Category: T2
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splitscreen flight sim…
i’ve been looking around for a cheap windows laptop to monitor the new engine management system on the bus… should be a giggle, enough to keep me out of trouble anyhow. if i run a serial extension cable from the main ECU in the engine bay up into the cab i can drive along with…
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he wasn’t kidding…
martin taylor at taylor machine works sent me some pictures ofthe damage done to the dyno while he was doing the mapping on the new engine…. when he said it made a mess he wasn’t kidding ! you can see the fractured propshaft of the dyno, the damage to the dyno bellhousing and, sadly some…
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back to base
back to base to refuel, feed the rat, water the tomoatoes and charge up the batteries for the cameras… and here’s a bus i fixed earlier… been filtering some of the timelapse movies i was making on thursday night of the moonrise in the mist… they look promising as source material for some stuff i…
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good and bad…
spent the morning removing the rock n roll bed i put in last week and keying the frame ready to spray in blauweiss to match the interior. recovered the back of the seat back board so that when the bed is in seat position you dont see white formica through the back window.. got it…
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off to bugjam
and it’s raining, a lot. i can hear the lorries swishing up and down the road through the puddles. pack the bus, get paul botch to finish the welding on the 412, pull the enginein the bus, strip it, rebuild it, do a four wheel alignment and rework the interior. have a bath , then…
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blessed be.
today is a bit of am odd day. paul venners – of the commentating, ‘botch boys – team botch- fame- is round for a few days doing the welding that needs to be done on the 412. he’s tapping and welding and grimnding away. my boy louie came back from school yesterday and walked through…
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fugly has found a home
here it is nestled between the trees next to the samba. had a quick look over it in the cold light of day and it appears top be very solid. there’s a variety of electrical mayhem going on and lots to be refitted but hopefully this will be straightforward. it also appears to be pretty…
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4.1 litres of aircooled power!
after an early start i decide to keep the single quiet pack exhaust on the bus rather than swap it back to the magnaflow muffler as i had intended. no real reson, just lazy i guess… ..off to the bank and sneak out with a big manilla envelope and off to portsmouth to the funkenblitz…
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the deva dub show
not much more that i can say at the moment. blown away.
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off up north again!
it’s friday and i’ve been invited by adele who races ‘striptease’ in vwdrc to show the bus in a lineup of race cars at the deva dubs show in chester… i load up the bus with beer, loads of fruit, flyers, stickers, some t shirts and enough computer and camera gear to sink a battleship……