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

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: !