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Today's job is currently to empty the big unit of my large machines and we have the most temperamental forklift imaginable hence we've had to jump start it and tow it about with the car!

Yeah we're into all that shenanigans, can easily work to a hand drawing like also to save a couple of quid moving cars, mind we like having stuff like it down here!

Would need a panel van for those I think! 😆

I stood on the frames a few times to get on the roof and it flexed the door skin a smidge but wasn't enough to be concerning, he's on about using it for sleeping bags only

Today's job was to fit a roof rack to a camper which had hit a bridge and crushed the rack and bent all the brackets, after welding new rails onto it and straightening out the brackets we got the rough smoker forklift out and immediately had to mess about with 'fork extensions' Tightened on and missing fasteners repatriated, and also we fitted our own design of fabricated pannier box carrier frames to the door along with relocating a ladder to the side and number plate and lights to the top of the door !

Having a look at the freight rover again, I decided to whip out the +0.5mm pistons to reuse in a seasoned 1.7 engine block as I feel the bores in this engine have suffered through an over heat, so I instructed the chief apprentice sister to whip the sump off and bop out the pistons so I could strip the 1.7 to a bare block and get the parts off to the rebore shop expeditiously Easy work for wor kidda who is a bloody fast learner at this sort of work i compared the crank to a B series but alas the bastard is different, I could have coverted a spare 1.7 to 2.0 without much effort if so ! this VW 2.0tdi which runs of three but feels like every cylinder has compression actually snapped off 2 of the exhaust rocker arms so it might be that with a set of new ones fitted that it might be OK however I dislike the idea of valves that have been forced up by the piston so will recommend a head rebuild at the very least.

Thankyou all, very kind uplifting words So today's work has been in 2 stages This crafter is in for a mystery engine problem, it was bought by the owner stripped like it is with the engine unable to start, when attempted it basically just made like a knock sound every crank rotation and would just fire, so checking it manually I found all 4 cylinders felt like they had compression 1 maybe less than the others and the timing marks all made sense, so I kept persevering to which it did fire up and run on 3 seemingly Next up today this bad lad, 2.0 petrol freight rover in the exact spec i wanted for a recovery truck, decent underneath too ! The convoy doors offend me greatly it had to be saidbso I'll have to swap those for some earlier jobs Chassis is all sweet so that's getting painted up ASAP and the cab will go BL blue I think Here's a wierd thing, the pistons stop short by 8mm which to me seems mad, its a 2.0 O series so has the 89mm stroke rather than the 75mm of the 1.7, the engine itself seems to have been bored out 20 over and maybe overheated a few times as the radiator is new as is a few ignition bits, it running terribly prompted me to take off the head as the carb settings and ignition timing seemed to make no difference to running at all !,,I might end up building a new 2.0 out of a 1.7 and reusing the oversize pistons !

Thankyou all for your kind words there's no doubt its going to be a stress fest but I'm relishing the challenge my sister has been the star really as I've basically thrown her right into the deep end with welding/fabricating and quite intense mechanical work without any sign of flagging so far, not bad for a former office based employee! We're based at Derwent foundry, Whatstandwell DE4 5HG 01629 818296 RRM Ltd facebook RRM Ltd website

For aslong as I can remember I've wanted to be directing my own path in business but never had the actual confidence to overcome huge self doubt and fears of failure, in 2021 when I nearly met with my mortality thanks to covid I remember hating that I'd played things safe as houses like a boring nobody and literally despite continued health maladies I feel that I've got a second run up at life , so I'm starting from nothing at 35 and want to get pushing forward with what is abit of a dream for me . So basically my sister and I have teamed up to create a new garage/engineering works of which provides the usual bread and butter garage services and also more specialised work less commonly found like large manual machining capability and welding. We're looking to stock up on a range of common classic parts too so that we can take on most project work without waiting on parts turning up in ebay etc albeit limited space prevents stocking a vast amount. So far over the last 8 months ! Obligatory huge lathe brought back somewhat inappropriately Company car brought down , inappropriately Lathe electrical rebuild done because it was dangerous as hell, 415 through the soaked push buttons etc ,,horrible ! Once cleaned and generally setup it's been put to work straight away! this s100 k series swap was quite aquite to drive, getting one to fit the earlier car isn't bolt in like with the estelle and rapid ! Cambelt snappage job on an iveco 2.3, lots of new valves and lapping required! loads of work done, and loads more hopefully to come !

The only estate I've ever had so far, hoping to get it sorted for the road and tidy up old welding work, its my favourite spec for one of these : blue, late and 1700 flavour

LOADS of time later The skoda has been worked on at the new unit This shell was a floppy mess, it sagged on the trailer bringing it down , so had to manipulate it back into shape ive always wanted to stiffen up the sill and A pillar to do away with the weak horrible standard solution where the front doors are endlessly sagging the B pillar got its own pedestal to tie onto and its still got enough flex to work perfectly fine and then spend hours tieing abit of B pillar to the A pillar as its the same hinge pattern but thicker metal rotten tunnel was next up, a local place folded up this for £35 which was an epic bargain, saved loads of time messing about but still had to cut out and weld in all the threaded plates for various things on the tunnel Hours later its all welded in, mega strong now as I specified 1.5mm steel

I had the exact same thing happen to mine , an lt77s which had the r380 gears with the intermediate type synchro rings, the oil ran low over a few months and it gradually got noisier The Input shaft had the same blue tinge so I binned it all as I didn't want a potential tooth weakness just waiting to show up catastrophically , not only did they get mega hot but also the casing had a blue haze around the bearing! , ended up fitting an sd1 2.4 diesel gearbox in its place which also leaked oil so investigating transit 2.4 gearboxes currently as they have normal ratios compared to the 2.5 Di