When life sends you a curved ball !!!!. However, we will bounce back again.

At times it feels like you just can not get ahead with your projects and as much as you try to battle through you still can not gain any headway.

So it has been just lately. First the mighty truck (Ford Ranger 3.2 ltr) decided to have a major expensive mechanical problem (£1000.00 +) Namely the oil pump in the sump of the engine seized for no known reason until the garage dismantled the bottom of the engine and find the oil pump was or the original part but a non- standard part and that it had seized and in doing so destroyed the Turbo at the same time.  

So, while the mighty truck is off the road getting the correct parts fitted and the mighty truck gets its heart back again and we can get work underway again using the little truck(Ford Kuga) in the meantime. So we can get on with some of the smaller jobs which we can put in the small box trailer and bring back to the workshop to be worked on in the workshop or in the yard.

While we are at Chance we will try to remove the last of the fittings in the engine bay. Namely the original gear shift units which do not need to be in there and also the seacocks for the engine which will have to come out as they are not the size they need to be for the new engine we will be fitting in Chance at a later date.

So it is back to the drawing board and rejig the plans for which jobs to get on with over the next few months on Chance and what can be done in the workshop back at the yard when it is not possible to get down to Chance.

Life can and will send you a curved ball, its how you get round these hurdles that sorts out the men from the boys or dreamers

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