andy1

You need to check the battery,do you know the voltage across the battery when the engine isent running

i will 2nd that

If you are going to use shutz then only use the original or the hammerite version as it has combination of bitumin and waxoil as well as anti rust additives

If anybodys strugaling in the wigan/manchester area I have a vacume extractor to drain the oil rgds andy

Change the oil regular and it wont give you any problems, parts, most are still available from plant/tractor places

I always put my bags in the bin,also did you know that you can get bags free at your local town hall

As a fellow dog walker, has anybody else noticed that every coat,jacket and pair of overhalls you have thier is always poop bags in the pockets

we always hire from aqua narrowboat hire they have always been spot on

It was -8 on the bridgewater this morning , and why do you always get teenagers walking across the canal ?

you will nead a long extension lead if traveling far

Whilst on a hire boat earlier this year as i was pulling in to moor up i thought (spot on) perfect ,stopped with the boat along side the banking ,so i turned of the engine and grabed the rear mooring rope then steped of the boat which had drifted away from the bank , streight down i went . then later on i moored near stoke oppersite a marina and was walking threw a crowded pub carvery bear garden admireing the otherboats when i turned to look where i was going, and someone had put one of those ornimental iron lamp posts in the way, yep one broken nose later (yes it did hurt)

You poor thing

Give aqua narrow boat hire a look at , thier boats are spot on

I bought a old (1998) ford transit just to use to commute to work and back ,it was as cheep as chips so i thought i would try vegi oil with the attitude that when it brakes i will scrap it ,for the last 12000 miles it has not seen any diesel at all and it has run on hydrolic oil/vegi oil 10/40s engine oil/ kerisene/old sump oil and a mixture of eather , it starts first turn everytime and pulls spot on . I now mainly run it on streight vegi oil from costco at 74p a litre. it will brake aventually but when it does it will be scraped , but as said above you have to be verycarefull if using it in anything worth a few quid. rgds andy

it was set a fire near the town center ,then the fire bragade sank it putting the fire out it then sat thier for about a month before bieng refloated and towed about a mile to a winding hole and left , it is sitting on the bottom againdue to bieng out in the open all this time

yes i think it does say barbridge

just wondering if anybody knows anything about this boat ,the name is kingfisher based at barbridge . its on the leeds liverpool near leigh

they have a factory in japan aswell , rgds andy

mahle filters are original equipment ,they make the filters for most manufacturers and rebadge them . rgds andy

So what you are saying is that a boat engineer cant fix anything , but can draw bits of them on draught paper