The dirtiest job in the world

[Donor]

So you haven't done a CV boot on your car yet? - you don't know what dirty is! Come and work for me for a week,you'll cry when you see what your hands look like after working on a diesel.

Getting your overall sleeve snagged while taking an oil filter off a Homy piece of crap diesel van on a hoist, and having a litre of 20,000km old oil run down your arm, side and into your boot... now THAT'S fun...

Took a week and a steelo pad to get the stain off me...

[paturoa]

kerosene is the best and wont eat your seals - get a stiff brush and a bucket to go under - scrubber!

[imdying]

kerosene is the best and wont eat your seals - get a stiff brush and a bucket to go under - scrubber!

Agreed.. a can of degreaser seems like an expensive waste compared to excellent job kero does. I normally wash that area when I clean the bike, saves it building up.

[TLDV8]

Kerosene / Paintbrush / CRC 808 ....... Some degreasers will also attack paint..fwiw

It doesn't hurt to put an old clutch lever bellows over the clutch pushrod to protect the seal from grit mixed with chain lube.

CV's are no worse that working under a ships engine deck plates or the $hithouse holding tank..not to mention the pan conveyors at the steelmill.

The TL is a little different from when i first got it..... Bought,ridden from the North Shore to home and stripped.

[oldrider]

CV's are no worse that working under a ships engine deck plates or the $hithouse holding tank..

What ones are/were you on? John.

[TLDV8]

What ones are/were you on? John.

I only did repairs in port,John...Only sea trial was after some major repairs on a trader out of Tuvalu.

This was around the time of the first America's Cup...... I alternated between container ships (Argentina Star,Berlin Express etc scrapped now i believe)..fishing boats,island traders and luxury craft ..The Westfield mall folk..custom install on Connors gin palace (infact one of his billionaire mates)..even the sea going tug of John Lewis (The guy sent packing when he got busted by customs )..plus being lucky enouugh to work with the fitter crew's..Only Boilermaker allowed to bowl into the machine shop and do my own turning for jobs < privileged indeed.
I still remember one ship that was getting a crank journal grind to get it up to that place in India ? where they run them up on the beach to be cut up.
19000 hp at 99rpm..21000hp at 101rpm..2 rpm and 2000 hp woo hoo.
Heavy ship repairs ..... A while back i saw the ad for the Black Boats over in Europe and spotted the cradles i made around 2001.....Anyone jumping off the harbour bridge,one guess who did the links that hold the bungy pod to the bridge