Ian

I've had two of these frames in my "might come in handy one day" collection for about 12 years.. Yesterday was the day to use one.. Some cutting, welding and drilling later it had turn into this spacer. Which fits here to raise the front of the fender pan up a bit.. Take a rusty and dented Gutbrod bonnet/hood.. And cut the first of two patches out of it.. Just in case your getting bored of welding shots, here's a grinding shot instead Ta-daa.. An extended fender pan at the front. Brackets were made and welded to the chassis to stop the fender pan extensions from flapping about the place..

It's time for a mega picture update guys Ok, not strictly part of the Horse Gut story any more as the Cammo 8 is up for sale (anyone? ) but as I had a machine move about in my workshop I thought I'd grab a pic Now you see the hydraulic pump bracket.. Now you don't As it wasn't needed and looked ugly, Nigel cut it off and gave the remaining bracket a nice curve A couple more "arty blue" shots of Nigel welding.. Some rather heavy duty welding too as the chassis extension plates went on.. I don't think it will move in a hurry A distance shot to show you how the plates give HG a more substantial and "less thin in the middle" look. A strange shaped plate in the making.. Which got tacked on in situ.. Then this weird bloke welded it up

Very nice work

That 6 wheeled trailer is very cool

Your off to a good start there Ewan

A nice selection of machines there George As for a butterfly late December.. I will raise you one with a photo taken 15 mins ago.. Yep that is a caterpiller! I think the seasons are a bit messed up this year!

The hole was where a wing/rear view mirror was bolted on (the hood came from a racing mower), but the hole has now gone along with a few extras that were not needed. And on to todays fun and games.. Yes both Nigel and I were at the workshop today, Nigel to escape seasonal tv, me to escape a house full of kids! Starting with a sheet of ally which we rolled a rib into. Nigel doing some light shaping of the plate. A check for fit.. And the almost finished dash panel, all it needs a a choke cable fitted.

A slightly late, Happy Birthday George. Hope you had a good one

A well built and solid looking machine

A fun video Mark, good to see you found a way of getting Bendy stuck at last

I bet it has Pedals would be faster It's a strange machine indeed Alan, the steering has a good feel to it but the throttle pedal almost needs two feet to operate, it's that heavy!

That looks a nice strong bench

Very nice work

Thanks Norm Thanks Alain, factory look is kinda what were aiming for.. How they should of built it kinda thing A bit of paint fun from Monday/Tuesday for you all.. Cleaning layers of paint off is never fun! There was at least four thick layers! So with the thick old paint off and a quick coat of red oxide sprayed on to stop it rusting (the weather is rather damp at the mo) I could get a good look at the damage the thick paint hid! Lot's of hammer and dolly work later the hood is starting to look a lot straighter

That's good news on the parts refund mate

I have to agree with that Norm Nice work Mark, I'm guessing you have the internet fully sorted now?

Nope Part of the problem as we found yesterday was the new float was too tall, which meant when the float went up it bottomed out on the carb body before shutting off the fuel! Once the old float and jet went back in the flooding stopped. One thing that was really bugging me was why the spark was so weak at the plug until the ignition was turned off when it produced a nice fat bright spark just the once! This got me thinking, so I did a little research.. And found an external condenser on a car engine is wired onto the positive side of the coil, where as small engines say a Kohler or a Mag the condenser is wired onto the negitive side of the coil... No prizes for guess which way we had it wired Soooo... armed with a condenser wired in the right way, and also the base jet settings for the Bing carb the engine was soon brought to life Of course all this happened before Nigel had turned up, so I carefully timed it that just as Nigel was pulling in I was driving Horse Gut out the workshop!! The look on Nigels face was priceless.. At first he thought I was driving the Cammo 8 without a bonnet, until he noticed I was driving past the Cammo 8 which did still have it's bonnet on! Picture a look of confused/think your seeing things/disbelief all rolled into one which after a minute gave way to a big grin You have indeed

Is that a Wheel Horse next to the Audi I see?

It looks very good Noel, though the height of the blue up the walls does make it look kinda like a swimming pool

It might be worth seeing if the blue paint will T cut off Andrew rather than a full repaint..