Ulysses

Do IT :woohoo:

OK, requested pics and vids from the weekend's outing around the lakes.

Superb 2 day trip out. Excellent weather and scenery, cracking lanes and even better company

Ulysses managed everything happily enough. Except to loose the new CB aerial on the first lane Couple of other minor battle scars on the roll cage & back arches from U5003 (tightest lane in the lakes, but I forgot to film that of course :laugh: ). The petrol tank is still leaking if totally filled and the exhaust back box decided to part company on the Sunday (mid section pipe corroded at the join to back box and snapped off). Whipped it off and into the pickup bed. Pipe strapped up with some wire. Not that noisy without a box surprisingly.

Dave no.2 (CamoJimny/Statey) lost the roof rack in fairly spectacular fashion on Mireside (the one I call gardening lane). I skipped that and Town Yeat out of preference for some paint on the car :laugh:

Dave no.1 (S200KYS) had a long wait for the AA, but I will let him tell that tale...

and all the videos... (not necessarily in the right order)

Saturday:

Barkerknott farm:


Breasthigh ford:


Breasthigh 1:


Breasthigh 2:


Breasthigh step:


Breasthigh 3:


Breasthigh 4:


Crossthwaite:


Dove house farm:


Eversley:


Garth row:


Hale:


Joels lane:


Lacys caves:


Lane 3:


Mill dam:


Milnthorpe:


Petteril green cotts 1:


Petteril green cotts 2:


Row:


The ashes:


Viol moor:



Sunday:

Track down to borrans hill:


Great blencow:


Greystoke:


Hall field:


Bumpy 1:


Bumpy 2:


Bumpy 3:


Bumpy 4:


Brett up Parkamoor 1st steps:


Parkamoor 1:


Parkamoor 2:


Parkamoor 3:

Absolutely awesome! Great videos and pictures Riccy!

Great stuff, pity about the Damage and mechanical problems but it's all part of the "fun" I suppose.

Testament to your work Ric, there's not many folk who could build a car and do two days in the lakes, with no issue, as a shakedown run......

sniper

Thanks guys!

Looking back on it, using the lakes weekender as a shakedown run was a bit silly. Ive done similar before a previous lakes outing when swapping gearboxes about on J999MNY. That went smooth as well thankfully.
Most of the gear on Ulysses is in a combination ive used before on J999MNY, so I knew it would work and what to expect. Wasnt expecting the go-cart handling, but maybe that is because im used to J999MNY's wallow?!

anyway,
scratches not that bad after a wash... couple of marks here and there on the cage and drivers wing mirror. Rest of it is fine







Quick touch up with a small brush and stippling it a bit to get the bumpy finish back...





Front passenger arch has cracked at the bottom, but its fixable...



And found the reason for fuel leaking. The tank neck is holed and corroded I have bodged it together for now with some body filler and self amalgamating tape with a view to a new tank at some point.



Quick tighten of a few nuts and bolts underneath as well to stop a couple of knocking noises. Im thankful I used locknuts everywhere :laugh: