Jack

Lets work from the top down.

Her Majesty The Queen

Buckingham Palace

London

SW1A 1AA

Prime Minister Tony Blair

10 Downing Street,

London,

SW1A 2AA

House of Commons Phone 020 7219 5676

email http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page821.asp

Rt Hon Charles Clarke (Home Secretary)

House of Commons

London

SW1A 0AA

Telephone: 020 7219 3000 (House of Commons Switchboard - ask for your Member's Office)

clarkec@parliament.uk

Rt Hon Hazel Blears (Minister of State)

House of Commons

London

SW1A 0AA

House of Commons 020 7219 6595

House of Commons Fax 020 7219 0949

blearsh@parliament.uk

Rt Hon Michael Howard (Tory)

House of Commons

London

SW1A 0AA

House of Commons Phone 020 7219 5383

House of Commons Fax 020 7219 5322

howardm@parliament.uk

Rt Hon Charles Kennedy (libDem)

House of Commons

London

SW1A 0AA

Telephone: 020 7219 3000 (House of Commons Switchboard - ask for your Member's Office)

No email address

I will get a letter written and post it up in here. This way everyone can cut and paste it into Word and then print it off and send to your local MP. Then send to ALL, of the MP's in your county, all opposition MP's will do anything they can to fight their local labour MP.

You must then send one to Tony Blair, Charles Clarke, Hazel Blears and then Michael Howard and Charles Kennedy, I will post up their details here sometime this morning. I am just going to send a second letter to all of the above asking for an update!

If anyone has a copy a letter that they have written then please feel free to post it up here so we can all use it.

I will try and make it as easy as possible for all of us to do our bit. Lets get this sorted!

Hey Matt, that http://www.midwestmil.com is a great link!

Dodge mirror arms fit GMC softcabs, don't they?

Ok Karoshi, lets crank this one up, could you give an update?

in the thread.

Karoshi is right on this. We must not under estimate the effect that this Bill we have on all of us, we really must grab this bill by the throat and throttle it. Once the bill is passed we are stuffed. Do not rely on everyone else to do this job for you, you have to do it for all of us. I followed the fox hunting debate with great interest and it was passed. I have said else where that there is an awful lot to be learnt from the grave, and fundamental mistakes that were made by the pro hunting lobby. As a group, lets learn from this and take it forward and do what we can, we all have to make sure that we get this right, first time around. This is, last chance saloon.

Have to pull the front end on my GMC this weekend as it looks like the keyway on the crank pulley is worn.........so that is my job for the weekend

 

Shouldn't be to bad, grill off, rad out then I should be able to get to it all.

Right as it was a REME weekend here are some pictures of ' project HMVF' :shock:

After the Bovington weekend and a couple of good road run we found that the keyway was worn on the bottom pulley so this weekend I decided to take a look as I we have a couple of important events that we would like to attend in the near future so I have to pull my finger out.

So it was a case of removing the brush guard and pulling the rad and then you should be able to get to the pulley. Easy enough you say?! Well youo are right...........but you know what it is like, you take one bit of and then another and before you know you have about 50 different pieces of jigsaw in front of you :oops: ................well I have to remove the wings etc etc at some stage as they have to be rub down and painted at some point, so why not now?!

So all in all, I had a rubtastic weekend.........god, sanding gets boring after the first 8 hours!

............but I did manage to get out for a ride,

And now for that ride.........true horsepower, bear back style.

PS. NO GMC's were hurt in this restoration...........

Hi all.

Have some great future plans for the site as it will always need to evolve to keep it up to date relevant but before I go any further I just wanted to ask you all if you have any thoughts or ideas on what you would like to see on HMVF.

Doesn't matter how big or how small they are and I am not easily offend so please do fire away!

I say steady on chaps! otherwise they will be too expensive by the time I am ready for one.

I will cut you a deal on mine :wink:

Wanting is one thing, having is another but I think Lloyd makes a good point about the Jeep Dodge correlation.

Oh hell...............Lloyd, could you put me on the list as well please

Take your time if you can, as there is one out there with your name on it, you just have to find it.

Hi Richard.

Have you spoken to Stefan Slomczynski?

Deals in a great deal of WC's...........

Cheers

Jack.

PS. Welcome aboard!

The same as above plus, make yourself at home!

Jack...that may work OK for you "hairy" people but what about us follically challenged personell

 

I think you are being "hairist" and totally non PC

 

Regards

 

LLoyd...................:-)

Sorry Lloyd, I will be having my head shaved tomorrow as a sign of solidarity...........just to show that I am not hairist :oops:

Something to ponder perhaps ........????.............. 8)

 

 

 

 

Bloomin heck Lloyd, its Sunday!

There it is, I found it.

This linkk is to a superb site, you will spend hours on it, I do/did :oops: This should also help answer Lloyds question as well (look at the ladies carrying fuel from the C47).

Have a look at the top navigation bar on this site, should keep you busy...see you in about a week!

http://www.olive-drab.com/od_mvg_jerry_can.php

Glad to be here, seems a good friendly place, not overly-anal which is refreshing. I got directed here by Militant Graham, if that gets him brownie points

 

Right, could someone ban Militant Graham please :wink:

Seriously Nat, welcome aboard and thank Graham for me for pointing you our way!

Speak soon.

Jack.

Just waiting on a bearing puller so I can pull the pulley:? fair bit of slack in it

There’s two threaded holes in the pulley which go all the way thro' providing you put a couple of heavy pieces of metal between the back of the pulley and the timing cover you can use the bolts, turned 1/2 a turn alternately, to push the pulley off.

So I can just use normal bolts?

The front end is now in bits as I started by taking the brush grill of the decided to take all of the side panels and wings of as well. Thought that while I was there it would make sense to get them rubbed down :shock:

Just waiting on a bearing puller so I can pull the pulley :? fair bit of slack in it

Will get one up tomorrow. It is a lever lid as opposed to a screw lid.

I think you are right Lloyd as you mainly see the British cans on vehicles and in fuel dumps.

I believe the US can that I have is a water can, not a fuel can.

The best way to get the oil and dirt out from underneath your nails after you have been working on your MV all day is to jump into the shower and wash your hair...............well it worked for me :shock: :wink:

Cheers

Jack.

Welcome Ian.

As Jamie said but also grab a pair of overalls :shock:

Have fun here!

Jack.

Was just thinking about Gunk, as I have just bought a tin of it as I plan to Gunk my engine as I have pulled the front end today ( pictures to follow in US section) and thought that whilst I was there I would clean the engine etc etc. Years ago I used to use washing powder and hot water and it was quite effective.

Do you guys have any recipes for de greasing your engine and is there a better product on the market than Gunk?

Cheers

Jack.

and have seen pictures of them using German cans as well.

I have a picture of a GMC driving up in to a LCT and it had jerry cans on it's rear mud guards.....might try that myself.

Thanks chaps, that is just the job.

Karoshi, I will bring a bucket of water with me next weekend..........

thanks Jack,

I'll be sending out our newsletter this weekend so can put it in there.

I'll let you know if I hear anything back

cheers

Berni

Wonderful help Berni! Thank you for your support!