mogmaner

Been watching this tread for a while,seeing as the hand brake is aplied by a ratchet it should be posible to fit a lorry stile sprung on air cylinder to the cable with a discreet lorry hand brake valve ,it would meen you needed a air supply but would give you the requied control on braking ,this should then comply with the requied rule .

about 1.5 inch of snow in Nottingham this morning, got to check my mog this after noon . Must fix the heater on my disco bl**dy freezing with out it.

Thanks for the replys im now on the waiting game for him to make a desition so fingers crossed.

Good look

This is a shot i took last year hope to take some more over the weekend.

Trying to paswade a frend to part with a dreilict K5 soft cab, looking for pictures to help with the rebuild if i sucseed,looked on the web but found very little ?

can you post the chassy rail dimentions ,a lot of old trucks were made into trailers at the end of there lifes so there may be one lerking on a farm some were ,theres some in a pile a my frends so will have a look this week for you.

if you have a lack of spark check the points are clean as these engines suffer with a corosion that cotes the points ,there should be a acses cover for the points in the flywheel also the the plug gap wants to be 10 thou caunt remember points gap offhand good look .

been a rotary distributer type pump ,to loose one cylinderis rair ,i have had the fiting on the pump head to witch the ingector line conects come loose this will cause lose of injection presur on that line and fuel driping off the pump body .remove the injector line is tight then refit the line and try again.let us all know how you go on .

can you post the meter dimentions and i will have a look among my geny bits.youst to have a PU8 lovely engine just very thirsty, one of those things you part with then regret .

LPG is a good starting point ,I run my unimog on lpg cuts the runing cost by 2/3 .Some of these trucks have been retro fitted with diesels so a web search should give you a engine spec to sute the truck.

The road tax lost would be fare supast by the fuel duty gain .so they still win.

you will find that there was a lot of ex mill and pmr radios yoused on the amature bands ,till the modern sets became avalablein the late 70s it was the maine sorce of equipment .I still have PYE westminsters on 4 and 6 meter bands ,my hf recever is a 1155 aircraft set from the 40s got to make the ht power unit so that i can put my 1154 trasmiter into service .once you are on the air ask round and you will find that there is a wealth of info out there . good look Graham G1DNZ.

had a simler prob on my land rover was found to be a pin hole in the hose between pump and res ,blead the steering box for air by going from lock to lock and releasing the bleed screw while on full lock this clear any air from the system, this is best done with a helper then check all pipes . my feed had rubed through agenst the chassy, made a temp fix with a split bit of hose and a hose clip .this might help track the foult .

looking at the rad pics it strook me that it is very much like the fergison tractor rad ,just with extra outlets ,will see if i can get some dimentions for conparison.

Will keep a look out and let you know if i find any thing.

Have you a picture of the corect rad ,going to newark autojumble tomorow will have a look round for you if i know what to look for ,if this helps let me know ,at the rate your going youl be up and runing befor the end of the year .

I agree with tony on the cheep Disco,s , just picked a 300 tdi on the L plate for £400 so there are bargins to be had.

Will be down one day dont know witch yet , fetching a couple of loads down over the bank holiday weekend to the fair ,but will have a wonder to see the early arivals ,hope the wethers kind this year .

Look forward to seeing it when conpleted ,Will have a word with Luke Forrest when i see him and see if there are any pics of it in youse.

will see if i can get there in the next few days .

are you soted if knot have some quick met in my van, hot glue guns work well on plastic fitings mp my number for if you need help.

phone the network direct you will get a beter deal than the shops can offer and it is normly done there and then they know your credit from billing .

just tell your existing network you want to leave and they will ofer all sorts to keep you ,just look up the fone you fansy befor you ring.

just been looking at the calinder and realised that i have to be in Sitingborn to move a load from the show ground sunday evening ,an excuse to visit w&p with some one else paying the fuel then looked at the public days , tipical rong weekend :cry: .hope you all have a good show .