Nearly a write-off.

 

I was mowing out the front and heard a noise so looked around and went ouch.

I thought I might have to write Oscar off but the local shop quoted $420 to fix it, so a big ouch on that price but I'll do it.

Now it looks better.

 

Some 10 mm tubing arrived yesterday, and today the new cheap Chinese pumping bulb arrived, so I was able to make Oscar look half decent again. A much quicker than normal delivery too so that cheered me up.

As usual a simple job becomes a disaster.

 I changed Oscar's fuel filter and when I primed the system I noticed I had cracked the squeeze bulb, which is quite a disaster.

I did a bit of nutting things out and used a bit of old pushbike inner tube with a bit of fairly large heat shrink underneath.

Hopefully it'll hold until a new generic bulb arrives which I'm hoping I can splice into Oscar's never to be serviced fuel line.

Slow progress with the scooter.

 

A new control board arrived the other day and it's tested up fine, wheels are a turning again, eventually I'll meld it into the circuit so things will be operational again. The old control unit also suffered flood damage and although I think it could have been fixed, this unit from China wasn't expensive.

Something to cheer me a little after nearly a month of misery.

 Roadworks have made our life hell of late, made worse by knowing the state government as per usual are only wasting taxpayer money on this, when it's all done things will be the same as they always were. Our road has a concrete depression era base and has always been pothole free, the worst was it's been too narrow for today's standard but I don't think it'll be widened.

Anyway what's made me happy is the 60 speed limit has been moved out of town to just past the entry to the sporting ovals, some genius must have noticed how odd it was to have that in an 80 zone. A decade ago I hounded Main roads and the council about it but merely being a below average punter I was shunned as some sort of moron, now I'm feeling good as I suspect the sign will be permanent. The downside is I suspect more cars will overtake me as I turn into our driveway when coming home.

I think I might repair this.

 

It's a motor off a mobility scooter that the mother bought very cheaply. I can see why now, I think it must have been underwater. Prices for bits aren't cheap so I'd better clean it up, at least the bearings are common and very cheap skateboard ones that I already have at home.

Cleaning isn't my forte :(

About right now.

 

Some may have noticed the high odometer reading on a previous post, that was from a bit of playing that created a headache that took a lot of investigating to correct, the short story is Oscar has two chips in separate places to record distance and they can only be easily modified upwards, now at last I again have about the correct number showing. 

The trip meter is accurate 503 km using a bit less than half a tank, much of that (way too much) has been driving around town barely warming up but a big chunk was a trip to Innisfail to buy some vitamin B12 and smell the flowers. Oscar is a very economical car on the highway, extraordinary actually, Google Peugeot 307 HDI if you're cynical. 

I've also found that I've been saying the unpronounceable Peugeot name wrongly as Pug-a-lot, it seems Pay-Joh (named after the greatest ever Premier of Queensland no doubt) would be more correct but I'll have to train Jimby's tongue and swallow some pride to do it.