Could have been worse

[Marmalade]

9:30 Friday I had a call to sort out a parts delivery screw up.

2:30pm I was in Calais collecting the part The route

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Down through Belgium and Luxembourg, into Germany and across the border to deliver at Forbach, France at 8:30pm.

80 ish miles back up through France to a F1 hotel to get my head down and back on the road at 10am Sat morning.

Arrived back in UK at 5:20pm on the tunnel

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A cloud of steam on the M25 signalled bad news and me stripping down the bike in Clacket Lane services
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Had to call a very nice man to get bike back
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Ended up going home in this.
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It's looking like one of the hoses in the 'V', under the carbs will have split so tomorrow i'm in the workshop in bristol.

My van also has a hose leaking, my scoot has a screwed engine i'm meant to be changing tomorrow and now one of the pans won't hold any water.

Not a good week for my vehicles. It can only get better.
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[Marmalade]

Well, as it turns out it couldn't have been worse.

The engine block has a fookin great crack in it.

It's only done 125,000 miles
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[Alpha-9]

[Dilyan]

If looked after, not abused and mostly motorways (a.k.a Marmalade's), Pan Europeans can do quite well on mileage.
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[Marmalade]

[UnspeedySam]

Sorry to hear about that. Any idea what caused the engine block to crack? Overheating?

So how many Pans do you have now? The broken one, the new one and a parts one?
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[Marmalade]

The silver one, the white one that i'll change the engine on next week and 4 others in various states of being stripped
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[UnspeedySam]

[Kris]

Weird.

Usually it's just the coolant elbows under the carbs that crack or perish - not the block itself.

Got any pics of the damage?
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[Marmalade]

Not yet, i'll get the engine out next week hopefully
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[UnspeedySam]

[Marmalade]

But I do know the crack is just below the left hand head at back of engine, above alternator.

On a different matter, I've changed the engine in my scoot and took it for a 150 mile ride today and it all seems ok
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