All the water in the world in one place!
Hello All
I live just outside Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, last Friday I can safely say that I saw the heaviest rainfall I have ever seen. It took me five hours to drive from Cheltenahm to Evesham, a mere 16 mile journey. I do live on the other side of the Severn but I could not get there so I had to stay with a friend in Evesham. The roads were covered with at least a foot of water for at least half of this distance. There were flooded roads much higher than this, the most I attempted to drive through was about three feet. It was CRAZY! I think I have washed a bearing dry on my engine as I am now getting a nice whirring sounds that increases in pitch with engine revs. I suspect its the bearing on the front end of crankshaft, for the belt pulley. Nice.
Anyway I'd thought I'd post a few pictures I took that Friday!
And a few more... oh and joy it's raining again!
unbelivable
Twodogds
Funny Mark and I were just talking about the fact that no one had yet posted about any of their exploits with the floods.
But you need fording pictures!!! Of course that would require getting out of your G to take them....
Great pics, thanks for posting.
Tim,, golden opportunity for a new engine. :wink:
Mark
Are you now back in business?
Thanks for posting.
I have lived in England for 22 years (until 2002). I now live in Athens.
I understand constant heavy rainfall and consequent floods have devastated part of England.
Here in Greece we have the exact opposite problem: very little rain falling the wrong time of the year.
Extreme heat & draught = uncontrollable fires.
People die, forests disappear never to return. We cant breath.
Breaks your heart.
where have you been pink panzer.
what does all these worldly problems mean :?: :shock:
Global warming/smiting/2012 etc etc probably
You're not the first person I know to mention Evesham. A few of my racing colleagues live around there, and were trying vainly to reach a testing day at Lydden Hill near Dover. One left at 5pm on the day before and gave up at 2 in the morning having covered 40 miles. He was slightly worried to see his racing car partially submerged behind his Shogun
Try lubricating the fan belt. It can sometimes squeak when it gets wet.
I don't think you could damage a crank bearing or the engine would have water through it.
Has the wate rstopped rising?
My mechanic friend gave me some tips for diagnosing the whining, he said spray WD40 on every moving part on the belt, I have sprayed/coated the alternator, steering pump, water pump and belt tension pulley, cant really get to the crankshaft pulley. I think its coming from inside the engine, it just happens to be a coincidence that it happened after a lot of fording. There is no water discolouration of the oil so I don’t think a seal has gone.
Its not a geared whining either, it increases exactly in spead with revs, so its definitely not the alternator. I had the vacuum pump disintegrate not long ago, most of the bits just fell apart in situ. I'm not sure if some have damaged timing chain or bearings when it fell apart. Its done nearly 200K so I am investigating the possibility of a rebuild soon.
We had a brief hard downfall again during my first posting, the ground is truly saturated!
Oh dear oh dear... it's 41º and 17% humidity here so I am being drowned.... in chilled lager! Litres of it while dozing by the swimming pool and missing England....
A picture with half of the family to prove it: the poor dog spends half of the day in the water!
nice one morty :!:
i shall be doing the same next weekend :wink:
and coninuously in about 14 months :lol: :lol:
good hearing from you :!:
Try changing your alternator, it is more likley to be the bearings in that than your front end shell bearing, the crankcase pressure would drive water out, take the drive belt off run your engine, if the noise stops change your alternator 1 hr job. exchange alternator £80-00
I live at the top end of the Avon, it didnt figure in the news because no houses flooded only roads and farms, that is because of a policy not to build new developements on the flood planes and also to ensure the river and its tributeries are well dredged every year, nothing to do with global warming just penny pinching authorities who stop spending on essentials.
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