Dolly The Autosleeper

[paulcloke]

lol. could always come and camp in harvey yh the woman is lovely. just gotta hope the flat is as described if so we will be moving in pretty sharpish as half the house is boxed up and doing more right now :I only prob i have atm is figuring out how to make my peak look solid enough that it dont get poked about to much at mot time. fortunately i have found a garage that is very Classic friendly. run by an old mot tester that actually knows what a commer is hes a great guy. i explained my situation with the move and he said if it does fail on anything he will allow me to leave it there for 2 weeks and do the work myself for 20.00 parking fee. great old guy trying to get friendly with him as he seems the type of guy that could be really handy to know. and you never know. maybe a job will come up

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[Enigma]

Good luck with the flat Paul

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[Panky]

quote:
Originally posted by paulcloke

lol. could always come and camp in harvey yh the woman is lovely. just gotta hope the flat is as described if so we will be moving in pretty sharpish as half the house is boxed up and doing more right now :I only prob i have atm is figuring out how to make my peak look solid enough that it dont get poked about to much at mot time. fortunately i have found a garage that is very Classic friendly. run by an old mot tester that actually knows what a commer is hes a great guy. i explained my situation with the move and he said if it does fail on anything he will allow me to leave it there for 2 weeks and do the work myself for 20.00 parking fee. great old guy trying to get friendly with him as he seems the type of guy that could be really handy to know. and you never know. maybe a job will come up

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The peak section is bodywork so if it's not considered dangerous ie sharp enough to injure pedestrians (or MOT man) then it should be OK. I hate to say it but slap some filler in to get it through the test[8)]

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[paulcloke]

yh thats what i was thinking. i want to replace the peak and guttering down both sides once the whole house thing is out the way lol. but i will be well happy to see a tax disk in the window again

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[paulcloke]

not a bad start to the morning just had a call off my dad to say he has a spare regulator i can use til i buy 1 its on its way down today. im currently sat in waiting for a call to go view the flat then im hoping to get out and do a bit more cleaning up. thinking i may tackle the tank today and see if i can get it looking the part whats the best way to tell if my sender or fuel guage is at fault[?] i know 1 of them is as the guage has never moved but i took about 20.00 worth of petrol out the tank when i removed it. also does anyone know the dimensions of a med/large leasure battery[?] im going to stick a box in the floor behind the drivers seat to house both a leasure and normal battery then the front footwell can be used for an emergancy tool kit, overalls ect [8D]

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[paulcloke]

Well i had a good day. drove up to tims to get a couple of bits for dolly and saw kermit looking great i might add. when that van hits the quarter mile im planning on being there to see it [8D] now got my mirror arm. a nice rc40 exhaust, cheers tim and a bloody great bottle of co2 even managed to get up there and back without getting lost this time loads of snow up there but the views are fantastic [^] it made it a really pleasant drive. unfortunately i was right tim... dad sent up the WRONG type of regulator [V] so i now have a mig welder. loads of wire, tips and gas... but i still cant weld [}] GRRR

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[Panky]

Dohhhhhhh:I

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[commeracer]

Glad to hear you made it back ok this time

Try this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CO2-Regulator-Reducer-/130832966109?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item1e7640a1dd

or this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CO2-Single-Stage-side-entry-welders-Regulator-Female-fitting-suits-Pub-Bottles-/180889649769?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a1ddd0269

"You,re only supposed to blow the bloody SLIDING doors off"

 

[paulcloke]

thats a polite way of saying what i did john lol i have put that in my watch list lol. do you know if they do an adapter for the bigger regulator m8? mirror arm was the right size 1 i didnt even get lost on the way back lol although some little turd scraped the word **** on dollies windscreen in the frost.

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[commeracer]

There is possibly an adaptor, but you would have to search and see

"You,re only supposed to blow the bloody SLIDING doors off"

 

[paulcloke]

gonna go to the place i get all my paint/filler ect tomorrow and ask them. looking forward to getting my new exhaust fitted

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[paulcloke]

well its been a funny week for us [?] mixture of good and bad. the flat is ours and the dogs are welcome and my fuel tank is now stripped and coated in rust killer then red oxide which is drying now [8D] looks pretty good in my opinion will ad a few pics later. co2 regulator ordered so welding should commence soon ( if i can figure a way to do it in the snow [!][V] ) unfortunately 2 of the six screws that hold in the fuel sender sheared [:0] im now clueless what to do as i have no thread cutters so cant drill it[)] all fun and games here eh... im trying to decide what i prefer. underneath is going black with some cream to break it up. not sure if i prefer cream tank/black sender or black tank/cream sender [?]

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[Panky]

You should be able to carefully drill the sheared bolts out to the point where you can pick the remaining threads out with a sharp pointy thing. But any spark generated by the drill could be disastrous[xx(][:0] My advise is to fill the tank with water before you touch it with a drill and worry about drying it out later:I

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[paulcloke]

yh good idea. its been enpty for 2 or 3 months so fingers crossed. im going to look how much sticks out in a min as if there is enough i may be able to cut a grove into them and get them out with a good screw driver. is it a cork or rubber gasket that goes on the sender m8? im going to wire up my sender with a good earth and move it by hand to see if it works lol

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[Panky]

It'll be a cork gasket I would think.

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[paulcloke]

coolio. cant get the bits out so looks like the tank will need filling then drilling and i think my sender is kaput as cant get a reading at all. either that or gauge.will add piccys shortly

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[paulcloke]

Lovely view but not very nice for welding [}] hopefully i can do alot of it from inside :I:I

thanks to tim i now have a mirror arm and clip all i need now are 2 mirrors to go on them

fuel tank has taken a couple of days but i took pics at each stage

started out with this

took this 1 just before i finished rubbing it down but forgot to take 1 finished lol

Then coated it in jenolite and left it to do its thing

Cleaned it off and gave it a good coat of red oxide and this is how it looks now [^]

Pretty please with that but i have got to sort this out [!][!][!][V]

top right and far right bolts sheared. i was so carefull to. i guess 40 years was just to much for them. hopefully it will make them easier to drill but not looking forward to it as its a very fiddly job and if i go right through the tank in buggered lol

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[Panky]

It's not the end oif the world if you drill right through, just wrap the screw in plenty of plumbers tape when you put it back in
Tank looks mint by the way[8D]

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[paulcloke]

thanks i just have to decide on the colour for the top coat now. in the mean time i got loads to do lol

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[paulcloke]

having to borrow a pair of motorbike mirrors to get her through mot lol. she gonna look daft haha

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