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May 23, 2018 10:51 am
May 23, 2018 10:51 am
Subject: Re: Advice needed
Thank you - I didn't believe this story about the steering column either! Apart from anything else, I found it surprisingly tricky to get that big clamp bolt (which I found in the door pocket!) back through the bracket and through the column. Nobody is going to do that on a routine basis.
Clearly the reason it was off was that the previous owner had started to remove the steering box to gain access to the 1/4" bolts for the side plate, almost all of which were broken.
Seeing as the clutch needed doing also, I just hoiked the engine out which made the whole operation much easier.
Since then, like Ancient Mariner, I have been utterly becalmed. Foiled by the computer. Not the computer on the car, or course (thank God!), but the one that runs the Lagonda Club Spares dept. I had ordered various parts over the last few weeks, all of which arrived swiftly, but the big one - the one including the clutch - went AWOL. It had sent me an e-mail saying "Thank you - your order has been placed", but it turns out it was bluffing. When I got that message I just thought Yippee that's that, oblivious to the fact that I had neglected to enter my card details, as I discovered when I went back to the site to investigate.
Anyway, I remedied that, and double-checked that it said "Your order has been paid" .
Then I got an e-mail saying "Your order has been shipped". Yippee I said. But it turns out the computer was bluffing again! I just spoke to a very apologetic human in Suffolk - apparently I had really upset the computer and it was now not talking to anybody. Not about my order anyway.
But now the human has given the computer a good talking to, and, fingers crossed, I should be back on the road in a few days.
The radiator, incidentally, has a big gob of araldite or similar in the middle of the core, but it's not leaking noticeably so that's how it's going to stay till the winter. I got a quote for reconditioning the radiator, but it was over £4,000, which strikes me as a lot.
I have read various accounts of people's struggles replacing the clutch in situ, and I can see why. What I don't understand is why people don't take the engine out to do the job - makes it a doddle. The good news is that my clutch centre plate is perfect. I wouldn't change the original design for a Borg & beck. Clearly the original design won't stand for a lot of abuse, but the answer, surely, is not to abuse it?
Thank you - I didn't believe this story about the steering column either! Apart from anything else, I found it surprisingly tricky to get that big clamp bolt (which I found in the door pocket!) back through the bracket and through the column. Nobody is going to do that on a routine basis.
Clearly the reason it was off was that the previous owner had started to remove the steering box to gain access to the 1/4" bolts for the side plate, almost all of which were broken.
Seeing as the clutch needed doing also, I just hoiked the engine out which made the whole operation much easier.
Since then, like Ancient Mariner, I have been utterly becalmed. Foiled by the computer. Not the computer on the car, or course (thank God!), but the one that runs the Lagonda Club Spares dept. I had ordered various parts over the last few weeks, all of which arrived swiftly, but the big one - the one including the clutch - went AWOL. It had sent me an e-mail saying "Thank you - your order has been placed", but it turns out it was bluffing. When I got that message I just thought Yippee that's that, oblivious to the fact that I had neglected to enter my card details, as I discovered when I went back to the site to investigate.
Anyway, I remedied that, and double-checked that it said "Your order has been paid" .
Then I got an e-mail saying "Your order has been shipped". Yippee I said. But it turns out the computer was bluffing again! I just spoke to a very apologetic human in Suffolk - apparently I had really upset the computer and it was now not talking to anybody. Not about my order anyway.
But now the human has given the computer a good talking to, and, fingers crossed, I should be back on the road in a few days.
The radiator, incidentally, has a big gob of araldite or similar in the middle of the core, but it's not leaking noticeably so that's how it's going to stay till the winter. I got a quote for reconditioning the radiator, but it was over £4,000, which strikes me as a lot.
I have read various accounts of people's struggles replacing the clutch in situ, and I can see why. What I don't understand is why people don't take the engine out to do the job - makes it a doddle. The good news is that my clutch centre plate is perfect. I wouldn't change the original design for a Borg & beck. Clearly the original design won't stand for a lot of abuse, but the answer, surely, is not to abuse it?