Tony B

Do right first time fix and forget. Woman and wheels, both just keep costing money!

And I have no idea why the forum has posted the answer twice! Oh ! Quick thought, the brake systems and compressors have a habit of filling with a waxy gunge. Paul had similar problems when he first got his MJ, we had to strip the thing in Belgium. Muck out no more problems.

Bear in mind, line of least resistance. You have a brand new cylinder on one side, so the pressure will take the easy way out on the old cylinder. Brakes are like dominos, one goes then the next, then the.... Replace both cylinders., at least. Also how did you bleed it? Most vehicles of that size have equiliser valves bettween front and back brakes, and absoulete mare's nest to bleed. A good pressure bleeder, I personally have no time for the vacum bleeds, will make life a lot easier. They run from about £15. Check any flexi hoses aren't balloning

Bear in mind, line of least resistance. You have a brand new cylinder on one side, so the pressure will take the easy way out on the old cylinder. Brakes are like dominos, one goes then the next, then the.... Replace both cylinders., at least. Also how did you bleed it? Most vehicles of that size have equiliser valves bettween front and back brakes, and absoulete mare's nest to bleed. A good pressure bleeder, I personally have no time for the vacum bleeds, will make life a lot easier. They run from about £15.

If she was a QLR there should also be a PTO for the generator carried above the rear axle.

Headcorn have an actual manned V1. Was supposed to be going to Germany for restoration, and a Foker Angilus. The 'tipping' was apparently done by flying close and disrupting the airflow over the V1's wings. Typhoons were used as well.

Welcome along!

Often turretless vehicles were used as driver training vehicles, and as test beds for various things.

Great news, the old problem, electricity is lazy. What a lot of people don't take into account is the electricity runs on the SURFACE of a conductor. Multi strand will carry more current. Spray with clear laquer, that helps keep them clean.

Consider upgrading the side and indicator lights to LED. You can get direct replacements and a flasher for the indicators off the shelf, plug and go. I had to modify the sidelights but have put all the info the lighting saftey thread, wasn't difficut (Or I couldn't have done it! ) Are you still using the floor switch for the dip/main beam?

You only need a CPC, IF your MAIN job is driving. If you are employed as an odd job, who once a day drives a coach you won't need a CPC. The whole thing is a waste of space, so worth finding if an exclusion applies, it won't improve your driving.

http://www.greatwar.nl/ You'll find more colour photos here. Not tha technique could be called High Fidelity.

We'd better be careful lads! Or Mr Cubed may find his Christmas Dinner being cold beans under canvas. 'The Higher Echelons' are at work here. :shake:

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. :-D

I'd say they have done a first class job of restoration on it.

To be fair not all Polish drivers are bad. Just to quote one of the guys who went on the recruting trip 'We were very well treated, the council even changed the whole town to right hand drive for the day. I went on one round , and have never been so terrified in my life. I spent the rest of the day watching from the top of the church tower'.

Definitley an eye catching piece of work. What did the original look like?

Arriva started a few years back bringing drivers from the Eastern block and paying penuts. The rest of the big groups got in on the act. As a director of First said to me 'We had 180 Poles over in Wales. We kept them here for two years then had to send them home. We couldn't teach them enough English to operate the buses safley'. A lot of small firms tried it, then had their O licences pulled for saftey violations and acident rates. The result has been the ***useless waste of space called C.P.C.

The story I heard somewhere was that Bedford only had one machine capable of turning crankshafts. Though that seems odd on its own. Apaprently the machine developed a fault due to wear, the spares wern't available, neither could the down time be afforded to repair it. So on the basis the vehicles would probably only last a few months they carried on. I agree by now it would be very rare if the vehicles haven't had at least one major rebuild. I know Phil's QL was last used in 1970 for an army recurting tour around England. We met the bloke who climed he had driven it in London at the 60th anniversary of VE/VJ days. I do have a childhood memory of K3 and OY trucks plus possibly an MW all painted uniform grey in the early 1960's delivering potoes in the old wooden barrels to the docks in Jersey.

A free turning engine is a good start. Bedford engines do have a reputation for crankshaft problems. Apparently there was only one machine turning them out, that was off squint but Bedford could not afford to shut it down.

Flash git! Welecome to the Dammed!

Have to say I paid a lot less for a brand new 8 ton jack. Your'e right get it apart first. That may well be fun.

You may well find that the top ring has slots. If so the dismantiling is to use a C spanner to open up and remove the jack legs.

The one I've found best is burnt gear oil and disiel, senapods for sized parts. :-D

Suppose they were mix camoflage paint though? After all the Great War was the start of camo as we now know it.