Simon Daymond

most likely scrap price ( always quote clean cast !) + several hundred.

Only a few made? - try several thousand, shame it doesn't have a back body.

very nice pics. eaurouge, nice militant, it's a 6x4 as well. What's your chassis number? It's on the front N/S of the chassis below the radiator. Are any of the wheels spare? I'm going to be looking out for a couple soon.

very interesting, thanks for taking the time to post

mine was full of sludge, I cleaned it out and turned the valves over in the head, (they were badly pitted and didn't seat properly)but I was thinking if I needed another compressor someday, where would I start?

It builds up air ok, but it spews a fair bit of oil out, this is probably normal, but I can't help thinking that some damage was done to it running on watery sludge rather than oil.

BTW I sorted the Scania, I put a new air dryer unloader valve on which was all self contained, don't know what the original problem was but the old unloader valve etc worked fine when tried on another coach. There must be something external to the original unloader that caused it to unload, the new one is all self contained as I said, and doesn't need whatever the external gubbins was. New one is still made by Haldex, but at £165 was a lot cheaper than trying to invetigate, and certainly cheaper than the £300 + for an original spec one.

Hi Rob looking good, how are your gear changes coming along? Forgot to mention, if you see one, I could do with a compressor for the militant, not desperate but on my list.

Sorry to hear about your dad, keep your chin up

turns out the Pioneers ( at the front of the convoy ), were going home, and weren't doing the run, but no-one knew this and we patiently plodded along behind them at 2mph. I noticed that a police bike stopped the convoy behind me, and turned them around to do the proper route, we on the other hand were commited and without anywhere to turn the wagon and gun, ended up not doing the run and got to the pub 10 mins before eveyone else.

What exactly is missing? Perhaps we could have a rummage? I have all sorts of old crap ( sorry useful spares ) lying about

Firstly what a bloody shame, but I think you're in for a lot of grief with this one? You say you left the vehicle for painting, was this with a company or an individual offering a service on the side? If it were a company, you could claim against them and it could be a claim on their insurance, however an individual working on the side is unlikely to have any cover in place.

However, for the Police to do anything, they would need proof, holding keys isn't proof, as the chap in question could have simply forgotten to lock it, and although this could then allow some of the damage, through easy access, I doubt it would be enough to get a prosecution, without which how can you hope to make this chap reimburse you?

I think it might be better to walk away, as I can't see how anything you do now can make things better, unless you feel the vehicle was clearly in this other person's care, and therefore you could I suppose hold him liable for allowing the damage rather than blaming him for actually carrying it out, if he has failed to keep your vehicle safe by locking it etc? If you took this course it would be a civil matter, and would be for you to sue him for the damage.

It's really annoying, as you most likely know what happened, but proving it will be a different thing, unless you have proof, i.e. someone who saw the vehicle being stripped, saw the parts that were yours on another vehicle etc?

From my own experience: years ago I had a Ford Escort. It was parked in my yard, shared with another business. One weekend, we went away and I left it at work on the Friday night. We returned Sunday night to find my car on blocks, and the entire N/S suspension and wheel assembly missing. We noticed that there was a Escort Van parked outside the neighbouring unit, with evidencer of the recent fitment of a N/S wheel assembly and suspecsion strut etc. A blind man could see it had been nicked from my car, but nothing could be done, I even had the Police dust it for prints etc. I know that the thieving scum who occupied the unit next to mine not only nicked the suspension strut off my car for a customer's van, leaving mine immobile, and even to the copper it was obvious, but there was supposedly nothing that could be done. ( so I nicked it back )

looking good, I bet your welding is better than when you started? Practise is the key

nice pictures, must be down to the 'fancy' lens on your camera

was that on the Sunday, if so what time?

could someone post an address, ta.

Rob, on the nearside of chassis, behind the cab, should be just above the tyre inflator if you have one.

problem is most drivers see the speed limit as the minumum, not the maximum, whether motorway or single carriageway. As I see it, I can travel on the motorway with the militant, but have to use a flashing beacon if my speed is below a set speed, I think it is 28mph.

I'm not going to do anything different, just keep plodding.

glad it passed, hopefully next year should be easier now the precedent has been set at the test station?

been running the militant as is, doing bits when I get the time, and nobody has ever had a bad word to say.

thank god for ebay, where else would we be able to buy all these 'rare' things? Funny how the term rare is used to term just about everything?

er... which one is the mortar?

I once fell foul of some inbred at a filling station, in Wakefield, when unleaded became more popular but you could still get leaded, I found to my frustration that the petrol pump kept clicking off, and I managed after several attempts to get 16p of fuel before I was so hacked off I moved to another pump. The new pump wasn't activated until I queued in the shop and paid the 16p. When I complained that there was a problem with the pump, I was told that I was trying to use leaded in an unleaded vehicle and 'the pump sensed this' and that was why it wasn't delivering the fuel!

in the vehicle, where did the wallet live?

did you remove the winch pulleys or are they missing? Bet it stopped raining the second you stopped painting. Never mind, as long as it doesn't ruin the green topcoat

Yes near Carlac. I spoke to the yard owner a couple of years ago, and found them to be ok.

Hi Duncan,

nice pics, glad you got back ok, I wondered at first who the lunatic on the bike was that was overtaking us?

didn't realise you were in Leeds? I'm on Whitehall road.