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Here are my Gutbrods out together I am getting them ready for an other season I hope you like 1032 1030 1032

Just bought a bmb with c/m trailer but don't know what year or anything.

Thanks Mark, I think it has a kind of "Darth Vader" look about it

Not really mate, one of each type (with wheels or without) will do me...

Kinda adding a stealth look to it, liking the hard edges even though I know you will round them off....

Howdo all, I thought it was about time I posted up something about my small herd of Wheel Horses, so let's start with my GT-14+2 I bought this beast from Neil as a non runner last year back in the days of warmth, blue sky's and some green on the trees. Here she is shortly after delivery.. No she wasn't delivered by Wheel Horse, but it was a handy way of getting the non running GT from the van around to my shack. A big thank you to this chap Paul for collecting the GT from Neils place and bringing it all the way to Kent. The GT at home in the shack. The first job on the list was to get the GT's engine running. As it was producing no spark my first port of call was the points.. I got a bit of a shock to find new points that hadn't been set up! I should point out that Neil had bought it for spares for his other GT and other than unloading it at his place hadn't touched it at all. I'm just so Glad Neil offered to sell it to me.. I love the GT With the engine now running she could be driven about and tested out.. The hydro trans works well as did the hydraulic side of things. Here's Mark (Meadowfield) a fellow GT owner giving my GT a test drive round the garden. Although the GT's engine ran it was showing signs of it's age which after almost 43 years it has every right to.. Burning oil was one problem but the one that worried me the most was the engine was getting very hot very fast! It was getting so hot that my 1st planned long drive only lasted about 3 min's before I decided to turn back.. At least it was a nice day for it Some quick thinking was needed to get the GT in usable condition again, which resulted in a bid on Fleabay and I became the proud owner of this Wheel Horse Raider 10 that had been fitted with a big Kohler Magnum 16hp engine So out came the GT's original 14hp engine.. And and in went the 16hp Kohler Magnum lump. One slight problem as you can see was the bonnet wouldn't close due the size of the engine.. Not a problem Filling the hole. Now the bonnet closes

The third and final part of my 3 point build... Enjoy

The rear hitch with lower arms bolted in place.. Yep the roll bar will certainly need a bit of trimming! Just to see how it would look I dug my 3 point towing frame thingy out to see how it would look... Good me thinks Before chopping any bit's off the roll bar I quickly welded on this bit of bracing to stop the RB from twanging out of shape. Off came the RB for a bit of surgery, first a bit of marking out.. Chopped.. All the opening will be plated over in time That's better, the top arm "fits" now It was at this point that I had had enough of trying to see what I was doing through the GT's fenders etc.. So off it all came More to come in a bit, I need to get started on dinner.. Thanks Paul, there's plenty more to come.

Morning chaps, with the arrival a of a big delivery of new steel, I could start working out where the outriggers should go. Which meant more lathe time to finish the widened rear wheel hubs.. A length of steel bar in the lathe taking shape. More key-way cutting.. And the final part, shrink fitting the bit's of bar and the rest of the hubs together. Time to cut some holes in the outriggers.. Two different jigs were used.. One to make the bearing block bolt holes. And one jig to make a rather bigger hole. A steel crop circle Hole cut out and finished off with with one of these strange sanding wheels in a drill.