So anywaytoday with no plumber having turned out last night we drained the system ourselves and with huge struggle got the stove out.
Buckets were emptied and towels wrung out.
The builder turned up and loaded the bloody thing into the C5 for us, the T4 being in the garage being sorted for brake pads, as in it would be good to have some.
A thought break and we ran some scaffold planks from the C5 to the T4 and put the stove in there.
Off we went. Tallie and I and we got to Beacon stoves dropped the old stove off and loaded a brand new one into the vayeas
Using a forklift is so much easier than breaking your back lifting the thing.
Time to go home then, and all was well with the world.
Errrrr
We were a very little distance up the road and the truck ground to a halt whir with a nasty clicky whir noise .
This was not good in a cost a lot of money sort of way expensive things like cambelts were the primary suspect.
Naturally we were all out of signal for the mobile and I had to walk a goodly distance before being able to call the RAC to come and begin recovery.
Some considerable time sat in the rapidly cooling cab and up turned the RAC.
Some head under bonnet time and i knew a fair ammount more about the VW than i did yesterday morning and we worked out that the belt for the injector pump had decided to give up on life which is a deal less catastrophic than the cam belt unless of course the pump itself has siezed.
Knowing our luck that could well be the case.
Of course we were still broken down by the side of the road and miles from home.
The RAC do a recovery service but quicker to tow me to the garage than sit round waiting for the man with the flatbed truck.
This was all very well but how scary is being towed 20 miles on a rigid bar in the pitch dark when every time the guy in front puts his brakles on it destroys your night vision - VERY.
I got home but my composure was most certainly decomposed.
All we need to to do today is go and remove 100 + kilos of log stove from the van and transfer it to the car. Thank goodness Bruce is at home, otherwise I would have to send out for a crane!!!
Buckets were emptied and towels wrung out.
The builder turned up and loaded the bloody thing into the C5 for us, the T4 being in the garage being sorted for brake pads, as in it would be good to have some.
A thought break and we ran some scaffold planks from the C5 to the T4 and put the stove in there.
Off we went. Tallie and I and we got to Beacon stoves dropped the old stove off and loaded a brand new one into the vayeas
Using a forklift is so much easier than breaking your back lifting the thing.
Time to go home then, and all was well with the world.
Errrrr
We were a very little distance up the road and the truck ground to a halt whir with a nasty clicky whir noise .
This was not good in a cost a lot of money sort of way expensive things like cambelts were the primary suspect.
Naturally we were all out of signal for the mobile and I had to walk a goodly distance before being able to call the RAC to come and begin recovery.
Some considerable time sat in the rapidly cooling cab and up turned the RAC.
Some head under bonnet time and i knew a fair ammount more about the VW than i did yesterday morning and we worked out that the belt for the injector pump had decided to give up on life which is a deal less catastrophic than the cam belt unless of course the pump itself has siezed.
Knowing our luck that could well be the case.
Of course we were still broken down by the side of the road and miles from home.
The RAC do a recovery service but quicker to tow me to the garage than sit round waiting for the man with the flatbed truck.
This was all very well but how scary is being towed 20 miles on a rigid bar in the pitch dark when every time the guy in front puts his brakles on it destroys your night vision - VERY.
I got home but my composure was most certainly decomposed.
All we need to to do today is go and remove 100 + kilos of log stove from the van and transfer it to the car. Thank goodness Bruce is at home, otherwise I would have to send out for a crane!!!
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Eventful to say the least!!
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