Just an ordinary day

Yesterday we went to see my parents; well, more accurately, I went to do lots of little jobs for my parents, and Trey, well, Trey's just wonderful.

Yes, so we cruised down on the motorway in Rebecca, the 1.3 engine seems to be going okay, my instruments however were having a fun game with the Rev counter swinging gently from 3.5k rpm to 5k rpm for no change in speed. I think that the earth's gone a bit iffy; either that or... well, I'll go into that later.

I did stop once on the motorway, after hearing one of those unnerving clank, clunk, BANG noises which I vaguely thought "hey, we've just hit some debris....or it could be my entire engine exploding!" so I pulled over and checked, and nothing appeared to be amiss - so we headed off. I definately need to sort out putting the proper carb on though, 'cos the engine is so breathless.

Anyway, we got to my parents house without further mishap; enjoying a beautiful proper summer day, slathered on the Factor 30, breathed, and entered my house... where my two young nephews (aged 4 and 2) were...bouncing.
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Apparently it was the engine exploding...

Well, that's an overstatement. A bolt holding the alternator (generator) on had worked loose, hit the blades of the fan on the alternator, got flung upwards to the bonnet (hood), clouted that, bounced backwards hitting the bulkhead (firewall) and then slid down and come to rest behind the engine mount. The alternator, thus freed, slackened itself off and saved itself the effort of charging the battery....

....it's all reassembled, I don't know what made the bolt undo itself, but I'll have to keep an eye on it. Oil's fine, coolant's fine, now it's charging, and when *cold* it's dead easy to start on the starting handle. Completely impossible when hot :(

Some asshole told me when I was trying (to save the battery - since I'd not charged it) - that "if you want to get it started there's 3 blokes over there". I missed telling him to fuck off, only by a few seconds, and mostly due to being really shocked. Arsehole. I did tell his mate to fuck off though :-)