martin parke

after sitting still for over a year and a half, a few busted knuckles and sleepless nights later 32BK35 is up and running again, many thanks to a couple of members on here for keeping me right on a number of issues, the clutch now works fine just need to finish off the paint work now. nearly time to enjoy the fruits of my labour.

Best of luck with the restoration Wayne ,,,plenty to do there

Thanks josh , keep checking on milweb they sometimes come up for sale there .

body painted in olive drab matt finish and masked of the red bits,

i also gave the red bits on the landy a wee touch up ,

hi and welcome to the world of pigs, nice to see another one getting saved from the scrap heap, lots of help and info here from some very obliging members .

looking good mate hope all goes well,

cheers paul any luck with yours m8?

clive your a wealth of knowlage, should i keep my boxes green or paint them silver, or did they just paint them with what ever was at hand?

hi rodney and welcome to the forum, im sure you will get all the help you need here, nice saracen by the way.

thanks andy,, dont know why the brass plates were painted over,

passenger seat frame removed

battery boxes removed and in surprisingly good condition

floor cleaned and painted

passenger seat frame and battery boxes painted and ready to go back in

realy nice surprise when i started to clean the paint on the lids of the battery boxes , brass plates with battery info on them ..

seats refurbed and back in

Replace with RSN12Y's it will run & tick over a lot better...

sounds good cheers

went into work today and a contractor appeared with this, i spotted the camo paint right away

thanks dan im kinda putting in overtime on it to get it ready for a show at the end off may, doing wee bits during lunch and evenings and thanks wayne the tape was just the business no heavy rain yet, fingers crossed hopefully it should be grand

front window units were leaking badly, so cleaned and after some helpful advise from fellow forum members resealed, closing ok and no more leaks , tks lads.

HI FOLKS I THOUGHT I WOULD START A WEE THREAD SHOWING SOME PICS OF THE WORK IM CURRENTLY DOING ON MY PIG.

firstly an angel disguised as a postman arrived with this from milweb :-):-)

removed the cover and cleaned all the contacts

cleaned the end of the rotar arm and checked the points were opening ok

removed and cleaned the spark plugs

put everything back together and fresh fuel added, started up and runnning fine after sitting for over a year, will probably replace the plugs with new ones.

interior completely removed

roof sanded and primed for painting

hi wayne, firstly im glad you weren't hurt in that smash, as you say cars nowadays arent made of the same stuff as years ago , hopefully it will be only panel damage . i dont think any tape will be much use for that, maybe a couple of tubes of super glue . hope you get her sorted m8.

ok checked and all the linkages seem to be in place from the clutch pedal to the gear box ,so it looks more like as yous mentioned the clutch plate sticking to the flywheel, so as the pig is not road registered, im going to lift it onto 6ton axle stands and follow your advice on trying to free it.. fingers crossed and a big thanks for all your help ,, greatly appreciated by a pig novice,,

Yes clive pedal going down ok but not engaging clutch , I will check all linkages today and try and source some foam tape , thanks for the help clive and rover8ffr greatly appreciated ill keep yous posted on progress ..

Noted if you want to open and close the window covers then the compriband product is perfect and will keep the water out.

 

Links may be helpful.

 

http://www.sheffins.co.uk/COSHH/Compriband%20600.pdf

 

http://www.tremco-illbruck.co.uk/products/00816_index.html?markets=1&applications=1&products=1304&char=C

 

http://www.tremco-illbruck.co.uk/service/productfinder/index.html?typ=1&id=92

cheers m8 thats exactly what i need ..

thanks for the fast reply m8, i have made new window units and i have them sealed in ok, as you can see in the pic i need something to seal the rest

hi folks im looking for a little help or advise on the above ,

i gave the points, rotar arm, cap, leads and plugs a good clean today and fired the old girl up, after a bit of spluttering and puffing etc she settled down into a nice idle, after running for about 20 mins i tried to get her moving, i engaged the clutch and tried to put her in gear but the clutch wouldnt engage, it seems to be stuck with her not driving for over a year, i sprayed all the linkages with wd40, is there anything else i can do to free it ?

secondly i am refurbing the front window units as they are leaking quite badly, there seems to be some sort of sealant and what looks like gaffer tape all around them , i have cleaned all this off now and i need to redo them with something, i was thinking of something like a stick on padding or something simlar any help or advise greatly received tks martin

Very nice indeed

should look something like this

hi richard and welcome m8,,,, im in the process of restoring mine also , just finished making a new window frame and painting and recovering the seats etc .. mine set still for over a year and i put in two new batteries and after a few winds she started up ... clive on here is the expert on pigs he has a wealth off knowlage ... good luck with the restoration and keep us posted..

:cry::cry::cry: so sad what a waste .....