Bob Scrivens
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Post by Bob Scrivens on Mar 14, 2010 23:44:43 GMT
Fingers cross this end Joe, properly get a report of of a faulty light or rusted brake pipes after 30+ years, whats new!!!
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spunkymonkey
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Post by spunkymonkey on Mar 15, 2010 15:52:03 GMT
A fail. He wasn't happy with the brake lights - they did work but only when you brake very hard. So microswitch is fitted in place of the pressure one and they now work as they should. Also it looked like the handbrake compensator was seizing - lots mor movement to one side than the other. I knew it wasn't (did it all yesterday) but kept quiet on what I thought it might be cos I didn't want to need another brake test Sure enough, one rear cylinder had partially seized, leaving lots of slop between the handbrake lever and shoes on that side - it was actually too much movement on the "good" side rather than not enough on the other. Luckily I still had the "useable" one of the ones I'd replaced on Betty so a quick swap and she's headed for retest at 4:30
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Post by spunkymonkey on Mar 15, 2010 17:09:28 GMT
All sorted, shiny new VT20 is now in her history file ;D
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Post by pauldaf44 on Mar 15, 2010 17:19:30 GMT
I bet that came as a relief. Now you can start playing with Betty and Sheila
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Post by hansy on Mar 15, 2010 17:38:45 GMT
Glad she passed .
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Post by spunkymonkey on Mar 15, 2010 17:41:39 GMT
Glad she passed . Thanks ;D Now you have absolutely no excuse for not bringing yours over ;D ;D ;D
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Post by 33grinder on Mar 15, 2010 21:07:47 GMT
Well done Joe!! You knew she had to throw a temper tantrum at the last moment but you caught it well. On to the next job! ;D
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Post by dafdaffer on Mar 15, 2010 21:10:12 GMT
well done joe, you going to come and weld my 44 now? ;D
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Post by spunkymonkey on Mar 15, 2010 21:16:09 GMT
Cheers guys I must say I'm getting more impressed with this tester each time I use him. Missing the brake problem would have been easy, even up on the ramp seeing as the compensator imbalance could have just been put down to uneven shoe wear. Without being able to roller test them that was a good spot by him. He also advised on the play in the lower front ball-joints but was happy to pass them because it was only vertical and, as he said (and as we all know from owning the cars), the weight's on those joints so they're going nowhere. Again, good sensible engineering eye and obviously thinking about what he's looking at rather than just ticking the boxes like a lot of places!
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Post by spunkymonkey on Mar 15, 2010 21:18:17 GMT
well done joe, you going to come and weld my 44 now? ;D Sian says Betty first i'm afraid. Nothing structural on her but there's a hole in the rain channel round the boot so it gets awfully wet in there when it rains at the moment
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Post by bettyskeeper on Mar 20, 2010 0:13:11 GMT
Today Isabel went out with Iliria and decided to throw a temper strop right on top of two longish trips she is due to make next week and had to be returned to Dr Joe.
Isabel no longer has a speedo, does anyone know where we can get hold of one or an equivalent so we can hand over the keys and cable to Dr Joe (who seems slightly miffed with Isabel for her behaviour after all the time he spent on her).
Thanks Sian
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Post by spunkymonkey on Mar 20, 2010 0:14:55 GMT
Note - that's a speedo cable required, not the whole thing! ;D
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Post by spunkymonkey on Mar 20, 2010 18:58:07 GMT
Right, mini-sweepstake time.
Ilira needs the car next week and there's no chance of getting a new cable by then. S I've cunningly replaced the inner witha bike brake cable for now. This is about 1/2 the thickness of the proper cable and twisted the wrong way (it's trying to untwist as you drive forwards).
She's currently on 21621 miles, what mileage will she be showing when it breaks again?
Nearest to the correct answer will get the satisfaction of getting it right ;D
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Post by pauldaf44 on Mar 20, 2010 19:05:32 GMT
Joe If a 33 cable is the same as 44 speedo cable I have a spare I can send you.
