a fairground life

9am. Off to ERF's, well MAN now, to see about the hub. After getting nowhere fast, due to un enthusiastic counter service and being told "sorry ours internet is down", I headed off to a nearby breakers yard. He had nothing in suitable so I made a call to another breakers in Bathgate. He told me I would have to bring in the old hub as a sample as there were too many to choose from. Back to the mall to strip off the old one. In the daylight it was easy to see that the centre cap did knock out. Using a cold chisel I removed the two bearing nuts. The hub slid off very easy. Forty five minutes later I was at Bathgate searching through a good selection of front axles. We found two to choose from so I picked the one with the best looking wheel studs. Another forty five minutes of hammering and we were heading back to the mall. The only difference between the two hubs was that mine had ABS brakes, so I tapped off the serrated sensor ring and knocked it onto the replacement hub. Twenty minutes later the lot was fitted back on the lorry. I have to say the job looks a "good un". Only the tyre disc to sort out tomorrow, Fatso has given me one he had laying on the yard, all I have to do is get the tyre changed over. 

The rest off the day was spent painting the skydiver boom and the floor. I had to stop at 8:30pm cos the light was failing and I had ran out of aluminium paint. Start again tomorrow.