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yeah its a deep loud knocking noise, from within the crank case, which is getting louder the more the motor runs, so big end bearing i bet. its allways a gamble with an unknown engine. at least its been an experiance building it, and ive learnt a fair bit.... for example i learnt never to buy...

aye that engine is nice and smokey, aspecially cos i run it on chip fat :D lol i found a little friend to help sand down the camper trailer :D a lad that goes to our motorsport club, just done his GCSE exams and wants to have a go at working on the cars, so i said he can do some sanding and...

:cry: thats all i can say :cry:

:D schweeet :D gonna be gettin it MOT'd this week, its been off the road for about 6 months due to steering rack failure, the only rack i could get was off a mk2, so needed custom trackrods, a new custom solid pipe, and fitting :S ever fitted a gearbox by puttin it on your chest and lifting...

aye had a good day fettling with the motor :D some more time on it, and it will be running real smooth indeed :mrgreen: lookin forward to the vids :D

looking good there bud, orange is defo the best colour! :mrgreen:

:( gutted, i have a slot car fetish :mrgreen:

got any slot cars dude?

i'm sure i'm missing an engine stand, i lent it to someone for 2 weeks, and a year later i still havent got it back :lol: looking good with the orange, defo! cant wait to get it up and running, brum brum vrooooom :msn4: yeah the home paint job was better than the proffesional. sayin...

just wait till he gets the bill from me :D £40 an hour over how many hours? :lol: BTW andy i have some ferrari red 2k paint left over from my dad's buggy, or use that can stuff?

red red red. well try the orange first and see what it looks like, seing as tho the pulleys are orange :mrgreen: its not far off now dude! we'll get it running this weekend? :D yesh yesh

yeah dude i'm free from monday onwards :)

come on dude, get ya finger out. one more weeken and it could be in your van running :D

on a camper there is loads of room between the chassis rails for nice big radiators, so cooling is no problem :D

yeah it will be fine :D even if it didnt have the tapped holes you can get a special adaptor to fit the rear engine bar on :D

yeah a lot of the blue ones died in a hot engine. some of the red ones have too, but not many. reliant :) this is mine note the numberplate ;)

yeah a few on the reliant forum have had them with mixed results. some have been fine with no probs, and some have been faulty

yeah i longboard, the deck on mine is real flexable, not great for top speed, but great for comfort and soaks up bumps. stones and potholes, my friend has a solid deck with no flex, hers is great for serious speed, but hit a stone and your fecked :D

matt black, orange and polished :)

well yeah if the clutch is bolloxed then yeah replace it, but if its still got plenty of meat on it, just re-use it.