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Gaz's Mk3 truck

Postby Mr RVM » Wed Apr 24, 2013 2:08 am

did what the instructions said........no worky :?: :?: :?:
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Re: still cant get pics up

Postby Mr RVM » Wed Apr 24, 2013 2:36 am

i'll try it another way......

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Re: still cant get pics up

Postby Mr RVM » Wed Apr 24, 2013 2:38 am

I think i've got it :!: :!: :!: :D :D :D
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Re: still cant get pics up

Postby MinorMatt » Wed Apr 24, 2013 9:14 am

I think the chassis is missing...
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Re: still cant get pics up

Postby JoeySully » Wed Apr 24, 2013 9:30 am

Looks like you have rotated the picture :lol:
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Re: still cant get pics up

Postby Altransit » Wed Apr 24, 2013 9:32 am

:idea: It may be poised for vertical takeoff :mrgreen:
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Re: still cant get pics up

Postby Mr RVM » Wed Apr 24, 2013 10:48 am

MinorMatt wrote:I think the chassis is missing...



Did you notice that too :?: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Just got chassis back yesterday, after major reconstructive surgery involving over 30 feet of welding its been blasted and coated in some top of the range zinc based thingy stuff :D looks mint now will get a pic up later, lots of work done to cab while its been away so soon it will be time to get it fitted back on, hoping to get it done before i go back to work on the 2nd, so still have well over a week

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but will have to get this done first :?
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Re: still cant get pics up

Postby Mr RVM » Wed Apr 24, 2013 9:08 pm

Slightly better pic

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Re: still cant get pics up

Postby Mr RVM » Thu Apr 25, 2013 11:37 pm

Goin to restart this thread over in the progress forum where it belongs there's too many pictures not fair to clog up the problem page :!:
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Re: still cant get pics up

Postby Altransit » Thu Apr 25, 2013 11:55 pm

:wink:
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Re: Gaz's Mk3 truck

Postby Mr RVM » Sat Apr 27, 2013 1:10 am

Right, now i have pics sorted and the site mods have moved my original post to this section and changed the title for me (thanks guys) i can now begin the story of my Mk3 twin wheel truck (1990 2.0 ltr pinto 64,000 hard worked miles)
I bought it on ebay just over a year ago for £475 from a tree surgeon in corby northants it had tax and 4 or 5 months test so me and my mate drove down to pick it up having taken the seller's word that it would do the 200 mile trip back up to the north east (which it did)
when we got there it was getting dark but i had a quick look around it and it seemed ok for that sort of money (at the time i couldnt find a transit truck any age or miles with a bit of t+t for less than a grand up here) so i paid the man (a very big man an ex squaddie that loved all things green lol) and set off for home with paul (my mate) following in his car, i headed straight for the motorway via the first petrol station i saw and had a pretty uneventful drive back home doing a steady 60mph all the way stopping only once at wetherby for a quick visit and a costa :D
it was toward the end of the journey i began to hear the noise from the engine (that very familiar tapping from the top end of a pinto) thought oh well so it'll probably need a cam kit no great shakes they all do every 50k anyway :!: it was cheap so I expected to inject a few quid into it :?:
So a couple of days later took it upto the farm got it inside the big shed to give it a good goin over and thats where its been ever since :!: :lol:
first thing i did was take the cam/rocker cover off and thats where it ALL started :lol: the camshaft was shagged :!: i've never seen a worse one :shock:
when i opened up the airfilter housing the filter was blacker than a black thing and now i'm beginning to understand why it took 10 gallons of fuel to get back (approx 19mpg) :( so i thought sod it pull it out and go the whole hog, rebuild the engine and be done with it :!:
Then i began stripping the front end to facilitate removal of the engine, grill,rad, slam panel etc, all was going to plan nothing seized no clips broken and then when i pulled the rad out i noticed a not too healthy crossmember further investigation uncovered loads of fibre glass bridging compound covered in copious amounts of underseal and once i hacked it all out there was nothing much of the original crossmember left :shock: wasnt really too bothered as recent to this time got a crossmember and front cover off ebay from a guy in the shetland isles new and unused described as "for a smiley face transit" when it turned up it was for a Mk3 but wasnt goin to get upset i won it for 99p plus £20 delivery :lol:
I set to removing the remains of the offending member when i noticed the front spring hangers didnt look too good either so after a cuppa and a fag to relax my teeth i cut them out too :!: and ended up with this Image Image
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Iended up cutting out the top of the chassis because when i cut out the spring hanger on the driver's side i noticed that the top of the chssis leg was almost non existent under the steering box bracket :cry: :cry: :cry:.........TO BE CONTINUED
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Re: Gaz's Mk3 truck

Postby Mr RVM » Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:47 pm

Replaced the above with some new channel and the hanger side plates salvaged from my old Mk5 along with the chassis leg tops which are thicker than original Mk3 one's therefore (hopefully) stronger, these had to be bent to match Mk3 chassis legs as Mk5's have straight/flatter front legs :!:
they ended up looking like this.......

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and from the underside.....

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Then I turned to the rear chassis.......

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Which as you can see from the photo i cut off and turned it over to do the work....

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and boy it needed some.....

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So out came the grinder and the slitting discs...

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More later........
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Re: Gaz's Mk3 truck

Postby transit jono » Tue Apr 30, 2013 6:40 pm

Nice to see a Mk3 truck being restored. Ex BT looking at the yellow under the bonnet and on the chassis.
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Re: Gaz's Mk3 truck

Postby Mr RVM » Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:29 pm

Dont think it was a telecom truck ? its a twin wheeler dont think they had many of them and also i found the wiring for a tipper ram that was all ftted very kosher with genuine ford connectors and plugs etc. the plate on the front headlamp panel says it was Golden yellow so thats what its going to be painted when the time comes :) :) :)
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Re: Gaz's Mk3 truck

Postby oldyellar » Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:51 pm

epic work mate keep it coming 8)
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