One "J" short of a Pilgrimage?

A bit of a monster. Not quite as big as those seen on Telly, or at peculiar events, but certainly the biggest I've met up close and personal.
The Wagon has been playing sillybuggers on the electrickery front, the battery can barely hold its charge, let alone its breath, for a week. Ergo whip round to Halfords, nice lads, not only did they check which one was right and sold it for <£100 rather than screw me for as much as was possible they fit it for the princely sum of 7squids. I am pleased I took that option as it turned into a two-man job.
The designers/manufacturers obviously never think as far ahead as ... "Can it be removed easily?". The battery will not exit through the available hole, you need to shift the fuse-box. This is where the old lad triumphed. The youth couldn't shift the screws and was about to fetch a wee tommy-bar for the posh hole in his big star-driver.
"At risk of showing one of us up, d'you mind if I try?" NOT easy-peasy but equally not full effort for t'old lad. Next, we found the bonnet prop (Hood? to you other lot) was in they way ... My head made a good pit-prop while the support laid down out of the way.
RESULT!! Sorted!
El Haj drew in while we were at it. I'm not proud I'll talk to anybody. "What do you use that moster for?" Turned out he was a dry stone waller, so he probably drove over hill and dale and part way up the fells. Four-wheel drive, best part of a foot clearance, huge "wide wellies and spats".

For those unaware, "El Hajj" apparently has a superfluous J at the end.

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