fao mr carrot et al

[Tahrey1043]

(named in particular for giving me the engine mounting tip that helped me free this little bugbear)

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Gents and scholars the lot of you



and a brief voice message hehe (cameras photo memo recorder is a bit naff)

key to pic:
1. the offending article. not so big and clever NOW are ya?
2. gloves have started to bore me. skin cancer? bring it. also yay for unintentional metaller horns. rawk! (after being fuelled by drum 'n' bass and tony christie lol)
3. gurning for england, but with good reason - that black dot on my nose isnt dirt but the bruise from where the sump clocked me one as i tried to fit it
4. not sure whether to wash these old chav-disguise rags or just burn them
5. these *were* my "best" trainers at one point
6. covered in oil & underseal stains. I'm going to do a dual cleanup of them and the stuff from this op.
7. the action's happening over here. full DIY guide report with moochoze piccies "later". dont wanna spoil it. besides ive got the best part of a gig to wade thru.
8. kindly 80-plus years neighbour lives here. not a half hour ago he was talking to my mum and offered me a lend of some "plus gas" (some kind of uber-strong wd40-like liquid apparently) and his blowtorch. damn! I of course thanked him deeply for his kind offer but told him that i'd just got past the point where i needed them in the nicest possible terms*

now to see what else i can get done in the 80 minutes or so before i decide "f*** it" and go to the pub. (a bit like scrapheap challenge, but its not kryten deciding when to stop, and i can carry on after)

* no i did NOT swear at him for being tardy. he really is that nice, not to be harmed or offended.

[GroovyCarrot]

Muahaha Nice work. Just think, couple more hours work and you'll be listening to her firing up again, something to aim for

[Tahrey1043]

my ride to the pub decided they were going to go a good half hour early and caught me out a bit so i didnt get as much done as i would have liked! (there were some 'extra' people that they wanted to see there... turned out to be the regular 'extended' crew so WTF... anyway! )

still i have the pulley off, the inner cover (it more or less fell out when i jacked the block back up again...!) and the old cambelt, smeared with horrible gunge all.

The old waterpump is out too, it wasnt so bad, but the rear of it is a bit rusty - didn't look like it was about to self destruct but was noticably harder to turn than the new one, so it's definately going!

The side of the block and the crank sprocket itself were also covered in horrible greasy muck! Not the best stuff to have right next to your cambelt i think... so the position i was in when ms. designated driver arrived was scrubbing it off with soapy water and an old toothbrush (none of this "gunk" nonsense for me, no sir - though i would have liked it!). Shouldn't take more than ten minutes to finish that off when i get home (sitting at work right now, whilst some doctor discusses the quality of a scan i've done with a senior tech behind me!*), then it's pump-cover-bolts-belt-pulley-alt.belt-mount-gasket-head-etc...

camera's video function at the ready!

*edit - came out on my side, patient was just too fat

edityedit2 - lol just wasted an hour and a half playing with our new digibox... it's sh*te... but it picks up top gear well enough, which i hadnt realised was on til i started arsing about with the program guide
(its sh*teness may be overlooked in favour of the fact that a/ it cost £25 to buy and will cost £0 per month to run, b/ our cable service currently costs around £11 a month for not very much in the way of extra channels... though the signal's a lot more reliable)
plus the temperatures dropped so im gonna put an extra layer on and go get cracking again