Checking the old girl's plumbing...1321 gets a check-up: 24/01/15

Not as dubious as the title sounds, since 1321 had returned to the good shire of Nottingham she had sadly been blighted by a constant water buzzer screeching away in the cab, indicating potential problems in the system. Was it as serious as a water leak? Or a storm in a teacup such as a defective sensor. The weekend of Saturday 24 January saw 1321 heading in the direction of Silverdale Coaches, where mechanic Nik had kindly agreed to investigate the problem.

So Gary made the journey to the farm at some ungodly hour to jump 1321 so that she would start (we since found the tachograph clock had a knack of draining the batteries), after which Paul set off in the direction of Silverdale where upon arrival the bus was duly placed over a pit for Nik to inspect. Within five minutes had found the source of all our problems had been found...the clips holding one of the heater pipes on were badly corroded, so the pipe was reattached, two new jubilee clips fitted and hey presto, problem solved! While over the pits, Nik had been joined our good friend Paul Seaman who between them kindly greased the king pins and the area around the S-cams, before she was backed off the pits for the lads to give her a good wash prior to returning to 'HQ' at the farm.

(C) Paul Seaman

(C) Paul Seaman

Plans were hatched between Paul and your blogmaster for a road test to blow off a few cobwebs and check everything was as it should be. More in the next chapter...