Hit the brakes!!
Monday, August 24th, 2009As the pressure mounts in the office, weekends at the farm are more eagerly anticipated. It does seem strange that my way of relaxing entails working even harder than I do in my professional job… and that’s saying something.
This weekend I finished putting together the stub axles and brake mountings, packed the bearings with LM grease and tightened up the axle nuts on the hubs.
After that I rubbed down and repainted the rather scabby looking expansion tank and also the headlight cowls.
Unfortunately I didn’t have any siver paint – so will have to finish the lens holder next time.
I then got stuck into the really fun job…
Making and fitting the brake pipes. I didn’t get as far as I’d hoped as it was a very fiddly job, particularly fitting the stop light switch,
and getting just the right bend in the pipe coming out of the servo as space was incredibly tight…. But what I managed to do looks really good.
