My Montana Red sunroof deluxe new stance
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Well not updated this in a while so I thought I would bring the thread up to date,
Had an pretty good summer, did not get as much usage as I would like but still managed to get a few trips away and had a few dramas as usual. First up though was a minor modification and got some chrome BBT Sprints to replace my flat fours. HMMMMMM
Brief weekend away to derbyshire in may, did not get many photos.
Mrs Gee enjoying the joys of a Sunroof Deluxe
Then down to cornwall to watch my brother carry the olympic torch. Called in to Chedder Gorge on the way down and went into the caves
Cornwall looking its best
Then in usual style on the way back from cornwall my Mrs who was sat in the back say to me, Something does not sound right back here, pulled over, popped a rocker cover off and found this
broken clip on the rocker shaft which gave bent a valve :evil: :evil: :evil:
so we ended up with this again
Heads off, new valve lapped in, and bolt up rocker shafts, new pushrod tubes and seals. back in and test drive. Pushrod tubes leaking, cue swearing and toys out of pram. engine back out. heads back off new pushrod tube seals, all back together and all back in, test drive all...... all sorted.
Pottered around for the summer not really doing much,
Then in september back down to cornwall for the summer holiday
easy pink for my brother in some interesting Newquay toilets, the was a sofa in these gents toilets ?
the great crantock bail push charity night, cracking evening may have to go back and enter a team next year
the pooch being a clever ****
well that was a stupidly long update, well done anybody who made it to the end without being bored to death. Changes are not afoot and some exciting updates to follow.
Pete
Had an pretty good summer, did not get as much usage as I would like but still managed to get a few trips away and had a few dramas as usual. First up though was a minor modification and got some chrome BBT Sprints to replace my flat fours. HMMMMMM
Brief weekend away to derbyshire in may, did not get many photos.
Mrs Gee enjoying the joys of a Sunroof Deluxe
Then down to cornwall to watch my brother carry the olympic torch. Called in to Chedder Gorge on the way down and went into the caves
Cornwall looking its best
Then in usual style on the way back from cornwall my Mrs who was sat in the back say to me, Something does not sound right back here, pulled over, popped a rocker cover off and found this
broken clip on the rocker shaft which gave bent a valve :evil: :evil: :evil:
so we ended up with this again
Heads off, new valve lapped in, and bolt up rocker shafts, new pushrod tubes and seals. back in and test drive. Pushrod tubes leaking, cue swearing and toys out of pram. engine back out. heads back off new pushrod tube seals, all back together and all back in, test drive all...... all sorted.
Pottered around for the summer not really doing much,
Then in september back down to cornwall for the summer holiday
easy pink for my brother in some interesting Newquay toilets, the was a sofa in these gents toilets ?
the great crantock bail push charity night, cracking evening may have to go back and enter a team next year
the pooch being a clever ****
well that was a stupidly long update, well done anybody who made it to the end without being bored to death. Changes are not afoot and some exciting updates to follow.
Pete
61 stu
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looking awsome mate 8)
flynster
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looking sweet pete :mrgreen:
and i got to the end.......
and i got to the end.......
dubscum
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Pete Pete Pete the Meat! 
Bus is as cool as ever 8)
Bus is as cool as ever 8)
Where were the beach pics taken Pete?
Geeze
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Lovely update
Really need to do one too
Good to see that not being used much seems to have travelled a fair bit of ground to 8)
rocker clip was a bugger though, boltup shafts are definitely a wonderful thing!
Really need to do one too
Good to see that not being used much seems to have travelled a fair bit of ground to 8)
rocker clip was a bugger though, boltup shafts are definitely a wonderful thing!
sparkywig said:
Bedruthen steps, I think that's how you spell it, just outside Newquay, one looking out to see is crantock beach and one in fist real car park.
Thanks for the comments more updates to follow in a couple of weeks when some further work is complete.
Pete
Haven't been to Newquay for a couple of years now, chatting to a mate today about how it's changed. We'll have to take a trip back next year.
I think this is the only one I have close up. Will get some more when the bus is back.
Sparkywig. They are slowly trying to change it. They are quite rigourous with stag and hen do's and have banned certain fancy dress items but it will take a while to sort properly as they let it get really bad.
Pete
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Love this bus, all the right ingredients for absolut coolness.
Got those wheels laying around here to.... 8)
Got those wheels laying around here to.... 8)
So as ever the lowering bug had been further nibbling away at me and so I thought I would take it one stage at a time as there were several things I wanted doing. so I figured I would do them one at a time. The bus was taken to Evil Bens in Cornwall a earlybay member and friend, godbus ( Paul Aucott ) now works there.
So the bus arrived and in true style several things wrong were found with it before the work was even started,
So several small jobs were sorted out such a new steering idler pin, repair to one of the mounts on the engine case which had threaded. and a couple of other things.
Also decided to get sorted the one rust hole on my bus which I had been meaning to sort for 18 months and never got round to it
So whilst the engine mount was being sorted I was talked into having the engine support bar modified whilst it was out, then following some hard sell, an engine and gearbox raise was sold to me. Not got many photos of the raise but here are a couple of the engine support bar and underneath
So then with the budget blown I was then sold that the front should be notched. Health warning here, images of MAN NOTCHES are attached
so then I was told that to make the most of these then this had to happen,
The previous owner had tubbed just the drivers side of my bus so now at least both sides will be done
So it went into have maybe some tubs or something and ended up with
Engine and gearbox raise
modified engine support bar
Man notches up front
Tubbed arches.
Work still ongoing was going to wait until i got it back for the update but following arrival of the photos i got far to excited and could not hold it any longer ( a common problem in my life )
Another long update but more exciting than the last. Cant wait for the next instalment
Pete
P.S for god sake don't tell the wife otherwise im f*@ked. Chrsitmas is off in my household turns out santa likes slammed sunroof deluxes :msn4:
So the bus arrived and in true style several things wrong were found with it before the work was even started,
So several small jobs were sorted out such a new steering idler pin, repair to one of the mounts on the engine case which had threaded. and a couple of other things.
Also decided to get sorted the one rust hole on my bus which I had been meaning to sort for 18 months and never got round to it
So whilst the engine mount was being sorted I was talked into having the engine support bar modified whilst it was out, then following some hard sell, an engine and gearbox raise was sold to me. Not got many photos of the raise but here are a couple of the engine support bar and underneath
So then with the budget blown I was then sold that the front should be notched. Health warning here, images of MAN NOTCHES are attached
so then I was told that to make the most of these then this had to happen,
The previous owner had tubbed just the drivers side of my bus so now at least both sides will be done
So it went into have maybe some tubs or something and ended up with
Engine and gearbox raise
modified engine support bar
Man notches up front
Tubbed arches.
Work still ongoing was going to wait until i got it back for the update but following arrival of the photos i got far to excited and could not hold it any longer ( a common problem in my life )
Another long update but more exciting than the last. Cant wait for the next instalment
Pete
P.S for god sake don't tell the wife otherwise im f*@ked. Chrsitmas is off in my household turns out santa likes slammed sunroof deluxes :msn4:
