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Re: The BEACH ROVER (86")
By: parksy64 Date: April 2, 2012, 1:35 pm
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Well, I'm an arse :haha:
When I did the trip up to Drew's I told him that I had had an
odd sound from the area of the starter and a bit of a rattle
from the bell housing.
He kindly gave me a spare starter motor which has sat in the
truck as I drove around every day since..... :wanker:
Until today when I ended up stranded at the builder's merchants
with a kaput starter.
Grabbed the tool roll and whipped the old one off- proper
fooked. It is a late one with a shroud bit that had
disintegrated :WTF
Being a later one it has a permanent live feed and a live feed
off the starter button. Took a call to Drew and a bit of joint
head scratching between us to figure the correct way to wire the
earlier (working) one. The joys of stitching 'modern' engines
into an old car!
With the wiring sorted I set about fitting the motor- but could
I fook :banghead the older one is longer and fouls on tubular
exhaust fanimold- see above ref older cars! :banghead
I needed to get to work so I pointed down the very slight slope,
skate boarded the truck for a bit and dumped it into 2nd. Happy
days :smile1
Parked on a hill at work and am now parked on a hill at home
because the light has dropped and ICBA to crawl around with a
head torch!
So.... the moral of this story is; if you think that noise is
odd- check it now and save yourself a lot of nause! ::)
#Post#: 17823--------------------------------------------------
Re: The BEACH ROVER (86")
By: Drew 5292 Date: April 2, 2012, 1:51 pm
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Bad vibes, man :(
Unaware of the manifold issue (as you evidently were) when we
spoke earlier. And knowing the heft of an old-skool starter
against the one you had with the Bendix drive cover, had I known
I'd have been able to deliver the punch before you'd played Mr
AA on the floor of the merchant's.
This in no way helps you...but there you go :-\ Spare starter
for a future project.
#Post#: 17827--------------------------------------------------
Re: The BEACH ROVER (86")
By: parksy64 Date: April 2, 2012, 2:15 pm
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Cheers!
I needed to get the old one out anyway as it was jammed.
#Post#: 23276--------------------------------------------------
Re: The BEACH ROVER (86")
By: parksy64 Date: May 18, 2012, 1:46 pm
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Still having starter nauses but that's another story :banghead
Have to change the water pump as that has started squealing.....
Anyway, set to and did my front offside hub seal tonight.
Whipped the old hub cap off, took out the split pin, the
castlelated nut, the felt seal, and then took off the hub.
All washed off in some old stale petrol, and put back together
with fresh lock wahsers, felt seal, gasket etc.
Right at the end I ripped open the only blue bag I had for a new
hub cap, and guess what :wanker:
It doesn't fit, just slid on, would have fallen off at the first
corner!
Should have known better; dug out an NOS one and knocked it on-
job done.
I won't even spell out the moral of this story :confused:
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Re: The BEACH ROVER (86")
By: Dengieboy Date: May 18, 2012, 1:59 pm
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[quote author=parksy64 link=topic=1094.msg23276#msg23276
date=1337366792]
blue bag ... guess what .... It doesn't fit ... Should have
known better
[/quote]
Im starting to cringe every time I see the colour blue now, even
the air turns blue if I open one of them bags :wanker:
Ive learnt my lesson but feel for people who havnt :haha:
As for your starting issue .... put some effort into it and use
your handle! ;D
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Re: The BEACH ROVER (86")
By: parksy64 Date: May 18, 2012, 2:07 pm
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No bother, I live on a hill and park on a hill at the site I am
working on at the moment :smile1
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Re: The BEACH ROVER (86")
By: parksy64 Date: May 23, 2012, 4:50 pm
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Changed the water pump this evening :thumbs:
All went well until I was packing up and burnt my fingers on the
work lamp :haha: Muppet!
No more squeekyness anyway!
#Post#: 27645--------------------------------------------------
Re: The BEACH ROVER (86")
By: panthershaun Date: June 19, 2012, 3:47 am
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any pictures of the Beach Rover?? can't seem to find any....
that looks like one hell of a beach and a perfect longboard wave
(well to me everything is a cool longboard wave ::) ) so where
abouts in SW France are you?? I have friends just south of
poitiers (Champagne St Hillier) and 2 more down near Aulney in
the Charante Maritime. I have big plans to move over myself one
day BUT I need to be near a good longboarding beach to be really
happy :giddy:
#Post#: 27774--------------------------------------------------
Re: The BEACH ROVER (86")
By: parksy64 Date: June 19, 2012, 3:01 pm
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My website has gone tits and I havent fixed it yet so I havent
got anything!
Im about 5 mins from the Spanish border. Just south of Biarritz-
home of some epic logging waves :giddy:
This Saturday's reward was perfect clean waves breaking into St
Jean de Luz bay 8)
#Post#: 27801--------------------------------------------------
Re: The BEACH ROVER (86")
By: panthershaun Date: June 19, 2012, 4:22 pm
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sorry to hear about the web site, guess that's why I wasn't able
to get on it!!!! Just south of Biarritz you say, nice one.. I
have a contact from Toulouse who surf's near Biarritz, in fact
he has just this last weekend run an event based there called
Wheels and Waves.. I'm begining to think I need to be in
France..
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