On the Shedtune front it is far more positive- Shedmonkey Homer has recovered from his "Fitness induced illness" and manged to produce this Shed report
Shedmonkey Homers log – Star date Jan 17th 2013
Location- Riverside Garage ,Holmrook ,Cumbria (that's up North)
The day started like any other day down at the garage, but sensible
thoughts soon gave way into "lets try to sort out the snapped /sized plug in No1
cylinder on the P6 B.T” (The Rover P6 has picked up the unfortunate moniker of
“Brown Turd” B.T for short )
“lets have ago with that tap”, I said – realizing it was the
wrong tap
Andy –who shall be referred to in all future posts as A.W or “Old Lump Doctor” walked very slowly to
the car, tap was inserted and it quickly became apparent that the taper was hitting the remainder of the spark plug.
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O.L.D approaches the lump
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| Tap doesn't quite work |
Plan
B- Sharpen a chisel and score a line
down the threads through the spark plug-tap would square these up later-use
chisel to prize the remainder of metal into center of hole, this included
making a specialized hook thingy to prevent
the remainder of the spark plug falling into cylinder. A.W chiseled away to
his heart’s content until the tosspot piece of plug did just that, it was quickly
hooked out ,swore at and placed in a safe place.
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| The rogered bit |
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| This is A.W swearing at a broken bit of spark-plug |
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| This how I would imagine Johnny Cash would look swearing at a broken bit of spark-plug |
Tap was then run down the threads , they were spot on.
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| Homers home made tool |
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| More of Homers tooling |
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| Homers droopy tool |
Another new tool was
invented –“The how are we going to get all the bits out tool?”
It started as a small
magnet on a stick in the cylinder then turned into a hoover and a small tube to
suck out the bits- followed by the “piece of cloth on a hook tool”.
New plugs where inserted and distributor put back on, engine
cranked over but would not start.
(the old air filter had been thrown across the garage in a previous post- its was jokingly suggested there would be a new one up stairs in the treasure chest of old British Leyland N.O.S stock as Riverside was a BL/Austin Rover garage for over 20 years guess what a new one was found along with old fuddy-duddy spark plugs )
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| Air Filter |
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| Prawn ring |
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| Fuddy-duddy spark-plugs |
The squirting of brake cleaner in the carb made it fire but
it would not run
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| Note the use of "old money" spanners |
Fuel filter removed and cleaned , carb removed, choke freed up and
pipe work cleaned,then all put back on , this time the engine fired up.. and ran –it
had no bother producing the garages own weather system, a small fog bank moved
from the show room down wind into the bait area (that's where Northerners sit and
eat “ sandwiches” at "bait time" ) and finally drifted out via the old spray booth.
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| It Runs |
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| Make Smoke |
Once the smog had cleared
gears were tested- it moves, woooooo
hooooooo-Jolly Boys trip “Nice Pint 2013” here we come-radio tested OK as well
What a great report from Shedmonkey Homer - cant wait to get the Turd in the shed, will soon have the old lump running sweet
Massive thanks to Dave and A.W at Riverside for allowing Homer on their premises!
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