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[V8Druid]

Those 'little motors ain't so little when yer's wrestling the damned things ' .....
the two Z1000 engines beat me ... they'll have to stay put for now

but not for long


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seriously heavy, but managed to get at 'em with some juggling ...... they'll be getting 'air lifted' into a new home later .... 'tween the Esab 200 MIG and the breaker pack


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left the last one at full sheet width, for now, for some light weight furniture storage and 'cos I'd run out of 25 x 3 flat to lip the roller bed frame

was some bit hot here yesterday ... foggy as **** here this morning ...... got two Houdinis on the lawn this morning .... waiting for the owner to arrive and collect 'em !!!!

pretty PO-ed with this sheet yesterday .... brand new WBP sheathing GOS and delaminating before it'd even been handled .... could not be arsed to take it back ... never likely to see the weather, but annoying .. all the same


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then to get Delbouy 's (mate from a.n.other forum) placcy pig chassis out o' the trailer and go collect said furniture from Pam's daughter's place.
Cane conservatory suite ... new conservatory getting started Tuesday, as the current one's over 15 years old and showing serious signs of not lasting much longer .... 'least it's a damned sight cooler this morning .... must've gotten through 4 litres of squash yesterday and didn't have a pee all day ...... was running off me, but the boxes were like saunas !!

Bank Holiday Monday

meet Houdini #2 & #3 - 2019


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buggers were here all day ...... could've been a mistake when I said to Ellie (the owner) that I wasn't worried - no panic!! .....
bet 'er next door has been having an eppy all day .... so fine by me ... been LMAO all day

Who said pigs can't fly ..... this plastic one ... or at least what's left of it, did a fair impression of a 'low pass' Monday morning


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been sat in here since I picked it up for Del several weeks ago ....


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but got 'evicted' in the morning .... needed the trailer ...

took the head trees out to give 'em a fresh lick of shiny shite for half an hour and copper slipped all the pinch bolts ....
anyone recognise the tin I keep me copper slip in ...


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can not remember how long ago I filled that, from a big bucket of the stuff ..... but it's a looooooooooooong time ago ... still a quarter full ...
dunno how long it is since Finefare disappeared off the main street in town. !!

those two Kwaka lumps got a leg up after that ....


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and wriggled 'em into spot where I wanted 'em , along with three bloody big Record vices, I keep tripping over on the floor.


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Then it was off down the village to Vicki's to collect the cause of all this effort over the last few days .....

got there just in time to witness their little leccy mower go poof!!!
... so had to sort that 'fore I could do anything else ... wire busted as it went into the switch .... made her hubby Chris jump ...

hadn't seen Clara for over a week, so a bit of grand dad-ing first, spot of re-wiring and some trailer loading ... bit more grand dad-ing and away back home ... to unload this ....


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and a car load of cushions to fit ....
took some persuading into their home for the next few weeks, whilst the new conservatory gets sorted ...
Was not flavour of the month with Chris.....had taken him two days to get the floor tiles up
... I laid 'em - properly - maybe 15 years ago didn't put 'em down to come back up again LOL

these took a bit of wrangling in, to find the optimum orientation .....


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was bloody hot in there again today ..... 34.6C at lunch time in the 'toolbox' next door to it and could not touch the roof in there
.... as I found out when I put my back against it, juggling the Kawi motors earlier. Cheese cloth shirts are not much of an insulator.

Sat having a coffee after all this lot, chilling in the shade .... and Pam says....."right treatment next then " ..... had forgotten it was Monday ....... "no peace for the ......" Druid.

[V8Druid]

Chris and Ellie came to drive the rest of Houdinis' team mates back home across the fields this morning .. and collect #2 & #3 off the lawn

..... defiant lil' bar stewards they were too .. drove 'em up onto the drive where the open gate that'd re-unite 'em with their mates was waiting ... along with Ellie and her 6 year old .......
and despite our best efforts, went tearing past us all and away
... eventually cornered one and got her back into the field, but t'other was a right performance ... 30 minutes later Ellie is on the phone to Chris ...
she was sat on it down on Billy no mates front drive .. come and help

having wrestled the damned thing onto the quad .... LOL.... it was unceremoniously brought back to a gate .


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and slung into the field ....... where it shot off in the wrong direction and had to be pursued yet again
who'd have the bloody things

Loaded the kids back on and off they went with a couple of hundred sheep in front of 'em

been 'storing' these damned things since Vicki closed her dress shop .... some time ago now ...


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manikin stands her dad had knocked together for her .....
never gonna be used again, as far as I could see so they were getting flat packed ...
having removed all the screws I found they were all glued as well .... so out came the saw, set the fence to take 22 mm off and proceeded round the perimeters ......


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after a conversation with Josh, re. a use for a pile of MDF boards, for his tranny camper conversion, they all went into storage for his next visit ...

