The Dark Wob

fried onions wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 4:49 am It's worth paying a premium for a less obviously rusty example.

FTFY.

Check in the sills after taking the carpets off the inside. It's a three piece sill & the inner often rots first, which is handy as it's also the strongest bit...
Mine went there due to water getting in around the axle & running down the B-posts.

This one has new floors, but I'll check the sills.

I've just noticed I should have explained better. You look through the gaps in the inner sill to see the centre sill that rots before the inner or outer.

I'd hope they'd spotted any rust when doing the floors though. Talking of floors a common bodge is welding the spring hanger behind the seats to the floor which makes changing the bushes hard work...

The better half's moaning about the eyesore hymac has reached the tipping point for me to do something about it.

Can't see the problem myself .

I'm breaking it up into more manageable pieces and selling anything of worth.

Like the front bucket.

Those pins were fun* to come out.

Seems a shame. If I had a dead Hymac and all that space then I would grow Clematis, Honeysuckle and other climbing plants and train them all over it.

I thought you located another motor for it? Or arrangeda loan machine in return for it?

A garden feature would be nice, especially those climbing plants.

DodgeRover wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2019 5:46 pm I thought you located another motor for it? Or arrangeda loan machine in return for it?

There was a £700 engine available and a cheaper one that was needing rebuilt. In both cases, the money and effort would be spent solely to ease getting rid of it.

The option to swap it for a loan of a jcb was rejected when I hired a digger and driver to dig my foundations.

I'll try to take the rams off as they'll sell. I might keep the dipper and dream that at some point in the future I'll have time to make a log splitter. The hydraulic hoses and spool valves will sell. Some bits of the engine might sell, like the pump, starter motor etc. Anything I can get off like the back actor and front loader can be weighed in, then the thing might be able to be winched onto a trailer.

Check the value as a whole, maybe try some of the places that export plant

It seems the cost of haulage is more than it's worth.

Meanwhile, the daughter's polo failed to start. Like there was no power going to the starter. No clicking sound so i diagnosed a wiring issue. I hauled the battery, airbox and battery tray out to get access to the starter motor and found that there was 12v going to the solenoid from the ignition.

I didn't have time to fuck about with it because this was happening


So was pleased the local auto spark could fit it in. Phoned them up after a couple of hours to be told the starter was fucked and did I want them to replace it, which of course I did.

When I picked it up, I asked for the old starter and was told it's in the bin and was unfixable. I insisted anyway.


Apparently that wire between solenoid and the motor can't be repaired.