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« Reply #4260 on: January 24, 2012, 11:12:49 PM » |
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« Reply #4261 on: January 27, 2012, 10:35:25 PM » |
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A busy day at the 'shop today with both Kapri & Terry T travelling up from the coast to tackle the truck. Many thanks for your time chaps.  Kev's had a complete re-think on the brakes so today we ripped out most of the pipework & started again. Not a lot to show so no photos, but by the end of the day about half the system had been replaced & re-routed. As usual, Tel & Kev did all the work while I was sent out on a scavenging trip for missing bits & generally got in the way. Makes a huge difference just to have a fresh shot of enthusiasm & I really appreciate the gents giving up their day to help out. I went away armed with a small shopping list of odds & ends we'll need next time & have a list of jobs I can do until we meet again. Thanks again guys. |
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« Reply #4262 on: January 28, 2012, 10:53:21 PM » |
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great bunch of guys.
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« Reply #4263 on: January 29, 2012, 09:58:20 AM » |
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Spent an hour or so driving from Hampshire to Wiltshire after work yesterday afternoon, to visit my brother Brock. Big bro builds drag racing cars in his spare time. I took the monkey head bonnet badge Steve Brock created to be TIG welded together. My brother's called Steve & has the user name Brock. The guy with the lazer cutter in Dublin's called Steve Brock. Very confusing! Anyway, I'd hoped to get the badge parts welded together, (a bit too delicate for Loony's MIG, so some precision TIGing was called for), & take it home with me to try on the bonnet of the Pop on my way back past the workshop. Wouldn't you know it, Steve had run out of gas for the TIG. Poo. No matter. Hopefully he can fix it next week & drop it into the 'shop. Nice to see you again bro.  Scottie, the hotrod haulier tm was also there. I've provisionally booked his services again to take us to the test station in a couple of weeks time. Belated happy birthday Scottie. Enjoyed poking around the various projects in Steve's workshop & nattering with the chaps for a while. Because the brake pipes have been re-routed under the dash of the Pop, the hidden plastic windscreen washer bottle has had to go, which means the work I put into cutting a glovebox/access hole for it in the dash was kinda wasted. Never mind, I'll keep it as a standard glovebox. I mentioned to Steve that I was looking for a suitably vintage container for the windscreen wash, to mount on the bulkhead of the engine bay, (don't want anything modern & plastic in there). He produced a brass radiator expansion tank, possibly from a mark 1 Transit van, that has been sat on a shelf in his 'shop for 10 years. I think we can do something with that -everything gets used again eventually. Thanks Mr Brock. |
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« Reply #4264 on: January 29, 2012, 10:36:03 AM » |
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its a never ending hobby. admire your stamina mm, hope to see it in the flesh when im working down your way sometime.. cant say i have ever thought of abandoning ship in the 14 mth iv been at my first build
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no rush fella, take all the time you need,
can i have it in 20 Min's?
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« Reply #4265 on: January 29, 2012, 10:53:40 AM » |
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I daren't think how many years of my life I've spent in sheds & workshops, working on projects. Or how much money I've blown on them. Still got nothing on the road! I've got Taz's American muscle car, plus 2 trikes & a chop to finish after this one! I've often thought of walking away from it all, believe me, but too far into them all now for that. We've been working on the Pop, on & off, for 3 or 4 years now. Lots of false starts, changes of direction & differing ideas. Nearly every part on it's been reworked or replaced a couple of times now! I often cruise home from Loony's workshop, pretending I'm rumbling along in the truck.  I figure as long as I'm still doing that I've still got the enthusiasm to get it finished & cruise for real. |
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« Reply #4266 on: January 29, 2012, 03:12:36 PM » |
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Hi Andy
At least you got something you can walk around and touch,that must give you hope when things get a bit tough and money short.
At the moment all i got is boxes of bits and i wonder what next.
Its this site and the members storeys and there projects that keep me going, and your one of the biggest inspirations going, you will get there in the end and then it will be all worth while
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Why do every five minute job take all day, and
if it can go wrong it will go wrong
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« Reply #4267 on: January 29, 2012, 06:03:17 PM » |
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I'm certainly one of the biggest somethings, but I'm not sure inspiration's the right word! I've got an ever growing list of people I've promised to visit in the truck when it's done. I think the running in period will be spent touring the country, taking various forum members out for a spin in it. 
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« Reply #4268 on: January 30, 2012, 01:13:13 PM » |
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I hate when people compare Lemmy with God, i know he is great but he is not gonna be Lemmy, ever If your Dad hasnt got a beard, you've got two Mums there's no point it lookin' pretty if we can't drive it.
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« Reply #4269 on: January 30, 2012, 01:16:34 PM » |
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petrol's only a quid!
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I hate when people compare Lemmy with God, i know he is great but he is not gonna be Lemmy, ever If your Dad hasnt got a beard, you've got two Mums there's no point it lookin' pretty if we can't drive it.
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« Reply #4270 on: January 30, 2012, 01:18:19 PM » |
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I'm certainly one of the biggest somethings, but I'm not sure inspiration's the right word! I've got an ever growing list of people I've promised to visit in the truck when it's done. I think the running in period will be spent touring the country, taking various forum members out for a spin in it. Reminds me of Fred Dibnah when he got his hot rod traction engine finished |
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There's nowt as light as a hole, so add lightness.
Our lady of blessed acceleration, don't fail me now! - Elwood Blues
Nitro doesn't add power, it multiplies it! Bob Loux, running 10.07 secs @138mph on a 650 normally aspirated Triumph drag bike in 1965!
"Incontinence Hotline" - please hold.
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« Reply #4271 on: January 30, 2012, 10:15:12 PM » |
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do any one know what way up this is fitted to the Body chassis.it came of a ford courier van. i have tried to go ogle it but with no joy. any one got a shop manual or better still a ford small van escort fiesta courier. they could look and take a photo  ?  |
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« Reply #4272 on: January 30, 2012, 11:32:35 PM » |
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what is it..........if i know where to look i can check works van tomoz?
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I never wanted to be normal anyways!
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« Reply #4273 on: January 30, 2012, 11:36:57 PM » |
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It's a load compensator valve from a Ford Fiesta van.
Fits somewhere above the rear axle. It alters the volume of fluid going to the rear brakes when there's a load in the vehicle.
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« Reply #4274 on: January 31, 2012, 12:10:51 AM » |
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hooky,,springy,,, bit should hang, down,,,,,,  |
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LIVE FAST and DIE YOUNG,, past 50 AND STILL HERE NOW. WAITING. FOR. THE. GRIM. REAPER
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