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Oct 18, 2011 12:13:39 GMT
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Right, a little up date... Built up a new step from the rotten stump of the old one Cut and laid out some new floor pieces. All the new wood has been treated with Cuprinol, and the bottom sheet of plywood is exterior quality and has a coat of epoxy resin on the underside. Then we used acro props and some timber through the roof rack to jack the body up enough to slide the new parts between the chassis and the walls. It was then glued and screwed into place. Quite pleased with the way it turned out. The underside will eventually be painted, but for the time being the old girl is solid and weatherproof. Still plenty to do, but we are getting there slowly.
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Oct 17, 2011 17:18:44 GMT
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When I was younger I used to watch MM2 almost daily. On my 'days off' I would watch the first one, how my parents put up with it I will never know? Have some of my favourites. If the 4th film is half as good as the first two it will be well worth a watch. As a lorry anorak, I find the air starter on the Mack particularly pleasing to the ear.
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Looks ideal for my needs too:- ie I need to rumble around, smoking the tyres away from the lights and getting zillions of Shell drivers club points! ;D I would be tempted by something similar to these, although everyone and his dog seem to be running nascar style rims lately.
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are you around Sale? If so I was muttering to Ms Generallee the other day something along the lines of "that looks tidy... for sale, too." She muttered something about "perhaps when you finish your other projects you can have it." I think that's a no! Good luck with the sale chap.
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Sept 26, 2011 18:48:27 GMT
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Oh my goodness they are nasty.. In a good way. More metalflake needed IMO, perhaps with a name down the side, such as 'sex machine' or something?
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Sept 18, 2011 19:04:35 GMT
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First of a 3 part series.
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Sept 1, 2011 15:24:04 GMT
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Good to see another Merc camper on here. I've got a converted 407d van that I managed to return from quite a sorry state to reasonable, unfortunately the engine died and it's in storage starting to return to a sorry state again. I'd like to find out a bit more about the turbo conversion, have you got any pics? There seemed to be a few campers on here recently so I thought I would join in! The turbo was fitted by a firm in Lancaster called TB Turbo (presumably when new or nearly new). Apparently they did quite a lot of campers of this era. I will try and get some photos this weekend, but it is quite hard to see as it's all buried under the cab floor. From what I can see it has a custom/modified down pipe with a teeny Garret on the end, with an oil feed taken from the oil pressure warning light switch! Then loads of pipework, tiny intercooler, loads more pipework and into the standard intake manifold, it's pretty simple. I don't know what/if internal/head gasket mods were carried out. TB Turbo went under and my google searches have drawn blanks. The exhaust flexi pipe split on our travels, and the turbo whistle past my bean tin and jubilee clip 'repair' sounded wicked!
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Aug 29, 2011 18:49:37 GMT
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I love rupert's thread on here, and here is another! I want one! Is that a Garret-esque articulated loco? Sweeeeet!
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Aug 29, 2011 18:23:56 GMT
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Thought I would start a thread for our camper, I hope it will fit in OK here. It's a 1991 208D, with an Autotrail camper conversion. It has a 2.3 diesel with a turbo conversion (which makes progress slow, rather than painfully slow). In 2009 Ms Generallee took voluntary redundancy, I quit my job and we took off around Europe in our van "Moose" (named so when we bought him, and it just kinda stuck). Looked pretty smart when we set off We got about a bit, from the top of Norway to the bottom of Sicily to Istanbul and everywhere in between. After a year and 22,000 miles we returned home. The van had coped well, but the rear floor was a bit 'spongey'. We couldn't sell him after all we had been through together, and (as many on here will identify with) I would rather repair something than throw it away. So we took the kitchen out thinking (as, again, many on here will identify with) we will patch it up, won't take long. Up comes the lino and a small hole is discovered. A bit more poking about, and full extent of the rot is clear. So we pulled the floor out at the back. (organised) chaos with the floor out, we discovered the rot continued up the walls. These things are built pretty crudely, just cheap wood stapled together and plywood. Chasing the rot up the walls, we eventually got to good wood and replaced the rotten stuff with new. So that is where we are up to. Once the walls are sorted, we can start putting the new floor in... in theory. Going is pretty slow, and we (Ms generallee and I) have to learn as we go along, but we are getting there. Oh, the cab is pretty rotten, too. But I am ignoring that for the time being.
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Jul 24, 2011 17:00:52 GMT
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I didn't know Volvo made outboards, how many horses does it have? Looks like it will be serious fun!
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Jun 14, 2011 16:26:22 GMT
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Last Edit: Jun 14, 2011 16:27:33 GMT by generallee
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May 23, 2011 15:11:12 GMT
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Do you have a front end shot of the Beetle? Nope, but I borrowed these from the Buxton gallery, here: www.buxtonraceway.com/Mad Max, yeah it can be a good day out. It's always so chuffing cold though! Do you still have the Metro in your sig? if so I think I have seen it in Macclesfield, there can't be many about. It looks wicked!
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May 22, 2011 20:08:47 GMT
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May 22, 2011 18:49:23 GMT
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get more starlets and 205s on here right now. Here ya go- ...Strictly speaking not really 205s, but they look like it.
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Apr 26, 2011 18:52:47 GMT
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Some of them did, the earlier ones I think? It would be the 'right' way round in a rear-view mirror!
The ebay ad has a picture of the chassis plate, the number looks to be stamped in a bit hap-hazardly to me. Lovely car though. Serious want! No pictures of the engine bay either!
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Apr 25, 2011 20:18:47 GMT
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Yeah it's a good day out, but you often see the same cars. Super bangers and rookie rods are "domestic" formulas, so compete there most often. Historic/heritage hot rods are well worth a look if they are on.
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Apr 25, 2011 19:31:25 GMT
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