What have you been doing today?

I don’t normally but next time a neighbour comes for a nosey I will :LOL:(y)(y)
 
Brigadier said:
Among other places, Buxton.
Lovely place, but i'm sure it is a place around which, there are tears in space-time........no great distance on the map, but takes foogin' ages to get there (the endless quarry lorries and hgvs don't help, either).
Once again boring everyone with my "French roads are great" stories...
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Used to drive a lot round Buxton & HP/ Macc.
And having driven long-distance in France, I agree wholeheartedly with your comments.
The Cat seems to have its own micro-climate, as indeed can the HP. I remember coming home one night late, stuck on the Chapel by-pass because of heavy snow. Mrs Secure thought I was taking the Mick because in Stockport the weather was fine.
 
Today, just for a change, I dug a hole while singing :)

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Painted a couple of bird nesting boxes to match their backgrounds - brown for the one on the back fence and green for the one on the shed, moved my bird station, cleaned out all the feeders (some of the seeds had started to grow) and made a start on rubbing down the garden bench.
 
Vespa GTS 300 service this morning, drivebelt change etc.

CBR600 none runner and service this afternoon.

Living the dream!.

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Back to the elderly gentleman neighbour, complete with a Claas 4wd tractor and sludge gulper tank with vacuum pump.
Curiously enough, both compartments of the two chamber brick tank were empty, but the incoming chamber and 60m of salt glaze absolutely solid with shoite.....Id guess it had been stopped up for months.
Happily got things running after a while and running clean water into the tank now but for the life of me I can’t understand how the toilets were still clearing!
I may consider a shower soon :mrgreen:
John :)
 
Burnerman said:
What’s the word with the CBR Keith?
John :)
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It's a 1994 on carbs, drained tank and carbs (had preservative mixed in with petrol..), changed plugs as badly fouled and started straight up.

Got one caliper left to service in morning then off for a ride!.

Did his Ducati 907ie a few years back. That had been stood 10 years, fuel system was a wreck. Managed to resurrect his injectors in ultrasonic bath but had to fit another fuel pump and regulator!. Did cambelts and tyres as well over a £1000 in work iirc.
 
1994- got to be a bit of a classic, that one!
Had a bit of an anxious moment recently, with a service on a ZXR 600......dropped the oil and filter, filled the new filter up, added the oil and started up.
No oil pressure :eek:
Thinking out of the box, I released the oil filter a fraction, started up and got a shower of oil - but at least I had oil pressure.
John :)
 
I've had a few BMW K1200's through (hydraulic cam chain tensioner).

They sound like a bag of spanners when starting up, like turn it off quick bad!.

Quite a few jumped cam timing, BMW's "fix" was a retrofit plastic chain guide around the camshaft camchain sprocket.

Even with the fix, the engine still sounds like it's going to explode until the tensioner has primed, why they didn't re-design the tensioner is anyone's guess.
 
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