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  1. So, before I go off half coked and start yelling at the guy who rebuilt my gearbox, can anyone help me diagnose what may be wrong with it...

    Since a full bearings and seals rebuild, it has been stiff going 1st-2nd and 3rd to 2nd and I put it down to settling in post rebuild. I'm not sure of the mileage since rebuild because I didn't record it on the invoice, I only wrote it on the flywheel when I did the clutch at the same time, so I'm going to have to pull the box to get that info.

    Anyhoo, I pull into the parking lot of a local business and shift from 3rd to 2nd and there is a loud bang and the disco does a "jerk" like something went through the teeth of a gear and the it is "normal" again. I park and do my business and go home, about 4.5km. Next morning, I'm back to the shop and this is when things start to get strange...I'm struggling to find gears and some of the shifts are almost like a crash box with bad double de-clutching and others are silky smooth. By the time I'm back at the shop, I'm down to 1st 2nd and 5th gears. I park the Disco and switch off and the box shifts into some gears with the engine off. I do my shopping, go out to park at the loading dock and as I'm reversing the box feels like it's "tightening up" as the car won't coast in reverse, it needs to be under power to move. Fortunately, it's only about 20 meters of reversing, but then as I leave, it feels the same going forward, but only for a few seconds while still in the yard, and returns to smooth coasting after that. The drive home has15 traffic lights/stop street/roundabouts to exercise my shifting skills and I work out that I can get 1st/2nd OK, but 2nd-3rd is a lottery of maybe maybe not and 3rd to 2nd is grinding until I match the revs nicely. As it's flat roads, I elect to take off in 2nd and some 2-3 shifts remain poor and I once made it to 5th, but getting back into 2nd at the lights was a challenge involving slipping the clutch to get the gears turning and then it shifts into gear. BTW, selecting Reverse is also a slip the clutch and grind it in affair.

    So, now I'm debating yanking the box out today or tomorrow while I wait for the old bloke to contact me. He's dyslexic so communications is always a problem with him, but as per human nature, "now he's avoiding me"....🙄

    Ideas, please???

  2. 10 hours ago, sean f said:

    Ok got some more info from the buyer but no picture, apparently it is the engine in a Rover 800 so Landroversforever identification as a Range Rover VM engine may not be far from the mark, I was clearly not getting all the info to start with, "standard Rover engine" was technically correct but since it was stated as a LR tool the implication would be the Rover meant Land Rover which is not the case. Apparently some one told him that a 300tdi locking tool would work on it, it clearly doesn't, in the advert I do state the bolt PCD since I know it will work on some other Rover and Jag engines and leave it to the buy to check if it fits there engine if they want to try and use it on anything other than a LR engine.

    Might offer him a small refund or let him return it at his cost since it clearly won't have been used, but that the lot.

    Have him send it back and refund the purchase price would be my thought.

    Then again, I'm a carppy businessman...😁

  3. Why not try the same approach as you just did but braze a fine mesh over the area to support it?

    Like they have done in the crotches of this combustion casing.

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    That's a stainless mesh brazed into place

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    to prevent cracking and blow out of the casing.

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    edit to add: Mmmm, should have checked the date on that reply... duh!

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  4. On 2/18/2024 at 9:17 PM, FridgeFreezer said:

    That's glorious 😍

    Although 50kg of filament * ~20 quid a kilo = well, still the cheapest Merlin you'd ever buy I guess 🤔

    Wonder if he's shared the files, a 1/10th scale version would be a hell of a desk ornament :D

     

    Apparently the files are out there, not sure if on his site or elsewhere, but my understanding is that he is the one sharing them.

  5. On 1/7/2024 at 1:58 PM, Gazzar said:

    You've convinced me to get my left hand done. I was humming and hawing, but best get it done whilst fixable!

    Look, I waited 2 years plus change before doing the second one, and it had got so bad that I'd feel like I was being electrocuted each turn of a screwdriver, so I'm all for getting in early with a huge side order of irony in there for effect.

    The Surgeon sent me to a Neurologist for a nerve conductivity test that revealed the fact that the nerve impulses would arrive sooner if a runner with a cleft stick delivered the signal to the probe.

    The Surgeon then told me the nerves had been badly compressed and that I should prepare for a possible incomplete recovery....yay! I have to say that barring the pain in/under the cut, so far it has been a perfect recovery. I may yet get to ride my Guzzi and my Ape again after an almost 12 year hiatus with tingly fingers....yes, that's how long I've delayed this....😨

     

  6. 23 hours ago, Snagger said:

    It’s a completely different injury, but I had nerve damage and subsequent surgical tissue scarring from when a spinal disc collapsed, the disc material squeezing out the back between the round sections of the vertebrae into the void for the spinal chord, compressing that, and the two vertebrae closing together and pinching the sciatic nerve hard on the right side.  The combination lead to paralysis of my lower right leg (as well as the pain in the spine and leg).  The surgery removed the pressure, but the nerves took a while to heal.  The bulk of it was recovered after about three months, though I do have what looks like a big dent in the shin muscles because the nerves to that part of the muscle died and that section of muscle atrophied.  The rest takes up the slack and so I have full movement and strength of the leg and foot, just operating slightly differently than before.  So, if you do have any persistent or permanent nerve damage, there is still a good chance that you will have full hand operation once it all settles down.
     

