JDNSW
11th December 2018, 07:52 PM
Today I took the 2a into town to get a pink slip. No issues. My mechanic is not very happy - he just got 30 days to vacate his workshop - which he has managed to get extended to February 7th.
Trip into town was uneventful, it is running very well. During my pre-roadworthy check last week, I found the LH rear U-bolts were loose, and tightened them - stopped an annoying clunk on bumps I was wondering where came from! (I thought it was the big hammer in the locker behind the rear wheel)
When I checked the gauge this morning there had been 1mm overnight, and it was sprinling when I left, and continued to do so in town, but not enough to worry you walking in it (it is still pretty hot). Then, while I was in the supermarket, it started to rain in earnest! Unloading a shopping trolley onto the LH seat and footwell while trying to shelter under an umbrella was not fun. Also found I had left the vents open, and the rain was so heavy that a lot splashed in. But this paled into insignificance compared to what ran in off the umbrella and the lot running off the roof and coming in the door.
Eventually I managed to get everything in, parked the trolley, then got in and transferred some of it through the cab rear window into the back - I have a 3/4 canvas - tidied up the cab and headed for home. A couple of points became apparent on the way home. One is that the demister does not do a good job of clearing the windscreen, at least with the amount of water there was loose in the cab (of course by this time my clothes were fairly wet as well).
Then, this being the first time I have driven in significant rain for about five years another point became apparent: It leaks. There is a small leak at the top of the LH windscreen between the glass and the frame, and there is water coming in somewhere above the windscreen frame, either between it and the cab roof, or between the cab roof proper and the cab roof frame. Possibly a leak round the door, but so much had come in while I was getting the groceries in that it was hard to tell.
Anyhow, by the time I got home to the front gate, the rain had dropped to a sprinkle.
Trip into town was uneventful, it is running very well. During my pre-roadworthy check last week, I found the LH rear U-bolts were loose, and tightened them - stopped an annoying clunk on bumps I was wondering where came from! (I thought it was the big hammer in the locker behind the rear wheel)
When I checked the gauge this morning there had been 1mm overnight, and it was sprinling when I left, and continued to do so in town, but not enough to worry you walking in it (it is still pretty hot). Then, while I was in the supermarket, it started to rain in earnest! Unloading a shopping trolley onto the LH seat and footwell while trying to shelter under an umbrella was not fun. Also found I had left the vents open, and the rain was so heavy that a lot splashed in. But this paled into insignificance compared to what ran in off the umbrella and the lot running off the roof and coming in the door.
Eventually I managed to get everything in, parked the trolley, then got in and transferred some of it through the cab rear window into the back - I have a 3/4 canvas - tidied up the cab and headed for home. A couple of points became apparent on the way home. One is that the demister does not do a good job of clearing the windscreen, at least with the amount of water there was loose in the cab (of course by this time my clothes were fairly wet as well).
Then, this being the first time I have driven in significant rain for about five years another point became apparent: It leaks. There is a small leak at the top of the LH windscreen between the glass and the frame, and there is water coming in somewhere above the windscreen frame, either between it and the cab roof, or between the cab roof proper and the cab roof frame. Possibly a leak round the door, but so much had come in while I was getting the groceries in that it was hard to tell.
Anyhow, by the time I got home to the front gate, the rain had dropped to a sprinkle.