Akciddento. Doing the things that we want to
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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…
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back home on a low loader, again…
back from the alps, sunburned and exhausted, all very good. didn’t kill any of the other munters on the package holiday. get in the bus, starts first time, runs lovely. off onto the m23 heading home, then it dies. completely. it won’t fire, won’t turn over, gauges are going mad. big time electrical problems….. AA…
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off to the airport
after a day of frantic packing we’re off to gatwick in the bus to go snowboarding. I call over to Teoh’s to get takeaway noodles for supper. as i pull out of Teoh’s the bus dies, electrical failure ! i check eveything over and it looks like the immobiliser i had fitted last year has…
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shopping and spannering
got a box of bits from justKampers, next day service, lovely packaging. how cool is that? proper silent gliss curtain runners and curtain hooks AND the battery cut off switch i have to fit for MSA regs… plus other impulse purchase junk, i love web shopping and credit cards! the folding devon cooker hood also…
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officialdom beckons!
www.akciddento.com is all registered and online, getting there….
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merchandise !
had a mail from the merchandise printers saying the hats, stickers, shirts etc would be shipping and arrive within 4 weeks. half an hour later a courier delivered a huge box will all the printed gear in it, including my very own akciddento aluminium lunchbox! it’s the bomb! get ’em while they’re hot!
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more forms to fill in…
sent off the sprc and the vwdrc membership forms, lookd like i will be snowboarding with emily and lucian over easter so won’t be able to make thunderball… great start to the racing year…
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got my license!
got my national class B license today ! roll on. need to drop the engine in the bus as soon as possible, there’s an oil leak that only seems to show up when i spank the bus hard on the motorway. after much head scratching and deliberation the oil cooler/gasket is the likely culprit.
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