Toomanyprojects' workshop / garden / *Insert other* projects

Almost, just need a few bits of kit collecting and some connections reinstating here and there as they went with the PO, airlines especially.

Am now in darkest Norfolk.

What sort of workshop is that then ^^^ !!

Norfolk, nice place, how you getting on with the language?!!

If you need something to fill the rug half dog says she will come and visit!

It cant possibly be a proper workshop chillout area until the beer fridge is installed & stocked  

So seating, tea making and general dog house furnished, back on with sorting the main workshop then.

Right on time, first thing this week a little parcel arrived


Yup you guessed it, all 450kgs of it helpfully dumped at the end of the drive. I even purposely hid and sent out SWMBO to act all innocent and to ask the nice man if he would back the lorry down the drive to unload etc. Got a response of 'won't fit, not doing it' I think her then reply along the lines of 'what do you mean? do you want me to do it?' may have tipped him over the edge

So with a cheerful 'Not my problem' it was dumped unceremoniously and off he drove   (think he was a glove-wearing prop releaser for those of you who have read Ian's A35 van build )

Never mind, if in doubt adopt a bit of clarkson-esque logic to solving the problem, attach strap and rope to the pallet and disco towbar,


engage off-road mode to raise the front edge up and apply powerrrr. Despite the wife's protests it was strangely effective 



Little bit of manhandling to get it through the doors of the workshop and a minor bit of set up to do


and it's now good to use in anger... for possible the smallest car on the fleet


Let the fun begin!

Not a great deal to update on, but there has been a minor win on the workshop front. Wheel skates arrived and as the lift is too wide for the small '7, it meant I could do this


Much to the wife's nervousness

In all seriousness, doing things that way round actually works out rather well as the bits we want to get to for fluid changes/servicing are now even more accessible.

Engine and gearbox


and rear diff


It's soooo small

More happenings over the weekend hopefully.

I've been really impressed with it so far, not had chance to properly use it in anger with the disco etc. but with the casters etc it's a lot easier to move on my own than I was envisaging and will be ideal for the '7 and TF for the time being until I can get the rest here.

That won’t last. Give it a month or so and it will be full of Toyota parts 🤣🤣🤣

Interested to hear your thoughts on that lift?

A lift of some sort is on my list of things to buy.

Time for another area update and two for the price of one this time. What I like to call 'The Danger Zones'*. Allow me to explain.

Located in Mess/Doghouse etc. and above the workshop 'facility' is a set of steps up to the first


Part of the reason for not having a 2 poster is that it would seriously dent the capacity and ability of this space to act as parts storage


With the number of projects currently 'in progress' at present it's simply not worth losing at the current time.

However there is another similar zone elsewhere...


There are potentially some alternative plans for this second space depending on a)how long this working from home malarkey continues and b) planning. You get the idea.

*I should point out these pics were taken when the PO was in residence and I/we have in no way managed to fill them to the level shown... yet. and that's why they are the danger zones, because if you have them you have an opportunity to fill them with, err, stuff. I've already been 'told' ☠☠☠ awaits.😬😬😬