It's Sunday - time for confession Father

[Chillidoggy]

How long is it before he's declared overdue?

[Barrykearley]

Well - it made it - there and back to worcester swimming pool - stick that where the sun don't shine... @ian29gte

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now awaiting my buddy to come and rescue me with tools. Not sure if it's the battery utterly flat, immob shagged, feed to rear box or what

 

[Barrykearley]

[pete]

Billy no mates

[Chillidoggy]

Did you get it sorted?

[Barrykearley]

Yeah - needed some decent jump leads. The father in laws obviously do not work - I shall relocate them into the bin for him and get him some new ones in case I need them again 

didnt bother to look any harder last night - but very obviously and can be seen with a DVM that there is no alternator love voltage being given to the battery. Another problem for another day

[Chillidoggy]

I thought you had a problem earlier with the battery and it not starting? Maybe it's the alternator after all?

The way your luck's running, it'll be a combination of the pair of them.

[C8RKH]

[Barrykearley]

13 hours ago, ian29gte said:

I thought you had a problem earlier with the battery and it not starting? Maybe it's the alternator after all?

The way your luck's running, it'll be a combination of the pair of them.

Last battery was fubard - gave up trying to charge it after two days on charge !!

new battery I think was the one I bought for the S3. It is not charging on the car for sure. Once jump started the voltage was sat at 11v measured across the battery terminals. So need to check the connections on the alternator next.

had a few mocking comments at the pool tonight - I can smugly ignore that though 

[pete]

When mine did that it was the belt slipping because the alternator was moving

[Chillidoggy]

When mine did that, the exciter wire spade connector was detached from the back of the alternator.

[Barrykearley]

The d+ terminal was decidedly horrible - and the spade terminal as well - so I removed that lot - cleaned, refitted and replaced connector. Still no good.

but I did notice the alternator was wobbly  wtf was that all about. So it was clearly not earthing out - a jump lead proved that fact.

bottom nut thing on the nylon tensioning slider mount was about 1/4" off even being tight !! The top one needed nipping up. 

So there we have it - all fixed - I've been dreading doing it - but the suns out and I'd like to pick the eldest up from swimming in it. Cost nothing - 20 minutes of cursing - no loss of skin or blood.

had that been a V8 it would have been engine out, several thousand pounds of spurious parts made of special metals and obsolete diamonds...... phew

[Chillidoggy]

Lucky sod!

I can't help thinking that life would be so much easier if you simply built a swimming pool next to your gaff, as most of the Esprit breakdowns seem to be connected to that specific activity.

[eeyoreish]

But then where would he drive it?? 

[Chillidoggy]

1 minute ago, eeyoreish said:

But then where would he drive it?? 

Precisely.

[Barrykearley]

3 minutes ago, ian29gte said:

Lucky sod!

I can't help thinking that life would be so much easier if you simply built a swimming pool next to your gaff, as most of the Esprit breakdowns seem to be connected to that specific activity.

3 kids - 11,13,15 all in different swimming squads and all swim competitively - not only does that cost more than esprit ownership but also takes more of my time ?

5 minutes ago, ian29gte said:

I can't help thinking that life would be so much easier if you simply built a swimming pool next to your gaff

I'm never introducing you to the missus !!

[stephenwhyte]

1 hour ago, ian29gte said:

Lucky sod!

I can't help thinking that life would be so much easier if you simply built a swimming pool next to your gaff, as most of the Esprit breakdowns seem to be connected to that specific activity.

!!!!

[Barrykearley]

Nice drive out to Castle Coombe today - meal on the way home meeting up with the missus and kids in Gloucester who are at a swimming competition.

now back at home wondering why in Malvern my second gear has f@cked off without my permission! 

all other gears peachy - no orrrible sounds - engage 2nd and no drive at all. Car dumped in the naughty corner of the garage to think about her behaviour. Guess that's the box coming out then

[Chillidoggy]

8 minutes ago, Barrykearley said:

Nice drive out to Castle Coombe today - meal on the way home meeting up with the missus and kids in Gloucester who are at a swimming competition.

now back at home wondering why in Malvern my second gear has f@cked off without my permission! 

all other gears peachy - no orrrible sounds - engage 2nd and no drive at all. Car dumped in the naughty corner of the garage to think about her behaviour. Guess that's the box coming out then

 

Told you.

[Barrykearley]

What 

[Mark Blanchard]

Sorry to hear that Barry.  

Good to see your S4 in the flesh today, nice looking car you have.

[Chillidoggy]

10 hours ago, Barrykearley said:

What 

It's the clear correlation between swimming pools and Esprit breakdowns that's the cause. Ergo, stop going to swimming pools and all your problems will cease.

No, it's OK, don't thank me.

[Barrykearley]

Hmm - dunno when I'm gonna drop it in the conversation with the missus it's busted again. She's gonna take the piss more than you will.

is this simple enough to strip apart at home and replace that 2nd gear and synchro ? Or does it need specialist stuff ?? After all the hassle I've had - I really am tempted to sit and learn 

[Choppa]

I've helped you out with that typo Barry

29 minutes ago, Barrykearley said:

Hmm - dunno when I'm gonna drop it in the conversation with the missus it's busted again. She's gonna take the piss more than you will.

is this simple enough to strip apart at home and replace that 2nd gear and synchro ? Or does it need specialist stuff ?? After all the hassle I've had - I really am tempted to sell it. 

 

[eeyoreish]

I'm sure you could fix it with a bit of copper pipe..?