Month: April 2005
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so who needs heating anyhow!
so, out comes the dashboard! and then, after some deliberation and realising that the samba never had any heating in and that wasn’t so bad, was it ? out comes the heater matrix and fans etc still got more plumbing to get out but we had the front bumper off and the inertial reel seatbelts…
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guess my weight,,,
i trucked up to RACESHACK to deliver croissants and blag mugs of tea and also to checkout how progress is going for bigbang show at santapod this weekend.. conor and kevo had the rail together and had just finished breaking in the cam on the new engine… conor also had a seablau and blauweiss 15…
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lookie what i got !
yes it’s true ! the racebus is all mot’d and stuff… 🙂 feel much betternow…
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928s
got the tyres onto the 928s. the fronts don’t fit, they foul on the upper wishbone of the wedge… i need to get some 10mm spacers, like these care of michael at machine-7 in nuneaton
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mick done good !
DHL turned up with this courtesy of mick at kinky micks happy wheel shack inside is a pair of porshce 928s2 wheels, 4 tyres and a box of bolts and adapters…. and they look something like this … this is on the hightop, which is an early t25 and apparently has a slightly narrower trackl…
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oops, done it again,
it seems that, after discussion with spencer tramm at VWDRC and with fellow akciddento bus racer ollie-slammedbay-twobuses-dyer, i’m racing at bigbang… i’m not ready, the bus is not ready and i’ve got a very busy month with several important projects on… sounds ideal… don’t think there will be time to get the turbo system sorted…
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paint it all brunt ornage…
a pleasant days spannering ensued.. after checkingh thing sover and buying biuts n bobs for MOT, new wiperblade, new flexibrake hose etc i got on with the dull jobs…. foglamp – not working because there;s no bulb in it.. change wiper, clean gunky green corroded contacts on numberplate lights. the one that was working now…
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rain stops play….
was going to head to the beach in the hitop but the forecast last night mentioned snow…. decided to get the minor jobs on the panel van done and get it back for MOT. Ollie was kind enough to leave the strobe gun for me on his way to work so all was set. after…
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guess what ?
leaking a bit of water… now from both jacket heads… the bus trundles over to arthur at MAD workshop (formerly dubdepot) and then, quite unexpectedly ends up here at shiners garage for an mot 🙂 it failed, but on stupid things like windscreenwiper, rear fog lamp and the little holes where i took out the…
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better news…
spannering and half hearted twiddling, looks like there might not be a broken stud, they all seem ok…. it’s leaking a bit when it warms up, both sides now but maybe it’s just gaskets. now i have to sit and calculate cost and effort. rebuild this ? another 2nd hand 2.1 ? get marco to…