Kates Journal

So, someone, I’m fairly certain, said that you could swap cylinder heads on a DAF 44 with the engine in situ. There’s not a great deal of space in there, but it appeared like, certainly on the R hand cylinder head it was feasible.

I spent the entire day stripping apart the car – documented here, for posterity, on flickr – only stopping when I realised it wasn’t actually possible to do it at all. That would be when the rockers were off and I slid the head up the studs and realised that ‘no; no amount of wiggling is going to make this come off’. Part way through reassembly the builder arrived. He says he rang, but he didn’t, not any number I’ve got. I scrabbled the exhaust back on and we pushed Jejy out onto the road. I then completed reassembly of the DAF on the road, and contemplated that the skip needs loading with rubble.

This evening I need to move the motorbikes and mark out the curve for the driveway.

Tomorrow they make the driveway wider and hopefully we can stop being quite so antisocial.