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Do you want to drive it around killing hybrids?

Tempting, very tempting!! Can do that in the OT though

RangerNeil wrote:Noo - what I REALLY need is one of these!..

Catching air - and travelling quickly enough to make it happen - in a heavy thing like that is pretty impressive.

JPB wrote:

RangerNeil wrote:Noo - what I REALLY need is one of these!..

Catching air - and travelling quickly enough to make it happen - in a heavy thing like that is pretty impressive.

Done it a couple of times in the OT..... Getting up isn't a problem - landing is!!!

i flew a tractor once.. i smacked my head on the roof & was dazed for a while.. landing a tank must be painful. as for hybrids i quite like them

rich. wrote:i flew a tractor once..

Rich, please may I quote that freely, all over the interwebs? For some reason these words made tea come out of my eye sockets as a result of the energetic laughter it provoked in me. (And in the sis-in-law beast, but she's easily tickled so doesn't count).

with my blessing john i didnt fly very far but it was far from a textbook landing

Progress contines albeit slowly..... At least on the registration side. Sent he letter back to DVLA confirming their chassis number was now stamped on the chassis - and got sent a V55/5 in return so I had to find an approved club to write me an authenication letter and send that back together with the completed form, my photocard driving license and a utility bill. Now to wait and see what comes next. Already missing 1 event because of the 8 month time scale in getting a V5.
but on the vehicle itself things are better. Been a bit stuffed for working because of the weather and as you may remember not only do I have the UAZ to sort but also a Series 3 FFR Landie with its engine in bit.... However progress has been made. I had a spare, new, centre instrument cluster in the cpares box so i spent a day removing the old one and fitting the new one. So now the oil pressure and water temperature gauges are also working woth the ammeter but not the fuel gauge - at least not properly. Flicking the selector switch foes not give a true readfing - this YouTube clup illistrates the problem:

https://youtu.be/MfS1HS5uHLE

- one tank has 10 litres in it the other 20 litres and the tank capcities are 39 litres each so I should in theory be seeing readings of 1/4 and 1/2 a tank. I think the senders are probaly also shot so I have new ones on order from Poland.

After this I obtained a new fuel tap to replace the frozen one - changing it is a two person job which came as a bit of a culture shock after dealing with landrover ones - and an even bigger shock to the wife as she was press-ganged into helping as #2 The bolts that secure the tap to the floor pan go throught the flange of the tap and have nuts and washers the other side so after unscreweing the 3 unions the wife had to hold a spanner on the bolthead whilst i undid the nuts and removed the old tap from under neath. Another shock was just how far into the body of the tap the unions went - it was a difficult job to remove as the steel pipes had very litle "give" in them. But eventually I got it out and the new one hooked up and the wife was pressed back into service as the securing bolts were done up.







Note- trying to explain why there are 4 holes not just 3 and that shoving a bolt through the 4th (drain) hole doesn't work to a wife is a fraught experience!! Anyways - end result is I now have a fuel tank slector tap that actually moves without needing brute force and excessive leverage

https://youtu.be/bYx5mg71x00

Not so good news right now

A friend offered to drive to a show last Sunday on trade plates for me - but when we tried to start it the starter had gone "lazy" - I could spin it faster on the starting handle than the starter would turn it over. So I have to replace or repair that. I am not surprised TBH as it was pervioulsy used as an offroad hack and spent a lot of time in deep waters.
What IS really annoying is the local E.M. youth contingent have poured brake fluid into the load bed so I have a big repaint job to do. A neighbour told me a few days prior to Sunday she had seen them hanging around the back of it but nothing seem to be disturbed other than the cardboard number plates I had made to get to the testing station had been knicked (good luck to them with those - they are now flagged as revoked following problems with not havng the chassis plate or a chassis number so I've had to fill in a V55/5 to get a new age related number).

Bit more UAZ work today - had to take a break from the Landie as a bolt sheared in the thermostat housing and I was waiting for a set of EZ-Outs and reverse spiral drils to arrive to remove it. So - as the new fuel senders had arrived from Poland I set about removing the access panel in the vehicle floor. ON the passenger side 3 bolts came out OK but with #4 the captive nut had broken free and is just spinning. The lip on the aperture effectively stops a spanner gripping it so it looks like the fuel tank will have to be dropped to get at the spinning nut. I managed to get the panel up far enough to be able to brush all the mud and crap out and give the sender and pickup a blast of WD40.




Acess panel on the drivers side came off easier - probably becaue the bolt that spun on the passenger side was missing there!! Anwyays - with the panel off and the mud and crud brushed away the sender and pick up were liberally coated with WD40 too and left to soak a while.


After a while I managed to get 2 of the 6 cross-head screws out, 2 partly out and 2 will not budge so more WE40 was applied and left overnight.

Also had a look at getting the starter off - bottom bolt looks easy enough as one would expect but the top bolt has the access obscured by the body of the starter so getting a socket on it looks impossible as does getting a spanner on it due to lack of room. One day a job will be simple on these beasties !!