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Last Edit: Dec 12, 2018 20:37:55 GMT by Deleted
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Great idea for a thread, nice work as always It's always interesting to see what other people do, love your Jowett build thread but like you say - a seperate thread for "other interesting work" makes a lot of sense. Bookmarked, and looking forward to the updates
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Just catching back up with this - the side pods are painted and are stored up in the loft but I need to take some pics - and I repainted the aerofoil 4 times before I was happy with it - the upright is alloy but the horizontal fin is the thinnest blown fibreglass that I ever come across - you just have to look at from the other side of the room and it cracks open - eventually got it to the point that it can be collected by the client. Just needs a quick flat & polish with my fingers crossed that it does not crack whilst doing so
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brachunky
Scotland
Posts: 1,314
Club RR Member Number: 72
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Those stainless steel roll cabs are brilliant bits of kit Grumpy!
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Those stainless steel roll cabs are brilliant bits of kit Grumpy! Yes I have agree - that one is pretty long at 2.8 metres - but I like everything to have a place & have my workshop organised - I have another rolling stainless cabinet but a tall upright one like a wardrobe - I only keep the tools & equipment in the workshop that I use on a regular basis to avoid losing workshop space to storage - everything else lives up the in workshop loft - although stainless is a good idea they are gradually getting covered in paint overspray - you can try covering everything up but the paints that I use get everywhere plus the fact you could spend more time trying to cover up workshop equipment than the time you spend on the car that you are repairing.
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Last Edit: Mar 5, 2018 6:47:19 GMT by Deleted
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I was just admiring them too! Costco?
Returning to the rear wing, if they are that delicate how do they actually do their job?
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I was just admiring them too! Costco? Returning to the rear wing, if they are that delicate how do they actually do their job? The drawered roll cabinet was E Bay find / purchase and the tall roll cabinet (wardrobe type) was Costco and £250 ish - bargain in my book The rear wing is made in two halves and kept splitting on the seam - I don't think it helped with the fact that I use heat to accelerate the curing period of the paint and the adhesive used to bond the two fin sections together has a pretty low temperature point to when it starts to let go
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Apr 12, 2018 21:03:29 GMT
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So dug this out from under the workshop staircase this afternoon Its a 1943 Jowett WP Stationary Engine - I have owned it for several years and initially purchased it to prevent it from being stripped / broken for parts - it needs some restoration but not too much - more cosmetic than anything - but it's not going happen anytime soon with me - in fact it's not going to happen at all with me - I've sold it to a fellow club member who will get round to sorting it a lot sooner then what I can - With my client bookings plus my own cars & projects it would be years before I got around it - its gone to a good home and now it's out of the way I can start to think about getting the loo fitted under the stairs in the workshop at last
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Last Edit: Apr 12, 2018 21:05:02 GMT by Deleted
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I'll post in here to avoid cluttering up either the corsair or the range rover thread, but having met Chris, I'd just like others to know what an ace guy he is.
He offered me the use of his workshop to fit a towbar on my way through, but in the process helped to fit it too. This was great as I had just come back from France and was barely functioning on 3 hours sleep. We fitted the towbar, then wired and tested the harness, finishing at 12am.
So big ups to Chris, a RR legend.
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So a few distractions over the last 72 hours or so - 'sciclone' came to collect his towbar has he had used my address for delivery - must be challenging when away from your native country & touring - it made common sense to get it fitted using the workshop facilities that were on hand I think that we were both on the receiving end of sleep deprivation so it probably took longer than it should have but it got sorted Amongst other things I had something of a round trip over a few days to sort - so I went collected this from the lock up - with some ingunity I managed to get it loaded into the Range Rover single handed It's a Jowett Javelin engine that is surplus to my own requirements but I don't mind helping anyone out if returns another car to the road - so this was delivered to a fellow Jowett owner in Gloucestershire Easy to unload when you have forklift facilities Hopefully the donated engine will yield enough usable / serviceable parts to get the engine rebuilt for this 1949 Jowett Javelin And hopefully return it to the road - it's only been laid up for over 50 years Then I had to go & collect this trailer Which is a good strong workhorse but requires it's fair share of TLC - I only require the use of it on a handful of occasions every year so I find it difficult to justify the £3 - £4k for a new one, the used market is a nightmare - you just don't know what you buying - there is so much stolen / bodged stuff out there - this one came from a very honest club member and has been in his ownership for several years - unfortunately due to loss of storage & lack of use it's now requires some TLC - so I will get it sorted through the summer Then a long round roadtrip - not too many pics for my efforts though - take the P38 & trailer to Kings Langley & collect two seats for a virtually unique Jowett Bradford CD van (there are 3 prototypes surviving) & some club display boards - then on to Leighton Buzzard to load a Jowett Bradford van and deliver that to Barnsley then on to Cheshire to look at this stalled project of a Jowett Javelin It's had an extensive restoration over a 12 year period but still requires considerable work to return it to the road - complete retrim / rewire / lots of fettling / refitting etc - it's booked in to the workshop but I can't really touch it until this winter By now it's 20.00 hours and I need to head home - only 3.5 hours to go then ! - Trailer lights which have been fine for the last 250 miles now decide to play up has it falls dark ! - intermittent fault that requires several stops en route home - thankfully the trailer is empty and the lights from the P38 act has a back up but it's not a position that I enjoy being in - frustrated, knackered & tired I can fully understand why owners just dump trailers / cars that are playing up at the side of the road & in laybys - never to return for them - Finally got home at midnight only to find SWMBO had parked her car exactly where I need to park the P38 & trailer - great - having moved that and parked up I went just to get my bag out the back of the car only to find that somehow the 12v battery for the trailer winch had rolled and I now had everything in the load space covered in battery acid - thankfully it was all contained within a heavy duty plastic load liner but I still had to get that washed out before it did any damage - my neighbours must love me ! Has an aside to all of this and happening at the same time is 2 MOT's & services on the modern fleet one of which gets valeted / polished and the alloys refurbed so that it can now get now put on the market - life in the fast lane - well sort of !
