VIEW FROM THE EDGE........OF THE SHED : House Bashing,Shed Building,P6 finding

Its been a while since the last post I suffered the normal post Round Britain Reliability Run blues and got stuck in on the house- stripping a further two rooms and the main bathroom -this proved to be a challenge as I had to maintain hot water to the annex next door with its newly installed bathroom and en-suite these are providing washing facility's for the family for the next couple of months!

Old school house traps stripped out -stank of piss!

I nearly threw my self out of a window and smashed this one below all at the same time - a passing cyclist thought I was calling him M Fu er

The two rooms are nearly ready for plastering following replacement of ceiling joists etc My nephew "Jase the Ace" and "Big Tom Jamie" came down for a week and put some serious graft in! we also managed to see off seven gallons of cider!

The bathroom is a mile off! arguments about, lay out, cast iron roll tops, wet room area and wood burning stoves had to be overcome-plans have now been agreed so look forward to plenty of grumpy plumbing over the next few weeks
More exciting than sodding plumbing is the NEW SHED ERECTION!

I was planning to fill the new shed with my old Triumph 2500TC and get it ready for Club Triumphs 10 Countries Run in Sept 2013 - but plans soon changed, I withdrew my entry when it turned out the event wasn't quite what I was expecting plus the deal on the 2500 didn't happen

So revert to plan "B"- I remembered about my Rover P6 that had been sitting in friends (Andy and Dave) garage showroom ( Riverside Garage ,Holmrook, Cumbria) for the last 10 years or so and decided the time was right to get it on the road again and ready to be driven to Nice in the south of France for a few pints then via Stelvio or similar for the return leg to Blighty

Homer -who spends most of his spare time playing with Dave and Andys wheel balancing machine and making Tea at Riverside garage- was dispatched to go and find the P6 and see if it would fire up -here is a copy of his email-and pictures with his rather "Homer like"captions-note-Homer is always quick to slag off "stupid" British designed cars and old money spanners and has a love affair with German Fiestas or Escorts or something,but he has clocked up at least 20,000 miles in my British cars over the last 16 years taking part in various long distance events- anyway back to the e-mail

Hello mate-
Story so far -Decided that after 7 years of neglect I would tidy up the show room and locate the Rover underneath all the crud, show room cleaned I set about opening the bonnet fuck me that took some finding .
Then new battery and boost pack. Tried a few cranks and it wouldn't start. New petrol added and carb feed disconnected and using manual priming leaver pumped through many squirts of new fuel, re tried cranking - sort of tried to start. (bets were taken all chipped in £1 each to see how many cranks it would take to fire)
Bets were-
Andy 15 turns
Keith 5
me 18
Dave 20

All lost. removed carb float and cleaned out chamber found new gasket re assembled. Andy sorted points and checked for spark clean out cap. Next job remove plugs and clean.
This is where it went down hill, Fuck me they where tight and eventually plug No. 1 snapped leaving the threaded part of the plug still in the head. Bollocks. So using some very power full penetrator we have filled plugs 2 3 4 and bunged plug 1 and filled. Now leaving over weekend to soak.
Andy very confident that we can retrieve the broken bit no problem,
Enjoyed today apart from we had to venture over to Dave's tool box for lots of old money spanners.
PS- AW broke the spark plug not me! but what do you do it would have broke what ever so Monday is the day of reckoning