Saturday, July 17, 2004
Brrrrmmmmm...
well, just a quickie to say that having got the car working yesterday things seemed on the up.
patient recovered and showed signs of life at 10.30pm last night.
she was ticking over nicely, and then, to everyones surprise, there was a horrendously sickening metalic slap and the car stopped working.
looked at the engine. swore a lot. looked at the rockers and for some reason the tappits were 2 cm from the valves. something bad happened....all the cam caps were smashed in half and the rocker arm slammed upwards and we broke a rocker too.
checked the timing belt and it had slipped about 7 teeth. so we've had a piston hit a valve.
after swearing a lot, went and drank half a botlle of rum.
felt like shit today.
luckily, as we had ordered a new rocker set (now mangled) and cam, we got cam caps with them.
put the cam caps on, put the old rockers on, did tappits, timing (about 50 times just to check) etc again and then fearfully turned it over...
she rides!
yup, shes working again.
not really confident that it wont smash itself to bits again yet. we need to put radiator and stuff back on before testing it out again, which we'll do tomorrow. doesnt sound like we've killed any valves, so fingers crossed. anyways, if we have, i guess we have 8 spare ones from the old head....just means we will have to take the bloody head off again.
ahh, jesus. well, it was never going to be easy huh?
so, lets see what the morrow brings...
ttfn
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Mail Plane Day....again
well,the bits should have arrived today.
first drama was a message from cairns , saying the mail plane couldnt take all the mail for moreton.
we thought we'd be ok, as we had paid for ours to be delivered as freight, so it should have gotten on.
mail plane arrives.....no box for us.
call up cape york air. they say yes, our package arrived an hour ago in cairns.
this isnt a lot of use , as the box had to be with them on tuesday at the latest(yesterday). i explained this to the stupid cunt who i entrusted this with in Townsville on monday. Can you guarantee that it will be in Cairns Airport by tuesday at the latest....how many times do you have to explain things to people.
I had to spend 15 dollars on a 5 minute SatPhone call cos all the phones had gone out in cape york, during which I explained again (id already called the previous friday) to this arsehole that it had to be there. are you sure. yup, too easy mate. as per fucking normal. anybody who says that from now on isnt going to get my buisness.
i even phoned him yesterday to make sure it was all alright, and it was supposed to be all done and dusted...too easy mate. then i call him today, and his mate answered. i asked him if he knew about a package for moreton station, and he said,yup, i personally gave it to the courier to take to Cairns yesterday (tuesday)....fucking marvelous, no good to me mate, i now have to wait another week, you cunt.
after a few calls to other people (theres an air freight company who could have got it here, except that they cant do credit cards over the phone, you have to pay in cash in their office. what a bunch of fucking spastics. welcome to the 21st century? hello? they probably add up on a fucking abacus)
hopefully, we'll be able to get here by friday by flying it to Coen and then having some passing car bring it up to us.
so am now sitting here, with time rapidly running out (fuck, got 10 weeks left? got to get to alice, darwin, broome and perth. must be 10 or 15 thousand k's), and cant do anything about it.
The only thing that has saved my day is an email from chantal which made me and my heart smile. thanks babe.
i still want to kill some people. Maybe we'll go and blow some pigs apart later with steves .308
Actually, i wouldnt do that. Maybe just shoot some targets.
