Took some pictures of the Land Rover on the drive having been out for a drive on Sunday. I went to the Repair Cafe in Dorchester and then to the tip to get shot of the remainder of the leather sofa. I discovered that the other swivel housing is now leaking oil, so the next job is to replace the oil with the one shot grease as I did a while back in this post https://bhhh.co.uk/2022/04/29/. I did take the land rover out the other evening and advanced the timing to the point where it appeared to still run well at a reasonable rpm. I did this totally by ear and have not tried it since, so we’ll see how this goes, also made the fuel air mixture richer. It’s still not popping on overrun, which I would like to hear, as that would tell me that I was running […]
We picked up and fitted another rain water butt to help store some more water. I daisy chained it to our existing one. It rained quite heavily the other day and filled the first one up and began filling the second. I was uncertain how high up to put the connecting pipe. I put it about 1 pipe diameter below the inlet, my thinking was that the first tank will fill up then it will overflow into the second. Any matter that enters the first tank, such as moss and the like will tend to sink and not go into the second tank. When the second tank completely fills, then both tanks will continue to fill up to the inlet level and water will flow back into the down pipe. Lastly, had I connected the two tanks say halfway up and then the pipe connection leaked I might drain down […]
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