blue beasty said:

Not done much recently apart from use her and general maintenance stuff.

A small rocker box leak turned into a flood and the reason became apparent

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Nice easy fix and she marks her territory less than any Series I've had now.

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blue beasty said:

Picked up the Ambulance today...well....yesterday but got home today, a '78 Marshall bodied 2 1/4 petrol Series III which had been stood up not running since April.

Went to see her last weekend and got her running well enough to attempt the 150 miles home so yesterday grabbed a lift with Pikey (shed loads of thanks and a few thousand favours due....) and went to get her with a 110 full of bits, tools and oils.

Pinched Pikeys aux battery, fired up and headed for the nearest decent sized lay-by to do a full fluid change and replace a badly leaking hub seal which all went well enough but as it was getting dark, tired and hungry we abandoned attempts to get the dipped headlights working and settled into a trading estate for the night.

The journey back today was straight forward enough, apart from me getting lost every 5 mins (I like taking the scenic route ) she runs well with a quiet gearbox and diffs and I'd taken a proper Series steering wheel to replace the silly little sports jobby that was on it so it was possible to drive round corners.

We arrived back about 2 ish with the brakes getting hard so we threw everything out of the back and replaced a section of the servo pipe that was kinked which sorted that out and off I headed to the MOT station.

She failed on what I knew she would (lights)
Passed on what I was concerned about (chassis/bushes/bulkhead etc)
And failed on something I hadn't thought to worry about (emissions)

Popped in to see a friendly Indy on the way home who chatted away for about half an hour about what the cause of failing the HC part of the test might be while I grinned stupidly and resolved to do some indepth reading about hotstarts, vacuum advance and some bizzare petrol related thingy called a dizzy

Yeah yeah I know :nopics: but my phones been dead for most of the last 24hrs, it's dark and raining, it's parked up 1/4 mile away and at present looks like it's been painted with a mop by a baboon on amphetamines....but Pikey might have taked a few and I will as and when there's something interesting to see

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blue beasty said:

After snapping 2 out of 3 manifold to downpipe studs I began to regret tinkering with the zorst

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Took the manifolds of and welded nuts to the remains. One came out.....the other snapped flush so I've drilled it and it'll have to wait until I've added to my (non existent ) imperial tap collection

On the plus side the drivers footwell and one outrigger are welded so I'm close to motable condition....possibly

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Rubins4 said:

Looks like I'm going to have to remove the exhaust manifold to get a seized stud out too. Should I get a replacement gasket on order or are they reusable? Ta

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Rubins4 said:

Cheers Boss. Got new brass studs and nuts, will get a gasket on order.

Fyi, tyre is at the depot over the weekend being removed. It will go to the courier Tuesday morning.

I think I'm getting a head of myself with forward facing rear seats, I'll give it a miss this time

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