Even the evenings have been hot this week, uncomfortably so, so not the best of jobs to undertake and I’m not working as quickly as I’d like, but it’s been lovely to get outside. The bonnet is so hot that you can hardly bear to touch it for more than a few seconds. I continued…
A rare weekend without a gig so I spent the whole of Saturday, from morning til dusk – gardening. The good news is that I’m now up-to-date with the hedges etc and apart from some normal chores and an hour’s work, Sunday afternoon could be spent in the drive. The outside toilet has been home…
I had been looking out for a usable oil bath filter on Ebay and there are normally one or two available, but quite expensive for the amount of restoration required, plus the original chassis-fixings for the bracket are missing. I will maybe revisit this one day for a winter shed-type project but for now I…
After finding that the new alternator didn’t line up I shimmed the bracket out with 3 washers (trial, error and a straight edge) and got the pulleys to align. Finding somewhere to mount the adjuster bar was another problem. I looked at the redundant PAS pump bracket, intending to clean it up to sell on…
Although my blog is mainly about Land Rovers, any page mentioning this bass gets twice the number of page views than the closest rival Landy page, so here’s another for violin bass fanciers: La Bella 760N FHBB strings – special scale made for the ‘Beatle Bass’ I’ve been telling everyone I’d spent £50 on a…
This is a somewhat measly post, added only for completeness. I have two gigs this weekend and a family day out in between so there’ll be no progress on Dilly until next week. The Sunday gig is a dep with another band, playing bass, so tomorrow night after work I shall re-acquaint myself with the…
And some music stuff too – further down… I’ve not been happy with the alternator mounting method, on the end of the otherwise redundant PAS pump bracket. The drive belt is very long (I think that in its host vehicle the alternator is driven from the secondary pulley of the PAS pump), the angle of…
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Dilly the Series 3: Repairs, improvements and maintenance on a budget
Dilly the Series 3: Repairs, improvements and maintenance on a budget
Dilly the Series 3: Repairs, improvements and maintenance on a budget
