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    If you'll excuse the momentary diversion, whilst looking for evidence of A-D lorries of this period I just found an amazing image of a 1905 Austro-Daimler armoured car on this forum http://landships.activeboard.com/ - which looks worthy of further exploration.
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    That's Andy's deep Bronze Green fetish for you :cool2: But what a lovely job - too good for the front line!
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    That looks great stuff, John :thumbsup:
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    No doubt, but that isn't Rosie - oh R3 is in really hot water now......:sweat:
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    I bloody well hope so!!! :wow:
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    Just how much of the vehicle do you need to mask off then? :-D Note also the effect of weathering and rain lower rear.
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    Yes, at least the engine will be as balanced as the original. I'm guessing balancing was not a great concern in these old engines?
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    What I find amazing is that it hasn't been sandblasted totally bare - usually anything in the desert gets blasted very quickly. Perhaps it only landed a few years ago.........:shocked:....:shocking:
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    I'm guessing the best way forward would be to try to achieve similar compression ratios (or similar max. pressures) - but how.....if they were individual heads it would be so easy!
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    Are you quite happy that running two 4 1/2" dia cylinders and two 4 1/4" dia won't give rise to any imbalance or rough running? Is it not going to have quite an effect on compression ratio and thus combustion characteristics?
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    It is a photo of a U.S. bomber base in England, Tony. Most of the guys in the shot are ground crew. So there must have been signals units attached to the bases?
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    Admittedly sometimes not quite as easy as it sounds, but you should be able to open an additional bank account - that way if anything goes Pete Tong it is quite containable and you should be able to get the bank to impose restrictions on how money can be removed from this extra account :-)
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    Just checked two trucks - one with recent new springs from a road spring manufacturer, one ex Electricity Board. New springs are FRONT - bolts and tube, REAR - just bolts. The rears are helper spring type and have additional clips with three bolts spanning both main and helper pack, as well as the two leaf outer clips. Elec Board truck has all clips with a threaded hole one side, so bolts (all with tubes) thread in to clip without requiring bolt. So I would suggest just a bolt without tube is adequate for MOT, or else the spring makers would not supply in this condition.
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    If I recall the U clip is riveted to the underside of the spring leaf. The sleeve is only a piece of pipe / tube which acts as a spacer so you can pull the bolt up tight. So it can easily be replaced, I would be surprised if it failed an MOT because of a worn sleeve but I am not really qualified to comment. In fact thinking about it I have a feeling the sleeve may be rolled so has a slit along full length - I'll look tomorrow. I do not lubricate springs.
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    Cardboard? There was no point in using cardboard - it never had any water in it :rofl: You had to get it to where you needed to use the welder or cutting gear it carried within 4 minutes, otherwise it would seize up and you'd have to let it cool down. Brilliant truck - C15A. Will be selling it for spares soon. The gearbox is in my M6, the axles will be like new inside I expect if they are the same as the gearbox But I wouldn't imagine the engine will be a lot of good :whistle:
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    See post # 2 :-D And it had two valves missing :shocked: But yes, what you advocate makes good sense :thumbsup:
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    I think trailers had the same plate as the towing vehicle - in this case a Jeep would be 0T or 1T with trailer.
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    You did ask, Martin!! But I'd like to know too, and I like NGK, so how a number? (Oh, and the letters too please :laugh:)
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    Thanks for that info, Gordon. I'd cropped the photo but not at the top or left, this is all I had to go on. Mystery solved!
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    :thumbsup:
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    Thanks, very much - how did you cope with freight to UK?
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    An afterthought - could it be a standard panel van with an added side door?
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    Here is a Chev - possibly a fire truck?? - with some interesting coachwork. Note how the coach line on the cab door is replicated on the sides of the body. Any ideas what it is? Interesting because you'd expect a specialist service vehicle like this to be more utilitarian in design of the body, rather than receiving styling detail like this.
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    It also looks like you've gone with electric wipers.........oh hang on, they were in there already :cool2:
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    Hey Warrior - the before pic shows a bare cab roof, the after shots show a nice roof lining. How would I go about getting one of those? Thanks, Tony
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