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Midlandpaintwerks in Stone near Stoke, excellent workmanship and friendly too.

I have a set of 5 15" smoothies that are 4" wide, 3 wheels have useable yokohama commercial tyres fitted, any good to you?

What width are splitty wheels, i have a set of 5 15" 4j that were fitted to my bus that i no longer need

Would you be willing to post?

Forgot to mention that i replaced them with seats from a Rover 200 BRM, just needed to modify the rail at the rear.

i used to use seats from a Rover coupe very similar rails to the ZS, a little bit higher than standard but very comfortable.

I've fitted a CSP brake kit and have a problem with the front flexi hoses. When the bus is on stands and the weight is off the front suspension the front hoses are preventing the wheels from being turned to more than half lock, even when the bus is off the stands the hoses look too short. The...

Hi Graeme i've sent you a PM.

Can't help with the sizes for the engine to gearbox bolts but i recently bought three for the rear mounts and got M10 x 65mm Metric 12.9 Grade Self Colour Socket Cap Bolts With Shank, they were 54p each from Spalding. When i was rebuilding Nora i bought bolts from Westfield fasteners or spalding...

I'll go with that then, thanks Kempy. Nora is the bus that Drew and Stuart are doing at the moment, looks good doesn't she.

I decided to give the reflectors in my headlights a good clean and now i'm reassembling them i wondered where the sidelight bulb should be orientated,. i don't think the position they were in originally was correct as they've never given a correct beam pattern, does anyone know where they should...

Sorry i'm not after any. Whoever started the thread seems to have deleted their posts.

We're having a Devon seat and cooker unit made by Kevin Jackson in Wolverhampton, there is a thread about them on SSVC http://www.ssvc.org.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=118736.

My RHD 69 has two short brake pipes that come off the cylinder and go into two three way unions which have the switches on them, these are on the other side of the chassis rail. I did find a photo online that shows this layout but i can't find it again.

Cheers Ron PM'd