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by JustinMinor1000
Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:08 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: heated screens
Replies: 7
Views: 3034

hi louise, yes i just went on the site, and then rang them to check that it was the same and it was so i bought it. so...heated screen soon! woo! how bad of an idea would it be to fit one to one side of my split screen? bar the fact i will have lines down the screen obviously! just a thought, as i ...
by JustinMinor1000
Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:44 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Seat movement ?
Replies: 18
Views: 6997

RogerRust wrote:If SaDMOG can get it to Swindon I'll bring it to Bedford!

Roger
If you can drop it of in Henley-On-Thames I can drop it in Leicestershire (Or we can meet at one of the the exits onthe M1) when I next have to go to Manchester ?
by JustinMinor1000
Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:09 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Beards......
Replies: 57
Views: 15697

As a point of "Doing stupid things for money" I was once bet 2500 Swedish Crowns that I would not shave my hair off then and there .. Quickest £200 I've ever made ... This mad wild Boris johnson hair grows in about a fortnight .. turned down a million quid each??? hmm - something fishy the...
by JustinMinor1000
Sun Sep 23, 2007 10:24 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: I need to shift some poo ..
Replies: 21
Views: 6258

dalebrignall wrote:why not get a massey ferguson 135 and an old trailer thats a small tractor that does not die and can take loads of abuse.
We have an international 454 if required but it's not that good for poo .. (too much manovering)

Dunno what the horses would be like on senocot . even more producive I guess ..
by JustinMinor1000
Sun Sep 23, 2007 8:00 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: I need to shift some poo ..
Replies: 21
Views: 6258

Found the answer .. in a hedge .. A "Martin" Truck with a 10HP Kohler single engine and an "Albion" Gearbox/clutch assembly.. I tried to start it today .. everthign moves .. nothing seized .. new coil (A moggie one) and got 20 seconds of popping with a spray of PCB cleaner. into ...
by JustinMinor1000
Sat Sep 22, 2007 10:59 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: I need to shift some poo ..
Replies: 21
Views: 6258

i always thought a skoda with twin exhausts was a wheel barrow 8) altho these days they make brill cars lol and i will admit when i had my scrap yard years ago it was one of the easiest cars to break up 4 10mm bolts and the whole engine was easily accesible from the back :-? How close is the radiat...
by JustinMinor1000
Sat Sep 22, 2007 10:48 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: I need to shift some poo ..
Replies: 21
Views: 6258

Oh and the other thing is .. It would be kinda cool if it was Diesel .. because given the nature of it's non road legal requirements I might as well run it on red anyway ..
by JustinMinor1000
Sat Sep 22, 2007 10:46 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: I need to shift some poo ..
Replies: 21
Views: 6258

Matt wrote:Get a cheap trailer?
I've got one of them . It's a sankey .. the problem is that it has to be reversed ... load of times ..

As was said someting with a seperate chassis ..
by JustinMinor1000
Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:26 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: I need to shift some poo ..
Replies: 21
Views: 6258

I need to shift some poo ..

Vast quantities of it .. Driving round fields picking it up and sticking it in wheelbarrows and then putting it in a poopile .. So Idea number one was to get a 2cv cut the top off and with a bit of ply turn it into a pickup .. (Road legal is not an issue here) .. I assumed it would be the same as we...
by JustinMinor1000
Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:25 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Help - I have no gears!
Replies: 8
Views: 2789

If you need a halfshaft I happen to have one sitting on the bench which I will happilly mail to you .

Justin
by JustinMinor1000
Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:23 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Brakes inventory - help me think? [FIXED]
Replies: 18
Views: 4073

Parts suppliers in Sweden will be checked for tomorrow and Monday - although I fear these old junkers won´t have much support here anymore. Hopefully I am wrong. Problem is that IF there are suppliers, they will most certainly rip me off. The UK is a totally different market, with loads of old BMC ...
by JustinMinor1000
Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:19 am
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Rear hub nuts
Replies: 1
Views: 777

Rear hub nuts

Can someone tell me if these are standard or reverse thread ? in theory the left one should be reverse but the book says nothing .. anyone got better info ?

Justin
by JustinMinor1000
Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:37 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Getting a caravan off it's chassis ?
Replies: 6
Views: 2842

Getting a caravan off it's chassis ?

Is this even possible ? The idea is we want a tackroom the idea was to get a caravan and et it sink into the mud while the creepers grow around it .. Rather than just lose the wheels and dropping it down .. I rather wanted to put down left to right wood beamsand put the caravan onto it without a cha...
by JustinMinor1000
Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:23 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: I want.....
Replies: 13
Views: 4435

Hello all, "A DS, open top with 2.7 Maserati engine * I saw, when on holiday in France, an abandoned Citroen SM, which was their official Maserati engined car. It didn't look too bad either, rather tempted to see if I could buy it but sense prevailed. Alec To my knowledge the the SM came as st...
by JustinMinor1000
Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:13 pm
Forum: Bodywork
Topic: Traveller Metal Prep .. And what to do about the wings ?
Replies: 3
Views: 1281

Traveller Metal Prep .. And what to do about the wings ?

So I am in the enviable position of having two almost identical white traveller. The only truely different thing about them is the fact that one of them has no wood at all and the other is held together with chewing gum and string. So my chewing gum and string car HAS to have new wood before Christm...
by JustinMinor1000
Wed Sep 05, 2007 5:28 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Complete brake rebuild - what options do I have?
Replies: 10
Views: 2483

Hi .. When this was discussed before there was a general consensus that the best option for the master cylinder is to buy a Lockheed one and not a pattern one. The wheel cylinders (so went the argument) were not such a big deal because of their low cost and ease of repair whereas, the master cylinde...
by JustinMinor1000
Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:28 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Rear Hubs ..
Replies: 4
Views: 1241

Rear Hubs ..

In the Official BMC manual there is a special tool for extracting the rear hub. In the assembled experience is this nessesary or can you use regular hub pullers like this ..

http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/search/produ ... ku=SI14053
by JustinMinor1000
Tue May 22, 2007 9:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Police car (please help info needed) UPDATE
Replies: 12
Views: 4577

As far as magnetic beacons go .. I do remember my dad had one when we lived in Sunderland (so 1971-1973) and there was a special two pin plug in the dashboard of the car that the cord went into. It was definatly magnetic because my grandfather went on to my dad about putting a piece of newspaper und...
by JustinMinor1000
Tue May 08, 2007 10:27 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: how did you come to be a Moggy owner?
Replies: 47
Views: 13027

stevey wrote:
It just took the right girl ..
Did she come with the car? :D
No the car came with her :)
by JustinMinor1000
Sun May 06, 2007 1:21 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Polyurethane bushes - pros and cons?
Replies: 8
Views: 3141

I've got to say I've had poly bushes both on the landrover and all of my moggies. I've never noticed any difference between the two .. Except that on the landrover rubber tends to make the front wheels drift ..