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  1. Hi Adam and welcome As David said join your local MVT and offer your services as crew at shows that way you will get to meet like minded fools and have the opportunity to a closer look at different green machines. http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/images/smilies/cool2.gif Shane:
  2. Hi Paul We go every year but just for the one day and this year it will be the Saturday We get a good size convoy together see attached photo Pig, Ferret, Saracen, Saladin 2 x Land Rovers and escort bike Shane
  3. Hi Montie Taking the carburettor off is the easy bit I have just spent 6 hours trying to get the nuts on under the front of the carburettor. After much swearing and loss of skin by managed to get back on. Did you take the air horn off before you removed carburettor? I left the air horn on by slackening off the jubilee clips and with a bit of fiddling managed to take out complete. Shane:
  4. can I have the other half for my place?:cool2:
  5. I'm pleased to see that I am not the only one who starts on job thinking that it would only take a couple of hours In my case it was changing the fan belts on the saracens. What I thought would take a couple of hours so far has taken two days and still can't get the **##**s on. So next weekend is a case of taking off the front Armour and out with the radiator to gain. Unless one of the wise ones on the forum can tell me an easier way to get them on. Shane
  6. Hi Smudge and welcome from stab to another also a Queen's man Shane
  7. Hi and welcome from Burgess Hill did you serve with PWRR in your TA career? Shane
  8. Hi Nic That's a nice looking beast, I see that it is a reverse flow engine snap I am in negotiations to buy one myself Shane
  9. Hi Raymond and welcome to the forum If we any more Ferret Tony will have to build a bigger club house:cool2::cool2:
  10. Hi Tim welcome to the forum we can't have enough ferrets on this forum I see from an earlier posting you made on the forum about you are thinking of selling your ferret, my advice to you is if you can hang on to it because I think you will regret selling. I have had friends that have sold theirs and wish they hadn't and now can't afford to buy another. Shane
  11. Hi and welcome, nice to have another local on board. You will be at more than welcome to come and join us at the West Sussex MVT meetings at the white swan in Arundel. We meet the first Tuesday of the month.
  12. Hi and welcome. Nice to have another Mk1 on the forum (Tony start building a nursery the breeding programme is working):-D
  13. Hi and welcome to the forum Its always good to more Ferret here if we get any on the forum we will have to get a bigger club house:-D
  14. Hi Phil Thank you for your kind offer I can't tell you what to make of the carburettor is at the moment and I won't be able to get to see it again until next weekend but I certainly will be in touch. Shane
  15. I have attached three pictures of the floats from Coventry climax generator showing of the damage caused by modern petrol. The floats are made up from laminated cork and covered in a varnish, what's happened is that the petrol has eaten its way through the varnish and now has started to delaminate the cork. Now the cork floats jam in the top of the float chamber and so does not stop the flow of petrol. The question is can I get a suitable replacement or does anybody know where I could get metal ones made?
  16. I am a self employed diamond driller that basically means Iam a prostitute to the construction industry, he who pays the most I am there’s
  17. Hi Matt and welcome What you need is a nice small bit of Armour, get a ferret:-D
  18. Hi Ron and welcome to the forum Tony will be pleased to see another ferret on the forum:-D if you think you have problems with your ferret look at my blog ferret rescue. Shane
  19. A another day and another attempt at a bloke in these pictures I hope this time you will be able see them. The bridge was a problem at the beginning and it looked like we would have to lift the ferret over the wall using the largish crane. But the museum had engineers inspect the bridge and said it would take the weight of both my Landrover and ferret so that is how we got it out. To give you all an idea of what we're talking about see the pictures attached. This is the view from the fort down to the road, is a very tight turn when you got the ferret behind the Landrover the bridge itself is just wide enough to take them. The second picture is looking back from the road into the fort. The last two show wooden construction over the dry moat.
  20. brave or foolhardy :nut: I couldn't just leave it slowly rotting away on the fort. I think in the end the museum was pleased to see the back of it because it was becoming a health risk to the general public. But as for the restoration I think is going to be a long and slow job. Shane
  21. A view of the rubbish bin And now some of the inside
  22. yes this is the very one, as you can see from your own photos it was in desperate need of saving. We didn't say anything until we had safely back at the yard. Shane
  23. Ferret rescue Back in the summer wemanaged to rescue a very sad looking ferret from a well known seasideattraction. The picture below shows theeffect you get when salt air meets tin wear. After finding this ferret in such a bad statewe just had to rescue it. After some negotiations with the owners we were givenpermission to remove it. As you can seein the photos it wasn’t being well looked after, in fact positivelyneglected. With one of the engine coversmissing, the general public, in its usual unthinking manner, used the openorifice as a dustbin. With the tin wearbeing in such a bad state the only thing we could do was to cut all the binsaway, and scrap them. The next problemwas to get inside the vehicle, which wasn’t easy. The drivers hatch had rusted solid in theshut position. With a little heat, a lot of oil, a five foot crowbar and a lotof effort we managed to prise it open. To get into turret was slightly easier, with the removal of a bolt wherethe padlock should fit and a lot of hammering we managed to move the lid, onlyto have one of the hinges snap off. But,at long last, we were in. Once inside wefound that the salt air had wreaked havoc with the tin wear. That was just the start of our problems, as I said before,with the tin wear in such a bad state, the only option was to hack them offwith angle grinders. To help us to work on the inside the vehicle it would benecessary to remove the escape hatch behind the spare wheel. When this vehicle was first restored andplaced on this attraction they had welded the escape hatches shut. So it was a case of mini angle grinder out, tocut the welding to get them open. Once inside the Ferret therewas virtually nothing left of the tin wear. While seeing if the vehicle was in gear, I found the gear selector wasrusted solid and the forward and reverse lever came away my hand. I disconnected both gear selector and forwardand reverse lever at the gear box, but still couldn’t work out if the vehiclewas in gear. So the only option was todisconnect the drive shafts, this done, I connected my Land rover to the ferretwith a fixed bar ready to move it. I waswildly over optimistic to think that we could move it easily after so many yearsstanding. It was a case that the brakeshad seized on, so it was a matter of jacking the vehicle up and trying torelease the brake shoes with the rear adjusters, but this was to no effect. So it was a case of wheel off, hub off. Thisferret was restored in 1989 before being parked up and left to the elements, sowhen I had removed the hubs I was surprised to find they had fitted new brakeshoes, unfortunately these had fixed themselves to the hub. After a fair bit of hammering we managed toremove the hubs and take off the brake shoes. Once we had the wheels back on we were able tomove the ferret. This all sounds as if we did this in a single day, but I’m sure as you are all well aware that this takesa fair bit longer, in fact this took us four working days from the start toactually getting it on o the low loader to get it back to the yard. Ihave only added a few photos to this blog and will add more photos later
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