Re: Man with spanners - thinks he's a mechanic
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2019 11:31 am
a little update, bigger one coming later:
Went out for a drive yesterday and things were going great until the engine started feeling sluggish, like it wanted to stall, so pulled over to see what's going on. Eventually realised I had a coolant leak and realised and I was dangerously low on vital fluids (car not me). So I phoned the wife (read several phone calls involving "I can't see it - oh here it is right in f'ing front of me!" but mustn't complain as she was/is the cavalry). On a side note every person that pasted me and owned a 7 type car stopped and offered help, everything from getting me water to them having a trailer, really good to see and welcomed.
Anyhow limped home and this morning set about to investigate and found a crank in one of the top hoses:
Bugger, I don't have any spare curved hose like this or even know where to get an exact replacement, but then I realised that there was a length of ali joiner and I've got a tig welder. After cutting up a few bits of cardboard to get my head around what I needed to do I ended up with this. Well cuffed! Although I've yet to get the t=car up to temp yet so....
Went out for a drive yesterday and things were going great until the engine started feeling sluggish, like it wanted to stall, so pulled over to see what's going on. Eventually realised I had a coolant leak and realised and I was dangerously low on vital fluids (car not me). So I phoned the wife (read several phone calls involving "I can't see it - oh here it is right in f'ing front of me!" but mustn't complain as she was/is the cavalry). On a side note every person that pasted me and owned a 7 type car stopped and offered help, everything from getting me water to them having a trailer, really good to see and welcomed.
Anyhow limped home and this morning set about to investigate and found a crank in one of the top hoses:
Bugger, I don't have any spare curved hose like this or even know where to get an exact replacement, but then I realised that there was a length of ali joiner and I've got a tig welder. After cutting up a few bits of cardboard to get my head around what I needed to do I ended up with this. Well cuffed! Although I've yet to get the t=car up to temp yet so....