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Roadside repairs..
#1
On the road to Dingle 1996 with Andrew Goodfellow - two bottle jacks!

   
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#2
That's no small undertaking at the roadside! What was it? - half shaft, or CWP?

The only time I've lost a crown wheel & pinion was 249.5 miles into a 250 mile journey from the Midlands to the family home in Kingsbridge. I had just passed over the top of the hill and was able to coast down to our back gate!
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#3
It was a half shaft - I still have the tip of it on a key ring.

The whole job took about 2 hours, we were heading from Glasgow to Dingle to meet up with the BA7C - it would have taken the RAC equivalent about 6 hours to reach us so we decided to do there and then.

The local kids sat a watched.
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#4
Tremendous!
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#5
That looks awesome R - but could you still do it now you are a bit older?

Bryan.
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(19-05-2019, 04:01 PM)Bryan Downes Wrote: That looks awesome R - but could you still do it now you are a bit older?

Bryan.

With all his years of experience, I bet on alot less than 2 hours nowadays.
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(19-05-2019, 06:50 PM)Austin Carr Wrote:
(19-05-2019, 04:01 PM)Bryan Downes Wrote: That looks awesome R - but could you still do it now you are a bit older?

Bryan.

With all his years of experience, I bet on alot less than 2 hours nowadays.

But with much moaning about his aged back......
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#8
James  Anderson has just share this photo of my father and Tom Abernethy, some time ago...


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#9
What have others repaired, out of necessity, in similar situations?
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#10
'Playing Bears' with an MG Midget in my special many years ago, I managed to pull the block to crankcase studs up by their roots. I got home (fortunately not very far) by taking the tow rope, which I always carried, under the sump and over the block as many times as it would go, using the jack handle as a Spanish windlass to tension it and driving very steadily indeed, making the most appalling noises.

Rebuilt the engine into another crankcase, as the old one was scrap!

I wasn't in the AA in those days.
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