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Last Edit: May 4, 2018 7:17:59 GMT by Deleted
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Went and parked the car trailer up in the barn so took some further pics of the latest addition Has previously stated it's a good strong - well built trailer - it tows straight & true when loaded / unloaded but it's had a life and now requires some work to bring it up to scratch Jockey wheel is temporary - the original was stolen - now I have fully identified the hitch coupling - I can go ahead and order the parts required This non OE ply boarding centre infill will be going has part of a weight loss programme along with the steel mudguards which shall be replaced with the lightweight plastic type - mudguard brackets to go too these are currently well over engineered and well capable causing serious damage if they got caught on anything - currently on order is all new LED lights to include marker lights front / rear & centre, jockey wheel, locking hitch head, hitch bellows, winch cable, mudguards & brackets, tie down eyes, side reflectors, ramp pins etc I will get the brakes checked / serviced although they appear to be in good order, 3 of the tyres are new and the other 2 are very good - the spare mounting needs to be improved, the winch rewired and a new solenoid box built along with a complete rewire of the lights. The longer term plan is for the trailer to be blasted then repainted (hopefully)
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Last Edit: May 6, 2018 9:25:52 GMT by Deleted
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I like the look of that barn. How is it not completely full of gear yet?
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I like the look of that barn. How is it not completely full of gear yet? I haven't even had the chance to move the stuff from home yet and two further unintended car purchases yesterday (that's a complete other story) it wont take long to fill it
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MiataMark
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 2,961
Club RR Member Number: 29
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Never mind the trailer that barn is wonderful!
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1990 Mazda MX-52012 BMW 118i (170bhp) - white appliance 2011 Land Rover Freelander 2 TD4 2003 Land Rover Discovery II TD52007 Alfa Romeo 159 Sportwagon JTDm
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Lots happening - so before the next phase of building commences at Grumpy Towers I need to make some space - I have cars & projects all over the place and need to consolidate things - did not realise until this evening that the ginger cat at the farm got in on the pic So over the weekend I unloaded the red Jupiter project off the trailer at the barn and shuffled it to the corner of the barn - then brought the trailer home and loaded the green Jupiter project and took that to the barn (The P38 doing sterling work has always) then had further shuffle with the green Jupiter up to the red one and then the Bradford van up to the green Jupiter for a 3 way Jowett project love in The red Jupiter and the Bradford van will be sold on through this summer Meanwhile back at Grumpy Towers - still too many cars / projects getting in the way - so out comes this 1998 Maestro 1.3L It's been hanging around here for the last 18 months and really needs to go I normally would not give this the time of day - however this one is of a 'Gemish Flavour' - being one owner and mere 9,600 miles from new Interior is has new Same can not be said for the tailgate struts which are dead New set sourced & fitted Removed the rear lamps so I could clean the lenses up Tailgate has a couple of minor dents around the rear wiper aperture along with some minor rust under the rear window seal which will all get sorted Offside front door seal had been split / perished and is no longer available - however the rear door seal is available So by splicing the factory mitre in the top corner and then using a piece cut length to the factory join under the sill step plate - it gets sorted Some minor paint to sort in the engine bay, it will need a quick service, a good polish up, the headlining is incontinent from it's backing board just like the rest of the BL / Jag range so that will also require sorting and it could do with the Dinitrol underbody wax retreating (was done when the car was new) - then it can be MOT'd prior to sale Meanwhile I advertised SWMBO's old modern (8 year old looked after Corsa) this morning in Autotrader - had a call within the hour and sold within 2 hours - that get's collected at the weekend so 2 down and still 3 more to go before the Grumpy Towers rebuild commences
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Last Edit: Jun 4, 2018 20:53:20 GMT by Deleted
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Good to see the updates - love the barn I had a similar trailer and put some lightweight wire mesh in the center between the tracks (where you are removing the spare timber), it's not too heavy and very handy if you have smaller items or furniture etc on the trailer
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Jun 10, 2018 13:09:30 GMT
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Apologies for gracing the pages of the July edition of 'Practical Classics' unfortunately I feature on the front cover, page 5 and then pages 136 - 138 with a guide & detailed step by step instructions on how to cosmetically refurbish alloy wheels - this was shot in my workshop over 12 months ago but we have just got around to publishing it - the wheel that I demonstrate the process upon is off a Maserati Spyder
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Last Edit: Jun 10, 2018 21:55:40 GMT by Deleted
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Jun 10, 2018 22:01:48 GMT
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A little more work done on the Maestro over the weekend Just about ready for primer Engine bay surface rust issues resolved - again - close to primer Meanwhile I went over to the barn and spent an hour on the Bradford van - fresh fuel supply / cleaned the carb up / checked the ignition bits - played around with the choke a bit - connected a battery after which it started straight up - engine runs like clockwork Now for sale
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