Digger dude came and uprooted my yard last night. Took an hour or less than. There were so many large rocks, some he rolled off towards the trees that where hundreds of kilos... I realized doing this by hand would have been a fools errand. Just moving away all the soil is toil enough.
That thing I thought was bedrock was just a rock, but bedrock was just under it. About 1 meter on average to the bedrock.
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My plan is now to buy these round paper forms and cast my own plinths, and I want to drill and sink the rebar into the bedrock.
It's been a shitty weekend Saab-wise, I got gas smells when I filled up the tank too much, I confirmed a leak around the o-ring seal that holds the whole pump in place. Well the o-ring didn't get replaced as the replacement I bought was the wrong size (internet led me wrong here), I forced the old one back in and I found out I'd broken the fuel pump by removing it. More precisely the plastic hose barb on the inside of the assembly broke off, that's where the fuel goes from the pump and out to the fuel line and to the engine, so when I started the car fuel just splashed about inside the fuel tank and went nowhere.
I have the original 34 year old fuel pump assembly left and what I did was I scavenged the parts from both assemblies and was able to build one working fuel pump assembly from these. The OEM one seems to be a lot more durable than the modern repro... 34 years of technological progress and they can't build a part that lasts. Or they don't want to...
Anyway this was a whole lot of work just to stand in place, or possibly even a step back as I bet the o-ring seals even worse now.
That thing I thought was bedrock was just a rock, but bedrock was just under it. About 1 meter on average to the bedrock.
My plan is now to buy these round paper forms and cast my own plinths, and I want to drill and sink the rebar into the bedrock.
It's been a shitty weekend Saab-wise, I got gas smells when I filled up the tank too much, I confirmed a leak around the o-ring seal that holds the whole pump in place. Well the o-ring didn't get replaced as the replacement I bought was the wrong size (internet led me wrong here), I forced the old one back in and I found out I'd broken the fuel pump by removing it. More precisely the plastic hose barb on the inside of the assembly broke off, that's where the fuel goes from the pump and out to the fuel line and to the engine, so when I started the car fuel just splashed about inside the fuel tank and went nowhere.
I have the original 34 year old fuel pump assembly left and what I did was I scavenged the parts from both assemblies and was able to build one working fuel pump assembly from these. The OEM one seems to be a lot more durable than the modern repro... 34 years of technological progress and they can't build a part that lasts. Or they don't want to...
Anyway this was a whole lot of work just to stand in place, or possibly even a step back as I bet the o-ring seals even worse now.
Statistics: Posted by His Divine Shadow — 2024-06-26 01:54am