Druidic Dabblings and General Twaddle !!

[Routy56]

well having cleared up the mole's 'labours' ..... I had to do it all again a week later
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followed by yet another go a day later
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a full barrow on both occasions ... me an' mr Mole're gonna have to have a conversation .... the ba***rd's back again this morning

'S that time of year again .....
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advisory / 'get it done', last year (even though 'twere only a film of grease on the boot), was the CV boot (reading the comment you'd expect to see it shredded and grease everywhere)
I'd looked at it last year on the ramp and thought - " you'm getting ****ing picky Chris! " ... kept a weather eye on it through the year and hadn't gotten any worse, but as it was on the ticket, I had to get it sorted

the offending split ....
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and that was all .... if i coul've found it on the vehicle I'd have cleaned/degreased it and super glued the bugger

so it had to come apart, as i'd gone to the effort of extricating it and acquiring a new one.
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two years since I had the hub carrier out for the swivels, so was a bit of an effort - again ...
did for yon boot so i could get a better handle on splitting the lil' bar steward
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without that axle tube end seal flange, job'd've been a POP ..... with it meant splitting the CV off the half shaft and them little wire clips that keep 'em together are absolute ba***rds to get started / collapsed enough to withdraw the shaft out ..

after some attempts free hand a little more finesse/sophistication was required and Mr Harrison was brought into play .....
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together with a bit of cunning, some packers, couple of wedges, a large spacer block and a 2lb hammer .... sadly no pic as I didn't have a free hand ... was well pleased with the ingenuity (and result) .....pop it went!
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damned good clean of everything and .....
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re-introduce the half shaft to the CV ...... stiffest bloody boot I've ever encountered ... bloody shaft took some getting back into the cross boss and holding the boot out the way so's I could actually see WTF was occurring
three sachets of grease and new clip
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and ready to go back on ......


job for this morning, beaten by the light, as didn't start on it yesterday, 'til the sun'd come round onto me patch a bit .... was 'kin white first thing and as usual, always summat else 'needed doin' '
gathered up me gear and stashed for the night
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bloody cool and foggy this morning .. everything got cleaned, lubed and copper-slipped, ready to go back together - once the fog'd burgered off a bit -- no rush -- I'm retired!! ........ an' it's Sunday
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went together sweet as with nice clean, slippery surfaces, everything dogged back in place and sorted by the time Clara, et al arrived, 'Bout two, including having it up in the air, front and back to grease the props (and me brake pipes - like to keep them well plastered - old skool ) .... 's out on the 27th, but couldn't get a test 'fore the 31st ... (well i do have one booked for 14.00 Tuesday, but that's Vicki's slot ... needs her motor more than me - ) and even had time to set fire to a binful of Pam's garden rubbish (helped along with a few greasy rags an' a pint of kero)

Pam caught me watching the fire and having a warm .....
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always manages to come along when i'm doing the least ...... the fact that i'd finished the Rangey and it'd all been torched, ready for the next bucketful was immaterial

Great write up on yer CV boot replacement on the truth old P38 Gra
LR would simply sell you a replacement shaft.
Do you share such write up on an owners forum?

 

[JD450A]

Do you share such write up on an owners forum?

He's our forum gnome, no one elses.... If he starts wondering we will have to get someone to break his legs.

 

[Routy56]

He's our forum gnome, no one elses.... If he starts wondering we will have to get someone to break his legs.

Yes we need to make sure that he doesn’t change too much looking after his precious

 

[V8Druid]

Hope all is ok.

me too the letter from me consultant was a bit waffly .... was in it 2 hrs, so would've thought they'd had as good a look, as they were going to ... will be having a conversation with him tomorrow - hopefully, if I can get hold of him

 

[V8Druid]

Great write up on yer CV boot replacement on the truth old P38 Gra
LR would simply sell you a replacement shaft.
Do you share such write up on an owners forum?

cheers Dave ..... could've done with a few more pix/details, here and there, but wanted to get on ... lil' sod took some separating out the joint.
don't belong to any owner's forums Dave

 

[V8Druid]

Great write up on yer CV boot replacement on the truth old P38 Gra
LR would simply sell you a replacement shaft.
Do you share such write up on an owners forum?

well it did the trick this afters .....
only one advisory ....
one of the bloody number plate bulbs was out ....
was fine last week and no bulb failure warning on the dash, so assume it was either 'shy' or blew when he turned the bloody lights on this afters ....
other wise clean bill of health for another year ....
annoyingly the boots on the track rod and drag link joints - new on, complete, in 2020, with the swivels, are all perishing ... 'least the boots're an easy swap.

so that's all three, in my care, ticketed for another year ....... which'll come around bloody quick again - you watch
Golf taxed for the morning, and all re-insured for the 5th .... been an expensive month

 

[Cyberprog]

Nice. I got my TD5 running again finally - replaced the IDM and she fired straight up.

No headlights, just sidelights, so some funkiness going on still. Maybe a relay.

