Akciddento. Doing the things that we want to
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line it all up and see if it ACTUALLY fits
after getting the kids to be i decided that rather than spending another evening in the anaesthetic arms of the one eyed lodger i’d go through all the stuff in bags and boxes in the junk room downstairs… i got on with a few jobs i knew needed doing, sorting out which of the garret…
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more bits
got more bits! got a 4 point TRS harness from neil HAB of the HAB ELiminators race bug, neil got a new harness from a motor show somewhere and he needed the old barrels and pistons from the 2332cc race motor form the samba. as far as i know he bought the racemotor from jason…
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222333
the hightop wedge hit 222333 khm as we rolled back into bristol… 🙂
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antifreeze!!!!
what on earth is this doing in a bus of mine ????? ah well… got it bolted in and oil in and connected up (though did have to do some twiddling with a load of epoxy resin on the junction of one of the water pipes… times were that i’d drop an engine in and…
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it’s in!
a quick blatt up to conors on friday night for a lovely relaxed supper in the hereford hills then pop into raceshack on saturday morning to see a hive of activity on the doublecab… how much i should tell i’m not sure but i think i’ve fallen in love with it… the cage is in…
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bolt i up me babber….
well after the job of cleaningthe old 1.9 block out of the front room to make way for teenage jam sessions i found the all important box with all the bolts in! so, come sunday lunchtime it’s out into the drizzle on with som esurgical gloves and on with reassembly of the 2.1 block. sorted…
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well that’ll blow the budget!
after looking into the prices of a new water pump i came to the conclusion that after i’d done the running around to find a machineshop to drill out the proken studs and helicoil the pump and then drop it off and collect it paying ?24.50 for a brand new one with gaskets and seals…
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back to the spanners
well, with a bit of encouragement i got the pulley off the 2.1 and was able to extract the waterpump (after lots of ‘gentle’ encouragement) so i can get the studs drilled out. i stripped and cleaned the old efi throttlebody and lo and behold it’s the same size as the RS turbo one i…
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unpacking the crate
out into the cold and start unwrapping the palette that came last week… here’s one bit… the 2.1 wasserboxer in the boot of the bus, looking a bit dusty, crusty stonecold fusty… it turns over by hand and there seems to be a good amount of compression but it’s been sat a long time in…
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look what arrived !
not only but also ! the bell rang at about 10.30 this morning and look waht turned up! that’s right, a teenage race fan and engineer extraordinair?! (he also bought the thing on the pallet with him) so here it is, the first peek at the thing we’ve been waiting for for so long… once…
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