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Enigma, was that you sat on the back of one of the tanks (Sherman?) at Martinstown?

Gary, I've found with several vehicles that gunge will build up in the master while the vehicle's sitting, holding the seals off the side of the cylinder. All the fluid then falls out. K9s are devils for this. Strip and clean, or sometimes even just bleed, the master and they come back right as rain. When you have the chance strip & inspect just to be sure but you may be OK. Mind you, I know nothing about GMCs...

No worries here Mark, Hi Mark, Welcome to use any of mine, just shout if you want hi res versions. Glad to make a contribution however small in exchange for such a great day.

That's great, I'd remembered it as a B46 so that's pretty much spot on. Thanks.

Anyone know what size an RL fan belt is? Early 300 petrol as fitted to AFS trucks. My parts lists are 20 miles away and my brother's broken down!!

I think you do yourself a disservice, Ashley, there are some terrific photos there.

What a great event, even though I am just speaking as a spectator; and not only because everyone had a good time and there were no major disasters. Watching the convoy on the move, particularly approaching the A35 and coming out of Martinstown, you got a real feel for what the roads of Dorset must have been like on the run up to D-Day. The photos are just a taste, we've got more but I'm sure there are loads of others to come; I think we've got stills of quite a few of the vehicles, if anyone wants a hi-res version. I've lashed a video together. It's a bit rough (hadn't used the camera for ages, and haven't had much time to edit it), and the quality's a bit variable (still getting used to YouTube), but hopefully it'll give a flavour of things. It's up in three parts on YouTube: Part 1, Wynford Eagle Hill: Part 2, approaching the A35 from Compton Valence: Part 3, Martinstown and leaving Martinstown for Dorchester: Cheers to all who organised, helped and took part.

There's a guy works for Practical Performance Car mag who's puy a Meteor into a Rover SD1, got it running on a mapped Emerald injection system.

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They never want to come off. If Mr Farrant or someone's got a handy tip for making Austin steering wheels let go without damage I'd love to hear it.

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/vintagevehiclespares-car-commercial

You could try Bernie Smith, who's on eBay as vintage commercial spares or similar, he's fairly reasonable. Kits and cylinders for air over hydraulic TK's fit, but be sure you're getting the right cylinder as there are some differences. In my experience kits don't work, though, you always end up replacing the cylinder, as they get rust pits on the bottom of the bore allowing the fluid to bypass the seals. Its worth stripping the cylinder and finding out what's wrong first.

Hi Lee, On the oil filter, as Reme 245 says it's only a bypass - regular changes of good oil will do more for the engine. Talk to Morris about oils, it may be that a modern oil (which holds rubbish in suspension so it can be removed by the filter) may be less suitable than a period formulation. I don't know if the 3 litre engine is the same, but the 4 litre has a blanking plate further forward on the block which can be removed and a full-flow head & filter from the later Austin / BMC trucks fitted. My experience on the instrument bezels is that if they're not chrome they're dash panel colour, but that's on military rather than NFS vehicles.

Yes, that's true enough, particulaly thinking of the times I've tried to get MoTs over two months in advance and still found the test station fully booked...

LoggyDriver, If this is an MK / MJ, which I assume it is being a 5.4 (330) engined Bedford, why is it exempt anyway and why is it a hardship to test? I thought I'd remembered seeing similar wording on truck licence renewals before, unless I'm having brain fade...

Jack, Your PM inbox is full! Sean

I thought so too until recently, but I was told by someone who's normally reliable on these things that Panloaf was actually a short-lived make but became a generic term. Talking about this lastnight, I was told it couldn't be a Pilot with those roof lights as they didn't do them. In fact, that's what suggested Panloaf. I've heard of Tilley but couldn't tell you anything about them. IMHO the Glasgow van is much more typical of Pilot. The tatty one I don't know, but I'd have said that wasn't a Pilot, mainly as the windows are wrong.

This was with IE6 but having upped to IE7 it still happens. I don't want to upgrade to IE8 on this computer yet for various reasons but I don't believe it's the browser anyway. Cookies and temp files cleared, no difference. Only happens with this forum, but then not all the time; I can close IE, reopen and go back in and it might work fine.

Iain, are the shiny things along the edge of the roof aluminium panels or are they opening roof lights (windows)? I'm not sure it is a Pilot as I'm not sure they ever had those, and it's lacking a couple of Pilot features such as rounded corners to the bottom of the windows. Could it actually be a Panloaf?

The ones I used to see coming through the MoD auctions I'm pretty sure had the chalk panel on both sides. That's just from memory though. These guys will probably know definitively: http://www.emlra.org/web/index.htm

We have to be careful of meanings here. Most people when talking about things such as Iain's Pilot or similar vans would refer to them as "living vans", "showmans' trailers", or "showmans' living vans". That doesn't mean they're using it to mean what the road traffic legislation calls a living van.

But was the max width before 1986 wider? CU can't be made to apply to a vehicle built under an earlier version of the regs, can it?

I keep getting page load stalling and IE freezing when trying to view subforums / threads. Seems to happen when the browser's trying to load the paypal 'pay now' gif.

Hi Richard, yes, heard 'em, that's why I always thought they must be straight cut gears. Be interesting to get a look at a cross section or exploded diagram.