andrewroberts.1953

The MUNGA was designed to run on the preverbal weasel pee! That is one of the good things about two stoke engines. Good luck with your new toy, hope it brings back many happy memories.

Get a bike inner tube, cut it in half. Tie one end off, and put the other end over the top of the fluid res. put a enought pressure in the inner tube to make the tube just begine to ballon. Bleed brakes again, making sure you keep some pressure in the tube. The problem is that the master cylinder is not able to pump fluid, due to the design of the seals etc in the cylinder not being wet. The other way, is lift the front onf the rover till it's at about 30 degrees. I have had to do this lots of times with rovers.

The reply my MP got was, this is a one off problem. I can only say that if you have a problem with DVLA, get your MP to chase them. You can find your MP by going to a site called http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/ Just put your post code in, and it will diecrt you to a page which allows you to send an email to your MP. The above did get things moving in the end.

In my case, I had the tax disc stolen from my 1962 Land Rover FFR. Contacted police, got a crime number, rang DVLA, told fill in form V20 attach V5c and send to local office. As stated on form V20, no payment required, and rang DVLA to ensure this and was told no payment required. Had the whole lot back from Swansea, saying payment required before anything could be done. Rang DVLA, told no payment not required. Sent in again, this time to Swansea as instructed. Got it all back again, as it should have been sent to local office. Rang DVLA again, told no send back to Swansea. Emailed my MP, and told to send back to Swansea with note that MP informed. After 10 days got it all back, with tax disc. Only took 32 days!

Has anyone had a bad experiance of late with DVLA? I seem to have had real problems, but according to them this is a one off. However talking to a few other people, it does seem that DVLA are getting very slow etc.

Graham You can never have enough MUNGAs. I notice you have a Haflinger, that will be good to see out ant about. Try and sort some info for you ASAP, but PC will not allow me to copy things at the moment!

John You can get the cylinder of without taking the driving flange off. You MUST put the drive flange back with very great care. If you PM me your address etc, I will send you some info. If you can't get the piston out, give me a shout and I will see if I have a used one which is good.

Graham Hope the email helped. If I had known you did not have a handbook, I would have sorted something for you before. I will try and get some info to you ASAP. We may have another MUNGA 4 in Devon in the near future. A chap has contact me about rebuilding another one!

As a rule of thubm, a ground plane needs to be as large in diameter as the antenna is long. It should be as close to a flat perfect conductor. This is why the VHF antenna (CB frequencies are very close), fitted to the front wings of Landrovers for Clansman etc, are very poor from an efficancy point of view. And why at times, you moust point the vehicle to get the coverage in the correct direction. The best place would be in the middle of the vehicle, but that's very hard in most practical cases. I have spent my whole working life doing this, and dune buggy type vehicles are the hardest. to get one project to transmit 10% of the transmitter power, cost the well over 20 times the cost of the vehicle. Also remember, modern electroincs don't like porr radio installs. We have to check things like anti-lock breaks, before the vehicle can be signed offf as safe. If you don't do it right, your insurance is void, as is your vehicle type approval.

Like all antennas, with the correct tuner unit you can use them for any frequency. However, that's not likely with what you are trying to do. It will be much simpler to use a purpose made antenna. Even that will not be easy, as you don't have what is call much of a "ground plane". You will need to try and antenna at several places on the vehicle, with an SWR meter in place. You need to place the antenna to get the lowest SWR at mid channel numbers. If the SWR is more that 1.5 to 1, you would be better of shouting and the output transistors of the radio will get cooked.

No, the shocks should move if pushed/pulled slowly, but should be hard to move if you do it quickly. Same shocks fitted to rear of type 2 camper/bus/van. The GSF pattern ones made in Mexico are about £12 each and very good.

Ken, not the one Mr Bushall had? Start saving all your used cooking oil. Have fun.

Phil No VC's in the MUNGA, it's due to the large amount of bronze used. EP eats it very nicely, just like Jeeps! VW bought out Auto Union, to get the rights to use the drive system. And of course the division of VW then became Audi, which had been one of the partners in Auto Union. The same drive is used in the Iltis.

