I came up with these so you can use the bolts that hold the fender skins on , saves drilling another

hole quite simple and look nice clean and tidy

See nice and neet

And it keeps the wires out the way

I think they are quite good if you have a mint tractor you dont want to drill holes in , gives a call if you want some .

Oil pumps, be aware these can KILL your engine big time ,

Little story , a few months ago I rebuilt a TEF diesel motor , big ends ,mains , pistons, rings, liners,oil pump. stuff and things,

anyway everything was good Mr owner very happy with his tractor , he had got it back three weeks earlier and was running it and something happened !!!!!!!!!!!!!! .Anyway he phones in and says tractor made a real nasty noise and stopped dead, Ho,Isaid, shock horror, could I have dropped a round dangley thing ,  he explained what had happened , I asked him to bring it in , and told him i would stop what I was doing and find the problem there and then with him there , and that's what happened , he turns up with the tractor , so its off the trailer and in the workshop , bonnet off , I TRIED to start it the poor starter motor , the motor was solid, so we stuck it in gear and pushed it backwards and forwards , nothing , so jacks went in under the front and I took the front end off , straight away , the timing case had a hole in it , on removing the case , we could see a problem the oil pump drive gear and the end of the shaft had come away and punched a hole in the case, strange i thought the only weight on the oil pump is the oil , So off came the rest of the pump , Bloody hell I said as i looked at the pump , I did feel sorry for the owner this tractor had been a pain in his neck since he had it , and now this , a problem, was not his fault , was not mine either , its a makers problem , anyway a few phone calls later to some very nice people and they picked up the tab for the mans motor rebuild , one really happy owner, have a look at these pictures

see the hole on the left

Poor little engine , and this was the problem the pump !

The pin had come out and locked up the pump

want to see a baked conrod

and the big end bearing , don't laugh i had to chisel them off the crank

And then get the shells off the rods

So there you can see what happens when your oil pump goes pop or snap .

And on another note thanks for the emails didn't realize so many people where interested in what I got up to on my time off, so for those who are over the weekend I went off to the solstice at Avebury at the weekend and had a great time , so many people , from baby's to grans and grand dads, here are just a few pics , and by the way taking pictures at 1.30 am in the morning with an 8sec expo is fun in its self  

below the bunch of lads in the middle here where drumming all night non stop

and even some very posh people

about a thousand people stayed there over night , a brilliant night , even the spooks had fun

all good stuff right that's that more later ,

As you will know from yesterday Daisy's motor is off and being striped out , well now striped out

and as I thought the mains are shot and the big ends, the crank needs a regrind so that's being picked up tomorrow

it should be back done to .020 big ends and mains , which is all good

Have a look at the state of the big ends

and close up

and another

and yet another

Well more when the crank comes back,

I took this picture of this bit of wall and a tree , just because it said how the whole place was ,

beautiful , the whole place was , even sheep shearing going on

they sorted my fluff out ha ha ha , anyway enough of such nonsence less of it  , more later. 

Right , Wellie first ,

Wellie came in for Half shafts , normal new bearings, seals, and reset, and its brakes to be relined and set up and balanced, front wheel bearings  and the fuel system cleaned out , and just a quick tweak , then a quick blast with the pressure washer ,

pressure washers and old paint don't really go together

they tend to blast off the paint if you get to close

any all went well and Wellie was delivered back to its owner yesterday morning

seems he was very pleased with the tractors brakes ,cool another happy costumer.

Daisy may . to give it its full name, seems to have a bit of a problem with her motor

main bearings, big ends ,normal test sump off put a bar between the fly wheel and press down on the bar ,

nicely, does it put a dial gadge on the flywheel and watch how much the flywheel lifts

mills is bad ,ha ha ha ,any way I took the motor off and started to strip it out

diesel`s are ok but you have to take the whole motor apart to get the crank out

not an easy job , these motors are not light , and the crank comes out the fly wheel end of the block

pics of that later ,

anyway this is how it looks now ,

The bell housing

you can see the oil coming from the rear crank seal

And the front end , cam chain and wheels

So there you go , other stuff Dj`s heads been skimmed and ready

Seems it might have a cracked liner tho so thats next on that

And ive got this in to play with its not grey but it soon will be ha ha ha ,

And now a few pics from last weekend due ,

Nutty jo, the woman wont sit still,

sunsets daughter filling her face

And Bee look no hat

and jo at it again

Jo lived just down the road from me in my home town , so that makes her nuts anyway

Right more stuff and things later and im off to either castle rigg or stone henge not desided yet

this weekend all good stuff ,

Well people this is what Charlies loader looks like fitted ,

I had a little bit of fun with the connectors , this loader had never been fitted to this tractor so I had to do a few things

on site , but nothing I could not handle

And guess what it all worked lovely , ha ha ha hell im good , ha ha ha  Ho well

Good I think

even looks good from the other side

Well people its friday and im off be good and if you break your fergi give us a ring 01692 500821coz we are good

ha ha ha well we are! its what we do . later

AND  The leamington peace festival is on tomorrow , ah gives ya chance to make some noise

its all good fun. BACK SOON . 

This has nothing to do with tractors, its just what I've been doing at the weekend 
I drove down to port Eynon in south wales
Sat on the Cliff top and watched surfing in the bay . The cliffs down here are massive and great to climb


-very nice sun set

Went to Stonehenge


and Woodhenge.The posts have long gone but in 2005 Time Team turned up and did some work and now
you can see where it all was



Then off to Avebury . A lot of the stones here were blown up and used for building stuff around here and some were buried because the locals were scared of them , bit strange ,



On the walk up- the great oak with gifts


I could feel the place ,


A very calm and spiritual place


The view from up there was amazing


Its called Silbury Hill,
and I saw one of the White horses too

And now back to work till next weekend.