a fairground life

Stepped out of the plane at 3:30pm, by 5pm I was on my way to visit my mother in Hospital. Got back to Glasgow for 7:30pm and started to ferry the loads back to the mall for the spring break holidays. First away was the miami, the roads were quiet and within an hour we were back for the DZ. It was still on the skydiver unit (ec10). We cranked it up and I watched the suspension raise. It did look level-ish (within 50mm) but not getting my hopes up I decided to reserve judgement until after the trip. When we arrived on site again we viewed the trailer before we uncoupled. Sure enough it did look level so I guess the extra air pressure from the ec10 has made the difference. To confirm it I will take a pressure reading by gauge then raise the pressure on the ec12 to match. Hopefully that will be the suspension problems on the DZ trailer sorted. Back to the yard again for the skydiver. "r" had fixed the light problem-it was a blown fuse (hidden in an obscure place) that was the fault. He replaced it and that was that. He had also topped up the water system (only 5lts according to him). However halfway back to the mall and the lorry started to boil again. We got it set on site and when I looked underneath, the water was p@!%ing out again. It was too dark to see where from,but I suspect the back of the radiator (my father had a rolls-royce engine before, that had split the radiator and it only leaked when the engine got hot and expanded the crack. Two years in a row on the exact same journey he seized the engine up before he found the split. He put another engine in the lorry and went to find a radiator. He came back with another lorry instead and the first lorry sat on the yard for ten years with the new engine in it, never even started up, until it went to the breakers by suspended tow!!! unbelievable!) So the DZ is only 15t, the skydiver is 29t, I suspect the extra weight is causing the engine to work harder either expanding a split or simply the radiator is choked resulting in a diminished cooling capacity, time will tell. One more trip tomorrow with the show and then we will start setting up.

With the amount of comments we have had lately it seems the blog is turning into a forum! to all anonymous- saying its "me" doesn't really shed much light, how about initials? at least then we can refer to you.