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As you've probably gathered the wife took the kids out today. So extension this morning, this afternoon I thought I'd get the box on the trailer. However being on my own I had to get inventive. First I needed to rotate the box, so I jacked it up put one block in the middle and levered it round with a pole.
Next up how to lift it nearly 2 ft in the air to get the trailer under, without killing myself or rolling it onto next doors car.
After various blocks, props and jacking it's high enough to get the trailer under.
Trailer under, currently on blocks to clear the wheels. Hopefully tomorrow I can cut the arches out and drop it down.
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Hopefully the box will be extended, on the trailer, watertight and maybe some interior for the Silverstone classic in August.
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Rear extension cut to size and the corners glassed up to make a frame for the panels to fit in.
I hot glued some MDF across the joints to hold it together while I glassed inside.
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Instead of replacing my shed with a wooden one in bought a concrete prefab garage off eBay for £1 (already dismantled, buyer collects). I reconfigured the shape put a new roof on and painted it. All in, including some concrete to extend the current base (no car ever going in so didn't need to be as thick) it cost me about £500.
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Sounds like your gearbox has failed the same as mine did. I never took mine apart but I think the input shaft had snapped then later jammed in 4th gear some how. Even reverse was 4th on mine.
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I had the exact same experience a few months ago. By the time I took the gearbox out I had 4th gear in every gear but that was only after a lazy recovery driver was determined to drive it onto the flat bed, he had to winch it in the end but not before playing a tune on the gears. Unfortunately mine wasn't the clutch so I ended up changing the gearbox.
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Paint.
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1 hour ago, Junglie said:
**Daft question alert**
My Landy doesn't have power steering so I'll have to get someone to swing on the wheel... Is there an easier way?
I check mine with the engine off anyway so no power assistance.
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I've had some wheel wobble recently. This morning I noticed a fairly large amount of mud trapped behind the bead lock flange of the front wheel. This ment it wasn't obvious until I was in the right position with the wheel at the right point. I fished the worst of it out and went to work. It was so vastly reduced I'll be washing the rest out this evening. The worst bit is I haven't even been off road recently, it must of happened when someone
wouldn't move over on a narrow road and I had to take to the ditch for him to miss me.
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Front wheel bearings can also cause death wobble but they have normally already shown up as knackered before the wobble.
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As Bowie says, I've had three 93 Discovery's all 200tdi two had twenty four, one had ten.
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I could do with stripping the adjusters on the other three wheels as they're a bit stiff and the cables look a little tired but they all work so for now it's staying as is.
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Still waiting for paint but I've finished cutting bits off. Replaced the seized then snapped brake adjuster. Swapped the wheel nuts for all the same size (27mm socket). Welded up two more cracks and straightened the slightly bent radius arm hence the bald tyre on the inside edge.
It actually looks quite tidy now.
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I love the use of a router as a mill very ingenious. The holes saw trick I use regularly at work but just a note not all arbors/mandrills have a long enough centre thread to do this.
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Ben Teresa uses sketch up a fair bit but for accuracy she'll switch to nanoCAD (granted in 2D).
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The wife has been using nanoCAD the free version is 2D only but the subscribed (relatively cheap from memory, especially compared to AutoCAD) does 3D I believe. She's really impressed with it her words were it works just like AutoCAD, yes there are some differences but she just got on an used it rather than needing tutorial's to draw a square.
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10 minutes ago, Wytze said:
That's a nice bit off slipping😁 Your nose all black inside now? 😋
Everything smell's of burnt metal now.
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oops, i may of slipped with a grinder.
Still got to remove to uprights at the back of the trailer and take the ramps off.
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Have you got the toe adaptor for the last one, basically it a Z of steel which allows the lift point to be two inches off the ground. They're great for lifting cradles.
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I've popped in on the op for a look this evening. The shrouds mountings aren't great hence the fouling but that's been rectified and the alternator pulley is quite worn. My conclusion is the combination of fan drag on the shroud, lack of tension due to stripped bolt and a worn pulley have led to the belt getting hot and shredding. They have fixed two issues already and I've suggested a replacement pulley would help other than that there's nothing obviously wrong so I guess it's a keep an eye on it job.
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P.S. it was nice to meet you both.
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Which truck will you get the most use/fun from? That's the truck I would fit them to.
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Daft question, have you used the right bolts in the water pump pulley as to long and they can lock the pulley up.
Mike
P.S. if you get really stuck I'm not a million miles from you so pm me.
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8 hours ago, ThreePointFive said:
I'll be putting MTs on the Volvo at the current rate.
That's happened there before.
....and I got a lot further than expected.
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Do the alternator and water pump spin freely without the belt on, it looks like the belt has got really hot. If they do spin freely I'd suggest replacing the pulleys. As an absolute minimum the pulleys need a close inspection and clean up.
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wouldn't move over on a narrow road and I had to take to the ditch for him to miss me.
....and I got a lot further than expected.
Overland caravan build
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No it's to old to have an existing registration and technically if it's not commercial you can't get one but hopefully because it was a plant trailer I might be able to get it registered, though I may have to IVA it to get it.
Mike