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It's not even two weeks since the anniversary of our neighbouring farmer driving his quad bike out of a field entrance into the side of my wife's car. Unpleasant business, but all now sorted to our satisfaction if not his.
This morning my son was coming home from the local "town" in my car when another of our neighbours drove his tractor out of a field entrance completely blind and hit the side of the car with the front loader arms, ripping off the passenger side wing mirror and tearing out the door handle as well as leaving a gouge down almost the entire length of the car. Absolutely nothing my son could have done. There was nowhere for him to go. And six weeks before we were due to give the car to him on his return to uni.
Once he was home, we'd checked over the damage and parked the car out of the way my mother-in-law came over and said "I found this on the driver earlier today". In her hand she held the end of a suspension coil spring. That definitely wasn't there when my son stopped on the drive. Fun jacking up cars ensued and eventually I discovered that the driver's side front coil on my car had snapped off near the bottom. And both front shock gaiters had split.
Being easier to get a decent view of, I'd checked rear suspensions first. They were fine, but I also discovered that in the last week or so the rear exhaust mounting hook on my car has detached itself from the expansion chamber and will therefore require replacement.
Ball cocks.
"Never mind", I thought. "I can at least console myself by fitting the new bearings that have arrived for the bandsaw." They'd arrived this (Saturday) afternoon having been shipped by Royal Mail 48 on Monday afternoon and I have a load of jobs waiting for the bandsaw to be functioning again. Only instead of three bearings with a 7mm ID, they've sent two with the (correct) 7mm ID and one, marked up exactly the same, with a different inner shell giving 8mm ID so I'm still jiggered.
And as I've mentioned elsewhere, whilst I'm recovering (slowly), I've had Covid for the first time over last two weeks, which has mostly been crap. I'm currently managing about five or six hours awake before my body goes "Need to sleep now, thanks".
James
This morning my son was coming home from the local "town" in my car when another of our neighbours drove his tractor out of a field entrance completely blind and hit the side of the car with the front loader arms, ripping off the passenger side wing mirror and tearing out the door handle as well as leaving a gouge down almost the entire length of the car. Absolutely nothing my son could have done. There was nowhere for him to go. And six weeks before we were due to give the car to him on his return to uni.
Once he was home, we'd checked over the damage and parked the car out of the way my mother-in-law came over and said "I found this on the driver earlier today". In her hand she held the end of a suspension coil spring. That definitely wasn't there when my son stopped on the drive. Fun jacking up cars ensued and eventually I discovered that the driver's side front coil on my car had snapped off near the bottom. And both front shock gaiters had split.
Being easier to get a decent view of, I'd checked rear suspensions first. They were fine, but I also discovered that in the last week or so the rear exhaust mounting hook on my car has detached itself from the expansion chamber and will therefore require replacement.
Ball cocks.
"Never mind", I thought. "I can at least console myself by fitting the new bearings that have arrived for the bandsaw." They'd arrived this (Saturday) afternoon having been shipped by Royal Mail 48 on Monday afternoon and I have a load of jobs waiting for the bandsaw to be functioning again. Only instead of three bearings with a 7mm ID, they've sent two with the (correct) 7mm ID and one, marked up exactly the same, with a different inner shell giving 8mm ID so I'm still jiggered.
And as I've mentioned elsewhere, whilst I'm recovering (slowly), I've had Covid for the first time over last two weeks, which has mostly been crap. I'm currently managing about five or six hours awake before my body goes "Need to sleep now, thanks".
James