The life & times of a Peugeot 106 1.5D

After many phone calls & searches (& several hours of my time) I finally took the plunge & removed the suspect injector pump. I've convinced myself that the pump is faulty. I've based this diagnosis on two things:

• despite the fact that fuel is being delivered to the pump, nothing seems to be coming out of the high pressure side?
• the car has been run on vegeatable oil & it would seem that CAV  Lucas pumps dont like that?

Anyway today I took it to Injection Developments near Canterbury & left it with them to, hopefully, find out what we're up against.

Krys' Garage

A wet day today left us a bit restricted... we only managed to get the other side door made (from the roof of the old shed) & hung & the smaller of the two windows fitted.
We did take the opportunity of clearing up & a trailer load of off-cuts & a few bags of general rubbish went to the recycling centre...

One thing we did notice after loading some wood into the roof space last week was that the trusses we made might not be too over-engineered! We decided to restrict the storage in the roof to light stuff only!

Krys' Garage

Really good progress this weekend... the roof is on, the awning (over the bikes in the lower picture) is done. The cladding is almost finished (using the old shed, which is now dismantled & removed).One of the side doors doors is hung. The interior now has shelves, tools have racks, motorcycle parts are being sorted...
Krys is confused as he can now find things too easily!
Jobs to do: ridge; vehicle doors; side door (x1); cladding to side & front (around vehicle doors); find glass; window cills, guttering, rainwater collection....

European Rallycross @ Lydden Hill

http://www.lyddenhill.co.uk/

Honda Deauville NTV650 exhaust

I dont know why this is taking so long.... but it is, I finally managed to remove the chrome cover that Honda put over the joint between the downpipes & the front of the silencer (presumably to hide the fact that they couldn't be bothered to chrome plate it? or that they had cut corners by making it out of mild steel!). This unfortunately involved grinding off the heads of the bolts which had rusted in.... Anyway more rusty mess was revealed... which will have to be "repaired" with some tape...

Krys' Garage

We took full advantage of the weather this week... and the time off work! to make some serious progress...

The roof trusses we put up last year now re-positioned to accomodate the change in roof cladding material (the original idea was to board & felt the roof, but cost & the need for a guaranteed run of good weather to get it all done in one hit meant we had to re-think... after much searching & thinking, the winner turrned out to be corrugated iron from a local salvage yard... Site Salvage, in Sandwich)

The corrugated iron had to be cut to length with an angle grinder...

....& fixed with galvanised spring head nails

Almost finished.... we decided to take advantage of the fact that five sheets were 10ft long and make an awning off the side of the building at one end...





Westwood Garden tractor

The garden tractor donated a few weeks ago starts, runs & drives now. After two attempts at soldering the float which was holed & filling with petrol, Krys finally managed to drive it up the garden, taking a few daffodils out as he did so! after a few minutes the flooding problem re-ocourred, so I guess we need to look for a new float?