Jack

That's no good, he's selling to USA only..........

Solves that problem then as I was just thinking about what the shipping cost would be to Dorset :shock:

Can we have a whip around please.....................

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Hi Tim.

Nice jeep........looks like that has been off road :shock:

Welcome Kewelde.

Thanks for the intro and I think you have hit the nail on the head with regards to US vehicles and there is no intention for HMVF to become another 'US MV' site. It just looks like us US MV owners just like to yack!

This site is for all MV owners, no matter what age or where they come from, the more we all talk, then there is more of a chance of keeping history rolling.

Now lets get some British and Commonwealth and other MV owners on here, discussing all the fun and the despair of owning theirs :shock: .......

Cheers

Jack.

Just come back from Bovington weekend. As some of you know, this was our first outing with the GMC, in fact this was our first show :shock: wasn't too sure what to expect :roll:

Must say that it was better than I could imagine, I was slighty nervous as my GMC isn't in the 'same' condition as everyone elses :oops: :cry: as it happened no one laughed but it didn't take John and Ron to lift up the bonnet and stick their heads under it..............I am sure they are builders by the amount of 'oh', 'blimey', 'that is going to cost some', 'never seen that before'....and it wasn't long before the socket sets and spanners were put into action. I swear the thing was running better before they got to it :shock: I would imagine that this is all part of my initiation into the group. But on a serious note it looks like I do have some work to do on the engine

It was a cracking weekend and it was made even better by meeting one of HMVF's members, Karoshi. Great pleasure to of met you Colin and you are dam good company, we must do that more often! Colin drove 70 miles in his 352 and you will be able to see by the pictures that his truck, is simply, stunning. It was also great to of met Alan and Val, thank you for the chat guys and it was good to have you on the 'German express'

Finally, the weekend was attended by the German Pioneer Battalion 146 from Portsmouth. Now, these guys were wonderful, these guys were also slighty barking. Colin and I loaded the trucks with the Germans when all of us went on the road run around the Purbecks, now that was something pretty special and raised many a smile and turned many heads as 12 vehicles drove around the Purbecks, full of Germans :shock: :shock: we had some great looks from people in the pub and it wasn't long before everyone was out in the carpark looking over the MV's.......

I will let the pictures of the Germans speak for themselves, thanks guys, you are a great bunch and Colin, great pleasure to of met you and thank you for that beer!!

See you there Karoshi......I am leaving now!

Something I have heard today.........

There maybe a way around this, I have ben told that if you become a member of the actors union equity.

So I am told, if you are a member then you can legally hold a weapon as it becomes a 'prop', how true this is I don't know but will keep you posted.............

Cheers

Jack.

Out for first road test on Monday........look at the speed!!

On top of Ballburrow hill

Passengers..

Co driver...

Up through the village

Hi Tim.

Sounds like a good deal!

Not sure but try Rex Ward, he is a member on here or perhaps Dallas Auto Parts (see events section).............

where abouts are you in the country?

Tim.

Have a look here http://www.hmvf.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=71 and scroll down to the bottom and click on images to expand............... :wink:

yeah me again :wink:

Since putting the carb back onto the manifold, I am having no smooth tickover and having to keep blipping the throttle to her going.

No I didn't repalce the carb gaskets :roll: and I reckon she is running weak and is struggling at low revs to pull enough petrol through.

Could somone confirm........

Cheers

Jack.

Thanks guys.

I filled up the MC and watched the air bubble out. I then went to the back axle and bled the far right and had a hard peddel right away. I have road tested it over the last 2 nights up and down hill, high and low speed and also under hard pressure when a car decided to try and stuff itself into the front of the truck :shock: breaking so far hasn't shown any side effects.....

.........is this to good to be true?

Hi Jeroen.

Thanks for that mate, but where is the bleed screw on the Hydrovac as Joel was saying that you have to bleed this first?

I don't mean bleeding as in *&&^%$@!? brakes but actually meaning to get the air out of them.

Ok here it is the situation, manifold done! UJ done! Brush Guard bolted back on! Lets go for a road run I say to Jess (Jack Junior) fire the beast up, pull out of the drive......can't stop, no brakes :evil: :shock:

So what has happened there?

