Today I mostly .....

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:13 pm

This after me and the Mrs, went on the Land Rover Experiance at Peckforton Castle, Cheshire. We got to drive a 2011 MY Range Rover Sport TdV6 HSE
Want one! its arm chair off-roading. Reversing camera, IPod connection, TV (Freeview) DAB, small fridge in the centre console arm rest. Buttons for everything.
Much fun to drive on the road.

Eddy · Post by **Eddy** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:06 pm

... well ... yesterday but ...
Finished the oil breather dump pipe. Cleaned up the sump and other assorted bits.
Cleaned the sump again coz I dropped it into the oil drain bucket

Then went kayaking down the river with kids and grandkids.

Eddy · Post by **Eddy** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:56 pm

TheRealNivaman wrote:
Eddy wrote:... well ... yesterday but ...
Finished the oil breather dump pipe. Cleaned up the sump and other assorted bits.
Cleaned the sump again coz I dropped it into the oil drain bucket

Pics Pics pics

Sorry ... got rid of the oil now ...

Eddy · Post by **Eddy** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 11:11 pm

TheRealNivaman wrote:
Eddy wrote:
TheRealNivaman wrote: Pics Pics pics
Sorry ... got rid of the oil now ...
Of the oil breather dump pipe

Oohhhh I see ...

now if you'll excuse me I'll go bolt it in

Eddy · Post by **Eddy** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 12:16 am

daniel.b · Post by **daniel.b** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:54 am

Bought another Combo engine

. This will be the second as the first one was damaged by the courier

. Full refund though so not too bad just irritating.

Zelandeth · Post by **Zelandeth** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 10:25 pm

Got a slow puncture on the offside front wheel of the Cappuccino repaired (was leaking around the valve stem).

Tomorrow will be trying to get the air con recharged - we'll see how that goes. Still, don't cost anything to try anyway.

Don't really need it for cooling at this time of year obviously - but it would come in handy to help dry the cabin out, as it has quite significant condensation issues.

Plus if the unit is knackered, it gives me an excuse to get around to removing it to save on weight.

Hoodoo · Post by **Hoodoo** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 6:17 pm

hoverfrog wrote:...took a Welsh sheep from English farmers in Limousin to a French farmer in Tarn in a Russian car with a Breton co-pilot!!!

Came back with 3 cartwheels, two oak barrels (unfortunately empty!) and lots of bottles of Gaillac

You been on the home brew again???

Fitted an extended positive terminal to the FIAT Ducato battery 'cause you can't get at the proper terminal in its' standard position. Tube, flattened at one end, and drilled, bolted to terminal, then bent to run horizontally along the battery to about 3" short of the negative. Covered in a rubber hose, with the last 1.5" removeable and a red cross painted on. Now accessible!
Also fixed a split fuel hose on the LDV.
Regards,

Zelandeth · Post by **Zelandeth** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 7:54 pm

Successfully had my air con recharged in the Cappuccino (surprised to be honest, I'd expected the system to leak like a seive!). Plus side of getting it done off-season is that it only cost me £30.

Need to go back on Monday however as they've plainly not balanced the wheel they had off for the puncture repair on Friday properly! *sigh*

Tomorrow will hopefully get the alternator and a/c compressor drive belts replaced, as they both look to be, how shall I put it...well worn! ...And they did when I got the car about ten months ago! Probably time they were changed methinks.

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 7:52 pm

Today i helped a mate pack his 18ft trailer ready for his trip back to spain, Including, American fridge/freezer, range cooker, flat pack kitchen sofa, tools, magazines, clothes.

Trailer all packed, tied down, tarped over and yet more rope. Then I spotted one of the welds in the chassis of the A frame had cracked almost all the way through the metal. This has already been welded.

A few frantic phone calls and his mate popped up with a big MIG welder and got it re-welded.

Fingers crossed its ok for the 1500mile trip back home!

iwanna · Post by **iwanna** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 8:00 pm

Today I bought an autoglym workstation to go in the back of the van.

Zelandeth · Post by **Zelandeth** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 12:52 am

Got crawled all over by a close friends pet rats. Not un-used to being crawled all over by animals, but it's usually one of my co-workers (very) large tugu rather than small mammals!

Inquisitive little critters, and surprisingly clever they seem.

MVAZ · Post by **MVAZ** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 2:16 pm

SimonAllen wrote:today I mostly burned my arm, my hand, my face, my back and my neck welding Iwanna's niva

Next time, before weld parts, apply on your skin a sun screen lotion with a solar protection factor 100 ¡¡¡¡

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 8:34 pm

Today, I mostly, moved a mates Mitsi L200 from the workshop to his house on a car trailer.
Helped put a gear box back into a L200

Started looking at to Athlon powered machines I have to see which is the fastest.
So far:
Machine 1.
Athlon 2600+ 1.9ghz/1gb ram/geforce 7600 256mb video card

Machine 2.
Athlon 3200+(64) 512mb ram/64mb shared on board video card

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:09 pm

I was leaning towards machine 2 based on CPU and being 64bit? version.
I need to get the part number and look it up to be sure.

Now, if the video card and RAM will transfer over.........