Helping Doc with engine AEC removal --- I finally passed the BUS MECHANICS EXAM and was presented with A HAMMER!!

See I'll even take the 'mick' out of myself, must admit it was an interesting day removing a seriously failed AEC

Al - a mate of mine calls that particular tool "The Irish Screwdriver!" And before anyone else takes offence - he's Irish himself!

I always understood it was the "Brumidgham" screwdriver Steve - not that I have anything against people from Brum!

Either way, in the hands of our esteemed Forum Moderator it is a scary sight......!

I got one of them as well in my little tool belt, although i was told it's a glass hammer! I also have some stripey paint and a skirting board ladder if anyone needs to borrow them?? Don't forget i still have a box of sparkplug gaps if anyone wants them too.. haha
So what is in it's place Alan now, a Cummins or Scania engine? Silly question, AEC RULES!!

Mark ,

Thanks for the note , An AEC will be refitted ..... PLEASE DON'T think they are available as they're not, we had some difficulty sourcing the replacement but got lucky ..

How much for a box of the sparkplug gaps then as they'll help with setting up exactly how tight the S/S body screws must be as I don't want to over tighten them and can't afford a slot headed torque wrench??

Also, following up on Mark's post, I was surprised to see Al and the Doc using a small crane to take the engine out when I would have thought that sky hooks would have worked perfectly well!

Listen son, just nip down to the stores for me and ask the storeman for a long stand. (Cue 3 hour wait). "Storeman says he's got no long stands". Bu**er, need em for this job. Go back and ask him for some sparks for the grinder. "Gaffer says have you got some sparks for the grinder?" Have you got a damp paper bag? "No". Well go back and ask him for a damp paper bag to put the sparks in. "Storeman says he needs a damp paper bag for the sparks". Bu**er, haven't got one, this jobs gonna stop, go back and ask the storeman for a bubble for the spirit level, not an ordinary one, an adjustable one", and so on, and on.

steve you shouldn't laugh when i first started in the motor trade at 16 the two owners of the firm thought it would be very funny to send me for a long wait oh dear who had the last laugh not them as you can imagine 10 past 11 in the morning that was and half past three i came back.so that put a sharp stop to there playing silly buggers ha ha.regards tim.

Tim ,

When I worked for the giant PHILIPS ELECTRICAL Company [ who made the UKs first Colour Televisions ] we often used to windup the girls on the fone switchboard up by asking if they'd put a call out for 'Mr C LION' or sometimes on FRIDAY afternoons for a 'Mr B HUNT'of the PLANT DEPT [ maintenance group ]. I'll say no more other than it could be hilarious if they got it wrong !1

We ALSO SENT new boys OR girls to the tool stores for a pair of BLUNT SIDE CUTTERS because we had some sharp ends to cut !!

And as a shop steward [which I was for 9 years], then much as its is today, so long as you had a piece of printed paper in your hand you need not do a thing all day saying you were off to a meeting in 5 minutes --- The hours I spent elsewhere I cannot imagine and this was ontop of the OFFICIAL MEETINGS..

Tim/Steve - yep we had that at work a couple of years back - had a young lad who had just started work with us on site and he got sent to see our storekeeper at head office for a 'long weight' - fortunately this guy had heard it all before, so he explained the situation to to youngster and just kept him there all day feeding him with cups of tea so it was the easiest day he'd ever had at work!

Many years ago when I was working in the city, we did managed to convince one of our young typists (we had them in those days) that the hole punch had run out of holes, so up she went to the Stationery Dept for a box of holes to go into it!

Perfectly true..

I once had a colleague who was trying to sell a car radio. I had been telling him for weeks that my friend Colin was interested so when I finally gave him Colin's number on 1st April he got very irate with the switchboard operator at Chessington Zoo as he refused to believe that Mr C Lion wasn't my mate Colin that he had been hearing about for weeks...

Al,
Couldn't help notice the hammer seems to be left handed..........!

Mark

Markee ,

If I remember rightly there were a couple of punched holes in the right hand for Doc to put the bolts in .. hee heeee