Akciddento. Doing the things that we want to
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oh dear…
after checking the new eberspacher heater over all looked good. the fancy digital 7 day timer works fine. the little pump chugs away, the relays click and clack back and forth… .. but the fan doesn’t spin… after lots of twiddling and testing it appears that the bushes or similar are broken in the motor…
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wahey! maybe heating (again)
parcelforce (bless ’em) turned up at the door with a parcel from germany for me… and guess what it contained ? this…. it’s an eberspacher B1L petrol air heater. it’s got a fancy 7 day digital timer and other stuff and after connecting to a 12v battery pack it all seems to work but the…
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the verdict on the engine!
got the verdict from Martin Taylor at taylor machine services onthe damage to the engine… martin mailed me some pictures from his phone showing more detail… luckily the damage is not too bad, the big end bearing on number one cylinder let go and disintegrated, the extra ‘slop’ on the con rod meant that the…
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akciddento v3.0….
work continues apace on the ak website v3.0… jake from fireboxmultimedia is working through all the backend stuff at the moment, installing and configuring a full CMS (content management system dontchaknow) with a proper ecommerce module. once it’s all done and the interface and flow sorted it’ll give a lot more flexibility and make access…
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wishlist… (deathwishlist?)
the engine is now out and i’ll be shipping it up to wellingborough on sunday to hand over to martin taylor from taylor machine services. martin is going to strip it all down and give me an assesment of the damage then i’ll plan a course of action. nominally the list is like this porsche…
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top gear magazine, pg 37
what more can i say… …nearly wet myself laughing! thanks to Pc **zwitter** for the nomination !
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your sump should not contain this…
doing this… and found this on closer inspection it looks like this.. …. not the sort of thing you want to find in the sump… it appears to be the remains of a big end bearing…
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yee haa !!!!!!
the fugly 412 passed its MOT. third time lucky! now all i need is the road tax (a quick trip to the post office) and i can start blinging it up in a charity shop stylee! i’ve got the new front wings and the rather nice solid aluminium US spec bumpers (though i think i…
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guess who came today !
Tim and Neil from top gear magazine turned up this morning to do a photo shoot of the bus. tim got in contact recently and we had a chat about the bus and racing etc. sadly i couldn’t take him out and scare him witless but we had a chat and then neil took a…
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broke down!
so here it is, on the hard shoulder again, waiting for the AA….
what’s up? let us know….