I have been aware that the U-bolts that hold the springs to the axle are about an inch too long. I got the grinder out last night and lopped them off. I also installed a new stainless steel split pin on the damper. I have also purchased some sound proofing/dampening stuff. I am going to put it on the large flat surfaces in the cab, i hope it reduces the noise a bit.
Abigail complained about the noise in The land Rover the other day, so i checked the propshaft UJs and found that not only was the UJ shot but the splines were rather lose also.
I was just randomly checking my lights as I occasionally do and found that the front near side indicator was out. So took the lens of hoping to find a blown blown bulb. Of cause this was not the case, and clearly the fitting was very old and the wires seemed to crack in fingers. I went into my “new parts” inventory and found a brand new fitting and fitted it. Problem solved.
We had 24 mm of rain during the day on Sunday. This lead to some flooding on the road to Chilfrome, here: I saw that the levels were meant be fairly high, so at about 9.30 pm I saw it was 1.69 m, I thought I’d have to have a look: So after tinkering with the Land Rover off I went: The speed of the water coming through the gate way to the right was impressive and as I drove on through meant I had to correct for the sideways movement. The bridge ahead was probably very close to or slightly beyond 100% capacity running under it in terms of height/depth of water. I got home and still had steam pouring out of the engine bay. Clearly it had gotten pretty wet in there. Luckily I had been liberally applying WD40 only the other day, so that probably helped that […]
I’d been getting a horrible squeaking from the front suspension for a number of outings in the land rover. I decided to take the damper off and just see if that cured it on one side. This and also giving the spring joints a really good soaking in release oil did the trick. I didn’t bother going the same extent on the driver side, just coated it in release oil and it is silent now.
I upgraded the random flashing lights code, it is now random using the Arduino’s random() function, which is apparently sudo random, as if you run it many times with the same seed, then you’ll get the same long old list of numbers, although they do appear to the human eye to be random if you didn’t know that. I have seeded the random by reading a floating analogue pin, so it’ll get a value between 0 and 1023 and use that for the seed each time the Arduino starts. Which will be plenty random enough for me. I am not happy with this code yet. The lights need remain on for greater periods and also overlap during their on periods. Not really sure how I’ll achieve this yet, but I’m sure it’ll fairly easy. Also, I need to resolve the indicators not coming on. Something is either wired differently in […]
We got just the most pathetic dusting of snow last night. Which was interesting as for the first time I was clearly able to make out where the soft of the Land Rover brushes the door lintel on the way into the garage.
I decided to do a long ride on Friday lunch thing. This was it.. It wwas cold, frost was still on the northern slopes of the hills or in the shadow of the hedges.
I had been collecting this baby bell wax for some time. I saw a youtuber who’d had a load of wax, melted it and poured it into tin along with some cardboard and was using it as a giant candle. I’ve no idea if this will actually get used, or was probably more fun making it than using it. I lit and left it for a few minutes to see if the card just burned away or whether the wax was being burned. I think the wax was burning, so it’s on a shelf now.
We’ve had some pretty spectacular mist over the past few days. Very thick and either just in the valley or right up over the hill. Tonight it’s perhaps thicker still, though last night the Land Rover head lights were making beams in the mist.
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