TDV6 has started throwing a steering angle sensor fault so have ordered some glue. The plastic ring slips on the column!

 

[V8Druid]

ba***rd mole was busy again Friday .... cleared this lot yesterday

a barrow plus ...... and bugger me most of 'em were there again this morning

spent a couple of hours Friday wrestling with these ......

Vicki's heating circulation pump ..... been in there 30+ years, so had the money's worth from it .....

thought it was gonna defeat me and have to drain the system down ..... not a lot of room in the gap for me, a 24" and an 18" Bahco, on a 2" AF nut, plus a pump body that did not want to be gotten hold of ......
2 hrs on what would/should've been, a 10 minute job to swap out for a new one .....
got there in the end, after a serious struggle, which my body complained about for a couple of days and is why these are all still sat on the kitchen window cill

gonna have to fit 'em all tomorrow ..... that droning noise that follows me around is getting worse
Failed to source these locally .... unbelievably ... so 'net to the rescue yet again ..... arrived with Vicki's pump, last Thursday ...... 44 quid for the bloody inserts .. the pump, at £42, looked a bargain in comparison ... and a lot better than the 130 quid that the plumb centre wanted for it, in town ........ not been my month for water systems

got held up by this Friday, on the way down to Vicki's, with yon pump ....

and again this afters, by the leccy boys' cherry picker and a 360 with a tree shear dismantling the rest of this row ...... all gone by the time i got back from me MOT at 3pm and a LOT of potential firewood strewn about the field, the other side of the hedge ......
's one stretch of our tel. cable that's at a bit less risk, than it was ...... can't quite fathom WTF the leccy boys were involved??? .... or why the farmer was either?? ...... 's a telcom wire and poles ... unless they'm subbing to open reach ... was a pole cat planting a new pole when i came by ..... nearest 11kv line's a good 200+ feet away

 

[JD450A]

Did some welding today.

 

[V8Druid]

Did some welding today.

about the level I'd expect to come out of Kingsbridge

 

[Lancs Lad]

Did some welding today.

Try turning the gas on

 

[V8Druid]

well after much time hunting and turning the bloody house over, I found me passport .... in a breast pocket of a jacket that was the last one I looked at (due to the fact it was hiding under two other ones on a peg behind a door) where I keep me regular use coats ..... have looked at every jacket/shirt pocket I own .... if I wore the jacket in question twice last year it'd be a lot ........ tha's several hours of me life I won't get back

 

[Monkeybusiness]

well after much time hunting and turning the bloody house over, I found me passport .... in a breast pocket of a jacket that was the last one I looked at (due to the fact it was hiding under two other ones on a peg behind a door) where I keep me regular use coats ..... have looked at every jacket/shirt pocket I own .... if I wore the jacket in question twice last year it'd be a lot ........ tha's several hours of me life I won't get back

So you are now allowed out of Wales again?!

 

[V8Druid]

So you are now allowed out of Wales again?!

.... nah ..... So's I can get back in if I do
couldn't sign into gov gateway yesterday ... been so long since i last logged in there, they wanted additional passport details

 

[Mogman]

Try turning the gas on

well after much time hunting and turning the bloody house over, I found me passport .... in a breast pocket of a jacket that was the last one I looked at (due to the fact it was hiding under two other ones on a peg behind a door) where I keep me regular use coats ..... have looked at every jacket/shirt pocket I own .... if I wore the jacket in question twice last year it'd be a lot ........ tha's several hours of me life I won't get back

arr the jacket you wore to your wedding

 

[V8Druid]

arr the jacket you wore to your wedding

no Mog .... as said elsewhere .... that was 18 months ago ... had the document in question last October, 3 months ago ......... just a jacket I seldom wear .. dunno why, as I quite like it

 

[Routy56]

well after much time hunting and turning the bloody house over, I found me passport .... in a breast pocket of a jacket that was the last one I looked at (due to the fact it was hiding under two other ones on a peg behind a door) where I keep me regular use coats ..... have looked at every jacket/shirt pocket I own .... if I wore the jacket in question twice last year it'd be a lot ........ tha's several hours of me life I won't get back

Do you ever go upstairs and think, “Now what did I come up here for”

 

[V8Druid]

Do you ever go upstairs and think, “Now what did I come up here for”

frequently ..... unless I have the Dyson in my hand....... words, names, places come hard sometimes Dennis ....... have reached the point where I have forgotten a lot more than I can recall (without a deep search anyway )

 

[V8Druid]

this is the lane in the pic above ..... now

dunno WTF they'm up to ? ... too drastic for openreach

new gate post ornament this morning .....

sat there for a good 30 minutes .... 'til the wind blew him off .... been pretty bloody wild here this afternoon
been over at Rio's place the last couple of afternoons lending him a hand ... showed me one of his favourite mugs

he has quite a collection of humorous mugs including one of these

 

[Left hooker]

Looks like w.p.d wires fly over the top of openreach network at that point

... words, names, places come hard sometimes

Not surprised