Month: March 2006
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doh!
back up to the garage of thomas to finish splitting the case on the wbx… cleaned some stuff up and found that the one stud that just would not move was actually a bolt all the way through just completely bimetallically corroded… looked like it was held in with concrete… after lots of huffing and…
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come up to the lab and see what’s on the slab….
here it is, the 2.1l waterboxer i was running lastyear in the red panelvan. i dropped it a stripped it before the van went and thomasdiamonhell was kind enough to offer me some clear bench space at his workshop to strip it. working inside with lighting and BLISS OF BLISS ! an air ratchet is…
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shuttlebustastic !
borrowed the van and trailer from raceshack and trucked up to oakham near leicester to collect the NEW akciddento weapon of choice, it’s a 1990 devon microbus, double sliding door, walkthrough with captain seats and rear wash wipe… it stinks of ep90 gearbox oil (probably because the engine and gear box are sat in side…
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stacked it….
after a fantastic saturday night out in cardiff with rod912 and dude, meeting up with kelster and mave (much bench racing and discussion of new projects was done) it was off up to raceshack to help matty walker with getting his ghia ready for the volksworld show… it’s going to be awesome… 🙂 unfortunately at…
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out with the old…
after a strange and taxing day doing ‘other’ stuff i got to attack the panel van… i’ve sold it to gary from glastonbury who is going to rebuold it and race it and i’ve bought a 1989 t25 devon shuttlebus from dave up in oakham… gary and jinx are coming on saturday to collect the…
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US !
Just realised that i’ve been writing this weblog for three years now ! started way back in march 2003 !!!! that’s a bit strange.. 🙂 d
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shopping again…
after a hectic few weeks (they always seem to be hectic… i wonder why that is ?) i’ve done a deal with davecappucino cruiser (always meant to ask him why he calls himself that, cafe racer reference maybe ??) to buy his old devon shuttlebus off him. he bought it off ben and robbed all…
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well hello !
well hello again everyone… it;’s been a long time through a long winter with no entries in the weblog… lots and nothing at all has been happening… teh wedge hightop was sold last weekend. i got a new parts hauler….. and even bought a new toolbox… negotiating on a new bus to race and accumulating…