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Sold another 2 pallets of slates today for 400 sovs & the chap gave me 20 sovs for loading it I refused it but he insisted I take it. :) Tis good cause I only paid 200 quid for 8 pallets of them last year & the others I got from the roofing job I...

Bet yer can't do this wiv yer tratters. Too much risk the doors would swing open. Or fall oft.

Are you yolking me, there was two of them but the other lad egged it & got away...the dude got caught pooped himself & had a cadburys landing strip in his pants. 🤣🤣

Opps sorry, we had a cooker monkey come out to see if they could repair the burners & he done a pressure test. He said there is no way to get the pressure down to what he wanted. Err ok mate leave yer gauge plugged in & light the gas, I turned...

And another weird thing... When I rang up to order the part, blokey asked me for my reg. From that he told me that the caliper they had on their books for an early Disco 2 did not match the part apparently on mine according to the VIN number...

Got the caliper off and into the garage where my big vice can hold the whole thing. After a bit of a fiddle-about, the pistons came out. They are the cleanest brake pistons I have ever taken out! :rolleyes: Has to be said that I haven't stripped...

Got the tyres on, they charged £10 odd each plus vat for the balance, cheeky flippers!! Checked against the two Disco ones I got last week, no charge! I appreciate it is a little trickier, but even so. :mad:

I just checked with LR Parts, apparently they used to do the stainless steel pistons, but they stopped doing them and blokey said they weren't very good! which doesn't seem to be your experience! At the end of the day, Dot 4 is very corrosive so...

Proper landrovering

Afternoon Sun's shining and just got my truck insured for half the price that Adrian Flux wanted :D No sign of bathroom fitters 🤔 Have a good afternoon folks :)

Good idea! Din't know you could get them. ;)

Dry here no sun atm, rain forecast for tomorrow. Got a lad coming from Campbelltown for 2 pallets of slates. So I need to go & sort them out so its just a straight lift onto his trailer. :)

My bmw m3 had issues with the calipers seizing, I replaced the pistons with stainless steel ones never had a problem with them ever again. Think I had it 6 years. :)

...I was looking out of my front window yesterday while waiting for herself to return from dropping the g-kids back at my son's and I saw a chap struggling along the street carrying a bag of shopping. He is a bit of a character, always wears...

Off out soon to Blandford to get two new tyres on W's car. I have taken the precaution of removing all wheel nut embellishers and swapping the two locking one for ornery ones, They lost the locking nut key last time, as well as the embellishers...

Yer castle sounds like its made like a tratter.

Mornin Dry and brightening up Bathroom inspection yesterday revealed that the shower tray will have to be lowered, that means either a bodge or floor up and start again, did tell em floor was high in the middle but they didn't listen :confused...

Morning All. :D A lovely Spring day out there today. We have Sunshine. :) Have a lovely dy. :D

Just put a new one on, save all the hassle :)

Anyone on ere? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g71lnv40ko.amp

well.... The tail of the brake caliper has wagged the dog of the hub job. It remains unfinished as one brake piston refuses to go back into its hole. (The hub itself went on fine, more or less.) This work, under a wheel arch, in the heat, really...

As you know I did worry about all this from the outset. So sorry it has turned out like this. Personally I would not mess about with helicoils never having had any luck with them. I'd go straight for you number 3 solution but I wouldn't mess...

Thanks. OK, I have a 3-pronged attack. 1. A 5/16 drill & Tap (I would just have to file the hole in the heater take-off flange). 2. A 1/4" helicoil kit is on its way (be here tomorrow). 3. I could drill it and tap it at 8mm and make an...

We usually get some snow at the end of March.

Yer we had some wild fires locally last week & that was after no rain for 2 weeks. :oops: (been bloody raining since last September) Im surprized anything was dry enough to burn.

Yer its getting towed to Aberdeen, I think Dales marine are getting it not us. Although things change, ive still got half a ship here to finish & other smaller boats queuing up to get to boaty heaven.

If you can tap ANY thread size and form into the casting, can you make up a stepped stud, again with any thread type? Like the one in the attached pic, this particular one is 5/16 unf at one end and 7/16 unc at the other end.

I have bought a 5/16 set to give it a try. ;)