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« Reply #5115 on: July 25, 2012, 04:21:15 PM » |
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« Reply #5116 on: July 25, 2012, 06:00:32 PM » |
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« Reply #5117 on: July 25, 2012, 10:10:52 PM » |
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No no, fairs fair, he is the bestest person in the...................Well the best that going to be around Malborough way this weekend, hopefully, please, what more can I say??.......................bloody he............is that enough grovelling or what!!!!!
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« Reply #5118 on: July 26, 2012, 06:07:47 PM » |
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 Still messin' with the floor panels. After weeks of rain, now we're all moaning it's too damn hot to work on motors! Mr Renegade posted this pic of a Ford Prefect at a local car show. This is the shade of green we're aiming for on the Pop.
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« Reply #5119 on: July 26, 2012, 06:27:02 PM » |
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Still messin' with the floor panels. After weeks of rain, now we're all moaning it's too damn hot to work on motors! Mr Renegade posted this pic of a Ford Prefect at a local car show. This is the shade of green we're aiming for on the Pop. It's a Pilot |
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« Reply #5120 on: July 26, 2012, 07:46:24 PM » |
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yep ford pilot, with flathead v8.
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« Reply #5121 on: July 26, 2012, 09:00:27 PM » |
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I do apologise chaps. Yup, tis indeed a pilot. I think my brain's dissolving in the heat.  |
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« Reply #5122 on: July 26, 2012, 09:32:50 PM » |
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I do apologise chaps. Yup, tis indeed a pilot. I think my brain's dissolving in the heat. It most be all that groveling you've been doing  |
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« Reply #5123 on: July 29, 2012, 06:05:35 PM » |
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After tiling the kitchen the other week (Never done it before) I said I would never do it again, just found another job for the list of not wanting to do again. FITTING KIN PIN BUSH's  I've not done it for years and luckily theres not many cars or vans that need it doing anymore. Mankey brought his front axle to Steve's today for me to fit his new kingpin set, its a long job anyway, but it took me longer than I would have liked, to be honest, most of it was not down to me but the new pins. (Not a deep enough cut for the cotter pin to sit in) Anyway, all done now and no doubt Mankey will be on after with a photo or two. I did have a spitfire front axle in the back of the van when I left, but just had a look when I got home "Its gone" the spitfire fairies must have nicked it  |
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« Reply #5124 on: July 29, 2012, 06:55:02 PM » |
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Oh, that will be alright then Tony, my missus recons I've spent most of my life "away with the fairies" so I''ll just go and have a look, but just in case the bits turn up in 'Pandy, when shall I come and collect them? Morrag
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« Reply #5125 on: July 29, 2012, 07:14:17 PM » |
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What is it they say about bad workmen & their tools? Many, many thanks for your time & experience Tony. Just the one snap of some old guy fitting the new precision made parts, using a girt big 'ammer. These are the pins that attach the hubs to the front axle. After 60 years of wear, the bushes in the hubs had worn enough for the wheels to wobble. Fortunately they weren't on the list of checked items for the SVA test, but would be a definite fail in the MOT test. The new bushes are oversized, so need to be reamed by hand to fit the new kingpins. Tony's test fitting one of the pins here. I brought cake too. |
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« Reply #5126 on: July 29, 2012, 07:38:45 PM » |
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Tony's "Cunning Coupe" on the left, Lesley & Steve's "Black Pig Too" on the right, with their race transporter truck behind, complete with new awning.
Morrag, I nagged, reminded Tony about your Spitfire bits, as promised.
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« Reply #5127 on: July 29, 2012, 07:40:21 PM » |
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changin and reaming kingpins ,,thats a job i used to enjoy doing greatly ,,but not on the old AEC coach,s we used to have to take a couple of saets out and cut a hole in the floor to get the BIG ,AMMER and drift though thay was bar-stewards  |
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« Reply #5128 on: July 29, 2012, 07:47:44 PM » |
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When Tony stripped the axle he found the shim washers were Bakalite, rather than brass like the replacements, so wonders if they were the original fittings. 60 years old.
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« Reply #5129 on: July 29, 2012, 07:59:45 PM » |
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The not so secret, secret project. Being built jointly by Steve, (Brock), & Scotty the hotrod haulier, as & when they get the time, funds & parts. A 3 1/2 litre Rover V8 engined Nash Metropolitan gasser. Crazy? Oh, yuss.  |
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