Life with an old Landie
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2018 8:05 pm
Our old truck get s a lot of use.
Get home after 300+km and it's running fine. Next morning and it's running like crap (1 or two cylinders at best). No time to think too much about it, too much to do.
Tighten the front near side wheel bearing. First attempt, too tight. Take everything apart again and reset. All good now
Need to drive and it's raining . Bugger, forgot about the crap running but now it's worse. Wouldn't pull the skin of a custard pudding.
Pull off dizzy cap. Looks ok but old. The terminals don't look burned though and the rotor edge is a but lumpy but not blackened. That brush looks suss though. Pull the spare out of the tool box (everyone has a spare dizzy brush and spring in their car, right?). Pull the old one out of the dizzy cap and compare with the new. Yikes, 4mm difference . Fix the new one in, start up : yeehaw, we got life!
Driving... driving... driving... Look down. Ah shit... speedo just stopped working
Get home after 300+km and it's running fine. Next morning and it's running like crap (1 or two cylinders at best). No time to think too much about it, too much to do.
Tighten the front near side wheel bearing. First attempt, too tight. Take everything apart again and reset. All good now
Need to drive and it's raining . Bugger, forgot about the crap running but now it's worse. Wouldn't pull the skin of a custard pudding.
Pull off dizzy cap. Looks ok but old. The terminals don't look burned though and the rotor edge is a but lumpy but not blackened. That brush looks suss though. Pull the spare out of the tool box (everyone has a spare dizzy brush and spring in their car, right?). Pull the old one out of the dizzy cap and compare with the new. Yikes, 4mm difference . Fix the new one in, start up : yeehaw, we got life!
Driving... driving... driving... Look down. Ah shit... speedo just stopped working