Bang, crunch, bang bang bang...

Yes dear readers, you have guessed correctly. I'm currently sat in a rather broken NOG, waiting for help to arrive, in the form of a 'new' rear diff. I was merrily winging my way along the A523 towards Landranger services, there intending to further lighten my already light wallet, when I smelt burning, but couldn't work out from whence it was coming from. A couple of miles later there were some resounding thuds and bangs, and drive was lost. Having little choice, I pulled over, and found that NOG had eaten her third back diff in as many thousand miles. The operation which followed is becomming rather too familiar, but soon the dead diff was sat on the floor, with most of the nose bearing races in a heap next to it... Some rapid ringing sound the great OLLR machine followed, with the result that as I type the spare diff is travelling towards me in a very kind members motor. Thanks Glen. I'll post some pictures of the gore up on monday, as I doubt the phone is clever enough to upload its own pics...

Oh the fun of guessing

NOG, much as I love her, has several weaknesses. One of the most annoying of these centers around the fuel tank. The fuel gauge has never worked. The wiring is fine, the actual gauge works, but I've had a succession of dodgy senders. The original was notable for being rusted solid - the previous owner had spent quite a bit of time on the rest of the system, with no success, much to his bafflement. Yours truely, being tad more canney, replaced it with a spare which refused to work (twice). I've currently given up, presuming I need to actually pay for a new sender, and being rather skint. The lack of a gauge wouldn't be that bad in and of itself - I ran Bitsa for nearly a year with no gauge - but to compound matters, the tank leaks from the outlet pipe gasket when full. Que a certain degree of panic at intervals at filling stations, particularly when I've used less fuel than expected.

This is a test post

On NOG's new blog. Hopefully it will work....