MSTRS
21st March 2008, 19:41
...KBers rock thread!!!
Colapop arrived at ours last night for the promised bed. Praked his sprot in the gargre. Only to discover a little puddle of oil on the clean floor. Oh oh. Sump plug not sealing properly. Best get that seen to, young Col.
Ah, she'll be right, he says, I'll get to Tauranga and con DMNTD into getting it fixed.
This morning, we have a look and confirm that sump plug has probably been cross threaded, but should get him to Tauranga.
Um, no.
He gets as far as Wasp27's, which is about 8ks from us, and stops just to have a natter like. But Mr Sump Plug is now haemorraging more than ever. So Col comes back here and we whip off the RF's skirts, radiator and pipes. Drop the plug out and it's holding by one wind of the helicoil. Cos that's all that's left. So off comes the sump plate. Round to W's workshop with it's fancy lathes and milling presses. Wasp27 makes short and very neat work of boring out the offending hole, tapping a nice new thread in, and fitting a new sump plug with a removeable bolt down the middle (a bolt inside a bolt). Neat as you like. Back to ours and YT's made lunch. Hunger sorted, an hour later so's the RF. All's good with the world again, eh Col??
I see him off as far as Te Pohue, check the fix and she's clean and dry. Magic!!
Enjoy the rest of your w/e Col.
And DMNTD doesn't have to get his lily-whites dirty!!!
Now, for those that don't know, Col spent a lot of time and effort to do a favour for another KBer a while back. So Col's effort has now been 'repaid'.
This is what we do - when a favour is done, there will be an opportunity to either pay it forward or be paid back.
Colapop arrived at ours last night for the promised bed. Praked his sprot in the gargre. Only to discover a little puddle of oil on the clean floor. Oh oh. Sump plug not sealing properly. Best get that seen to, young Col.
Ah, she'll be right, he says, I'll get to Tauranga and con DMNTD into getting it fixed.
This morning, we have a look and confirm that sump plug has probably been cross threaded, but should get him to Tauranga.
Um, no.
He gets as far as Wasp27's, which is about 8ks from us, and stops just to have a natter like. But Mr Sump Plug is now haemorraging more than ever. So Col comes back here and we whip off the RF's skirts, radiator and pipes. Drop the plug out and it's holding by one wind of the helicoil. Cos that's all that's left. So off comes the sump plate. Round to W's workshop with it's fancy lathes and milling presses. Wasp27 makes short and very neat work of boring out the offending hole, tapping a nice new thread in, and fitting a new sump plug with a removeable bolt down the middle (a bolt inside a bolt). Neat as you like. Back to ours and YT's made lunch. Hunger sorted, an hour later so's the RF. All's good with the world again, eh Col??
I see him off as far as Te Pohue, check the fix and she's clean and dry. Magic!!
Enjoy the rest of your w/e Col.
And DMNTD doesn't have to get his lily-whites dirty!!!
Now, for those that don't know, Col spent a lot of time and effort to do a favour for another KBer a while back. So Col's effort has now been 'repaid'.
This is what we do - when a favour is done, there will be an opportunity to either pay it forward or be paid back.