Dave's la(te)st buggy build...

Looks good out-n-about

Riccy wrote: Looks good out-n-about

Feels good to be out-n-about too  

It's great to see the buggy in it's natural habitat, well done!

I was doing some DIY in the house today, boxing in some pipes after the plumber had finished installing our new boiler... I was just finishing off when the wife text me from the shop... Our Vape / Mobile SIMs Rep' was in the shop and had heard I'd finished the buggy... He then appeared on the driveway... "I've got 15 minutes to spare" he said... Yup, he wanted a ride! LOL :lol: So I took him for a spin...

 

And up a local greenlane "Bryn-y-Pin" just up the road from our house...

 

I got back, he went back to work - off to the next call, and I couldn't help but notice the spatters up the door again...

Mud-flaps! That's the next job then...

Into the storeroom in the shop... as I remebered... a customer of our Post Office used to sell rally mudflaps online, and had given me a few (about ten!) samples a few years ago...

 

So I measured the buggy's wheel arches, and then cut one of the rally mudflaps into two strips (and an offcut)

 

The offcut was handy to kneel on! Wheel off, drill some holes...

 

That should do it!

 

At the same time, being as the front wheels were off! I swapped the wheel nuts to the new 17mm head ones, so that a standard wheel wrench will fit it, and fitted the locking wheel nuts that the insurance company wanted me to fit..

 

That should stop most of the spray up the doors and onto the rear wheel arches...!

 

I then fitted the trusty old iPad RAM mount onto the dashboard, that runs "Memory Map" GPS software for me (and Alan).

I then went for a test drive... a late lunch... as far as the local KFC drive-thru and back

Just enough time to walk the dogs again and have half-an-hour sit down on the sofa with them before going back to the shop for the evening shift...

nice, whats going in the holes where the radio and ashtray used to be?

Also, I hope the ipad stays dry when it rains or in "river crossings"

It's not worth fitting a radio / CD as I won't hear it?! :woohoo:

I've got a handheld CB and earpiece... so that I can hear the others when in a group...

So, Ummm... a blanking plate? 

A load of switches? Nooo... keeping it simple this time around.

A sandwich? 

Dunno...?

Hoorah! :woohoo:

My replacement V750W Entitlement Certificate arrived in this morning's post!

 

Pop them on in the morning when I'm next off........

hopefully a photo-shot when new plates are fitted?

maverick wrote: hopefully a photo-shot when new plates are fitted?

You know me too well...

... perhaps on a local greenlane?
 

It seemed a long week in work last week, so with us losing an hour in bed, I decided to stage a protest and have a lie-in... :woohoo:

BUT... Our newspaper wholesaler had other ideas! The paper lads (we don't open on Sundays but we still do the paper rounds... well, they do!) rang me at 7:10am (which was really 6:10am!) to tell me they were a bundle of newspapers short, and a bundle of all the suppplements that they have to sort into the papers... they were missing as well! :evil:

So, I had to get out of bed and go and sort all that out...

So when I eventually got home again, and they went out on their rounds, I was too wide awake to go back to bed... So I had a nice shave, and made myself a nice big cooked breakfast, and then took the dogs on a nice long walk...

Hmm, what to do then? It was too wet to go out in the Boogie, so I decided to resurrect Project 116 ... as it says in the blog, this is my ongoing project to drive all the 'lanes on my "home" OS Landranger Map... Sheet 116.

So I spent the afternoon infront of the PC with some music on, cataloguing all the lanes on the sheet around my house...Then at a decent hour of course, a few cans of beer entered the mix...

Future blogs will be of me wandering round investigating and hopefully driving some of these 'lanes I haven't driven... Yet!

Updated the Project 116 page -  jimnybuggy.com/project-116/ again, with greenlaning resources tips (mostly Alan's)
 

Shakedown Trip #2 didn't go exactly to plan*

 

 

 

 

 

Full details in the blog here -  jimnybuggy.com/2021/03/31/shakedown-trip-2/

*not exactly to plan... in that I didn't make the route I'd planned, but, being Shakedown local Trip #2, it did highlight the fact that the radiator feed pipe on the bottom of the engine has rusted away and sheared off where it met the bottom radiator hose... far better that this was found now, locally, than in the middle of nowhere...!

Ironically I have a new radiator and cap in the garage waiting to go in, and suspect I would have found this rusty pipe during that fitment, so perhaps I'm a bit too keen to get out too early with lockdown ending, and went a little ill-prepared without all the tools and spares I would normally carry...

Lesson learnt, the next few weeks will be spent going over the cooling system, and the whole engine!

"Alls well that ends well"... more gutted I didn't get to test the pie-warmer! :woohoo: !