Sean N

youd be surprised at how little difference it makes to an aircraft like Tornado or Typhoon. .

 

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Don't know Chris, it seems to have made those two very tail heavy...

I was once told by someone who should know that buying things in Russia is no problem, but you have to grease everyone's palms to get your purchase out! If that's still the case, eastern Europe might be a better bet.

Austin, give me a shout when you're ready, I haven't got anything major but I am coming up with Thames E4 parts while sorting, be glad to help out.

I think you'll struggle to get genuinely free hosting that hasn't got major catches - essentially, their costs are storage and bandwidth, both of which they'll want you to pay for somewhere.

The traditional way of doing this used to be to use the free hosting that came with a personal internet account, but I don't know of any service provider who does that any more, or to piggyback onto a favourably minded organisation or company who were happy to support your organisation. I don't have any suggestions apart from that, I'm afraid, but if you need reliable free hosting it'll need a bit of lateral thinking.

Thanks Richard, thought it might be given the other Q4 bits I've found. I suspect that means it'll do the 2wd Superpoise of the same shape as well.

LV7/HR/HL/KR/CM (so Rootes Group, obviously) W10375 - Hose Top Water Pipe - 7" long, about 1 3/4" bore, and ribbed - ring a bell with anyone?

well another case of Germans stealing quality vehicles

First photo looks like another case of smokey old Gardner as well!

Bottom line, auction prices seem to eclipse rational boundaries.

Lot of truth in that. At auction it needs two to push the price up, but the flip side of that is it only needs two. I've seen plenty of silly prices at auctions because two buyers got into a bidding war, or because the buyer and underbidder were buying for different reasons to the usual market; particularly when the prices bid are silly money to Joe Public but loose change to them.

The unfortunate side effect is when the normal market starts to look at these prices and think they put silly values on everything!

I normally find you get the puff of smoke on coming back on the throttle after lifting off, but I know little about Meteors and either way it certainly does sound like valve stem sealing given the symptoms. I refer the honourable gentleman to my previous answer re. seals! Are you contemplating taking it apart, or living with it?

Larry, it should be fairly standard these days, but for simplicity's sake get something that has lots of choice of templates that you like, and get something that's based on blogging software like Wordpress or a content management system (CMS) like Drupal, Joomla etc. That way you can set the site up and post stuff on it just like you would post on a forum like this.

With 'free' web hosting watch out for the catches!

John, at what point when the engine is revved and then throttle released do you get the puff of oil?

A Cent parts list I have here covering Meteor MkIV lists shield for the exhaust valve and seal for the inlet, and specifically says the seal is rubber. As you suggest, perished rubber inlet seals would be consistent with your issues. The part number is 3/RR EM5114.

 

What are all of the small pipes all over the engine?

 

Steve

The small pipes all appear to relate to the intake - Ki-Gass starter or something along those lines, perhaps?

Having seen this happen at other auctions of military vehicle collections ... there is a bidding frenzy as they try to secure said vehicle

I think that's true of a lot of auctions, not just MV collections. I can recall Land Rovers going at Aston Down in the '90s for more than I could have bought an equivalent vehicle from the local dealer's forecourt.

High prices are just the way things go! ... There is only a limited supply left now and prices will only go up.

I really don't think that's the case; it assumes demand will always significantly exceed supply. There are strong reasons for prices to have gone up in recent years; but looking at the history of collectables, particularly classic vehicles, the way things seem to go is that prices shoot up due to factors such as availability, interest in a vehicle, other ways of investing etc., but then prices level out or even fall. The trick is judging the top of the market!

Have to say I think the same as Ferg. You can see why prices have moved on vehicles (not just military) since 2008 - people weren't getting returns on cash in the bank, so might as well invest in collectables and have the enjoyment of them as well.

I do wonder now though whether we're seeing something of a bubble developing - prices are paid at sales like this which don't really have any obvious sense or relationship to other prices, while elsewhere we see vehicles advertised at seemingly very optimistic prices and often unsold for month after month.

Vincents ended up making horseboxes - until recently there was a very rusty baby TK with a Vincents body on it near us, think it got scrapped in the end. I think they kept going until the '70s at least.

Tamber, I started to strip this cylinder but I'm struggling to get two of the mounting nuts undone. It'll probably be next week now before I can attack it again.

Transferred from the 'Heads Up' topic; this AEC Militant now for sale:

It's been shortened at the rear, and an extra subframe and the 4 tonner body fitted, but that could be removed quite easily. It runs and drives but the clutch is stuck and the fuel tank leaks.

Overall it looks tatty because of the body and the peeling paint, but from what I've seen of it it's actually fairly sound and would be quite straightforward to restore or put back on the road - the cab is a lot more solid than many unloved (or even well loved) old Militants.

It's in East Dorset, and advertised on behalf of a friend. If you'd like to come and have a look or want to know any more contact me.

Sean

S3, S1 Landys (the S3 was Q166 RAE) and a Jeep between Gillingham and Shaftesbury yesterday afternoon around 4:30?

Sorry, posted in wrong forum - can someone delete? Thanks.

We call CMP trucks Blitz trucks in Australia, for some reason

And 'Puddle Jumper', apparently...

It would be worth asking Bernie Smith and some of the Bedford parts suppliers.

If I get a chance in the next couple of days I'll check the one I've got anyway, just in case.

Could that be a Morris Commercial MRA1 in the background? Pretty sure it is not a K9

Yes, it could be, even the welding truck version though the plant generator can’t be seen! The tilt ‘looks’ more MRA1 ton than it does K9 and I’m sure that looks like the prominent body strake rail of the MRA1 Ton.

I'm certain that's a K9, and I've owned enough of them. K9 GS had the big rubbing strake as well, above the rear arch as in the photo whereas I'm pretty sure the one on the MRA1 is interrupted by the wheelarch; and you can see the wheelarch extensions on the front wings and the prominent curve of the wing.

Another view, showing the ramps.

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- and a couple of nice K9s!

Is this the £250 one? A lot of people don't like accepting Paypal though, partly because of the extra charges involved and partly because there are several well known scams involving Paypal payments which, thanks to eBay's buyer protection policies, can be difficult to protect yourself against as a seller. That might be why he doesn't want Paypal, but strictly speaking, he can't refuse Paypal in the vehicle spares and accessories category.

If it's expensive to have sleeved it would be worth asking around to see if you can find a new old stock one first. These master cylinders are still about at reasonable prices, although the later style is more common.

I can have a look at the one I've got down here, though when I mentioned it upthread I was more thinking of it for the servo parts - being a used cylinder, it's likely to be bad as well.

If you do get a new old stock one, try to get it from somewhere you can inspect before you buy, or can return it to; it's been my experience that they can corrode on the shelf.

Good luck!

Thanks Sean, how do I get hold of Richard Banister?

01797 253211