John Welcome to online MUNGAland. Check gearbox has SAE 80 oil, and NOT EP grade same for dif. I was at an event yesterday, and we had a new MUNGA turn up from south Devon. So more are turning up all the time.

Hi Ken I am booked to take the FFR to another event. MUNGA now running well, but due to jackal build programme (and project Z) no time to take for MOT so far. Doing a few bits to my Iltis, but again no real time to do lots. Hope to catch up with you at some point. But you really need a stolly, much more like your piece of kit!

Hi Ken, how is you large american pick-up?

Hi, same as all other series rovers. But you may need to bend the fixings to get the top to seal at the top. This is because LW doors are not exactly designed to be weather tight! Remember as well Land Rover chassis (and other bits) are built to + and - tollerance of 1/4 inche.

Our liver and white springer comes with us, and is always sat in anyting I am working on! I will try and get a photo, if I can keep it still long enough!

I think there is a MUNGA 4 for sale in Dorcester, with original engine. I am still trying to find time to get mine MOT'ed, but work etc keeps getting in the way! I think lots of work going on in the background with people, just no-one tell people about it yet. Good luck to all MUNGA owners, enjoy your two stroke friend.

The 19 set was not a radio set that was designed to repaired, except for very minor faults. Hence well over 300,000 were built! Most were built in sub-assemblies, in homes around the Cambridge area by outworkers. The radio was designed, by Pye. It was designed to be cheap, quick to make, cheap, and cheap! If yours has much missing, the time etc to put it back in working order will be huge. Most 19 sets had the B set removed post war, and many have been got at over the years. Some valves can still be obtained, but are not cheap about £25 for the main transmitter type 807 valve.

Look in yout local freeads/Gumtree etc. A tax exempt LWB FFR (90 amp), went a couple of weeks ago close to me for £650. Just needed a head gasket, a couple of tyres, and a new tilt. The buyer had it fixed and MOT'ed in a couple of weeks. Rust in the bulkhead is a pain, but chassis welding is not too bad. All bits are cheap, and lots of bits about. Most places have a LR breaker close to hand, and new stuff is very easy to get on the web. Try and get something with a series two gearbox, as these are stronger than series three. About 6 spanners, and couple of screwdrivers, and pop rivet gun and you can do about 90% of repairs.

PMR446 radio (Argos et al), must by law have antennas you can't remove. So having a UHF radio in a metal box, will mean that the range will be nil. As you can't connect the antenna to the one fitted to the BC611 case, again the range will be nil. Just connecting a wire from the PMR446 radio, to the BC611 antenna will not work very well. The PMR446 antenna is made to work at 446Mhz, and with your hand as a earth plane. The BC611 antenna, works at about 60Mhz. When I did this for someone years ago, we put the PMR446 radio in a plastic box. It was to replace the function of a Larkspur radio in a Ferret, and so was on the top of the turret and connected to the harness. The mic/earphone insets in the BC611, may not be suitable either. And you will need to get a PMR446 radio, which can have external headsets etc. Like most things, given enought time and money anything can be done. But there are no quick fixes for this, I have spent years doing this for a job. If I can help any more, PM me.

It says FRS (family radio service), the frequencies of which are used in many parts of UK by blue light services, MOD, and hams. So use in UK would not be legal, and with so many other users you can expect to be found very quickly. Confiscation of equipment (if it's found in a vehicle that too can be taken), fines, etc. Best just to not fit any batteries, and just show them.

Had a quick look, but can't find one to hand. I will have a better look as soon as I can, so you may be lucky yet. I do remember the base that was fitted to the 62 set, being fitted to the carriers as well. As we had to take some off, to keep 62 sets repaired. The 62 set was flown in Austers, for air spotters. The radio was fitted face up on the cockpit floor, between the pilot and observer. A fixed wire antenna was fitted to the underside of the plane.

God, that makes me feel very old! I repaired these at base workshops, and even updated them with transistorised power units in place of the rotary transformer. I will have a bit of a look in the loft, may have a base.