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ive been duilding some side gates too, similar design, 50x50 box outer square then 50x30 box diagonals, im planning on fittings 20mm boards insdie the frame. i went for these hinges, https://www.fhbrundle.co.uk/products/0515S181__Superhinge_M20_Tested_Low_friction_Suitable_for_gates_up_to_150Kgs

Nice one Ed!!

Yep that’s nylon for reference I use an old outer bearing race with a slot cut through it for knocking bearings in (the slot means you can pull it back out by hand) and I believe people also use a front hub drive flange to knock in hub seals as it will also set the seal about 5mm in, just ensure to use a soft faced mallet to avoid damaging the splined hole

Turned on lathe the hollow section allows the sticky out lip to not be squashed

As is usually the case with my truck, the job became bigger, I went to change the brake pads then suddenly!, cue new disks & bearings etc. anyway I whipped up this little hub seal tool which could be of use to others, its sets the seal 5mm in Tom

Foundations.pdf

Yep they definitely point to the back of the engine! not sure how I messed that up so badly At least we all know what happens if you get this wrong now! left as is for now and running sweet IMG_5136.MP4

I’m not sure the council really cared what I did, just that it couldn’t be ‘standard’ strip foundations to be honest what we built is definitely overkill but that was probably my bad for using an industrial structural engineer cause he was free haha it’s nice to know it will be bomb proof though! I’ll post up the structural drawings when I find them in case anyone is interested

Ahhh thanks, that explains it! so I messed up 8 years ago and put my pistons in 180degrees out oh well nice bit of learning for the future

Shouldn’t float haha

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Wow I thought I had done some more updates than this it’s been a crazy year dug standard 900mm deep strip foundations, building control came out and weren’t happy about the proximity to the trees and said I’d either have to go 3.5m down!!!! Or get a structural engineer, so I spoke to a structural engineer I know, and he gave me some plans, I think he may have gone abit over kill but it’s definitely a good slab now I ended up digging out the entire base to 1.6m deep then back filled 200m at a time with class 1 mot and whacked it down until It was filled 900mm then fitted shuttering for the ring beam which will take the walls and filled the Center with another 600mm of mot, then came the rebar fitting all 1.5t of it first pour of concrete for the ring beam 600mm deep then built the outer wall up 300mm to form the shuttering for the main slab which is another 300mm thick pour of concrete in total I removed 7x 18t trucks of soil then put 6x 18t trucks of hard core back, 1.5t of reinforcement steel and then about 22cubes of concrete build is now on hold for a little bit whilst the prices are high and job security isn’t quite as much of a given photos to follow

Just did a resistance check over the glow plugs and they’re registering about .5 ohms which would suggest there’s nothing wrong with them except the obvious collision issue haha

ill get some photos in a-bit basic info, I rebuilt engine about 8 years ago (it has always ran fine ever since) when it was rebuilt it was bored out and +20 thou pistons fitted, OEM 300tdi spec. piston protrusion height was measured and I ended up fitting a no hole 1.6mm thick gasket. glow plugs were never removed from the head at this time as they had been replaced with the head about 5 years earlier.