Predictable Really....

The stubborn stud sheered off flush with the manifold. Luckily I was working at the local garage and had access to all the tolls need to drill out the remains.

Amazing how different it is having air tools, sharp drill bits and experienced mechanics on hand.

Decided to drill out and use a nut and bolt instead of a new stud. Needed to grind the top of the manifold flat to accept the nut - All took about half an hour and the new down-pipe is a last fitted along with copious amounts of copper slip.

Now need to sort out where the power steering pump is leaking fluid from. I've had this 90 for about six years now and there is ALWAYS something that needs sorting!!!

Time for beer now....

Regards

RichardB

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RichardB uttered summat worrerz funny about:

Good effort... Dad did the same on JLO I recall, beauty being next time if it snaps it's no sweat.

Though I do find it concerning that your considering fixing all the faults..... I don't think that's allowed

;-)

Lee D

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Lee_D

Yes, you must allow time to service the gizzard with alcoholic lubrication or the jobs will seem overwhelming. ;-)

Martin

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Oily

The whole point of me getting my Land Rover was to 'give me something else other than work to focus on' At least that was the original plan!

Working full time from home on large projects does make you rather stir crazy sometimes. However, I've now got the reverse problem in that I keep wandering out and tinkering when I really should be working!! And when I'm not tinkering I'm thinking about it....Bit sad really!

Regards

RichardB

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RichardB

Living next door to a pub means that I spend rather too much time lubricating my innards. Lovely pint of Adnams they do...

Come to think of it what with the 90 and the pub it's a wonder I get any work done really.

Regards

RichardB

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RichardB

Classic symptoms of Landroveritis, the well-known terminal (time) wasting disease.

Another symptom being the willingness to end up spending £10 to save £1 - oh, and finding the EP90 smells nice. And wanting to look round the overalls department..... and chucking in £60,000 a years jobs to do something "more interesting" ;-)

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beamendsltd

Or have any money? :)

tuart

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Srtgray

I haven't a clue what you mean....

Lee D

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Lee_D

I'm dead jealous Adnams is a beautiful pint sad to hear the dray horses are being retired when they move

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not all progress is needed IMO we still have Hydes brewing up hereBoddingtons? don't mention that its no longer a Manchester brew Wales I ask you ?? Derek

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Derek

Wireless network and cordless digital phone does the job if you 'need' to pop out and have a fettle. Been caught out a couple of times but thats a risk you take with combining home working and a Land Rover.

Anyway Lee you do seem to spend a lot of the day reading and responding to AFL??

RichardB

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RichardB

I did used to log all the costs associated with running my 90. In the interests of marital harmony I stopped adding it all up. I just keep the paperwork in a box file and a bit of a log of what I've done.

Over the last few years I've definitely spent enough to buy a new or nearly new one. But the whole point was for it to be a 'project' which it certainly continues to be. I do around 3K miles a year just pottering about with the dogs and to and from the garage.

RichardB

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RichardB

I'm about 30 seconds from the pub front door! The pub is called the Garden House. Bit of a drinkers pub so nothing too fancy but the beer is kept well. The Adnams is slightly chilled which is nice on a warm day.

Actual location is Banham in Norfolk so the beer does not have to travel too far. Bit too far for the dray horses though.

Not a great fan of Boddingtons but it is better than lager!

In an attempt to get back on topic my hardtop

90 carried 12 drunks back from the Larling Angel beer festival a couple of years ago.

RichardB

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RichardB

Currently on leave studying for an exam on the 12th. Been doing about 10 hours a day (with breaks for brew and landroveritis threapy - purley a cyberfix though :-( ) for the last week and a half... on holiday I was doing 3 hours morning and night which was fun - not - but it did get me up at 8 am while the rest of the family had a good kip.

I'm managing about an hour of "Section this subsection that" before my brain become sufficiently puddled enough to warrant (damn can't get it out of my head now!) a brew and some alternative therapy. As per R v Madasafish (Times

12th Sept 2006)

Box of matches ready for book burning ceremony on Afternoon of the 12th , I can confidently burn them as they are already out of date once printed which is even more frustrating but at least the cylabus is only on whats in the books.

Thankfully I don't need to be able to spell for this one ;-)

When I go back to work I'll have been off for 4 weeks and a day... not that I reminded my side kick much of that before putting my out of office on the works email :-)

Other advantage to my job is the shifts... get to tinker with my Percy in the daylight when everyone else is at work... then go to work myself. ;-)

Lee D

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Lee_D

Have you thought about emigrating? NZ seem to be poaching people in your line of work rather successfully.

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EMB

I used to drink Adnams down Suffolk with my previous in- laws now Vicky has promised me a brewery tour when we do visitin' the folks down home in Michigan dodgy mercan beers If you get the chance at a beer fest Thwaites is pure gold too few pubs serve it round here be wary Pendle brews though- its far too smooth to be legal and is liable to cause failures in the leg muscles when attempting to stand. mmmmmm Derek (currently necking a can of XXXX ice cold )

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Derek

Has anyone cracked a fnarr fnarr joke about this yet? I've not been paying attention.

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Ian Rawlings

Considered it but we've family members who will be reliant upon us in the not too distant and also with two young nippers were also rather reliant on others at times. The idea however is very tempting.

Lee D

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Lee_D

|| On 2006-09-06, Lee_D wrote: || ||| get to tinker with my Percy in ||| the daylight when everyone else is at work... || || Has anyone cracked a fnarr fnarr joke about this yet? I've not been || paying attention. || || -- || Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!

Apparently not, although if I'd seen it before you posted, I would have.

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Richard Brookman

Go ahead, don't mind me!

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Ian Rawlings

On or around Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:17:47 +1200, EMB enlightened us thusly:

yeah... but they're not so keen on 40-y-os with no notbale qualifications. The ability to wrangle land rovers is, while very useful, not the sort of thing that impresses on paper, and these days it seems to be more about what's on paper than what you know or can do...

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Austin Shackles

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