A very useful day

I’ve been expecting the replacement fuel injection pump for my car that I ordered from Germany to arrive at any time over the last couple of days and more or less wasted a whole day yesterday waiting in for it to be delivered. But it didn’t appear and although I checked the tracking today and it said that it was out for delivery, that doesn’t always mean that things will arrive as you’d expect them to.

But it did, so I was immediately on the phone to my mechanic and ran it across to his workshop. He’s convinced that this will solve my engine problem as he says that he has seen exactly the same thing on Mercedes that use the same Bosch pump, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that he’s right. I’m now waiting on the phone call to go over again when he’s fitted it to stand by when he’s ready to start the engine again.

And I then made good use of this afternoon. I’ve had all the items to hand to complete my Savannah tow-bar design so decided to do just that this afternoon. I’ve had the handle itself for some time but I needed to make up the crossbar that attaches it to the front wheel of the aircraft to allow it to be pushed and pulled.

The person who made the handle said that he couldn’t also make the crossbar ‘because he’d need to buy too much metal’, so I just bought a suitable strip of steel myself that was more than twice as long as I needed from les Briconautes for about 5€. And today was the day when I fabricated my crossbar from it.

I’ll show some more detailed pictures of the whole arrangement in another post but for now here’s a shot of both of the items in my ‘atelier’ after I’d painted them.

As you can see, not only do I need to give everything in there including my bench a complete clear out and tidy-up, but the mice have also got into the ceiling again and brought down some of the plastic. One of the ‘joys’ of living in rural France, I’m afraid 🙁