2018 Summer recruitment

[Mason89]

I would be more inclined to think he is likely to go the other way and slash the player budget and blame the fans for not showing up.

That’s in the post anyway. It’ll get slashed with the blame being shifted onto the lack of DNA uptake.

[neilthedon]

Aye. Well I've just got my van back from a very prolonged "new heedgasket" debacle. I'll be up in it soon. Mebbes just buy the thing off you to put that to bed. Then I can stop off on way back down and do a service on this ride on lawnmower ??
b.t.w. offering to meet abort in the pub wasn't some form of afc chat mineral ootside noo thing. Seriously think none of us are getting anywhere with this internet whiney sheet. We allegedly all support the Done. But it really doesn't seem like it on here with 3 or 4 posters. ( Which is approx 50-60% of who is left on this site )

[RED_JOHN]

If any c@nt thinks I’m or indeed anyone I travel with think we are happy about not winning leagues/cups or progressing in Europe!.....f@ck knows what the colour of the sky is in your world?........good performances and stick in is all we ask considering the disparity in backing financially.

SF

You kind of shot yourself in the foot with that statement.

[Mason89]

I’ve bumped into many posters on here over the years, all of them have been fine examples of sheep shagging b’stards. Top Reds one & all

[RED_JOHN]

Aye. Well I've just got my van back from a very prolonged "new heedgasket" debacle. I'll be up in it soon. Mebbes just buy the thing off you to put that to bed. Then I can stop off on way back down and do a service on this ride on lawnmower

A good mechanic would have properly fixed the head gasket!

[Jackjarvis]

You kind of shot yourself in the foot with that statement.

Could you perhaps expand on that comment please?

SF

[neilthedon]

Shall we discuss the VW Crafter. 2.8 l. 4 cylinder engine then Red John ? It's an unusual design dropped by VW for fairly obvious reasons , for the 2.3 turbo motor. Main weirdness is the cam driven camshaft which has a final drive to the camshaft via a connecting rod rather than just another gear. So if you change the failing heedgasket , when you skin the head to avoid any warpage , you need to adjust the backlash on the gear drive to compensate. While at the same time it becomes noticeable that the plain bronze busy on both ends of that camshaft connecting rod have worn and need register. But when that is done the damned thing fails within five minutes breaking four of the rockers. So you are the in the position of ordering court new rockers and a new connecting rod with attached cam gear direct from Germany. All of which is on a minimum of two weeks back order. And then when it does all finally arrive , you still need to adjust for the required backlash on all the cam gears. So once all that is done , there is still the weird issue of some of the coolant pipes pressurising up even when the coolant tank is not sealed/under pressure. And the fact that there are two of those "things" that open when the coolant is up to temperature. And the second one is hidden behind the gearbox........,.....,..

So ,...maybe we should just talk about football ??

[neilthedon]

Wow. I have just bought a new tablet. And it is changing and correcting/spellchecking my texts in new and wonderful ways !!!

[Mason89]

Shall we discuss the VW Crafter. 2.8 l. 4 cylinder engine then Red John ? It's an unusual design dropped by VW for fairly obvious reasons , for the 2.3 turbo motor. Main weirdness is the cam driven camshaft which has a final drive to the camshaft via a connecting rod rather than just another gear. So if you change the failing heedgasket , when you skin the head to avoid any warpage , you need to adjust the backlash on the gear drive to compensate. While at the same time it becomes noticeable that the plain bronze busy on both ends of that camshaft connecting rod have worn and need register. But when that is done the damned thing fails within five minutes breaking four of the rockers. So you are the in the position of ordering court new rockers and a new connecting rod with attached cam gear direct from Germany. All of which is on a minimum of two weeks back order. And then when it does all finally arrive , you still need to adjust for the required backlash on all the cam gears. So once all that is done , there is still the weird issue of some of the coolant pipes pressurising up even when the coolant tank is not sealed/under pressure. And the fact that there are two of those "things" that open when the coolant is up to temperature. And the second one is hidden behind the gearbox........,.....,..

So ,...maybe we should just talk about football ??

Dunno, it makes more sense than a lot of the guff on here

[neilthedon]

Aye. Thon lawnmower sir be has bother !!!