At last Snow !

Twas Wed, 28 Jan 2004 05:41:03 +0000 when John Nicholas Oakes put finger to keyboard producing:

mutter mutter Cornwall mutter mutter never snows mutter curse mutter

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OK, i went to my trusty steed (90 Tdi) this morning, defrosted the door and climbed abord to go playing - Only to find the handbrake iced up solid (I know i should have remembered to leave it off and in gear but hey, hind sight and all that...)

The thing is does anyone have any ideas where it will be frozen (cable or housing/shoes)? When i release the handbrake i can push the handle down but it returns about half way back up on its own accord (springy feeling on way back up).

I suspect its probably to do with the watery mud bath it had on Sunday??? Thus water in the cable and frozen perhaps?

Any other ideas? If possible i would like to be able to solve the problem so that it doesnt happen again.

thanks Jon

Percy took a extend trip along our street lastnight given the 2 inches of snow sat on the frosty un-gritted roads... Brakes locked instantly and the steering was er..... well....no use...

So I popped oout , engadged FWH's and threw him into 4x4 then no problems, was able to reverse the 3 feet and turn into my drive (slight incline off a hill ). I wasn't tanking it at the time either just lucky I was In Percy and Not the Grannada or I would not have got up the drive and had to abort roadside.... looking out now there is another 2 inches and it's still snowing :-)

Good old Percy!

Mrs D has also gone off to work in Alfie our Rangie and appeared to negotiate the street with no problems at all. No doubt the rest of the estate will polish it up nicely for the return trip.

Lee D

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So where the f is ours? 2 foot in Pickering, N Yorks, difficult travel in West Yorks. Barnsley? Nowt....

There is no reason to do that (in te UK climate!).

Your problem may be being excerserbated by the weather, but the real cause is almost certainly that the top piston in the expander is gummed up. Strip it down completely and give it a good clean-up, and re-assemble apprpriate grease in the correct places.

Richard

Richard, thanks for this. I must admit i have been putting off stripping it down for a while now as she needs some new shoes. Looks like this may be the last straw.

If its not frozen the next problem is getting her out of the drive to work on her. Looks like i'll have to disengage the transfer box and get a tow!

thanks jon

in article snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, Mr.Nice. at snipped-for-privacy@-nospam-clara.co.uk wrote on 28/1/04 7:54 am:

snowed last night - melted by lunch time...hooray. I hate the horrible,cold wet stuff.

I wish to register a complaint ... no snow in Bristol :-((

Depressed Steve G

I'll deny saying this - but hit the linkage with a hammer (having chocked the vehicle, obviously!)

Richard

Plenty in Stoke, er and lightening!

Richard

in article snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, Tim Hobbs at snipped-for-privacy@101ambulance-urine.net wrote on 28/1/04 8:57 am:

Went to Wigston this afternoon to put a couple of cheques in the bank. Visited Sainsbury's and everywhere was white when I came out and snowing very hard, although its has stopped for now. Kids were absolutely freezing cold and soaking wet when I picked them up from school.

Same thing happened to me a while ago and that worked:O)

-- Jon

Theres more ice than snow here now!. Ive just skated home (I slid about 3/4 of a mile at one point!), and most of the roads in staffordshire are like car parks!

There are probably 30 or 40 cars abandoned on the (mile or so long) dual carriage way up the hill to my house, and the A34 is full of abandoned cars facing the wrong way and resting against the barriers.

I also had to sit in a queue for 20minutes to go 100metres up the main road to the end of my road - and its 10:30 at night!, its usually empty at this time of day!

Strangely the roads in cheshire and round the edges of staffordshire have all been well gritted and are perfectly clear.

I'm not going anywhere tomorrow morning!

Boy o boy! have I had a busy day!

Lee D

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On or around Wed, 28 Jan 2004 17:48:04 +0000, Nikki Cluley enlightened us thusly:

though that was likely due to snowball fights. if they were dumped outside to stand in a blizzard you've a legitimate whinge at the school for doing it though. duty of care an' all that.

but I do think it's a pity that some of them aren't allowed out to play on the snow and ice on account of it.

On or around Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:45:49 GMT, SteveG enlightened us thusly:

hardly any here either. but plenty of icy patches to make up for it.

I found out when I got home last night that the school my kids go to wont let them out to play in the snow, 'cos its dangerous!!!!!

The world's gone bloody mad!

FFS!!! Parents would soon be moaning on the other side of the fence when the kids are having weeks off (and need a parent or childminder = money) through broken bones etc etc.

I have a strong recollection of being hit by a supposed snow ball as a kid which was a slither of Ice about 2ft square and flat...very funny for those who threw it but potentially leathal. I note times haven't changed.

And given the Sue it if it moved mentallity of people these days then I can't blame the teachers or schools for adopting this approach. But I'm sure the whole concept comes from a legigimate care for the kids rather than the now enforced "duty of care".

Yes I am biased too, I have two small kiddies and a wife who is a teacher. But I would clarify here we have over one inch of sheet ice on roads in the city and more on the estates... snow is not a factor. Given that Staff from the school did not get home last night until 2am and others aborted the trip and got a hotel it's hardly surprising the schools are closing.

They can play in the snow & ice until they are literally blue in the face after school.

If it's purely snow that your school was affected by then I can see where your comming from but times and cultures have changed.

I have to say I'm not totally anti-ice...we built some wicked slides as kids.

Lee D

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The schools not mad - but the doting money grabbing parents and their solicitors are!

Richard