bonnie_scott

Don't know if it's of interest, but there is an article in this months (April) Classic Military Vehicle magazine on a restored Loyd carrier. Been following all your hard work with interest, but it was nice to see some pictures of the chassis etc to understand what you have been working sooooo hard to achieve :-)

Guess it's time to come clean with my guilty secret. Despite having invested a large sum of cash to get my Snatch land rover sorted and MoTd it started making funny noises not long after I collected it. Couldn't see anything obvious and thought it was something minor like a loose heat shield rattling. However after 150 miles it was beginning to sound really unpleasant and did some test with dropping the clutch and coasting etc and decided it was the gearbox/transfer box. with another 600 miles to go, and getting late I decided to get off the motorway and call the AA. Patrol man appeared in less than 20mins, collected onto the back of a recovery truck in less than 45 mins and on my way home. Unfortunately AA keep their guys to a home depot so had to change driver after a few hours, but was kept informed all the way home on what was going on being planned. They couldn't arrange for a direct changeover at about 2-3 in the morning in Perth so offered to place me in a hotel in Glasgow for free. Driver wasn't keen on leaving the Snatch in the centre of Glasgow overnight so it was taken away to a secure compound. Collected in the morning after breakfast by a fresh driver with the Landy on board then straight through to Inverness to be handed over to a private contractor for the final 110 ish miles. Based on my experience I can't recommend the AA enough. At every handover the next truck and driver were ready and waiting at the handover point. The cost of recovery (when I checked recently on my renewal) was just over £5 a month on direct debit and covers me for whatever I'm in even as a passenger. No intention of changing from the AA :-D

Welcome back, hope everything is written down somewhere safe this time - lol

Hi Alistair, well done for sticking with the work. Winter isn't an easy time to keep the motivation going. This is my favourite restoration blog just the sheer volume of work your doing astonishes me. I'm soooooo looking forward to the finished vehicle ;-) Cheers, Julian

Hi Clive, congratulations on what I thing are model examples of restraint coupled with clear reasoning. I think your responses where great. I myself might have gone more for the "and what colour is your shorland" approach :-) I wish I had a tenth of the skill of many on this forum. Whatever the result I would not wish to comment on the accuracy and certainly not on the quality of the work done by anyone. It's their vehicle, it's their hobby, they are getting pleasure from it and preserving a piece of history along the way, why would you want to be negative about that :rolleyes: Julian

Expect it will be tough when you finally hand her over....... Look forward to seeing copies of the final photoshoot. Julian

Following the clues I'm still none the wiser - yet But I was interested to find that they built a helicopter in 1943-44 the [h=3]CIERVA W.9[/h] http://www.nolemmings.nl/wwiiair/html%20pages/CIERVA%20W9.htm Now off for more googling to following a hunch

Wibble........ You don't have to be mad to join us but it helps :nut: Greetings, look forward to your future posts on the restoration :-)

Hi, welcome aboard. Probably way off, but would it be a Stage 1 V8 you were looking to acquire. Being a Landy fan I can't think of any other Stage 1, but I'm sure I'll be educated after this posting lol Julian

Hi, they must attract some attention on the Brighton Strip....... Julian

Hi welcome aboard, when you said "acceleration is OK for modern traffic conditions" was that inside our outside London - lol Cheers, Julian

Greetings :-) Any particular truck fetish :cheesy: Julian

Hi, reading through some of the new greetings today I found myself wondering exactly how many different countries are represented by the members, and whether it is possible to calculate how many from each country there are. Seemed like something the dark arts of the moderator might be able to comment on :-) Julian

Hi Wolfi, I was interested by your comment "I enjoy reading the blogs and find them an inspiration to work at home....." Do you have something that your working on at the moment Julian

Hi Terry, welcome to the forum. Any chance of some photos of the jeep :-) Julian

Welkom Eric, do you or your father have anything hiding in the barn at the moment?? Julian

Willkommen entlang Great job you did there Christian

What another great example of the real skill and craftsmanship there exists out there. whether in 1:1, 1:6: 1:35 etc I just love to see the work that people are prepared and able to do, I just wish I had a 1/10 of the skill and patience. I look forward to seeing more of this build and the final product take its place in the museum. Well done:saluting:

That wouldn't be a 'show stopper' for me - :nut:

Thanks again for all the replies, much food for thought. Also been surfing the net to see what info is around about Stainless Fixings. Given everything I have found it would appear that sticking with the the original spec is best in most cases. Thanks for the pointer on the book, now have a copy winging its way to me in the post. Who would have thought it, £0.01 for the book and £2.80 for P+P amazon marketplace is a wonderful thing

Congratulations, you must be really chuffed What's the next one on the lis then?

Greeting welcome aboard :-) Look forward to seeing some pictures:-D

Thanks to you all for the replies. Standard bolts it is then, seems like decent quantities of lubricant :angel: never goes amiss too...... Cheers

Hi, while doing bits and pieces on my Landrover I am finding the perennial problem of rusted fixings, nuts bolts etc. While I know I am unlikely to reach the standards of many of the restorations detailed on the forum, I would like to at least try and get things right. Whats the view on stainless steel nuts/bolts etc. Having spent some time in the power industry I've heard lots about stress corrosion cracking and inter-granular attack of stainless and the one thing you can guarantee is a corrosive environment and plenty of stress on the nuts and bolts on the underneath of a vehicle. I would be grateful if people could share their, thoughts/knowledge/experience of the different materials on offer for the basic nuts and bolts of a restoration. Should I just replace like with like where corrosion/damage/rounded heads etc. mean that I might not be so lucky if I try and remove something next time, or should I go for stainless and damm the expense (and the fact that they maybe don't look right)? Looking forward to the discussion ahead. Cheers Julian

Thought other might like to see this :-D http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Ki86x1WKPmE