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I forgot to ask about the jerry can holders. They are again a fairly standard jeep items, or I guess fitted to lots of other things (I seen them here on the Asia Motor Jeeps, well look very similar). good to see some pieces as makes me think about the junkyard. I can't recall seeing an oil cooler (for some reason that nags me) So when you flying over here with an empty suitcase?

will be fun to get into those, interesting differences Those front indicator lights are they a Canadian mod? Seen them fitted to lots of US type vehicles. Curious as I saw the UK MOD type over here hmmm edit just saw this piccy... so Canadian fit [ATTACH]25526[/ATTACH]

nah its ok, washed it 'again' on saturday

yep can see only 4 stud rims

this one is Olive Drab already http://www.mudah.my/Bsa-m20-5282138.htm?last=1

Sounds like a missed you tube oppurtunity

this could be painted Olive Drab :cool2: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1988-Vespa-Mark-1-T5-Project_W0QQitemZ120550488892QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Motorcycles?hash=item1c115e7b3c

G'Day and Welcome

I used to do it a lot and I started loosing the feeling in my last 2 fingers to the point I could not hold a fork. After several checks, they found I had crushed the nerve that goes under my elbow. To fix it I had to go for an operation, 6 inch cut. groove the bone and move the nerve around. Never regained full arm extension ie cant fully straighten by a degree or so, but could have permanently lost the use of half my hand.

ahhh ya killing me, another different type of Pinz rim........... where, what

-Don't leave the soldering iron on the caravan step -Don't proceed with the sharp pointing thing when the thought passes through your brain "if I slip this will hurt" -Don't have your car keys on one of those inertia reel things, with added problem don't let your kids pull on them to full extension and let go (resulted direct hit on your pecker) -Don't test 12v wire with your tongue -Don't hold beer with your teeth whilst shooting -Don't clench a spanner when dislodging a rusty nut -Don't hit a tree on a motorcycle -Don't tow anyone (most people have no idea on how to be towed) -Don't sit at the computer like the great thinker ie typing with one hand and resting your chin on your other hand, elbow on the desk (very bad)

Those type of sellers irritate the hell out of me, especially on Ebay as on the listing they can block international bidders but most don't. At the end when you ask for postage cost they suddenly say "oh we don't post stuff there". Anyway look foward to more piccies of your rebuild

there was a thread on a Pinz forum of a BMW 3.0 litre fitted but never seen the full story. Pity sounded like a grand idea

G'Day

There is much interest in the 3 litre BMW TD diesels. I was toying with the idea of buying one with auto gearbox

yeah light armour is fairly thin........... the main problem is when the bullet goes through one side and ricchets on the inside. The angle on the arrmour helps to some extent. I still remember hunting bunnies with a 303-25 and I shot at one and hit the railway track instead. Left a good 10mm chunk out of it. Quite a hilarious night as our hunting party (read ute load of semi drunk teens) told me to switch to my smaller gun ' they thinking it was a .22. I was actually an M1 carbine anyway back to armour and bullets the newer 5.56 SS109 rounds with the tungsten core has far greater penetration than a 7.62

Doing a bit of work on my mates one, again today. Got the urge to diassemble these heavy recovery lugs we got last trip to the junkyard. As per the norm: - last one had a half sheared split pin in it - no pin punches - did create special tool using big screwdriver and hammer :nut: but it worked [ATTACH]25268[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]25269[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]25267[/ATTACH]

No Easter here :embarrassed: but did squeze in a Good Friday Spin. Scared the hell out of a guy doing my usual track and then he wanted some more so what about that hill. Said hill was between 70 and 80 degree slope and 10m high........ Tried a few times and could get the wheels to just before the ridge, but no go. Later when it dries out a bit. The steepness can been seen by the garden I collected on my front winch and rear Nato hook [ATTACH]25266[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]25265[/ATTACH]

The fusible plugs are very dangerous in themselves as the idea in a hot landing the plugs melt and the centres shoot out very fast so the tyre deflates instead of explodes. In the old days when you had stair ways getting on planes if the landing was a bit hard they would only let you exit from the front, incase one let off and hit someone.

At least I guess there was some correct information or real information from your relative as the UK and commonwealth forces never really had the tenacity of the US about their soldiers i.e. everyone comes home ideal (not sure where that tradition comes from). The first Australian soldier killed in Vietnam was going to be buried in the closest commonwealth grave site in Malaya as the government at the time saw it as too expensive to bring back and it caused quite an up roar. I think now from memory he was the first conscripted. Oddly enough I have seen many of these war grave dug up and removed during my last 15 years in Asia. I often wonder how folks of today would deal with drudging around in tranches for a few years with trench feet and all other assorted ailments. I did 8 years in the Army and never earnt my money Your Grandfather's comments about Manchester getting bombed is another of those what if type things now i.e. people now having to endure. "The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and b~ their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. All hearts go out to the fighter pilots, whose brilliant actions we see with our own eyes day after day; but we must never forget that all the time, night after night, month after month, our bomber squadrons travel far into Germany, find their targets in the darkness by the highest navigational skill, aim their attacks, often under the heaviest fire, often with serious loss, with deliberate careful discrimination, and inflict shattering blows upon the whole of the technical and war-making structure of the Nazi power. On no part of the Royal Air Force does the weight of the war fall more heavily than on the daylight bombers, who will play an invaluable part in the case of invasion and whose unflinching zeal it has been necessary in the meanwhile on numerous occasions to restrain. " "There we stood, alone. Did anyone want to give in? Were we down-hearted? The lights went out and the bombs came down. But every man, woman and child in the country had no thought of quitting the struggle. London can take it. So we came back after long months from the jaws of death, out of the mouth of hell, while all the world wondered. When shall the reputation and faith of this generation of English men and women fail? I say that in the long years to come not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we've done and they will say "do not despair, do not yield to violence and tyranny, march straightforward and die if need be-unconquered." Now we have emerged from one deadly struggle-a terrible foe has been cast on the ground and awaits our judgment and our mercy."

I had to go back to my first post in this thread to describe today... [ATTACH]25168[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]25173[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]25171[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]25172[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]25169[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]25170[/ATTACH] Hopefully the damage is in the area I am cutting off, the last i.e 700mm

i can't remember now but I think it was during the first world war someone came up with the idea that you can join up together and fight together. At the time it was thought a good idea, mates together etc.... the problem was, and this is why I think it was ww1 was that the entire menfolk from a village could be wiped out in one battle. Lest we forget

Don't worry I think most of can agree that in Germany they drive on the wrong side of the road . I have to swap back and forth all the time but easier now most times as typically there is traffic, so you go with the flow. Only seems to be a problem when you are on a quiet trafficless road, you tend to revert to the 'better' side of the road. The other concern is turning left or right, when you get back to the real world depending on how many weeks you been wrong siding it.

I tried my battledress jacket on 2 years back, and it looked like a skimpy halter top on me now. I guess I went through mid life expansiaon at some point :cry:

anyone that would want a Budweiser screensaver has faulty system already Mind you when in America, do as the Americans do, drink Mexican beer :cool2: