Weekend!

[plumben]

So I hope your all having a good weekend,

Devils bridge Settle and Hawes for me tomorrow on the bike!

 

[rocketmanbkk]

My wife won't let me socialise with Hawes.

 

[Leo21]

I am currently enjoying a Murphys after a nice bbq,d steak. Weekends are super.

 

[hammers4spanner]

At home eating toast

 

[PlumbBobBob]

just cracked my first hobgoblin

 

[Rickster123]

Fishing a 48hour session caught nothing but had 6 fantastic bottles of red.

 

[plumben]

Fishing a 48hour session caught nothing but had 6 fantastic bottles of red.

Sounds more like an excuse to get passed in a tent than fishing

 

[dancinplumba]

So I hope your all having a good weekend,

Devils bridge Settle and Hawes for me tomorrow on the bike!

Good butties at devils, good forecast too

 

[julesverne]

Tryng to source a recon engine for thy transit.

 

[gassafe]

Tryng to source a recon engine for thy transit.

Sounds expensive, what's up with the engine?

 

[plumben]

Good butties at devils, good forecast too

Burger and coffee for me

 

[julesverne]

Long story but in the end turns out after a compression loss test leaking through cylinder 4 through the exhaust valve and either piston or rings. Already spent 1500 inc new injectors trying to get to the bottom of it. Gutted. But seen a recon engine supplied and fitted at £1600 so its better than forking out for a new van when mines on 60plate

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Long story but in the end turns out after a compression loss test leaking through cylinder 4 through the exhaust valve and either piston or rings. Already spent 1500 inc new injectors trying to get to the bottom of it. Gutted. But seen a recon engine supplied and fitted at £1600 so its better than forking out for a new van when mines on 60plate

what van you got?

 

[Leo21]

Long story but in the end turns out after a compression loss test leaking through cylinder 4 through the exhaust valve and either piston or rings. Already spent 1500 inc new injectors trying to get to the bottom of it. Gutted. But seen a recon engine supplied and fitted at £1600 so its better than forking out for a new van when mines on 60plate

Don't skimp on that Jules, get a recommendation. Or somewhere with a good review, pay once, not twice.

 

[julesverne]

done plenty research leo but its either this or new van and a new van will cost a hell of a lot more. More cost effective to do it this way.

 

[julesverne]

what van you got?

Transit lwb 60 plate

 

[tamz]

I one put a "new" crossflow in a cortina that burnt more oil than petrol but i set out for Blackpool the next day anyway.
Got pulled over on the M6 and the cheek bstd asked if i was running on coal. Gave me a ticket and a fiver bet i wouldn't make it.I did.
The cortina would have been towed to the crusher these days for that.

 

[julesverne]

If it werent that, that i had spent up setting up other business i would have got a new van but needs must. Its not an ideal solution but sometimes you just gotta play with the cards your dealt with.

 

[tamz]

Number one tool. A reliable van. Without it your fecked

 

[julesverne]

I think its bad luck. Bought it last year full fsh 90000 on clock just went on me sometimes it happens. Ford 2.4 tdci engine generally a very good engine. Think faulty injectors prob contributed to engine failure as ecu over compensates on fuelling injectors when they start to go **** up. One day it just gave up no warning signs.

 

[tamz]

I had a vivaro i put 2 sets of injectors in. Next time it went i binned it.
@ £200 a month will get you a brand new one. Feck that shyt fixing vans.
Get it running keep it for a bit to get some moneys worth then bin it.

 

[Leo21]

I had a vivaro i put 2 sets of injectors in. Next time it went i binned it.
@ £200 a month will get you a brand new one. Feck that shyt fixing vans.
Get it running keep it for a bit to get some moneys worth then bin it.

You had a French can let you down? Well I never!

 

[gassafe]

My bro is a ford mechanic, there always putting new engines on those transits, he said the oil pump fails & destroys the engine! They were doing a big recall I think?

 

[lame plumber]

been building yet another horse house!! but I snuck off yesterday pm for a look at an S139, bit sporty, all shiny and very noisy. Even got a lift in it


seems they wanted some dead weight, that doesn't panic who isnt afraid of heights, I was one of 4 that fitted the bill to a T. All down to the fact that coastguard are now civvies and not flying under miltary rules, so anyone likely to be lifted now has to do dry hoists first, have briefings before they can be lifted at sea, unless of course your boat has already sunk. The best thing, the lad after me couldnt get his seat belt done up, too much stomach , he was soo much younger than me.

 

[Rickster123]

48 hours and not a single fish. Sunburnt now tho.

 

[lame plumber]

48 hours and not a single fish. Sunburnt now tho.

fishing isn't about catching fish, it's about planning, strategy and other things, or so I was lead to believe

 

[Rickster123]

fishing isn't about catching fish, it's about planning, strategy and other things, or so I was lead to believe

That's exactly what it's about. And I failed on all fronts.

 

[lame plumber]

even the pilot in the helo managed to hook something, 5 times in one spot to be precise, but i was like hooking carp in a feeding frenzy