lil-landy
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16th birthday yesterday and got a very nice present...a Series IIa!
46 years old and has been used from the day it was first bought in a tram yard towing trams around. Eventually the tram yard shut down and it has been in a dealers waiting for me for two years.
So, it's life with me so far. I got it yesterday morning as a present off my parents. A problem was found as soon as we got it in the fact that it wouldn't start because the battery seemed to very nearly flat. Simple answer, jump start it from my other parents car. However, it still wouldn't start. There was air in the system. So after pumping the diesel manually and getting the air out of the system at the fuel filters it started (when jump started). My parents drove it back to our house and promptly let me loose in the field with two friends. As the day went on we discovered that driving through puddles is fun, very fun, but it also gets the windscreen covered in mud and water, no problem, I'll turn the wipers on. Soon found out that the wipers don't work.
So after a day out in the field with my friends I've discovered that the work I need to do on my landy is:
- Find the hole in the diesel system and replace the pipe so that I don't have to manually pump all the air out the system to get it to start.
- Get a new battery, after leaving the one I have on charge all night I found out it was still flat this morning.
- Find out why the windscreen wipers and the water squirty things (very technical aren't I) aren't working and get them working.
- Wash it!
Pictures will follow.
46 years old and has been used from the day it was first bought in a tram yard towing trams around. Eventually the tram yard shut down and it has been in a dealers waiting for me for two years.
So, it's life with me so far. I got it yesterday morning as a present off my parents. A problem was found as soon as we got it in the fact that it wouldn't start because the battery seemed to very nearly flat. Simple answer, jump start it from my other parents car. However, it still wouldn't start. There was air in the system. So after pumping the diesel manually and getting the air out of the system at the fuel filters it started (when jump started). My parents drove it back to our house and promptly let me loose in the field with two friends. As the day went on we discovered that driving through puddles is fun, very fun, but it also gets the windscreen covered in mud and water, no problem, I'll turn the wipers on. Soon found out that the wipers don't work.
So after a day out in the field with my friends I've discovered that the work I need to do on my landy is:
- Find the hole in the diesel system and replace the pipe so that I don't have to manually pump all the air out the system to get it to start.
- Get a new battery, after leaving the one I have on charge all night I found out it was still flat this morning.
- Find out why the windscreen wipers and the water squirty things (very technical aren't I) aren't working and get them working.
- Wash it!
Pictures will follow.
