Manky's Pop.

[BikerGran]

Bobbie your making my mouth water.
I haven't had one of them in a long time.

Sainsburys do excellent ones!  In a pack of five so we have to eat two each - and Mike gets the extra one next day - 20 secs in the microwave and it's lovely again!

[Manky Monkey]

 

No Chris, not yet. Just doing the bulkhead & surrounding panels while the engine's out. I slapped some filler on the roof just cos I was curious to see how much it'd take to smooth it out -actually, not as much as I'd thought. If we get time, we'll paint the roof before we go to Holland in November, but obviously getting the engine back in's a tad more important. It's a work in progress, so the rest of the body will get done over the Winter/Spring.

[panthershaun]

good luck bud, wish I was coming with you fella's again  

[Manky Monkey]

It'll be a wild weekend of carousing, dancing & supping Champagne from lady's clogs. We'll miss you, obviously, but will just have to muddle through without you somehow. Next year mate. 

[Olds]

dancing & supping Champagne from lady's clogs.

As long as they're not Lunatic's clogs.  

[panthershaun]

clog's are cool  plan to have the Pop done for next year.... don't fancy the Antwerp ring road in the rain in an open topped car  the woose that I am 

[Manky Monkey]

Wasn't much fun in the Pop last year -I've added a power socket to the dashboard specifically so we can use a SatNav on the trip this year.

[Manky Monkey]

Been rained off again today.
I'm working on the Pop outside & have decided to sort the bodywork out just as the long hot Summer gives way to the long wet Winter. We've had torrential rain all day here while I've been trudging the streets delivering the Mail & when I arrived at Mr Loon's workshop the howling winds had pulled the plastic cover off & it was flapping wildly about. A workmate has given me a large plastic tarpaulin, so I spent half an hour wrestling with it in the wind & rain, strapping it down as best I could. So I've given up for the day. I can hear the rumble of thunder outside now, so I'm guessing the rest of the week will probably be more of the same. I can see the Pop staying undercover till the Spring at this rate. 

[Olds]

Looks like this weather is set for at least the weekend. But is can't last forever, just till May.

[morrag]

Mr M, I admire yopur tenacity! I have, as you know, a largish, dry, and fairly well equiped workshop, but when the weather turns the way it is at the mo. I even feel diinclined to get out there!! so, ....Morrag

[Manky Monkey]

  Called in at the local hotrod shop this afternoon & was reminded that the Dutch show's only 4 or 5 weeks away. My enthusiasm's definitely been flagging recently, but Miles, the shop owner's very good at motivating people, (I guess it's good for his business), so fingers crossed I can get the bulkhead sorted over the weekend/early next week & get the damn engine in.

[Manky Monkey]

Hurrah! Finally I might be getting somewhere.
After several weeks of odd hours snatched here & there between the rain, I've managed to more or less sort out the bulkhead. It wasn't particularly wobbly, but it's a pretty complicated shape with lots of nooks & crannies. The objective was just to seal all the joints between the various sections to stop the influx of rain water under the dash that we had last year -but while the engine's out it makes sense to smooth out the bulkhead as much as we can & paint it. Once the engine's back in we won't be able to & I don't plan to strip the whole truck down for final paint for at least a year now.
So I've filled, rubbed down & re-filled the thing until my fingers bled & this evening managed to blow a quick coat of grey etch primer over most of it. I thought I'd made a pretty good job of the filling, but the primer quickly showed otherwise. Mr Loon assures me that's normal though & a rub over with finer emery paper, followed by a coat of high build primer should fix the imperfections. It'll probably still be a little wobbly, but at least it'll be smoothly wobbly -most of it won't show when the engine's in anyway & will be properly sorted when Loon has it back for final paint.
As long as we only take it out at dusk, it'll look fine.

[Manky Monkey]

The chassis looks rusty, but it's actually the anti rust treatment I painted on it that makes it look that way! I'll brush paint it with etch primer & gloss black chassis paint.
Still got to hook up the brakes & bleed them, fit the engine & get it running, fit the grille shell & the new oil cooler inside it, pray the electrics work, MOT it, tax it &, &, &  ...4 weeks today we need to be driving it onto the ferry to Holland!

[poprodder]

hooray, so glad your getting somewhere now andy.

[merv]

 At least its moving in the right direction