Water pump
April 18, 2008 at 9:59 pm | Bike, Trip | No comment
I think the water pump is what’s squealing.
I’ve been having a worrying squealing sound coming from the bike ever since I got it back on the road and my theory is that the water pump got screwed when I had too little coolant in the bike.
Fortunately I have a full water-pump repair kit already so I’ll get that rebuilt tomorrow.
Ordered a new alternator which should arrive on Monday, get that fitted and hopefully it’ll all be hunky dorey!
James (my dad) asked me to do him a favour yesterday which turned out to be to let him pay for somebody to inspect my bike thoroughly for any potential issues and to have them repaired.
He was quite adamant about this, but appealing as it sounded I had to turn him down.
It’s hard to explain why I turned him down, I imagine some people will understand immediately while others will be perplexed by my decision.
Pride is the first reason I think, I don’t like taking handouts and in some insecure portion of my mind it feels as if accepting his offer would take something away from the acheivement of my goal (if and when!).
Secondly I want to do the repairs myself, I could look over some-ones shoulder to watch what they’re doing but it’s not the same.
I wonder whether it’s the right decision, I would sorely like to be in a position where my bike inspires confidence in its reliability, but somehow I can’t bring myself to…
Me and Alex went camping last night (at an actual campsite no less!)
It was a good chance to try out my tent before having to erect it in anger, and a damn good thing too!
It was a completely bemusing process putting it up, as you have to put up the poles, then attach the flysheet and then clip the actual tent to the inside of the flysheet.
However it does look very robust, for those that are interested it’s a Vaude De Hogan 2006 model that I got £60 off as it’s a display model.
The construction process is quite simple once you know what you’re doing and hopefully it’ll stand up to the wind, unlike the tent I went camping in in the south of France last year which had one of its poles snap (in admittedly VERY strong winds).