gritineye

But not too big really

Beltring 2007 this is a truck surely

Off topic already, but what the heck, she's truck-ish, and she's really good lookin' Beltring 2007

Just to start with, Beltring 2007

I meant something HEAVY :sweat: can't help with gauges, but shouldn't be hard to find.

This one had a 9.6 ltr bus engine fitted by George Taylor whilst he owned it.

All good stuff and progressing with commendable vigour, looks a whole lot better already :thumbsup: The gearbox should read about 15 psi cold, but the important bit is 3-5 psi when hot, at road speed, the poor old gauge needs to be accurate to read this, so as long as there's any pressure at all it should be OK You'll be glad the jib winch is slow when you try to lift summat :-D

Great to have a happy ending, it has been hard enough reading about, it let alone doing all that for real! Thanks for keeping us posted. Good luck with it from here on.

Interesting thread, thanks Cutaway

I totally agree, but it gets harder every day, a couple of show organizers do sometimes pay appearance monies to larger (non steam) exhibits, for which I am very grateful, but not as a matter of course. But then we've got these things for our own pleasure and would most likely take them out on the road anyway, so we can't really winge about the cost, and driving round in circles with nowhere to go gets boring. If whoever buys it takes it out for us to see and hear he has my respect,:bow:impressive lads, these Antar men.

:??? :-D :-D :-D:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Best thing I ever saw on a pickup was when I saw a bunch of bikers with a Cadillac Eldorado stretched with 6 wheels on the side it had "Redskin Builders, heap good job"

A clip can be seen here, but it spoils the ending for those who want to watch the entire program, http://www.channel4.com/video/scrapheap-challenge/series-10/episode-6/sink-or-swim_p_1.html

It's a Hardly Ableson, the Germans captured one once I believe :coffee: OK then Harley Davidson. :-D Oh B......... just read 79X100s post properly!

And he can drift a tracked vehicle with one arm out resting on the window! Didn't see the program but just watched a clip, NLBA on the side of the boat LOL

Has it got a driven sidecar wheel?

Thanks for that fv1620, this chap is not known as 'Liquid Brain' for nothing, which suits him well!

Someone I know once told me he was stopped by a mobile speed trap officer and asked what illegal device he had fitted to jam the vascar (or whatever it was), when all he had done was to apply a fresh coat of IRR green! In your collective opinions, was this chap in the real world or cloud cuckoo land?

Well we set off to go round the world (the Commer cost £2 :-D) but got caught up in the troubles between Greece and Turkey, when Turkey invaded Cyprus. This was interesting to say the least, but it meant we could go no further in that direction with the stamps we had on our passports, so we wandered back through France & Spain intending to winter in Morocco and then go via north Africa, heading for Gib, We never got there as we had a few close shaves and decided to go to Ireland for a bit, never got there either as a very cheap house came up! Lived in the van for over a year in all, damp & condensation was an issue in the UK as my wife got rheumatism while living in the van here! All better now though, loved it.

Thanks guys but it is just a product of having had a string of camper vans since the seventies when I converted a Commer walk-through van for our big Hippy Trip.

As promised here are some interior pics, No insulation is fitted but this would be easy to do at any time. Note low tech water system, small drinking water can, it is often a long way to the tap! a larger one is kept for washing. Sink folds to access toilet, this could possibly be improved by installing a cassette type that can be emptied form out side the pod, as well as a SOG system, http://www.outdoorbits.com/system-kits-motorhomes-p-26.html I have one of these in my Ducato camper van and it is very effective as smells are sucked out side, (real men may skip this bit) but it does get away from the KISS principal. Mattresses are old sun lounger ones, just happened to fit. A small dog can sleep in the space beside the box to warm ones feet. The cover held in place with wing nuts is a bad design fault, i had a louvred panel laying about and thought it would fit above the bed for a through draft, unfortunately it lined up perfectly with Forceful's rear wheel so after driving to an event in a heavy down pour the bedding was soaking wet all over! :rofl:hence the cover! Back rest makes up double bed, easy with one hand in the hole and the other underneath it balances nicely. And so to bed. :yawn: There is ventilation above the door and a gap at the bottom of the door to allow any leaking gas to drain out. As can be seen the design would still work even with around 300mm less floor width on narrower vehicles.

There was one for sale at Beltring, I was walking by when the buyers were negotiating, can't remember the price though.

You have sourced some good components there, I suspect the finished camper will look very authentic. I will post some interior pics soon.

The wheels I refer to were constructed with the tyre being held on in the same way as your picture, the wooden blocks were in fact low angle 'folding wedges' driven in from each side to adjust and centralize the tyre on the wheel, to remove the tyre they could be knocked out again. After the steel tyre was secure the ends of the uneven ends of the wedges were trimmed off. It would be interesting to examine your wheels to see if in fact the wood is comprised of wedges (at 11.58 oclock in your pic) if so it may be that someone remembered this old way of doing things and used it to modify these wheels.

Yer bugger, and I fell for it HLAS