     It is important to do all exercises that are laid out for you - the post surgical physio made a big difference for me, though the pre-surgical physio (before the complete collapse of the disc) did nothing.  I did have returning symptoms of stiffness and sciatic pain over the last year or so, but following a very long walk around the hills on holiday, I did some stretches on the rail platform that resulted in my back making a crack so loud it turned quite a few heads.  Since then, the back has been almost asymptomatic.  So, it is going to be important to keep using the hand and to keep doing any exercises that involve wide movements and stretching, not just for the ligaments and tendons but for the nerves themselves (they also shrink if movement is not stretched for some time).

    My journey with carpal tunnel ultimately led to the discovery of 2 collapsing discs in my neck and a C5/6 C6/7 fusion as well as the left carpal and now the subsequent right carpal surgery. The surgeon said he hadn't seen such bad compression of the nerve for a long time and that he had to spend more time clearing it than he'd expected, so I guess it all adds up to the discomfort and longer healing than my left paw had.

  7. On 1/6/2024 at 12:06 AM, Gazzar said:

    @JohnnoK you told to do that? I wasn't.

    I was told by the doc that did my left hand a few years ago, so it is part of my routine.

    I'm a fiddler anyway, so I'm always picking and scratching at scars etc which is a variation on massaging. When I fell off my motorcycle I was almost obsessive with picking and working at the scars/scabs and I have almost zero scarring as a result of that.

  8. On 12/3/2023 at 3:11 PM, Arjan said:

    Not to mention us mere mortals living out in the deep dark Auvergne where 3 phase is getting rare and solar panels can't be integrated into the grid..

    Aside from the ability to get some return from backfeeding the grid, what other need is there to integrate your solar?

    Personally, when I can afford solar, I'm most certainly NOT interested in backfeeding for peanuts money from a system that has cost me a few months salary to fit.

     

  9. On 1/1/2024 at 11:12 AM, Gazzar said:

    Sorry to hear that. Is it the wound?

     

     

     

     

    Yes, it is weird, because the pain is deep inside of my hand directly under the cut, so I'm putting it down to the after effects of the actual surgery.

    I'm going to see the Doc when he returns post holiday season for a follow-up and will ask him then. He did say that it was one of the worst cases he'd seen with the nerve very badly compressed, so I guess he had a bit more chopping and dicing to do than expected. My other hand was not as sore a few years ago when it was done.

  10. 8 hours ago, vulcan bomber said:

    Unfortunately, to fly WR963 out we would have to pull her even more apart for inspection, then repair, rebuild and fly her out, getting 1 off flights in the UK is an absolute nightmare. So it's cheaper to put her on lorries. 1722 you have there was the last Shack to officially fly.... She's a MK.3 where as WR963 Is a tail sitting, MK.2 (actually an AEW.2). Search Avro Shackleton on Facebook, we have a page.

    Yes, she was the last after we lost one in the Desert en-route to Oshkosh.

     

  11. On 12/20/2023 at 6:12 PM, Gazzar said:

    Oh. My. Word!

     

    This is great! Once my wrist is fixed, I had better get spannering. 

    (Carpel tunnel decompression surgery last week)

    I had my right hand done late October and I'm struggling with it, to be honest.

    I still can't put much weight on the palm of my hand, like pushing up off a chair, and wrist mobility is still slightly limited at the extremes, but on the plus side, all the tingles and electric shocks are gone now. I guess I'm being impatient, but I really want to find out if I can get back on my Guzzi now the second paw is fixed....

  12. On 12/17/2023 at 11:34 PM, vulcan bomber said:

    Just for a bit of fun, I reckon I could win this, let's see what the coolest thing is you've towed with your Landy, heres my 110 with the cockpit section of Avro Shackleton T.4 VP293 "Zebedee" I'm moving from Coventry to York as part of the greater task taking up my weekends currently of moving Shackleton AEW.3 WR963. 963 being in full working order when we started the tear down and will be in full working order when we are finished.

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    That is a super cool load! I'd have taken a chance and hijacked that, given the opportunity...🤣

     

    As an aside, if the other Shack is in full working order, why not fly it?  I'm certain the folks along the route would appreciate the spectacle.  Or is it not in possession a CofA?

     

    PS, we have this beauty in Cape Town...

    based here...

     

  13. On 11/5/2023 at 6:08 PM, Snagger said:

    When you put it all back together, it’s a swine to get the lay shaft cluster into place but offset without the shaft itself while you fit the main shaft stuff.  Use a screw driver or any thinner shaft through the cluster and bearings to keep them in a position that you can manipulative them for alignment later - use the smaller shaft or tool to stir the bearings into alignment with the casing bores.

    Pack the bearing in Vaseline to hold the rollers in place.

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