Tales of a new business, trials and endless uphill battles

[Matty]

On 28/05/2024 at 21:16, Jikovron said:

I pulled out the Sprint engine pistons and gave them a good clean and prised the rings out of them, it's already a +20 rebore and the cylinders aren't totalled so I'm just going to glaze bust it and stick new rings in, the head leaks on all of the valves too !

This needs some tricky roof drip rail welding so I've started taking out the windows and trim ready for it 

Localised to a panel so at least it's just weld in a single skin and joint on 

The mez is coming along, 9x3m just a stairwell to blast together 

the cromford canal runs up the back of the units also  so it was a good excuse on the bank holiday to have a ride out !

The proton water pump is now dead also, and its a timing belt driven one too !

 

Ooh, being a skim reader is the sprint valver going in the Ital?

[Jikovron]

4 minutes ago, Matty said:

Ooh, being a skim reader is the sprint valver going in the Ital?

It could go in with some sort of inner wing massaging and tunnel work for the bulk of the overdrive and gear selector but I suspect the reliability of a sprint unit would be ruinous haha.

[Matty]

20 minutes ago, Jikovron said:

It could go in with some sort of inner wing massaging and tunnel work for the bulk of the overdrive and gear selector but I suspect the reliability of a sprint unit would be ruinous haha.

Ah but what a thing!

[Jikovron]

So the headgasket theory is sort of debunked, the sheer amount of water sat in the head etc was ridiculous and the gasket didn't look at all bad tbf 

So that's gone back on with the new timing chain which is sort of the easy part in the face of 900 plugs and widgets to stick back on 

This I'm thinking is the prime suspect as iirc the housing has a o ring gasket seperating oil and water galleries.

[Jikovron]

So the mini has gone wrong spectacularly, I pressurised the cooling system via a bleed hose and immediately could hear muffled hissing which got louder with the oil cap off, so half expecting the core plug in the head to be rotted through, it was actually bubbling around a headbolt quite vigorously, so either there's a crack under the headbolt in the head or the block ,,,fuck sake

So stairs up to the mezzanine and temporary racking next, u was despondent but really wanting to make some sort of effective forward motion, a fb marketplace free add for some old decking came up trumps as did one for some 12 foot racking in Mexborough 

I picked up the timber including the crap bits but it was worth it as there was about 150 lengths of 7foot decking 

I made 4 seperate panels for the rack and treads for the stairs 

Stairs are my least favourite thing to design especially turning stairs,,urgh too much info to keep in mind

The thinking is nearly over at least which means this talbot camper can get a good mot looking over as there is a fair few snaggs to be getting through , bonnet doesn't open, headlight broken, only selects 3/4 5/R, air bags to fit to the back, slight water leak from the inlet manifold trapezium thing, lovely 😍 

 

 

[High Jetter]

Stairs look good, uplifting surely? 

[Jim Bell]

Great work man. Glad to see you've bounced back from Covid and are getting up to some epic work!

[dieselnutjob]

I just spent a day with Ron ( @Jikovron ) machining a bunch of parts for my Freelander project.  What a fantastic job.  Thanks Ron !