Tony B

Depending on condition, used tail lifts can make a good price. Friends bought a MJ truck for £1500 with a lift and were offred £900 just for the lift. They didn't sell as the lift was part of the reason to buy it. That was a few years back now.

The whole point is that De- Ac's are NOT Firearms and therefore not subject to any firearm legislation.

Welcome back Mike!

In Orpington High Street, ROSIE!! Her portrait on the side of a van for an employment agency. Not her best side though.

Beautiful work.

Major fights in the Queue!

Thanks!

Quite possibly, bits of them are still running about in the vehicles surviving.

Where did you get the spot welder from?

Well if certain people would stop the engine upon entering the bar the envoroment may improve! :angel: Another wierd fact: The Red Cross supplied 96,000 cigarettes to the Channel Island's, as smoking was found to supress hunger pangs.

From the period of the Great War, the Brtish Army has long known, the quickest way to relive stress is to get someone in the quiet , with a smoke and a cup of tea! So 'I'm going outside.... I may be sometime!

You must have tried sanity once. Didn't you like it? That is one big project! But you've come to the right place for help support and understanding. Also you qualify for immdiate membership of the VIP Rubber room.

I can see all the points. I grew up in a place that was Occupied so the stories I was told and the bunkers I played in were part of my childhood. We played 'English and German's' in 1:1 real places. As I grew older the background polotics started to intrest me more. As for vehicles, when your around horses and farming the Land Rover , trucks and tractors are stock in trade. I started with ex military Land Rovers, then when I finally got the chance, through knowing Carol and Katy, I went for the Dodge WC51 as it can do more than sit around and look pretty. I do sincerly belive though that we don't own a MV, it's in our care for a while. They represent the designers, the builders and the people who used them in action. So Great and Second World war trucks especially are a moving working memorial to those involved in the greatest confilcts mankind has ever known. The best times I've had with my Dodge have been in Belgium and France, using her for what she was built for, keeping men in the feild supplied with everything they need. I carried everything from VIP's to toilet rolls and rubbish in the back. I've laughed and shed tears at times. I've driven across the feilds of the Western Front and the Normandy Beaches. She has allowed me to go to places and meet people, and do things I've never have been able to experience otherwise. You can't do that in a Ferrari!

If its going to be a camper wagon, may be worth checking the rules. Campers have some exemptions. The tail lift is a useful touch, and if sold on could well end up nearly paying for the rest of the truck.

Welcome.

Yes but Definitly no point in going over either. That can cuse as many problems as under filling.

Welcome! How do the neighbours feel about the red stars though? Though a lot of the Gaz bits are copies from Ford anyway.

It's more of a Land Rover habit. Check oil levels in main and transfer box, though it sounds like wear.

If the engine is happy on 15w/40 and is not burning oil, I'd leave it on that. 5 liter, with change of oil filter dosen't sound enough for a biggish engine, a Dicovery takes about 7 with filter change. You'll be putting the oil in cold, so I'd go about 3mm below the full mark. Always easier to check and top up than drain excess out. I have been taught to run slightly under full anyway. Engine oil is far easier to drain when hot! Though Sod's law is whatever size container you put under the sump drain plug, the first bit will spill over the side. Keep the vehicle level when draining oil. Check sump plug, if it is magnetic for any metal shavings stuck to it. You can add Engine flush before the oil is changed, but if the engine is reconditioned and has been run in on good oil it shouldn't be nessacary. If your oil filter is the screw on type, oil the rubber seal before fitting AND DON'T OVERTIGHTEN!!!! About as tight as you can get with your hands, then possibly a quick flick with a filter wrench. Hope this helps. Keep empty containers to pour old oil back into, then you can take it to be recycled, about 90% of engine oil is recycled anyway, so worth making your contribution. When up to level you chosse, restart engine DON'T REV IT! Wait for oil prssure light or gauge to go out/ build to normal, stop engine wait a minute or so and check level again. That will allow filter to fill.

No. Some strong points were concrete as were Britsh ones. They formed an anchor on which other trenches and defences were based. Front line trenches were narow , the bigger they are the bigger the target.

It's military, bad steering is a given!

Partly as a result of conversations with Graham Lay, and the Original thread, why do we own Military Vehicles? It's not as if most of them are are a rich mans bird pulling, ego trip, 100000 mph sports car. You're not likley (For which I should be thankful!) see one's prasies being sung on Top Gear by Jeremy Clarkson. So why spend so much time effort money, abuse, split fingers and bruises on what are essentially just working tools?

Well you aren't supposed to know where submarines are! :cool2:

Yesterday the BBC filmed an episode of the Antique Roadshow at the Chatham Dockyard. For those in 'Other' places, the Antiques Roadshow is a Britsh Sunday Tradition! Now into the thirty fourth series. Members of the public bring all sorts of stuff to be viewed and valued by experts. Due to H&S considerations, you don't want vehicles moving about when the Great Unwashed are about, I took Katy down on Wednesday, so had a chance to see the behind the scenes work done. I was thorougly impressed, the work that goes into the show is detailed and technically mind boggoling. If you wonder what your Licence Fee pays for, believe me it is well spent! The militaria expert was Graham Lay, a thouroughly nice bloke, his knowledge of the subject is amazing. I was watching him deal with the public who turned up with everything from Assagis to wall hangers, medals and vehicles. Don't try pulling one on him, he has had Dingo's in the past and currently owns a Jeep, so knows his buissness. He has also worked in Jersey so recognised Katy straight away, his first remark was 'What's she doing over here?'. The show is remarkably popular, people were quing from about 06:15 till 16:00, the last count was three thousand two hundred. The final pice of filming was Graham and I at 18:45. Katy was sighted along side HMS Gannet with the sun setting over the Medway lighting her green against the white hull, the shots the camera crew were getting had me in tears, WHY the H** can't I get pictures like that!!!! One pice brought in was a propeller from the first Zeppilin brought down over London. I won't tell you the valuation but :shocked::sweat:The owner said to me 'It won't be back in the shed tonight!'. Another man had a set of wood and lead small scale waterline models of various warships. He had to move the plastic box before they were afloat with my drool. I also found out what oil to use on your steam train. The series is due for transmission next Autumn. Fiona Bruce also earns her keep. Forty five minutes up HMS Gannet's foremast for about thirty seconds on TV.

You can always go down the line of a Matt Varnish finish, but honsetly is it worth it? My 54 is a satin finish, looks great and is esisier to clean. Military reasons for painting a vehicle, 1 To Protect it! 2 To camouflage it 3 Cosmetic.