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Post by spunkymonkey on Mar 20, 2010 19:11:51 GMT
I don't know, Paul. It's probably nearer to the same thing than a bike cable though ;D
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Post by pauldaf44 on Mar 20, 2010 19:16:22 GMT
PM your adress and I'll post it over to you. The cable is brand new never been on by the way
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Post by spunkymonkey on Mar 20, 2010 19:55:09 GMT
You're a star! PM sent
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Post by dafdaffer on Mar 21, 2010 18:37:24 GMT
Hi Joe i think that you had the only one that i had, i also dont think that the cable is the same for the 33 and 44, but i may be wrong
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Post by pauldaf44 on Mar 21, 2010 18:53:55 GMT
Hey for the price of a stamp its not the end of the world
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Post by spunkymonkey on Mar 25, 2010 20:31:48 GMT
Think I may have found the cause of Isabel's wheel wobble over 40mph: Seems at some time the tyres may have been changed, not balanced, and the old wheel weights left in place (guessing that bit cos the weights were painted with the wheels but no sign of paint on the tyres, even near the beads). Spent 20 minutes earlier re-positioning the weights cos there's no time to get them balanced - she's off to Nottingham tomorrow - and anyway, that definately comes under the heading of owner's-expense-not mine She's still not perfect but you can only detect the vibration if you hold the wheel with one finger on the rim now, whereas before you could feel it in your fingers, and feel it in your toes, shaking all around you, it even shook your nose. Yes, it was as bad as that mis-quote ;D
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Post by spunkymonkey on Mar 26, 2010 23:31:02 GMT
Just had a call from Iliria, who set off boldly at about 3:30 to go to Nottingham with B/F in tow as licenced driver and a nice set of AA directions. They were lost in Derby. So we worked out new directions for them and asked her to let us know when they arrive. 3 minutes later the phone goes cos.... the car won't start! It sounds like a bad battery connection (lights ok but dim when the key's turned, no movement from the starter and the battery terminals get rapidly warm) but she has no tools and even less fixing practice. I tried to talk her through hitting and wedging battery connections with the jack handle (the nearest thing to a tool in the car) but no luck. So she's now awaiting rescue by the Derbyshire Daf Centre who will (hopefully) remember to laugh long and loudly enough to shame her into paying attention next time I suggest she learns some of the very basics of car maintenance ;D Meanwhile, I now owe the residents of Derbyshire about a brewery and a half which I'll be delivering at Lichfield if we don't see them before edit: What can I say? Carlseberg don't do breakdown services, but if they did......... Cheers guys ;D
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Post by stefan on Mar 27, 2010 8:26:41 GMT
No problem mate, just tell her to breakdown just before I get in bed not just after next time. ;D
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Post by spunkymonkey on Mar 27, 2010 14:35:28 GMT
No problem mate, just tell her to breakdown just before I get in bed not just after next time. ;D Having waited up till 2:40 in the morning* before we heard that she'd actually made the last 35 miles or so (despite lots of attempts to call her), next time my phone will be out of battery and she can call the AA instead! * If you check post times, that's over 2 1/2 hours after we knew she was moving again to drive 35 miles. Even L plates don'e make you that slow so worry levels were a little high to say the least!
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Post by Richard DAF Webmeister on Mar 27, 2010 18:37:54 GMT
"Lost in Derby". Nothing surprising about that! I know that experience well - the inner and outer ringroads seem to make little sense. I have the same problem in Leicester, and Coventry, and Birmingham...
Well done to the Derbyshire DAF Central. My word. Perhaps we should issue a DAF Order of Merit... but that would be DOOM!
And well done to Isabel and the humans - quite a marathon.
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Post by 33grinder on Mar 27, 2010 23:11:52 GMT
Getting lost in Derby is nothing Joe, I used to get lost everytime I went to Matt's, and had to call him to come and find me! , hence fitting the satnav to Gavina. Otherwise turn me around three times and I'm lost! ;D
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Post by spunkymonkey on Mar 27, 2010 23:22:09 GMT
The thing is, she shouldn't have been in Derby in the first place - I know Nottingham is worth avoiding but I'm pretty sure they still signpost it from a fair way away (possibly to assist in avoiding it )?
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Post by Patrick on Mar 28, 2010 1:05:55 GMT
The thing is, she shouldn't have been in Derby in the first place - I know Nottingham is worth avoiding but I'm pretty sure they still signpost it from a fair way away (possibly to assist in avoiding it )? I once lived on an "B" road in Sussex that had been replaced at some point in the past by a faster and sometimes dual carriageway "A" road. Trouble is, this B road was still straighter (and hypothetically faster) than the A road - or so it looked on a map. It was narrower though - and a bit more twisty. According to the local council highway people we'd spoken to after being kept awake by one juggernaut too many nearly hitting the picturesque bridge just outside our house, they were apparently trying to solve this problem by only putting the names of the small villages the road passed through on the road signs - and not the big town at the end to try and steer people onto the A road instead! Have they been trying the same in the East Midlands! Such sweet innocent times before the sat nav!
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Post by spunkymonkey on Mar 28, 2010 12:14:33 GMT
I suspect they may have, Patrick. To be honest, getting little lost on your first long distance drive isn't all that surprising - I just felt like taking the mickey a little after the several hours of worry and lost sleep we got from her not letting us know when she arrived
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Post by Patrick on Mar 28, 2010 12:21:46 GMT
Hope all's well now.
When my brother first started driving, he used to take himself off "exploring". We occasionally received phone calls from him as he'd either run out of petrol - or 'got lost'! It eventually dawned on us that he had a terrible sense of direction. Even twenty five years later - he recently had a go at driving to our Mum's in Scotland from London - with the aid of a satnav - what could go wrong!? Only the little device being set to take him the picturesque route!! He finally turned up there at about half one in the morning!
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Post by bettyskeeper on Mar 28, 2010 23:29:34 GMT
Well almost, they did get lost again on the way home for roughly 2 hours round Telford but got back on track with a friendly local showing them the way. Really thinking about finding a sat nav that works with a 6V battery now ;D Isabel has been naughty again though this time deciding to blow her fuse, maybe she was just complaining about being lost too. Temperamental cars who'd have 'em me, me ,me
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