Engine Punk

Binky points out what looks like a piece of snapped steel carrot still in the hub This weekend I whizzed up to Binky Towers to help make good the damage what we done to it in the Exeter Trial, namely replace the halfshafts. People in the know have told us to replace both shafts and not just the one that's broken. The theory is that the survivor is probably structurally compromised in some way and will fail before too long when subjected to the sort of stress we'll put it under. It's far better to get a pair, although I suppose we could have the unbroken one tested somehow. The rear wheel was decidedly wonky The Allard hadn't moved since it was put away when it came home from Ilsington so we gingerly pushed it out of Rob's packed workshop into the carport where it usually lives. This has been boxed in with scaffolding until recently to fit solar panels to the roof of their house. Once the car was in our operating theatre for the day, we jacked it up and rem...

Every garage should have one - a Ridge Cannon When we snapped the offside driveshaft on the Candidi Provocatores Allard things looked bad for an entry in this year's Land's End. However, through the powers of social maxima, which is social media for larger than life characters, Lee Peck put me in touch with Brian Partridge. Brian won his class on the Exeter while Binky and I were snapping things so there was no pressue for a new bouncer/navigator. Stuart Crouch was to have obliged as animated ballast but his wife snapped her Achilles tendon and he had to pull out. Regular Engine Punk browsers may remember Stuart and Will enabling us to start at Popham when our coil packed up. I am trying to present this substitution as partly returning that huge favour. Binky, on the other hand, spent Easter at home for the first time in ages. I think Mrs Binky is okay about this. The scaffolding for the solar panels has been dismantled so he can get the Allard in its usual hom...