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SO I have just acquired a dummy warhead for a Type V111 torpedo...along with the motor...it will make a fitting display to recognise the part they played in the Falklands war...excited about this...also in the running for a Cold War East German patrol boat, still in East German colours...and with aloads of paraphernalia...very exciting times...

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if it has a one piece screen it is likely to have been fitted from a zil 130...are you sure yours is a zil 131...what engine do you have in it any chance of a picture...including engine etc...the chassis numbers were painted on the step...not stamped on the chassis. there should be a chassis number on a plate on the passenger door side by the seat...you will usually find 2 holes there where it has been removed...why they were removed I have no idea...getting it registered will not be easy you have to prove duties have been paid for them...if you do not know its supply or when it cam e here they can be tricky, I cannot remember the time factor now but if its over 25 years I think the VAT does not apply...I cant remember the detail now so forgive me if I am wrong about this...if you send me some photos I can determine the age better...if it has a plate stating 1977 that may be the date it was refurbished or it could be the age...they were first produced from about 1965/66, production finished in the 90's

good item for the museum...post war perfect. i have to go to farols to look at a unimog next week perhaps i could get it then...

I hope so...but even if no one shows I will enjoy it myself...and I plan to spend the next 20 years building the collection...I am independent of work these days so can now spend my hours writing up books and studying the cold war past present and future... its very very exciting at last...just saving up a few pennies now to buy a Phantom and Mig 21 for the museum...loads to do ready for the 1st May next year which is my target date...

tony I am not known for giving up...and I am going to open my museum...

okay good news two planning permissions accepted one lost but we have another go at that one with the museum application itself...but it means we could actually open the museum 28 days a year within the next few months but I am not going to do that I am going for the permission. its getting very exciting...

Mike your a star I will try that, where is the thermal switch located...

Hi Mike. Ok we don’t seem to have any problems with air oil or the csb lock and our temp gauge is working ok but the overheat light keeps coming on after a few minutes. The engine does not overheat but and the stop light simply never goes out. Are we right in thinking it’s connected to the temp sensor if the gauge still works but it keeps telling us it’s overheating. the stop light never goes off even before the overheat light comes on. Is the thermal switch you mention activated by the temp sensor or by its own sensor. Do you know where we can get this sensor from. Is it located in the dash or on the engine. Could we have two faults.

so we have the stop light on and after 3 or four minutes driving the overheat light comes on...the system is fully cold thermostat has not yet opened... we have a tiny leak we are having real trouble with curing...but this fault has appeared after that leak stated a long time ago...] has anyone seen anything similar of have any idea what it might be, I am assuming we have a heater sensor and wonder if that goes open circuit the stop light engages, or is the stop light caused by something else, certainty she is reaching air pressure and there seems nothing wrong on that side of things... very annoying at the moment just before her MOT...

i have to go today...are you about perhaps I could pop in and say hello..have sent PM with number

okay if anyone wants anything collecting from Withams tomorrow I am going in an estate car can collect smaller items let me know...asap...will be going back down south Hampshire same day,...

yes got the idea Terry....

yes this one I use already,... yes i use this one already...

bother no one going looks like atrip to get three tubs of vaseline is on the cards...how annoying...

Agreed, it certainly seems that way at times...

yep its an incredibly arduous laborious expensive game very similar to the lottery the terms of chances of succeeding...but I have been doing this for many years and building it into a museum has been my plan for a very long time and no one in EHDC is going to stop me from trying...i am as they say nearly there.

Okay here's where we are...I now have planning permission to store my collection on my land, I needed planning permission to do this, my own land my own stuff and I needed planning permission to store it..I truly wonder at the way this country is heading... So now I can move all my stuff and its in one place...still cant erect any buildings to put them under cover but that is the next task...I am about to put in permission for change of use to a Museum, once thats done and the new entrance approved we will put in an application for the first stage of simple sheds to see what sort of interest I can generate for the museum...its getting very close...

Hi Guys anyone going to withams in the next few days I won a few tubs about 5kg of vaseline, stupid me i wanted loads of other stuff but completely forgot about the auction...but to travel there for this is a complete waste of a day so wondered in anyone from Hampshire/ surrey area is collecting anything and could pick this up for me...its all paid for but I would be happy to cross their palm with a few bob to cover inconvenience...

thanks Wally, I have the manuals but they were at home not where I was. but its very interesting...

wally i agree with you just am incredulous, its a special type of engine oil but engine oil it is...we put hydraulic lic46 in it...not that different but yes I fully agree with you...

Wally the steering is a hydraulic system and I cannot get my head around them using engine oil in a hydraulic system...i would have thought it was more likely to be OEP220 sorry for being so incredulous but I have never heard of engine oil in a hydraulic system before...

Wally I cant get my head around this, engine oil in the steering system...it sounds complete madness...

hey also what is the torque setting for the wheel nuts...

engine oil in steering system...