What have you been doing today?
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No, it's like the cars in the Flintstones, you just run along while seatedLooks like a kids pedal car.. Were you peddling it?
More transit saga. The part I was fearing, the lifting in of the 'box, went easy. I angled the engine right down and pulled it forward to give the box more room around the crossmember. Once that was in with a couple of bolts and before going any further, I connected up the hydraulics to make sure I had a good pedal. I didn’t as the fluid was leaking out of the joint between the rigid clutch pipe and the plastic connector that went to the new cylinder. I took it apart half a dozen times to check the seal and clip. Both were fine. On the 7th time, I snapped it back together as I had done the past 6 times and for some reason, it worked. I had a good pedal. Dunno how, dunno why and didn't care! All went fine bolting everything back up until I tried to fit the new CV boot to the drive shaft. I just could not get the outer joint off. I had the whole shaft off of the van so I then tried taking the inner joint off to fit the outer boot from the other end. That bugger wouldn’t come off either. I’ve never, ever had that in my whole life. I even resorted to looking on YouTube and I saw someone using a special drag to try to remove an outer CV joint and even that wouldn’t remove it. That person was fitting a new joint so eventually, he cut the joint off with a cutting disc! I've ordered a new shaft complete. Get this - the CV boot kit was £30, a new shaft with two new joints and new boots - £88! Not worth sodding about with.
Always the things that should be the simplest, most basic that feck up!..
CV boots.
Ferkin speed sensor!
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A bit of clearing up over the allotment - started to build my bonfire. Planted some daffs in my allotment flower bed and those I had left were planted across the road from me in the street community flower bed. I think people are taking a liking to it as someone, probably kids, have started putting painted stones on the bed.
A couple of decades ago, at a radio rally, I bought a some antenna rotators with a definite intention to make use of them. In fact, I never did, never even looked at them, until yesterday. These things, rotate/turn antennas, to direct them at signals - motor unit at the base, to rotate the antenna support pole, connected via a cable, to an indoor remote control, marked N, S, E, W.
No longer having any urge to use them, having assessed them, I put them up on Facebook Market, yesterday afternoon, as 'open to offers'. An offer was sent within hours, accepted, paid for, and arrangements made for the postie to collect this morning.
No longer having any urge to use them, having assessed them, I put them up on Facebook Market, yesterday afternoon, as 'open to offers'. An offer was sent within hours, accepted, paid for, and arrangements made for the postie to collect this morning.
Picked up the new driveshaft for the Transit on my way to my dog walk this morning and will be fitting it later this afternoon. Hopefully I can get this one out of my workshop and off of my back!
Plopped it in, topped up the gearbox oil, job done.
Guessing the Tranny has a level plug? Unlike the barstewards who designed mine. No level plug is a PITA. You can of course measure in a jug what is lost and replace the same amount. Except when you're not expecting to lose any, like I did when I pulled the end of the driveshaft out of the back of the hub to renew outer CV boot. Fiddling around with my shaft (
) meant the end of shaft in the diff pulled out a bit and quite a bit of gearbox oil dribbled out before I noticed. Had to drain all the rest out and refill to the specified amount.
Yeah but to fill it I had to use a length of rubber fuel hose with a 3” funnel rammed in the end and dribble it in! Took about 15 mins to fill.
Spent best part of three hours cleaning…..my car wheels! Took them off one by one, cleaned the ground in brake dust inside and out. Haven’t really been done properly in the last 3 years. My hands feel like tw claws now. Going to give the whole car a clean tomorrow. Possibly…..
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Bilt Hamber Auto Wheels is good.
Went and met up with my grandson for a pint at the pub. When I got there, he was already up the bar. The ladies were alright with him but I think the barman seemed to have the 'ump!
Same method with mine. Have to refill through hole on top of gearbox after removing the small plastic breather cap. Much too tight down there to get a bottle anywhere near the hole.
My gearbox, uses a combined fill and level hole, the drain is a matter of taking a shaft out. As above, you cannot get a bottle to it, and tip the bottle, and car has to be level to get oil level correct. I ended up taking a wheel off, to get behind it, lowering the jack to level, funnel plus pipe extension, down from under the bonnet, then pouring oil in, until it flowed out.
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