Month: April 2003
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squirrels and curtain rails
the new t shirts are ready, with luck i might sell more than i give away at big bang… more rain, so i got down to serious race preparation on the samba. i spent most of the day fitting some silentgliss curtain rail. although it’s aluminium i know it still adds weight but i reckon…
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sunshine !
sunshine, dropped the engine in double quick time, looking at the clock o made a mental note to have the oil cooler seals changed and the engine back in by 11am. HA! stripped back the tinware & fan housing and checked over the oil cooler, it looks ok, after a quick conversation with Andy at…
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more rain…
rain. grey, all day. i schlepp round town and pick up new oil cooler seals and some other bits and bobs. i visit Screen One screenprinters and get the order for new design T shirts sorted out and deliver the artwork. i drop into the local motorcycle dealers and get a new helmet for racing…
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sunday
its sunday.
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reassembly, again….
finally i get all the bits together, do an oil change and finish putting the engine back together. it looks great. runs lovely – though i think the timing’s a little too advanced. I’ll get the strobe gun on it as soon as possible.i go for a quick zip up the m32. predictably there’s oil…
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engine still out…
did the reassembly and some other bits n bobs, checked out the starter/solenoid and found more parts to replace…. knocked out a few dents and cleaned more stuff. fitted the berg shifter.
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‘i went to the shops and i bought…’
. puppy from typethreedetectives called over in the morning, on his way to pick up a car. coffee and an excellent breakfast set me up to tool around town on the akciddento parts chaser and do some shopping. picked up some gaskets & bits from german & swedish and arthur at the dub depot supplied…
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a bigger dishwasher is needed here!
dropped the engine from the bus in a leisurely fashion, no problems, had fun with the grinder cutting the exhaust bolts off through. stripped off the tinware and got to the oil cooler. there’s a nick in the base of it that i’m hoping will be the problem. had fun cleaning the velocity stacks and…
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hungover wiring
monster hangover. i spend a vague morning sipping coffee and staring at wiring diagrams for the bus. for some reason it MAKES SENSE ! this is very disturbing. i have difficulty focusing on objects but the wiring diagram makes sense ? i track it all back and test and check and twiddle. the immobiliser has…
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wiring, knitting and rats nests…
start digging into the electrical problems in the bus. looks like half a dozen things have died at once, i start tracking them down but just end up sitting with my head in my hands. i can’t understand what’s been done with the immobiliser and the hotwiring the AA guy did doesn’t make sense…. my…