West Yorkshire Laning Trips

gdhaydock said:

I run Insa Turbo Saharas - but any form of AT tyre will be fine for the trip. We generally avoid lanes which need any more than an AT

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Spoil sport i was going to put my 44" bog hoppers on for the weekend.

gdhaydock said:

I run Insa Turbo Saharas - but any form of AT tyre will be fine for the trip. We generally avoid lanes which need any more than an AT

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small update for yer.
would have been more but I deleted them instead of downloading them.
doh. :crazy:

Looking good.Is the floor bolt in or weld in?

Looking good

200 said:

Looking good.Is the floor bolt in or weld in?

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rivet.
cheers

gdhaydock said:

I run Insa Turbo Saharas - but any form of AT tyre will be fine for the trip. We generally avoid lanes which need any more than an AT

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That sounds good to me, ill leave the cooper stt on then as the special tracks are too bloody noisy on the roads. Look forward to meeting you all, then hopefully i wont be the black sheep lol

Nice work as always

defender11069 said:

Nice work as always

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cheers.

all done for 5pm yesterday (Wednesday), taking it over to uncle zips, for him to bring me back, for him to then go home and sort his stuff for the coast to coast trip, and it (the disco) decided the epic wasn't quite over.

nice quiet single track road, no traffic, batting along quite nicely, I got the "momentary loss of power" under the accelerator.
(denholm to oxenhope, if anyone's interested)

raised an eyebrow, and carried on.

500 yards further on, did it again.

pulled into a pub carpark, in the middle of nowhere, full throttle gave me 1800rpm.

ballcocks, I've stabbed a fuel line when riveting the floor back in, I thought.

knowing it was all downhill to oxenhope I set off and limped it to the junction and turned right. by the time I got to the bottom of the hill, trying to park discretely required low first.
fortunately, we'd left the clear fuel line on the pump to filter and I could see the bubbles flying round.

so, dumped up a side road, crawling underneath, all the rear fuel lines were pulled out their brackets, no damage.

tank pickup. bugger.
no tools, apart from a penknife and a wheel brace, I managed to remove the carpet, underlay, inspection cover in the floor, and the lock ring on the tank.
yarking the pickup pipe off the sender unit, I dumped it straight in the tank.
bubbles gone.
phoned zipster, let him know what was going on, pressed on to hebden.

landed at zip towers 20 minutes later, robbed a jubilee clip of his camping fridge, reattached the fuel line and set off back to workshop with him.

got as far as hebden before issues started again.
ripped pipe back off and stuck it in tank, carried on to shop.

removed sender at shop, thoroughly inspected for cracks, (had issues previously, as the pickup had a hairline crack and was drawing air. this got swapped for the return which we extended to reach bottom of tank)

no problem found with pickup, so remade the connection on pipework to top. very snug fitting clear pipe now.
no bubbles.
quick test run, replaced all removed bits, and off home he went.

apologies to mandy, phil and joan who had been waiting at shop for other stuff!
cheers to dean who plied them with coffee.

I can still get the odd whiff of derv as I sit ere typing.
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Glad you have got it sorted .

All in a days work for you then.

Neil, will you be at the workshop later today/ this evening? I could do with popping over to drop the fuel pump off among other things? I'd like to have a shufty at the earthing (possibly) gremlin causing my handbrake/ low fluid light not to come on and discuss welding the back end. Storm requires an MOT on the 13th June.

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Neil, will you be at the workshop later today/ this evening? I could do with popping over to drop the fuel pump off among other things? I'd like to have a shufty at the earthing (possibly) gremlin causing my handbrake/ low fluid light not to come on and discuss welding the back end. Storm requires an MOT on the 13th June.

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erm, I should be at grassmere at one oclock for a wedding today.
looks like it'll be just the evening do now.

in answer to yer question, sorry, no

No probs. Possibly, maybe see you on the Lakes trip on Sunday....according to Sue's list you're possibly, maybe out on all 4 days

All good, glad Zip is sorted for the weekend.
Have started sussing out lanes for trip 3rd of May
Off to ze Rhineland Sat morning for 2 weeks
Hope the weekend laning goes well!

well my discovery is all ready does any one know a rough eta at pickering as ill meet you all if thats okay. Thanks Paul

g5imsd said:

well my discovery is all ready does any one know a rough eta at pickering as ill meet you all if thats okay. Thanks Paul

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Roughly 10.30am, although it could vary as we've a couple of lanes on route. If you PM me your mobile number i'll give you a call when we are approaching Pickering and would suggest meeting just out of town on the Whitby road where we won't be fighting to find a space to park a convoy .....

gdhaydock said:

Roughly 10.30am, although it could vary as we've a couple of lanes on route. If you PM me your mobile number i'll give you a call when we are approaching Pickering and would suggest meeting just out of town on the Whitby road where we won't be fighting to find a space to park a convoy .....

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That sounds perfect, ill pm u now. Ill get parked out the way and wait for you all, how many in total is there going now? Thanks again

Only 8 hours to go

suew said:

Only 8 hours to go

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What time are you setting off? 5am ?????