Big day

[HandyAndy]

Originally Posted by Enoch

Nice one Andy. I bought my prop from D&F it's a lovely job. Mine cost a load more though as I had to have the MT75 adapter as well. Really good service from them and they were amongst the cheapest that I could find.
I am sure you will savour that very first drive, I know I enjoyed mine
Enoch

Cheers Enoch,

swmbo thinks I,m daft being excited about being able to reverse it out of the garage ( she doesn,t drive at all).

Yes, the service from D&F has been very good, I confirmed the dimensions of my prop on tuesday, I asked if poss would I have it in time for this weekend, the guy said that they would do their best as they had guys on holiday, I phoned today as he suggested & Yes, its made & its on a TNT wagon en route to me, very good service indeed

cheers
andy
ps...off to read your build update, always enjoy your updates

[HandyAndy]

I,d like to say a huge thanks to forum member "Tex"

He came over to help me bleed my brake system on sunday afternoon, tho it wasn,t without a slight mishap .......

Terry had asked me before we started if I,d checked all connections were tight in the brake lines, yes was my answer..

filled up the M/C & started pumping the pedal, bleeding each of the rear drums & front calipers, must,ve done it about 4 times each, still not getting a firm pedal......had thoughts of the nightmare that Ash had with his brakes,

I then noticed a small pool of fluid on the floor.....guess who hadn,t fully tightened the brake pressure switch????

Once that was nipped up, I,m glad to report that the brakes are now leak free & has a firm pedal pressure

Which only meant one thing....another little test drive still grinning from ear to ear.

So, a BIG thanks to Tex, cheers mate .

Am now considering to doing a track day next saturday night ....must resist lol

cheers
andy

[spud69]

THE CALL OF THE TRACK CANNOT BE RESISTED

Well Done...AndyH

[HandyAndy]

Originally Posted by spud69

THE CALL OF THE TRACK CANNOT BE RESISTED

Well Done...AndyH

Arrrggghhh ....I must resist,

tell you what Spud, I,ll get stuck in on the final few things left to do to my car & see how things are by tuesday, if the car is track worthy I,ll go for it....gulp.

Brings back memories of itching to get back onto a Race bike after suffering broken bones in a previous crash, ended up riding again with still broken fingers such is the call of the track.

cheers
andy

[flyerncle]

Do it you big girls blouse !!!!! you know you want too.

I can understand the feeling with getting the car moving under its own power ,I was high for a week after my first solo flight and still remember it as though it was yesterday.

See you at Teeside .

[HandyAndy]

Originally Posted by flyerncle

I can understand the feeling with getting the car moving under its own power ,I was high for a week after my first solo flight and still remember it as though it was yesterday.

I,m sure all the other builders that have got their car to a driveable state would agree......it is a weird feeling being able to drive something that you have created from the book instructions, remembering the times when we,ve cursed at it or been confused by something....this all gets forgotten the very moment you push the clutch pedal down & engage first gear.....the feeling cannot be explained,

All I,d like to say at this point is

Thankyou Mr Chris Gibbs

cheers
andy

[tex]

you would be good getting the wheels aligned first tho. :-) and defo put some covers over the prop before running it at any speed andy. Ps have you done with the engine hoist mate? Gotta need for it for a friend.

[HandyAndy]

This Roadster of mine is now starting to test my patience

It will be going for the IVA test next month , tho I,m not telling the date .....my BIG secret

So, I,m doing the last few odd jobs at the mo...today for instance I was working on making the final connections to a new gauge in my dash & had to disconnect the speedo cable to gain better access....no worries there, any way, did the gauge wiring, then ran the car upto to temp to make sure said gauge was working ok......it was, so , I thought "ah, whilst its running I,ll give it a quick spin " .....then noticed the speedo wasn,t working ...aarggh, ( yes I had reconnected it ), so sets to investigating the cause....turns out the circlip holding the cable into the gearbox had snapped, how I have no idea, now this is not the most easily reached area of the tunnel....had to take the tunnel side panel off to sort it ,

Now its left me with something thats baffling me, the oil temp gauge is now reading 120???? it had only been running a few mins aarrghhh

Any thoughts on the reason why please guys?


It will NOT beat me ....still felt great to drive it.

cheers
andy