Summer Jeepin...

 Mid July, and warm weather is here for a few days finally!, out in the Jeep this weekend, and first I did a quick bit maintenance and replaced the fan belt as meant to do it last week when I did the oil, filter service,

It`s an easy job to do and having done loads on Golf course machinery It just took several minutes...

The tensioner bolt on top is slackened with a half inch ratchet and spanner, then the lower larger but and bolt, using a phone you can take a pic of it to estimate the socket/spanner size...

Turns out it is a larger 11/16, oh and I have no idea what the white cable not used on the wiring loom is for. probably from the original 24volt set up before it was converted to 12 volt...

And the belt was due to be changed as perished, I knew this when I got the Jeep but been a bit lazy leaving it to now...

I have two replacement belts. one from the local Garage was £35, the other-a Dunlop was only £6 from Dallas Autos Jeep specialists here in the UK, 

I fitted the more expensive belt seeing as I had paid all that more for it, and after checking the 3 bearings on the pulleys were not rough or had free play I tensioned the belt with a Jemmy bar and nipped up the top nut and bolt, then the lower one and job done...

Heading out a drive today along the coast and i tried another set up with the windscreen as although real warm it was also windy...

I folded the screen down later to do some film, an Open Day on a local estate gave me the chance to leave past the remaining buildings of POW Camp 16 which by 1945 had nearly 4000 Germans, some of who stayed here after the war, one a friend of my mum and dad passed away only a couple of years ago,  

All these men were the some of the lucky ones who surrendered to British, American or Canadians and they all faired a lot better than those surrendering to Russians and were sent back east to their Goolags...

A short film, Song is `Fin` by Phontaine

More soon...