I spent a couple of hours last night tidying and working on the bench. I made a couple of plywood hooks to hang two of the bikes from. I managed to strip the concrete that one of the hold down bolts was going into, so had to make up my own chemical anchor solution using a but of tile grout and some water, than ran the bolt into that. I hope it does something. I was only bolting it down so that when I have the vice mounted, I can apply an upward load on it and not have the work bench rise with it. The addition of the shelf was going well until I realised I couldn’t put the ply in because the black shelves were in the way, so now I’ll have take all of the members out, put in the ply first and put them back.
The fan belt had started squeeling, so i tightened it but found that it was at maximum adjustment once tight. So bought another and fitted it the other day. A fifteen minute job.
I change the spark plugs as it developed a misfire at high rpm and underload. The plugs turned up yesterday and i got them in today. I put a little WD40 on each connection for added water resistance.
The Ford has made some intermitant squeeking metal on metal type of noises ever since we’ve had it. I took it into a garage for a check over shortly after buying it to find out what issues it might have. But they didn’t pick up anything untoward. Hannah noted that the squeeling had gotten worse the other day, so i checked the pads on the frontl, outside, where i could see. They were low, but not disastrous, so i felt that couldn’t be it. So i checked the back, same story, however the noise was still there. So i took the caliper right off to see if there was a stone in behind or something. But i found the inner pad was all gone. So i treated it to some new pads. The pads came with instructions which mention not breaking hard if you can avoid it for the first […]
Thought I’d clean the carb last night, I had noticed some dirt build up on the slide so had picked up some carb cleaner. I stripped off the pistons and niddle, bascially the bits that move, and having cleaned it I reassembled it. Also went around with the WD40 and just made sure the electrics were water resistant.
I went out the other evening to play in the floods, it had rained hard and caused some localised minor flooding of low lying roads. I failed to get any video or pictures along the way. But I did take these when I got home.
I fitted the flexi joint in the exhuast some time ago (https://bhhh.co.uk/exhaust-flexi/), I hoped that this would stop the joint between the exhuast down pipe and manifold from taking so much load and working free. Well, it’s worked free again, this time though I have applied an exhuast repair paste stuff which I think has fibre glass in it, so we’ll see how well that does.
I had a sickle blade, which my father-in-law had kindly given me. I’d sharpened it sometime ago but then it had hung on a hook every since, until today, when I found the inspiration to put a handle on it. The sofa that gave the leather for a few of my previous projects also had some nice woody in it, this is a bit of that. It rremains to be seen how well the handle stays on. I just heated the tang up nice and hot then beat the handle on.
Literally, I have an axe, and it had a very obtuse edge on it. My understanding is that a general purpose axe should have an more acute angle towards the edge. So I grabbed the angle grinder and hacked the edge away.
Well, I did get a little concerned after watching back the video I took last week of the Land Rover trying to cross axle. I thought that the front axle was doing nothing at all, then I thought that it was not doing enough and perhaps being restricted by the damper or that the front springs where too stiff. I found last night that everything is okay. I was wrong, it’s actually all working perfectly. I concluded in that video that everything is okay. Tried to set up some cross axle action without leaving the garage. Front wheel is 300 mm off the floor. I then went around and measured the gap from top of wheel to wheel arch. Front Off Side 195 mm, Front Near Side 100 mm, Rear Near Side 220 mm and Rear off side 10 mm. So from that we can deduce that the front wheels […]
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