After the continuous run of depressing setbacks including today's discovery of three of the tappets not allowing the passage of oil (rocker shaft taken to pieces for further cleaning) and the discovery that the shaft was so ridged and worn that it could not go back on, the finding of another then the discovery that the tappet adjusters on the new rocker shaft were too wide to allow them to sit in the push-rod cups  (Rocker shaft dismantled again), refitting the original tappets plus finding replacements for seriously wornones etc. etc. the patient, meticulous, double-checking attention to detail by Graham and Ivan paid off when Bob started and ran happily on the second push of the gear lever! This is how it should be...

Now the front axle assembly is being refitted together, the clutch adjusted and the remaining parts refitted ready for next week when Bob will start his week of being trialled before making his way back to Wales.

The new team here is gelling in a way which makes me feel really confident about claiming we are probably the best Ferguson workshop in the country!