doobie
Active Member
After dragging a horse box around for 300 odd miles i've managed to pass my B+E car and trailer test, it was a fair test of my poor old perkins engined series 3 ability to survive!
yesterday while i was sitting in front of the test center i had to carry out emergency repairs to my exhaust manifold as it blew as gasket, i was in serious danger of getting my test cancelled and probably killing myself on the way home as all the exhaust fumes were filling the cab..... the day before i had to wrap a couple of welds on the exhaust as well...
then during my test the gearbox started making some new ginding noises in 4th, a new rattle developed in the bulkhead and the slow running screw slowly unscrewed itself..... ah the joys!!
still the examiner was impressed that i was keeping a "classic" vehicle on the road....just! and the instructors had lots of fun taking the ****!!
yesterday while i was sitting in front of the test center i had to carry out emergency repairs to my exhaust manifold as it blew as gasket, i was in serious danger of getting my test cancelled and probably killing myself on the way home as all the exhaust fumes were filling the cab..... the day before i had to wrap a couple of welds on the exhaust as well...
then during my test the gearbox started making some new ginding noises in 4th, a new rattle developed in the bulkhead and the slow running screw slowly unscrewed itself..... ah the joys!!
still the examiner was impressed that i was keeping a "classic" vehicle on the road....just! and the instructors had lots of fun taking the ****!!
