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No worries Dave glad you could get it sorted, best of luck

The above goes for me too

latil wrote:6500 rpm,burnouts ?

Shift light is arrowed.

You have to admit though. She does do a damn good burnout.

It is WAY too easy to get carried away in the burnout box. All that adrenaline! Can't wait for me MSD with rev limiter! (Oh, and driving what you built with blood, sweat and tears helps keep the revs in check )

after dire warnings from both the spine surgeon and the neurologist about the state of my neck today I lifted a rather heavy white box containing your crank into the back of the truck and took it down to the barn mate .
I haven't opened it, but it's certainly heavy enough to belong in a BB, blimey.
I seem to accumulated another parts mountain here heading towards Neil's place and hopefully my buddy will be here from NJ on day soon to pick-up the pick-up containing all this swag.
Gotta make room in the barn Dale's arriving on Tuesday to start making the new bits for my cuda.
Oh yes and he's bringing a carbon fibre version of the dash he made for Blue
Dave do you want me to grab bearings for this crank??
Now's the time to ask, I can sort that stuff out real quick, you just make a deal with Neil.
Best of luck with the motor, Cheers
Andy

Yery good of you Andy and very, very good of you to offer to get bearings for me but I just don't have any money left mate. I have to pay the guy painting the Challenger first. That is the most important thing.

I can't even afford to get the crank ballanced plus i need a torque converter too. Maybe by Christmas.

One step at a time. I will get there in the end. I always do.

Jeezeus! I just had THREE big shocks.

I just picked up the old crank from the "engineering" place who were trying to find someone that could fix it.

I told them I had a new crank that would need balancing at some point in the near future.

They just looked at me and blinked.

I said "you do do crank ballancing"?

They said "nope and not only that we don't know anyone in the north east that still does it". (Shock one)

I really am shocked too. In fact I find it very hard to believe. I will call around nearer the time but it looks as if I will have to take it down south to get a bit of basic engineering done. Who would have thought that one of the areas where engineering was BORN could be completely void of decent engineering facilities now?

Because of my recent operation I can't lift anything heavy so I asked the chap who wheeled the crank out if he would put it in my boot for me. The look he gave me!

I was going to say I hope they go to the dogs but as they have just moved to a new place right next door to the dog track I guess they already have?

Shock two and three were on my way home.

I was turning right at a junction ahead. The lights were on green as I approached and no oncoming traffic. Great.
Then this old guy on one of these 4-wheeled electric things decided to cross the road on it right in front of me. It was a crossing but he was crossing on a "red man". Major swerve and brake to avoid him. The crank in the boot almost came through the rear seats. I forgot to look to see if the rear quarters are OK. If he had been on foot it I would have seen him start to cross but that 4-wheel thing just shot off the pavement with no warning at all and quite fast too.

Never mind. I was nearly home....

So I come off this roundabout and along a road. The pavement has cars parked on it along it's length. There is a car coming the other way and as the road is quite narrow I was keeping close to the kirb.

Then right in front of me a woman in one of the parked cars swings her door open wide to get out.

How I am not wearing that bloomin crank on the back of my neck I do not know.

I am in the house now. I think I will stay in for the rest of the day. I can't be having any more of this.

Those buggy things are a big prob. Anyone can buy one ,no insurance,no sight or ability tests Last year there were several THOUSAND incidents involving those things,mainly run over pedestrians Glad you are ok

Take it easy Dave, don't bother doing the lottery today and try and find a black cat quick!

I'm not that surprised you can't get a crank balanced up there, your neck of the woods is all about art and culture these days isn't it? Perhaps someone could make a piece of sculpture out of it and display it in the Baltic whatsit

Yup. We are all arty poofs now!

Actually I was thinking of standing it in the middle of the lawn and making a bird table out of it. Wor lass would kill me but I might do it anyway for a laugh.

Blimey mate did you ever think of getting your name changed to lucky?
It does seem a little strange that there is no-one who can balance a crank oop north, but who'd have thought we'd sell Rolls to the Germans
I might be able to find a set of bearings though, fire me an email over, you address along with a zillion others has vanished inside my old PC.
Damned XP password fiasco, grrr...
Should have got a MAC
Best of luck with the rest of it

I keep telling people. "My bloomin email address is on a button on the bottom of every post I make".

And then I just looked and it isn't.

Sorted. It is there now. How on earth did that happen?

You know I think I must be going blind, to add to my rapidly growning list of infirmities!
Sorry too many things going on here

This guy has an excellent rep. in the VW scene

he is a perfectionist when it comes to engine work

he may be able to help with the crank balancing

although depends on his tooling i suppose.

and saves you a very long trip or a fair bit bit of shipping cost.
not newcastle but reasonable way further north than watford bleedin gap..

http://www.johnmaherracing.co.uk/

was also a member of the buzzcocks at one time.


You could also have a chat with George at microblast he does welding and recovery (CF recovery) but has been a handy guy to know for the last 15 years (landrovers VW bug etc but will fix anything) if there is a company in newcastle who does crank balancing he will probably know em. He's found aluminium welders and machinists willing to do a bit of work in their lunchtime for me in the past. and he's a demon with a welding torch if you need structural stuff done

second last archway under the railway as you walk past the 24hour storage along to the redheugh bridge going out of town on the north side

behind the bloody big multistory for the arena or he was about 3 years ago

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x ... search.srf.


Dave

Dave999 wrote:and saves you a very long trip or a fair bit bit of shipping cost.
not newcastle but reasonable way further north than watford bleedin gap..

http://www.johnmaherracing.co.uk/

Isle of Harris? I was hoping to find a place closer than that! That's 400 miles and according to Autoroute over 10hrs constant driving each way with an overnight stop over and two ferries to catch twice!

Blimey.

behind the bloody big multistory for the arena or he was about 3 years ago

Ah! Now that sounds a bit more local. In fact it is just along the road from where Trev Young works.

I think the place near Pity Me in Durham where I first went to see about getting the crank fixed will do it if he hasn't sold that equipment as well?