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thejones's said:
After Stanford hall, drove a bit and ended up in a little town called Cheadle, nice and chilled and warming evening sun...

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Only buy from Stanford hall required the 1st use of the roof rack...at last...

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how long is that wind breaker it looks like something out of grantdesigns :lol:
 
emptied the old garage to turn into a spray bay/workshop and wacked the vans in their new house.







NO fridge, trailer or fckin bikes just an empty space for them.
 
Friday I picked the bus up from RNJ Motorsport after having the 500mile run in service and also fitted the throttle kit from Butty.
The Bus now runs proper sweeeeet. Then took it up to Burghley House to camp in for the RactRace Dirty Weekend.
Whilst there saw 2 lates, 1 splitty and one of those awful danbury things!! :msn4:
 
Not technically today but the sites been down for a bit so it'll have to do.

Finshed my new wheels - made the clips to hold the baby moons on.

Before:
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After:
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Sunday, got a bit of 'mission creep' whilst running horn cable to get rid of the crap toggle switch a po put on the dash :evil: .

Ran wire fine using a length of brake pipe then hooked cable with a scriber, no need to lift column or tube 8) .

All good then noticed plastic insulator not sat right as some po has mullered the metal cover and the insulator won't fit :roll: .

Cue total removal to get cover off column and apply some variable pressure application from the Birmingham screwdriver to straighten it out :lol: .

Now all back together, with a jubilee clip around the base of the column for the earth jumper (broken tag); just waiting for Bluebird Customs to post me the top bearing bushing as the factory one is goosed(my MOT man didn't seem too worried although it rattles :shock: ).

Now the column tube is nicely anchoed at the base, as it should be! :D 9 hours in the doing - few cups of tea and internet searches in that, mind!
 
Waiting for the Essex based engine suppliers to collect the bus to replace their recon engine that seized after 150 miles!!! Naming and shaming will follow if they do not get their f***ing arses here soon!!! :evil:
 
Loads! Got some conduit, ran some leisure battery wires front to back, ran some speaker wires from front to back, fitted my new speakers to the front, wired up my heated seats, picked my dashboard up from the power coater!

Excuse my cheap washer bottle!

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On Saturday I removed my CSP shifter and replaced the front section of my selector rod and the front bush.
Along with a recent gearbox oil change I'm hoping it sorts the occasional finding 2nd problem.
I plan to check my clutch adjustment tonight before having a scoot out to test it
 
Whipped the nearside rear lower shock bolt out, and dropped the wheel off.
Got underneath and tightened the wing nut a couple of turns and then took SuperDry out for a spin.
Seemed to be an improvement.
 
Removed filler from body panels
with a hammer & chisel :lol:
It flew-off
some places it was 12mm thick :shock:
 
With Bristol Volksfest looming I thought I should start getting ready. A little bit at a time is the way forward, and so I decided to give the old girl the first wash she's had for 18 months.



I then remembered the Patina Wax I picked up from T2D at VoWo


I gave the front panel a very quick rub over to see how it came out. It'll need doing again properly, but I'm pleased with it, brings out the colour well and gives a nice satin sheen.


The front section of the roof came out ok too




Here's the difference.....
 

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