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well ian and i spent a bit of time today on the ugly duckling and just by mocking it up i think we will end up with a swan, what do you think
 

and another few...
 

And some more...

Just got home from a very long but interesting day at the Newark Tractor show, here's some photos...

at a loose end so we have dragged this old gutbrod out the field its got to be one of the ugliest machines around, but one of the best for shear pulling power and hard work, so ian and i have decided to get it going and see if we can make it look nicer so first thing is to chuck all the panels away, this is going to be an intresting joint project cos its going to be done as cheap as possable using what junk we can lay our hands on we dont even know if the engine will run but we do have a name in mind for it .
 

It's been an interesting sort of day you might say
 
A write up will have to wait until the final specs are decided on, but you might say its evolving a bit
 
Here's a short vid of todays fun, only one exhaust is plumbed in for flames at the mo. Once it is right the other side will be sorted..
 

What he hasn't said is he had beans for dinner, inserting the pipe was interesting when he does the second exhaust tomorrow I am not going to assist him

A write up on how it was done later, but for now a few photos
 

 

 

 

Early start this morning in thick fog, we arrived at the garden centre and set up the engine and made a coffee, ran the engine for a couple of hours sold a pair of wheels and had a look around and managed to. buy some kohler exhaust plpe connectors.
We went into the cafe and had a nice fried breakfast ran the engine again untill 3pm, loaded up and came home.
A nice little outing and chilled out.
Heres a couple of photos

Well... It's been a while since I've done a Why Not update and not much has been happening really..
 
Part of the kit I bought fried its self, so I made my own..
 
Ready to be bolted on..
 

 
 
Bolted in place under the fender pan.. There is plenty of space around the coils, it's just a badly taken photo that makes it look otherwise!
 

 
 
And a bit of spark testing... I am getting a spark, just enough of a spark!     Any ideas?
 

I got bored the other day, so I made a short edit of this years show season   

Where's the bar?!

Many happy returns of the day Paul.
Hope you have a brilliant day with lots of presents and Wendy to spoil you rotten.
Is it 49 or 50 this year ? The old memory isn't what it use to be. 😎😎😎. ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜

wish you would get bored more often!

I got bored the other day, so I made a short edit of this years show season   

Where's the bar?!

I got bored the other day, so I made a short edit of this years show season   

Where's the bar?!

I got bored the other day, so I made a short edit of this years show season   

Where's the bar?!

I got bored the other day, so I made a short edit of this years show season   

Where's the bar?!

I got bored the other day, so I made a short edit of this years show season   

Where's the bar?!

our mother asked us if we could come up with a faster method for peeling apples
so we came up with this
 

 
one spade drillbit a tub and a peeler. and a drillpress on low speed

Here's a couple we did for dinner     

here's the W4 in action
 

Got my gearbox last night. It is a 4 speed and reverse, ratios are - 1st 7.1, 2nd 3.25, 3rd 1.75, 4th 1.0 and reverse is 7.1.


I was told it was a Bedford CF box but im not so sure. Can anyone help me to identify it? The only markings i can find are two numbers, one on the side. 7081840 No1

And one on the top cover,

Any ideas ?

Its amazing what you can do with two tyre irons, two pair of vice grips and a can of silicone spray. They went on alot easier than i thought, thankfully.

Can anyone guess what im going to use this for ?

Got a few more parts today.
8inch trailer rims for the 3 rib tyres.

Bearings for the front hubs.

And the wheel studs, nuts and grease nipples. Off now to the local engineering shop to get the hubs made.

Been out marshalling today on two stages of the above. The rally is not a full blown thing but more of a series of auto tests. Some photo's below.