Stuff you have bodged today

[Red'n'Black]

Daughter and her other half are off on their holibobs, so a chance to give her 106 a service.

While I was in there* I thought I'd fit the new valve cover gasket I bought ages ago, as it's weeping a bit.

The cover was quite badly rusted so it got attacked with a knotted wire wheel.

Oh dear.

It turns out it wasn't the gasket after all.

So the options seem to be:
1. Buy a new cover. The ones on eBay are rustier than mine judging by the photos. AliExpress do a brand new one for less than I paid for the gasket but I can't wait that long.
2. Weld it up. My TIG skills aren't really up to it, plus the mating face would probably distort.
3. Slather it with filler. I didn't trust Isopon P38 not to crumble to bits with the heat, so JB Weld it is. There was just enough left in the tube.

Left to set. We'll see how it looks tomorrow.

* Ever noticed how every job you wish you'd never started begins with those words?

 

[prepman]

Daughter and her other half are off on their holibobs, so a chance to give her 106 a service.

While I was in there* I thought I'd fit the new valve cover gasket I bought ages ago, as it's weeping a bit.

The cover was quite badly rusted so it got attacked with a knotted wire wheel.
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Oh dear.
View attachment 462327
It turns out it wasn't the gasket after all.

So the options seem to be:
1. Buy a new cover. The ones on eBay are rustier than mine judging by the photos. AliExpress do a brand new one for less than I paid for the gasket but I can't wait that long.
2. Weld it up. My TIG skills aren't really up to it, plus the mating face would probably distort.
3. Slather it with filler. I didn't trust Isopon P38 not to crumble to bits with the heat, so JB Weld it is. There was just enough left in the tube.

Left to set. We'll see how it looks tomorrow.

* Ever noticed how every job you wish you'd never started begins with those words?

Braze a patch, if you're not Tickled with TIG?

 

[Red'n'Black]

Braze a patch, if you're not Tickled with TIG?

I've never tried brazing, of any sort. It's on the list, I'll pick up some rods next time I'm passing the shop.
Presumably less heat = less distortion?

 

[prepman]

I've never tried brazing, of any sort. It's on the list, I'll pick up some rods next time I'm passing the shop.
Presumably less heat = less distortion?

Or....Solder it if you want...... use plumbing flux not rosin. 'Killed spirits' as used to be...

 

[Red'n'Black]

Not the neatest job, but back in one piece and oil tight.



I balanced things out by removing one of the previous owner's bodges. He'd replaced the throttle cable at some point with one several feet too long, so the action was horrible and heavy.

 

[roofman]

Daughter and her other half are off on their holibobs, so a chance to give her 106 a service.

While I was in there* I thought I'd fit the new valve cover gasket I bought ages ago, as it's weeping a bit.

The cover was quite badly rusted so it got attacked with a knotted wire wheel.
View attachment 462326
Oh dear.
View attachment 462327
It turns out it wasn't the gasket after all.

So the options seem to be:
1. Buy a new cover. The ones on eBay are rustier than mine judging by the photos. AliExpress do a brand new one for less than I paid for the gasket but I can't wait that long.
2. Weld it up. My TIG skills aren't really up to it, plus the mating face would probably distort.
3. Slather it with filler. I didn't trust Isopon P38 not to crumble to bits with the heat, so JB Weld it is. There was just enough left in the tube.

Left to set. We'll see how it looks tomorrow.

* Ever noticed how every job you wish you'd never started begins with those words?

Perfect candidate for a bit of lead filling...bar of lead, flux, and heat it up and rub the lead bar over it..get some good results if you play with it

 

[GRW]

I got the job of changing the engine on the old JCB Teletruk at work. It's a 20-year-old 25D & the knackered motor was a Perkins 404D.
Owner bought a new old-stock motor found online cheaper than a new new one & bought it. I pulled the old motor while we waited for it to come.
It duly arrived & I opened it up... & its a 404D, but turbocharged, different flywheel & a few other bits. I changed the flywheel for the one off the old engine... but I didn't think there was enough room for the turbo, the exhaust outlet was 90-degrees out, & the turbo would get in thr way if the air duct hose to the airbox (which due to the turbo needed to be different anyway).

Long story short. I ended up cutting a load of the steel casing around the boom/forks controls to give the turbo clearance, make a heatshield to divert turbo heat away from the hydraulic pipes, cut & shut the exhaust to align with the turbo outlet.... & we made a new air duct run to the turbo inlet made out of the white household PVC Waste Pipe & various bends, that runs over the top of the hydraulic drive unit to the airbox. When you drop the cab down there's about 4mm clearance - it just about squeezed in there.

(The Teletruk works fine - but I hope I'm not around if the starter motor fails [I bolted the starter in before dropping the motor in, & hooked up the cables before fitting the exhaust & air pipes] .... I think it might be a nightmare trying to get at it without major disassembly).

 

[Ton-up]

Wednesday, my guv'nor asked me to turn his pump on that feeds spring water to his lake. The pump is about 1/4 mile away from the lake.
I turn on the motor and the belts are slipping badly, so I change them.
With that done, I started the motor and turned on the 2" ball valve.
With that, the coupler fitting which was fitted last year by another guy, blew off!
I was completely drenched by cold water, as the water spray was coming straight at me, I managed to turn pump off but there is much a massive head of water, the pressure didn't stop.
There was no way I could get the fitting back on and realised that it was too big anyway, a 63mm fitting on a 60mm pipe.
Panicking a bit by now as the water was now smelling fishy, I managed to stem it a bit with a ratchet strap to pull the pipes together, some tape and the old fitting.
I had to drive to the local hydraulics/pipe stockists absolutely drenched, smelling of fishy water, got the **** taken, leave a puddle on their floor and drive back with a piece of 60mm bore radiator hose and a load of jubilee clips.
Managed to get it on and added a few clips over the join to reinforce the hose as only being rad hose, its not rated high enough.
Good job it was 28 degrees!!



Been back today and it's still holding...

 

[8ob]

This has to claim top bodge award, hacked of dewalt tool pu sealed to an old leccy grease gun. Price of the batteries was more than a new grease gun so out came the saw.

 

[ajlelectronics]

Quick masking bodge to get a disclosing coat of epoxy laid. Result was that is disclosed quite a few defects to repair!

 

[nickk]

Today,mounting the ramps for an oil change,same bit of slope as always for more clearance and gentle approach,one ramp slips turns upwards,crushing the chill under the door step,aided by some rot behind,can’t shut the door! Out comes one of two donated and unused Taiwan winches,brilliant,so long as there’s adequate space under. Further repairs required,however the door closes.

 

[bricol]

Today,mounting the ramps for an oil change,same bit of slope as always for more clearance and gentle approach,one ramp slips turns upwards,crushing the chill under the door step,aided by some rot behind,can’t shut the door! Out comes one of two donated and unused Taiwan winches,brilliant,so long as there’s adequate space under. Further repairs required,however the door closes.

that brings back a memory . . did the same reversing a Westfield up some ramps - one ramp shot forward, car dropped and crunched the body on the ramp . . . it forever afterwards had a pink tinged GRP repair to the white body.