Can any one help with information and parts please.
I am hoping to fit power steering to my Land Rover to make her easier to drive, now we are both OAPs
Has any member got any parts to sell, or a full list of part numbers would be a great help..
I need 4 bolt pas steering box, pump and fitting bracket, header tank and pipes, fittings and belt.
Vehicles full details. DIS 2.1.86 93KE06 vin SALLDHAC7BA2352323 110 hard top FFR with original engine 2.5NA
Contact details Mic
I have one new unused type 716 mast telescopic 8mt and ancillries, 5985-99-645-0001 Racal Antennas Ltd. I am in the process of selling up in the uk and would like it to be used as designed, it is to good kit to end up as a flag pole. Would any one like to make an offer. I am in the uk for another 7 to 10 days and it is located in east sussex tn6 3ql. E-mail tumbledown.farm@yahoo.com.
MVPA has lost it's insurance coverage for events. A member wide email explained the occurance that 'triggered' this decision. An unattended personal weapon left in an MV, was found and discharged by a spectator-wounding another spectator. Now all weapons at MV events are suspect. Newc
May I respectfully remind forum member CAP174 that the MOD Rations (sent free) requested by yourself in January 2020, packed/dispatched by parcel force on the 16.1.2020 with an agreement that the postage would be paid by return, has not happened.
The postage is outstanding after several reminders.
PLEASE NOTE. Since dispatch of the ration, it has come to light that the area in my barn the rations were kept, has a family of rats in occupation. No rations sent had any signs of vermin da
An interesting conversion of a Landrover to run on electric from down under. www.goingbush.com/ptev.html.
I would prefer the hydrogen cell to keep it more original.
Hi Folks
I know it is not spring yet, but I need to clear out my kit and find good homes for the following.Manuals from SEME, REME, Royal School of Military Engiieers, Chatterden Ect.
Plant Roads and Airfields School, MG11, Scrapper 4/6, D6C, Chalmers Alis-Chalmers, B100
The Army School of Mechanical Transport, ASMT, Advanced Training Wing, The Problem with Death. General Mechanical Principles Sep 1990
SEME, Engine Technology, Vehicle machanic upgrade 11-1, Transmission,
Part four Bulkhead repairs
Photo number one above shows the truck as collected the bulkhead was known to be very badly rusted but as the dismantling got under way the extent of the corrosion beacame more visible as soon as the bulkhead was removed from the chassis things seemed to get much worse.
Photos two ,three & four show the full extent of the corrosion the worst of the rust eating into the cab sub chassis on left side .
chassis repairs
Things have been moving on at a steady pace with the MWD restoration , i made my self-imposed dead line of having the truck sripped down to its component parts by the end of the christmas holidays ,the bulkhead has been sent off to be repaired by John the sheet metal man with it in good hands i could concentrate my efforts on the chassis repairs .
The fully stripped chassis in the workshop to assess the extent of the repairs needed
Copy of my notes re
Started the big strip down , i thought the best place was to start at the front and work back with the idea of having a bare chassis by the end of the Christmas holidays, although seriously rusted the front panel and bumper will be repaired and re used, the front panel still has in place the rare round Bedford badge
With the front panel removed the soldered joints holding the radiator to its frame had long since failed and after cutting through what was left of the radiator hoses it w
A new restoration blog for my next restoration project which is a bedford MWD built in July 1940 i first saw this truck when my friend John Rippingham asked me to help with the recovery of two bedford trucks he had bought from the disposal sale of a collection of military vehicles in Chester
The two trucks after there recovery from chester
The second truck being a later 1941 full cab model ,having already restored a later 1942 MWR model with a closed cab i thought it would be an
Being forced to down size due to injury. Going on the market NOW at scrap value 7.3.2020 some kit, trailer and workshop kit. I did try and do this several years ago under "all must go" but ended up in hospital and unable to contact the replies, sorry .
Some of the kit: 1 ton Rapier trailer from the Falklands, new boxed immersion field water heater, 110 soft top new canvas and odds and ends of vehicle new parts, .
Other workshop items: Shelving, work benches, manual vehicle recove