Techenders: 26th - 28th April 2024. Who’s coming?

Hopefully leaving mid morning tomorrow


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Mid morning seems a popular choice so I'll book the M25/M1 route for about 2pm in the vain hope its quitened down after the mid morning chaos ...


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Looks like a few of us have dropped off the list so adding back in, apologies if I've missed anyone.

1. Chrisd - gas locker, poptop struts etc.
2. Scrooge95 - no idea what I need to get done, but I'll be there
3. Merlin Cat - just trying to get there [IMG]
4. BarryDean - giving his rebuilt engine a good run on the way down
5. MorkC68
6. Art b - pulling a plumber badly [IMG] in your dreams sunshine [IMG]
7. Huyrob
8. Razzyh
9. Davidoft
10. DubCat - being a wimp and crying off. See you in September.
11. Me (the afternoon riser)
12. redgaz
13. mikedjames - Probably coming Thursday to Monday.
14. nicktuft. Got a bit of work to do first.
15. Pkrboo (not sure what vehicle I'll be in)
16. Fruitcake from Thursday making cupboards for the V*v*ro
17. Flakey - Big purple bus, you can’t miss it, might even do some work on it!
18. Norris - under canvas again, but have lots of photos of a spangly bus
19. Skutterbob. Possible service.
20. Arryhancock
21. BaySearcher
22. Gingerninja perhaps rerouting stereo and kitchen light feed to leisure battery. Mike??
23. Belly - swopping in 205p distributor & adding lumenition
24. Ozziedog
25. Gabs ( Ozzies mate)
26. The Robo’s [IMG]
27. PeaSoup
28. Beaver, mostly trying not to do very much
29 Lasty - loafing around and contemplating life , the universe and everything ...
30 Paul2590 - just be my annoying self
31. Iblaze We will be there Just chilling
32 Our friends Davep will be there too Techenders virgins.
33. Ripcord - buying beer for people with a compression tester, and thanking his lucky stars he's not wallowing in mud trying to replace his front beam in a field.

I'm having 2 tyres fitted tomorrow but hopefully get there late afternoon.

 

One day I will be in the right place at the right time - I think what you do here is a wonderful thing and I would love to join someday - have fun, fix some buses and keep them on the road. Enjoy and cheers to you all

 

Is the field boggy?

 

Have a good time one and all. Not coming to this one but i looked forwards to going ,i fancied meal in the pub up the road having sat and watched six others eat last September.

 

It's not too bad mate.

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Here so far.
@redgaz
@Davep
@scrooge95
@mikedjames
@Fruitcake
@Huyrob
And us

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Not sure I can make it now. 50 miles out and my crankshaft oil seal is leaking again. This is after being swapped out twice and the second time pushed back further.

Would an occasional clutch judder on pull away cause this or is it something a lot more serious?

Not sure what to do now. Go home or get to Eddie's?

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Could be the other way round.
or
Judder could be missing "s" shape on your clutch bowden tube or the fitting for the end of the steel conduit on the rear torsion tube is broken.
If your flywheel oil sealing surface has a groove worn into it seals will not last long. Was this checked?


That was mine ^ - groove c/w some pitting in the groove (and elsewhere).
I got a better one but it still had a shallow groove. I guessed there would be seals available within 1mm total depth, same diameters that might be constructed with different dimensions from base of seal to sealing "point". At least one "rotating shaft seal" supplier provides detail cross section drawings on the site and I did indeed find one that in effect moved the sealing point 1.5-2mm when the seal was bottomed out in the hole compared to a stock one*. I suspect it still leaks a bit but there's never a drip where I park. It was a bit of head scratching and sleuth work.
or
You could replace the flywheel if this is the cause. I know from early experience you could replace seal with a worn flywheel every other weekend.

* people may suggest otherwise, but there's a ledge to bottom the seal out on at the correct depth and it's there so you don't have to guess either the depth or that you have it exactly square. Any groove will correspond to the seal being fully fitted - tempting to try leaving it short of that to move the lip, but would it be square?

The worst situation would be (IMO) the seal out of square, lip on the edge of the groove and pulled into it and out of shape at one side.

 

yes, I most probably am, probably to Bedworth this time, want to come along?

 

Ooh, which one are you heading to?

 

Simon kindly has offered but if you have space, I can also bring eldest.

 

I'm just planning on doing a 5k run down the Fosse Way foot path tomorrow morning!

 

Have a great weekend everyone, I'll try and make it another time, it sounds like a great meeting.

 

On our way, hopefully leaving the hailstones in Macclesfield