Purchased my first Green Oval the other week, it was great…. For about an hour until I realised I don’t have a clue what to do or where to start…. Should have bought a toy model of one instead.
The first issue was the sender valve, the previous owner gave us half a talk of fuel so on the way home we filled it up, long story cut short it turns out the sender valve leaks hence only half a tank! Had to send it to the garage as I did not really want to wait until the weekend to get it sorted, they replaced the rear end of the exhaust pipe at the same time…. And nicked my rear mud flap…. But that’s a different story!
While it was up on the ramp I had a look over it – found two ‘small’ holes in the chassis which I would have never seen with it on the ground, you can barely see them with it on the ramps. I have since spent some time poking around underneath scraping away at the layers of thickly clad mud (for the entire of Sunday afternoon I could only se out of one eye and when my other half got home she wanted to know where the coal mine I had found was) and through I haven’t found any more holes some of it worse for wear. So now it’s off to Buzzweld at the weekend to get all the welding done and as much paint as they can muster applied….. Its nearly costing me 1/3 as much as the landy, but Craig gave me a good sales talk and I am a sucker for a good sales pitch.
Then when we get it home there is the bloody oil leak to sort out – It’s not leaking oil as such, I have spent hours staring at it and seen nothing… oil just mysteriously appears underneath it. When I am sorting that I might as well do a full oil change at the same time…. If I am doing that I might as well change the transfer oil and gear box oil…. Coolant could probably do with changing, the washer bottle is grubby and silty… that needs doing. The rear washer doesn’t work so that will need fixing at the same time.
Once that’s done then there are the doors… oh god the doors…..
The speakers crackle, the seats need some TLC / pest killer on them, the seat belts are well…. Dubious, there is hell of a lot of wiring all over the place – the electrical safety people would have a field day, so many drilled holes everywhere, the tires look flat, the breaks squeal like a slaughtered pig, oh and to top it off I need to grease the UJ’s (which will probably need replacing knowing my current luck).
On the bright side…. She runs well…. At the moment….. apparently the starter motor sometimes doesn’t work, though its not happened to me I am sure it will on the coldest, wettest, windiest, day of the year when I am 10 mins late already!
I have made a list of what to do, that got so unorganised (for my quite OCD mind!) I broke it down into sub lists and annexes….. that’s really difficult to understand! So I have resorted to the next best thing… ignore it until it goes away.
It’s hard to know where to start. Furthermore, every time I go outside and look at it she gives me this ‘I will take everything you own and more’ look…. It’s kinda creeping me out, I even asked her nicely to stop doing it.
All I wanted to do was be a cool kid on instergram!
The first issue was the sender valve, the previous owner gave us half a talk of fuel so on the way home we filled it up, long story cut short it turns out the sender valve leaks hence only half a tank! Had to send it to the garage as I did not really want to wait until the weekend to get it sorted, they replaced the rear end of the exhaust pipe at the same time…. And nicked my rear mud flap…. But that’s a different story!
While it was up on the ramp I had a look over it – found two ‘small’ holes in the chassis which I would have never seen with it on the ground, you can barely see them with it on the ramps. I have since spent some time poking around underneath scraping away at the layers of thickly clad mud (for the entire of Sunday afternoon I could only se out of one eye and when my other half got home she wanted to know where the coal mine I had found was) and through I haven’t found any more holes some of it worse for wear. So now it’s off to Buzzweld at the weekend to get all the welding done and as much paint as they can muster applied….. Its nearly costing me 1/3 as much as the landy, but Craig gave me a good sales talk and I am a sucker for a good sales pitch.
Then when we get it home there is the bloody oil leak to sort out – It’s not leaking oil as such, I have spent hours staring at it and seen nothing… oil just mysteriously appears underneath it. When I am sorting that I might as well do a full oil change at the same time…. If I am doing that I might as well change the transfer oil and gear box oil…. Coolant could probably do with changing, the washer bottle is grubby and silty… that needs doing. The rear washer doesn’t work so that will need fixing at the same time.
Once that’s done then there are the doors… oh god the doors…..
The speakers crackle, the seats need some TLC / pest killer on them, the seat belts are well…. Dubious, there is hell of a lot of wiring all over the place – the electrical safety people would have a field day, so many drilled holes everywhere, the tires look flat, the breaks squeal like a slaughtered pig, oh and to top it off I need to grease the UJ’s (which will probably need replacing knowing my current luck).
On the bright side…. She runs well…. At the moment….. apparently the starter motor sometimes doesn’t work, though its not happened to me I am sure it will on the coldest, wettest, windiest, day of the year when I am 10 mins late already!
I have made a list of what to do, that got so unorganised (for my quite OCD mind!) I broke it down into sub lists and annexes….. that’s really difficult to understand! So I have resorted to the next best thing… ignore it until it goes away.
It’s hard to know where to start. Furthermore, every time I go outside and look at it she gives me this ‘I will take everything you own and more’ look…. It’s kinda creeping me out, I even asked her nicely to stop doing it.
All I wanted to do was be a cool kid on instergram!