I hope he brings his van next time ..... getting quite a collection of stuff that'd be better off living in Plymouth than taking up space here


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now to sort out when LOL

Wonder if he'd like a piano ??

had to do demolish my Mother's very old Challen and Challen .... was her grand mother's ... weighed a bloody ton ....
couldn't give it away
.... that one is Pam's granny's .... I play a little and so does Pam, but have a full size keyboard for the odd times we feel like knocking out a tune. Been stuck in there long enough now ....
either Josh's turn to inherit it, or it's gonna have to meet the wood shed

been finishing off the major sort out in't boxes today ... peeing down outside !!

found the results of a very industrious mouse in me 'stores' box ...


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that's a 500mm broom head !!

re-located me S50 hitch, along with a load of other stuff that'd just got 'parked' where-ever


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and it's 70mm boss set, I acquired for it


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then found yet more mouse activity !!!!!!


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must've taken him months to stash that lot !

looking a lot tidier and organised now .....


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and accessible .....
t'other one now also has some serious floor space available for me next acquisition


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think I found me perfect lathe last week ... now to get it sorted

[jörgen.ottosson]

...that's a lot of shifting and tidying done!

(that's the "Shed/workshop" equivalent to "compact living" )

[V8Druid]

...that's a lot of shifting and tidying done!

(that's the "Shed/workshop" equivalent to "compact living" )

Aye -- too right it was .... been trying to get some of it done for a while, but spurred on by needing some floor space (hopefully) and SWMBO's need to store yon furniture .... it had to have it
think the one deck is suffering a bit under the strain ... so may need to re-shuffle the odd Z1000 lump

[V8Druid]

...that's a lot of shifting and tidying done!

(that's the "Shed/workshop" equivalent to "compact living" )

deffo not minimalist

[V8Druid]

had a hard afternoon Saturday .... doing battle with my 80 litre fuel tank.


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I miss my 4 poster ..... that tank's a lump ....


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have had a suspicion of a leak for quite a while .... can smell fuel regularly and had an even stronger suspicion of where from after some ****ing cowboy spanner monkey had the tank off some time ago, one MOT time.
usually only take it to 'known' (and trusted) places ... but these ppl had taken over one of my 'trusted' places, unknownst to me

anyway ... long and short of it was ....


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said tw*t had snapped the breather off the top of the pump unit .... and instead of owning up .... bodged it - in the worst possible style -


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the white elbow was lying behind the sender ring nut, when I got it down ...

presumably it'd once been here ...


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no bond .. nothing ... and like a d**k in a bucket .... God knows how much crap is in the tank
it will be my mission to see he loses his ticket ... the cretin is not fit to be working on, let alone MOT-ing people's vehicles absolute cowboy !!!!

that open to atmosphere breather port is a foot from a very hot exhaust and the other end of it is in the filler neck, which is able to have fuel fed down it as you fill up ......
I count myself lucky not to have had the old girl catch fire ... lucky it doesn't do a lot of miles these days

I am absolutely ****ing steaming
either gonna have to get creative tomorrow ........ or buy a new in tank, pump unit ...
either way it's gonna have to come out, to see just how much crud has accumulated in the tank, for starters

the inevitable occurred trying to remove the fuel lines Sunday morning ... had to come off to get the ring nut undone ...
and no way were those pipes going back up under the ol' girl ... way too past their sell buy dates for my liking
.... be waiting for one to go pop with 3.5 bar coursing through 'em


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an' before anyone comments on the scabby state of those Visegrips .... they're probably older than a lot of members and seen a LOT of action ...
I do have shinier ones too ...... so.......

cost me 223 quid and an evening's searching for the fuel lines, filler neck rubber and a pump .... Britpart from Island 4x 4 in Kent ..
best deal I can find and the only ones who listed everything I want


1 x Fuel Filler Rubber Neck To Tank P38 (Britpart) ESR3219 £16.00
1 x Fuel Pipe (Pump To Connector) V8 94-98 WJP106160 £70.00
1 x Fuel Pipe (Pump To Filter) V8 94-98 WJP106150 £69.99
1 x Fuel Pump Fittings (2 Nuts & 2 Olives) £1.67
1 x Fuel Pump V8 94-98 (Britpart) STC4344 ESR1073 ESR3931 £28.33

all plus the Vodka & Tonic of course

if these last another 22 years .... and they're going to, with the amount of Waxoil that'll be adorning them when it goes back in,
.. I'll be 84 before I have to get under there again .......
and past caring !!!

