me no time at all to remove, strip, repair and replace but this time, like a master horologist, I gave the whole mechanism a good clean and lubricated it with some grease before reassembly. Works a treat and has a far smoother operation than before.
Off to London.
Strange quirk of the train journey down.
Obviously when you're on the train and belting along at a ton, you have no sensation of actually moving.
Again obviously, the train tilts (at quite an angle) as it goes around curves and bends in the track.
Just south of Rugby, the track curves and the train tilts as it passes some bodies of water.
Due to the train's tilt (and not feeling like you're moving) the bodies of water don't look horizontal, but rather curve up towards the sky.
Like that film Inception
Strange quirk of the train journey down.
Obviously when you're on the train and belting along at a ton, you have no sensation of actually moving.
Again obviously, the train tilts (at quite an angle) as it goes around curves and bends in the track.
Just south of Rugby, the track curves and the train tilts as it passes some bodies of water.
Due to the train's tilt (and not feeling like you're moving) the bodies of water don't look horizontal, but rather curve up towards the sky.
Like that film Inception
Off to London.
Strange quirk of the train journey down.
Obviously when you're on the train and belting along at a ton, you have no sensation of actually moving.
Again obviously, the train tilts (at quite an angle) as it goes around curves and bends in the track.
Just south of Rugby, the track curves and the train tilts as it passes some bodies of water.
Due to the train's tilt (and not feeling like you're moving) the bodies of water don't look horizontal, but rather curve up towards the sky.
Like that film Inception
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hope all those oil parts are not on a nice clean carpet or towel! - you will be due a belt round the ear from the misses
A little something for the journeyNah, right alongside the tracks
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Carry a knife at all times, don’t look anybody in the eye and you should survive the day. Good luck.
Carry a knife at all times, don’t look anybody in the eye and you should survive the day. Good luck.
No use bringing a knife to a scaffold pole fight
