Tam n pups winter trip 2022

[Abacist]

What a way to have to live! Religions and Politics have so much to answer for!

 

[Northernraider]

The falls road garden of remembrance, the Bobby sands mural, and the peacewall murals .

 

[Northernraider]

What a way to have to live! Religions and Politics have so much to answer for!

Yep madness in todays world , still so much prejudice for religion , sexual orientation, gender etc etc etc . It's nuts

 

[Northernraider]

I spotted this through a fence and thought neighbours making a point

 

[rolosroller]

Just had an old fella talking to me , he said "don't get the black cabs son , they're all IRA"

No sure if he was winding me up or not lol .

Anyway I've been to both walls . Interesting stuff .

Black cabs use to be a no no .

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[rolosroller]

Try to see the Three Scottish Soldiers Memorial


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[rolosroller]

They got in a black cab

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[Helen Ariel]

Oh fir fs sake I hoped I was gonna avoid all that bloody nonsense . I saw on the news last night folk queuing 30 hours to walk past a dead body ....should send them to bloody Ukraine they can dae that every 10 minutes.

It's worse than that. They are queuing for days to spend 10 seconds walking past an empty box. Imagine if that many people put that much time in to volunteering or litter picking or something useful!

 

[Lenny HB]

Just had an old fella talking to me , he said "don't get the black cabs son , they're all IRA"

No sure if he was winding me up or not lol .

Anyway I've been to both walls . Interesting stuff .

I got one to the airport once I sure he was trying to kill me never come across such atrocious driving.

 

[Northernraider]

Moved to a spot just south of Belfast for the night which is a nice quiet park .... just pulled up here though and the van making a funny noise. Sounds like a dry or rattly pulley but it's hard to tell .....I really really hope its nothing and not the start of problems. Just when I was starting to like this van. I'm leaving it alone till the morning and will see if it's still sounding funny. I've had a look but can't see nothing

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[Dutch 68]

How’s this for a motto eh?

 

[Dutch 68]

Moved to a spot just south of Belfast for the night which is a nice quiet park .... just pulled up here though and the van making a funny noise. Sounds like a dry or rattly pulley but it's hard to tell .....I really really hope its nothing and not the start of problems. Just when I was starting to like this van. I'm leaving it alone till the morning and will see if it's still sounding funny. I've had a look but can't see nothing

Get it checked Tam, as you said you heard some belts scream yesterday, might be a bearing? Did they replace water pump when they did timing belt?

 

[Dutch 68]

Nice colour for your vario Tam?

 

[mitzimad]

Drop the aux belt off see if it stops

 

[pagey]

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Nice colour for your vario Tam?

Nice bug

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[Devon Sue]

My OH worked in Belfast as a drawing office contractor for Shorts for a while in the early 80s. One of his colleagues needed to go to hospital, was taken to Queen Elizabeth, and as my OH was a designated driver he went with them. While waiting outside he realised that he was sitting in a UK registered hire car in the Falls Road.
On another occasion he was in one hire car heading for the airport for a trip home, all the luggage went in another car. The luggage got to the airport first and the 2 guys with it started checking it in. All the alarms suddenly went off and airport was about to go into full lockdown, until my OH arrived and claimed the suitcase - he had bought me a cast iron Le Creuset pan and put it in his case and that was what almost caused a major incident.

 

[Just smiffy]

How’s this for a motto eh? View attachment 665424

A thousand stars in the sky….

 

[Northernraider]

Get it checked Tam, as you said you heard some belts scream yesterday, might be a bearing? Did they replace water pump when they did timing belt?

Yeah the belt squeak is just normal after New belts fitted. That's why I was trying to put some miles on it before this long trip but of course it didn't do it till I had left and only on a cold damp morning.


But this noise wasn't like that. More a rumbling but coming from the belt area , can't see anything . I'll see how it is tomorrow.

 

[bigtwin]

A thousand stars in the sky….

…… is better than a 5* hotel!

Ian

 

[paddymcc]

I'm here for purely curious reasons although I might just be paranoid but you do get a lot of funny looks at this bit. Not sure why.



Anyway here's a funny thing from this morning . I was talking to another dog walker who is originally from Sussex. I mentioned the thing yesterday about calling someone Irish and them saying they were British and he says yeah they get quite offended. He then said you should be alright though you're Scottish...its the English they don't like.

Now I'm confused as that doesn't make bloody sense. Surely that's a contradiction

Quite a lot of the NI protestants came from Scotland after 1688.

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[Lenny HB]

Yeah the belt squeak is just normal after New belts fitted. That's why I was trying to put some miles on it before this long trip but of course it didn't do it till I had left and only on a cold damp morning.


But this noise wasn't like that. More a rumbling but coming from the belt area , can't see anything . I'll see how it is tomorrow.

I hope they haven't overtightened the aux belt, I've known alternator bearings go because of that.

 

[TM59]

Born here and have lived here all 64 years of my life. Such reminiscing waffle. Leave it out and let Tam get on with his travels

 

[Northernraider]

I hope they haven't overtightened the aux belt, I've known alternator bearings go because of that.

Aye but with it squeaking the other day you would think not. I thought maybe the b2b is putting strain on the alternator . But I don't know at the minute I'll have a look in the morning before I start it up see if anything obvious. It might well be nothing. I'm still not trusting of the van.

 

[Lenny HB]

At least if it's mechanical it's easier to fix than all the electronics that nobody including the dealers have a clue about.

 

[Northernraider]

Last night's stopover ..

Off now to get some shopping , top up my lpg and have a look at titanic building and the tender. Have to use a paid carpark but should only be 2 hours max .. Will try and park up at the castle tonight.

Hopefully no issues with the van . Still a dry noise coming from down at the pulleys but hard to tell what it is ...I gave a wee squirt of wd 40 down there but no difference. Will see if it's still the same later.

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[Lenny HB]

Keep your LPG topped up very scarce in Southern Ireland.

 

[Northernraider]

Keep your LPG topped up very scarce in Southern Ireland.

Yeah I haven't used much I don't think bit not topped it up since July so just wanting to be sure. I only use it for the cooker as everything else is electric.

 

[ALI G]

Last night's stopover ..

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Off now to get some shopping , top up my lpg and have a look at titanic building and the tender. Have to use a paid carpark but should only be 2 hours max .. Will try and park up at the castle tonight.

Hopefully no issues with the van . Still a dry noise coming from down at the pulleys but hard to tell what it is ...I gave a wee squirt of wd 40 down there but no difference. Will see if it's still the same later.

I had a dry raspy noise on a van many years ago, it was ok when the engine was cold but I could hear it once warmed up turned out to be the alternator bearings. Just be aware everywhere will be shut till Tuesday after today hopefully it's not.
Alan.

 

[Northernraider]

I had a dry raspy noise on a van many years ago, it was ok when the engine was cold but I could hear it once warmed up turned out to be the alternator bearings. Just be aware everywhere will be shut till Tuesday after today hopefully it's not.
Alan.

Yeah at the minute it could be anything. It's driving OK..just weird noise . I still think it's more rattly than the hymer was too.


So much for low mileage engines eh , the hymer had 118000 on it , this has 30000 . Hymer had no rattles etc.

Hence my confidence in this van keeps getting hit.

 

[Just smiffy]

Have you got a long rod to put to your ear on certain parts of the engine to find the noise, I’m sure you know what I mean about the long rod….

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