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Pops400:
So then my little helper got quite a nice little shot of me wheeling the remainder away. (I wasn't going "Vroom vroom", I swear!!! ;D :-X), so then I parked it long enough to go and take a snap of the absolutely shocking shower of :-X that is the engine. I have no idea how I'm going to make it presentable. Anyway, by the time I turned round, she was up on the frame and she WAS giving it "Vroom vroom". ;D ;D ;D
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Caught in the act.
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Pops400:
In a fit of perfect timing, my wife arrived with coffee and sausage rolls. So we called a planning meeting. :)
I know this is probably all inane drivel and childs play stuff to you lot, but I keep writing it up because it gives me a rolling diary of good times with the Girl, blundering about without a clue, thinking about this bike when I was a kid and my Dad had it. 8) Hopefully it will give you all a laugh at our ineptitude and it will give Jess something to look back on when it's her's in years to come.
Anyway, a couple of snaps my wife took of the planning meeting. We actually got through quite a good agenda and came up with some good new ideas. ;D
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Johnwebley:
don't worry,
this is a very enjoyable rebuild,keep up the good work .it is really good when the whole family gels together and takes time to
contribute ,
either as assistant,photographer,coffee and food supplier ,
each very important and very nessasary !!!
Pops400:
Thanks John. It's a right good laugh at times, and sometimes not. Sometimes I think it can't ever possibly be saved and then days like today I think it can. Glad you are enjoying the tomfoolery. It's a bit Heath Robinson, but still. I might rename the thread Cowboy Garage! ;D
After that, I set about wrestling with getting the rest of it separated and gave Jess her own job, putting the casing, sump and filter back on.
Fair play to the Girl, made me proud, got stuck in after I showed her what to do. Wouldn't accept any help after that. Good girl, she's a grafter. She even had to get on the deck to get to some of the bolts, no bother.
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Love this shot that my wife took before she went home. :)
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And Jess took this one, she wanted to show the engine through the frame. I've got a budding David Bailey on my hands!
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Pops400:
Anyway, got most of everything else off, but the lack of a 30mm spanner or socket stopped me getting the front end off, so we called it a day, after Jess played bikes with handlebars round the unit. ;D
I thought she deserved a reward today for working so hard, so I gave her an old cantilever toolbox and a handful of tools and bits and pieces of her own. She promptly labelled it as hers and requested a photograph to commemorate her getting her own spanners. 8)
And that was it for today. I feel like the whole thing has taken a huge leap forward, so feeling a bit more motivated now. It will roll again, this old anchor. ;D
It has to, we gave it a name today, so it is officially family. ;)
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