Day: 4 March 2022

Well that was a deeply joyous day…not!

Set off nice and early this morning ready for our last call of the week in Cuddington to see Steve for cambelt service and a few other things on his Trophy. But…disaster! Our lovely camper to get us sorted after Covid and get us out working again and has been amazing and just had a new engine fitted 10k miles ago went BANG on the M62 on top of the Pennines! 😧

Call put in to the RAC and 4.5 (not bad) hours later they came and recovered us. That was one cold and noisy grass verge to wait! At least we are always prepared for the cold and wet, but still totally grim. 🥶

Absolutely top man picked us up and took us over to the workshop, where we had a chat with the company that fitted the engine, watch this space…

Have to give a mention to the couple of chaps from the Highway’s agency who came to see if we were alright, really great men doing a very hard job, big thanks to them for being kind, meant a lot.

Next problem sorted, our other form of transportation, the trusty steed had been resting due to ‘Covid contingency van’ being used, but it had ran over the MOT due date, call made and huge thanks to our local MOT station for getting us sorted last minute, which meant we could get home at least.

While we were waiting for that to be done we were still not convinced with the rear spheres on Kevin’s Trophy, and so decided to take one of them off and have a look. Sure enough, our suspicions were proved right, they had also been fitted with standard front spheres and then packed out with spacers and washers. (We will do a separate feature of this issue as it’s mentioned in our previous post on this car and may be of interest to some). So, we refitted it with a Trophy rear sphere, and pumped back up and sitting correctly.

When we came to do the same on the nearside rear, found that this one wouldn’t pump up. This was found to be due to a blockage in the hydragas pipe. With it getting very late we decided to call it a day and will return to refit a replacement pipe in the morning.

Just got home now and thawing out. Feeling very dispirited. A nice welcoming meow from the cat though who was wondering where her tea was! 🐈‍⬛

Diary scoured for a day to get back over to Steve. 🧙‍♀️ – https://ift.tt/AxXWHnP