well the nipper's back from granny's, school's restarted and i'm back to the 2 1/2 hours free every morning.
work on the 109 is gonna slow down, as i need to get other peoples stuff sorted in my available time and the latest "can you just..." is of all things, welding / patching a couple of skips.
yeah, a skip.
bonus is at least i can just wack the welder right up and blast. the parent metals thick enough and with new steel really is just point and press with the mig.
it was while making a start on this last night the next 109 problem became evident. as the 109's reasonably moveable, ie its got wheels, starts, drives and steers, (it even stops fairly good), its been used for shunting skips from the yard next door to the shop.
well, end of the night and its apparent there is summat not quite liquid tight somewhere. a nice trail of spots, bigger patches where its been parked with the engine running.
traced it to the arse end, grim thoughts that i'd cracked the diesel tank when messing about as the bottom of its covered in derv.
"only when the engines running" thinks i, so wonder if spill pipes boogered.
seems the bodge i did in sometime past, where the spill pipe was connected to a random rubber pipe, the bodge kinda gave up.
need to sort this out, then as and when time permits sort the original bits out i thought was the only stuff.........
pics an stuff next time!