I have replaced the brake switch as the last one was worn out and when I undone the switch a small amount of brake fluid ran out. Is this the problem?

Is this the sump plug to the Master Cylinder and the little bit of oil that did run out was the last drops left?

The breaks up to this point where fine and well balanced.

Can someone please HELP.

Cheers.

Jack.

Corné the pics you show us is a Airborne CCKW 353 cargo truck Not a dump truck.

 

Jack as far as I know only open cab trucks where build in an airborne conversion...So probably the dumptruck you are talking about fitted with a hardcab after the war!

 

Can you get the chassis number?

 

Jeroen

Cheers Jeroen.

That is great info and the jigsw is coming together. I can get the chassis number!

I will get it sorted and get back to you.

Many thanks.

Jack

Welcome Tim.

Make yourself at home, there is a great bunch of people on here.

.........now, your jeep, we need to know more

Cheers

jack.

Hi Kirsten.

I was speaking to one of our members of the Dorset MVT at the weekend and he is actually looking at buying a Reo as we speak. I will give him the heads ups tonight.

Best wishes, and welcome aboard.

Jack.

Hi Paul.

And welcome to HMVF.

This site yours as much as it is everyone else's so please do make yourself at home

I must that is a damd fine picture there and I must say that is a wonderful turn out, to me that is what it is all about. You have a four wheeled musuem as everything on you and your vehicles has a story to tell, great work.

With regards to reducing your picture all you have to do is to go bucket to photobucket ( if that is what you use) and you have the options of reducing your picture by 75%-50% or 25%. Have play around with it and see which one works for you, I would use the 50% option for a picture like this or 25% if you are posting a series of pictures!

Best wishes and again make yourself at home.

Jack.

Ross.

That is a cracking idea!

I will be there and I will let the members of the Dorset branch of the MVT know as well.

This is great to see this sort of infomation as this is exactly what this site is all about, please everyone keep up the good work!

Hi all.

Thought it may be wise to write a few words on how to post pictures up on the forum. Knowing how to do this puzzled me for sometime but it didn't need to as it is a very painless process.

First of all you need to use a site that allows you to upload your own pictures to it. I use http://www.photobucket.com'>http://www.photobucket.com'>http://www.photobucket.com so here is what you need to do;

1.Go to http://www.photobucket.com and fill out the necessary

2. Once you have registered and you have had a look around the site you need to find the ' add pictures' button.

3. Click on browse button this should pop up a 'choose file' window, Desktop, My Documents for example

4. Locate the folder/file that has the pictures in the you want to upload ( it may be easier to place a shortcut of the image on your desktop to begin with as it is easier to find).

5. Click the image that you want to upload, you may see something like P7110008.JPG which is a picture of my GMC or if you have renamed it you will see that name of the image.

6. Click 'submit' on the Photobucket site

7. You should now see your picture up on Photobucket.....well done that is a result!

Now to get image from there to HMVF follow the following steps.

1. Underneath your picture on Photobucket you will see three boxes 1st Url, 2nd Tag and the 3rd box is Img

2. Highlight the 3rd box ..........the Img box

3. Right click of the mouse and copy

4. Then paste it in to your message HMVF

That is pretty much it! It may seem a bit long winded but once you have done it once or twice you soon get the hang of it but if anyone else has a better/quicker then please do let us know.

Hope that helps...........now get posting.

Hi Karoshi.

Right it is basically a free for all, anyone is welcome to turn up for the day or for all of the weekend if they want to.

I have PM'd over John phone number.

Cheers

Jack.

Nice one Steve.

You guys seem to have a good time up there and what a stunning picture of Tynemouth Castle.

Right, you are in your vehicle, you have turned up at a show to exhibit your pride and joy.

So the question is, what do you wear whilst you are showing your vehicle..............?

Period dress

Overalls

Anything in olive drab

Or just your everyday clothes

And why?

Best wishes.

Jack.

Hi all.

Have a member in a our Dorset branch of the MVT and there are three of us who own GMC's.

Now one of these GMC's seems to be very rare, it is a;

Air portable, hard cab tipper

The question is, is this rare and where can I find some further info?

Cheers.

Jack.

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