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

This is what a shakedown is for. Still sucks though.

Exactly!

Better on my own patch than on the M62 on the way to the BigJimny Meet! :woohoo:

 

Yesterday, Wednesday, my day off in the week...

Started bad, as the previous day, Tuesday, I rang up for an X-Ray appointment, and the local community hospital said 12 noon on the Wednesday, so that ruined my morning... so after the appointment -

 

With the clutch completely knackered, I put four ramps down and unspooled the winch...

 

And used the GeeVee as a ground anchor...

 

Only the winch pulled the GeeVee across the drive before the buggy rose up the ramps... so I fetched some chocks we use outside the shop to stop delivery cages rolling away

 

Sorted!... pulled the Boogie up the ramps, and then fixed the GeeVee... rattling annoying front drop link again!

I then lay under the buggy and contemplated changing the clutch myself...

And then the sh*t hit the fan, BT were upgrading the shop's telecom contract, and I'd been advised that "fibre-based" would be a cheaper faster solution... but during the transfer the broadband went off and we lost the ability to take card payments! An OpenReach engineer turned up and said there was a problem at the exchange... meanwhile I'd connected the shop to my home fibre while they sorted it out...

Anyway... I ended up losing half the afternoon as well... and that then made my mind up...

So I walked 300 yards to my local friendly garage, and booked The Boogie in for the clutch replacement next Thursday, the 6th of May...

So it will be sorted, a few more local test-drives / shakedowns - privately this time, no blogs, etc... But it will be ready for the BigJimny Meet in June July...

Due to some personal issues I need to resolve, I'm signing off for a bit, but I'll see you all there

Dave 

 

All the best to you!,

I'm still lurking...

Sunday was spent just having a tinker...

 

I cut up an old basket from the shop to make some storage in the passenger footwell, and sprayed it matching blue... Somewhere to pop maps, butties, bottles of drink, etc...

 

Removed the lighter and replaced it with a dual USB charging socket (one for the iPad GPS / Memory Map)

 

Sprayed my trusty old camera mount, and welded and repainted the engine battery cut-off switch (I must have ground too much weld off as it wobbled itself into cracking straight through?!)

 

Bolted back in place...

 

Camera mount screwed to top of dash...

Note the quick release lever (something off a bicycle if I remember rightly), so you can grab the camera off the dash and wander round with it on a kind of handle - the top half of the camera bracket... (An old friend Andy Whaley made a few of these for the group members at the time)

Just need the new clutch fitting on Thursday and it's ready for some wandering...

It's good to see you never give up! I found tinkering is a good therapy which makes my weekends feel longer while also keeps me sane. Keep up the good work!