Sussed WTF the tank was so bloody heavy, coming off yesterday ... when I emptied 50 litres of motion lotion out of the damned thing this morning into jerry cans .... gauge claimed a couple of gallons at most ... so tha's fooked too BTLs

Dry as a chip under there ATM, so blew as much crap as I could, out from under there, with 150psi, this afters .... I'm now wearing most of it .. can't wait to dive in the shower in a minute or two

would've Waxoil-ed under there too, but couldn't find me Wagner airless sprayer .. which is always full of the stuff and sealed in an airtight bag .. saves a lot of cleaning up
..... still haven't remembered WTF I've put it though
... so might have to be a Schultz gun jobbie, but better throttle it down a bit with a smaller nozzle and some pressure reduction
............ 'tain't gonna be this dry again for a few months
... and'll fill the waiting time for the bits to arrive
.... plus I don't plan on seeing the bits hidden by that tank again, in a loooooong time

email back from another outfit I enquired with Sunday ..... these are also Britpart suppliers/prices ... in fairness to them .. at least they responded, which is more than can be said of the other three

"Hi Graham
Thank you for your enquiry.
Please see quote attached, we have the pump in stock but the other parts we can get these in to us tomorrow and can ship them the same day and get them to you for Wednesday.
We can take payment over the phone or via a Paypal request which ever works best for you.
Regards Dan

WJP106160 1 PIPE ASSY-FUEL £118.88
WJP106150 1 PIPE ASSY-FUEL £108.97
ESR3219 1 HOSE FUEL FILLE £23.77
STC4344 1 PUMP-FUEL TANK ASSEMBLY £38.40 ....... this is more than the price they listed on ebay - inc VAT and postage
SUB TOTAL Ex Vat: £241.68
POSTAGE/SHIPPING Ex Vat: £0.00
TOTAL VAT: £ 48.34
TOTAL ........ £ 290.20 "

Looks like I chose the right people to deal with ... dispatched Monday morning ... spoke to the guy doing it ... might be here tuesday, Wed.s latest

[jörgen.ottosson]

Not a the way to make lasting professional impression...shame...shame...shame. ( aimed at your "no longer so trusted place", of cause)

I suer hope you get the "top-crap nut" of the fuel -tank-pump assembley, that can be a pain most of the time.....or a bust, some of the times....

[V8Druid]

Not a the way to make lasting professional impression...shame...shame...shame. ( aimed at your "no longer so trusted place", of cause)

I suer hope you get the "top-crap nut" of the fuel -tank-pump assembley, that can be a pain most of the time.....or a bust, some of the times....

regrettably the 'trusted place' had been let (rented out) to a bunch of cowboys ... unknown to me, until it was too late
I will make it my mission to see these guys are removed from the register for MOT-ing vehicles - their reputation for crap work has already seen them gone from several rented places around here already .... no one will use them and I will certainly publicise their incompetence

as for the castellated nut on the sender ... came off sweet as a nut .. and back on this morning, with the new sender/pump unit installed ....


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223 quid for these bits .... the most complex bit was the cheapest part

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.....has been a tough afternoon getting that bloody great lump of a tank back in its home under the RR and even harder getting everything back into place and re-connected ... the filler pipe was a complete nightmare ... and took a good hour and a half to get back together ... no room for hands or tools ..... and left a lot of my skin under there in various locations


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the breather that has caused all the issues had also been shortened ... I had to extend it to get it to reach, once I'd attached it to the tank end

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unbelievable

anyway ... it's all re-assembled and dogged up ... ready for some fuel tomorrow and a test for leaks .... which i hope there will be none of ran out of time tonight ... had to go to meeting at 18.00

We had Clara here yesterday ... Pam thought this was hilarious ....... and stood and watched her unwind it


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She'll be bloody sorting it next time
took me ages to unravel it all

[Skru'are]

Your skin is your largest organ so it can take the loss.

[V8Druid]

Your skin is your largest organ so it can take the loss.

LOL ...... this aging skin ain't up for being parted with its owner .... and neither is the owner
my body is wrecked after this afternoon .... a seriously tough afternoon ........ on me own

[CountyBruff]

A good thing with the injurys at your skin is that the car is DNA market.

[V8Druid]

A good thing with the injurys at your skin is that the car is DNA market.

LOL ...... yeh .... just look around the fuel tank filler neck connecting rubber mostly

[V8Druid]

Phone goes off and I'm thinking .... bloody hell is it seven already ?... ... don't seem to have been in bed an hour??
then realise the sound isn't my alarm's Tubthumping tune, but the ringtone ...

(guaranteed to wake me up)

light's already on and I'm stood there looking at the clock thinking WTF is ringing me at 2:15 ????

Look at it and it's Josh .......... ....... ........ can only mean one thing

Granny has a new grandchild ....

9 lbs 8.5 oz at 01:45 this morning ....
OMG !!! .... he's a lumper ...... his mum is a very petite size six ....... pix of the new arrival to follow ....
I'm one of the few people who guessed right with 'a boy'

I am now completely wrecked ..... gone half three, 'fore granny stopped bouncing off the walls and then back up at seven for Clara's arrival .
now delivered to school and might just have a few hours for a catch up ..... once me drug delivery has arrived and that could be anytime 'tween now and 11:30

[magirus]

Splendid! Congrats to y´all
A new member of the Druid Family to be given the right input to become a motorized Youth!!

[V8Druid]

Splendid! Congrats to y´all
A new member of the Druid Family to be given the right input to become a motorized Youth!!

Cheers Mags ...... been a long week already (more on that later) and it's only Tuesday morning