My Dull Ramblings

It needs a bit of work but all the important bits are sound like the engine and hydraulics, its 4 wheel drive and articulated in the centre for steering, jobs to do are sort an exhaust as its rather noisy and some sort of brakes! made an exhaust out of stuff in stock, didnt get any pictures of the brakes but the hydraulic side is going to take a bit of work so I just rebuilt the handbrake/propshaft brake which will do, were nice and flat so you dont get a lot of speed up!

Come on then!

Where's the pic of it buried into the side of the static van?

"Knew I should'a done the brakes"

The dumper has performed well and as usual it needs stuff doing to it, struggling to find out what model it is but pretty sure its a Winget, the engine is also just as hard to identify but pretty sure its a Lister/Petter with 3 cylinders, one problem was the drive belt and as these are air cooled its pretty important for the cooling fan not so much the dynamo as it only uses lectric to start
I have about 300 belts of various sizes and style in stock but could only find one that when jammed on works but not ideal, yep thats a toothed belt on multi vee pulley!!
After a bit of research it turns out its a PJ style belt with a very small pitch of 2.34mm and the local tractor shop got me one for a reasonable £15.00

Not fitted it yet as I cant feel my fingers at present!

Good shout on the belt, I wonder what the difference is between the PJ and the PJE belt though? my google foo seems to be weak again!

Thats interesting, as you seem to be clued up on the belts how much stretch do you think they have? It may be an advantage having a bit of stretch or in your opinion do you think it would turn the fan and dynamo without flying off?

It's about 15%, although some of them feel like a violin string when first fitted. They do "give" slightly over time. Shouldn't fly off. Washer drum pulleys aren't grooved (although the motor one is) and the belt has to turn 70/80lbs dead weight, then run it up to anything up to 1600 rpm.

Chris.

Got this reproduction tin sign for xmas from good friend, will go nicely on the store room door
Unless your a Vauxhall/Bedford enthusiast it probably wont mean a lot but its a copy of the packing that most of the spares came in from the 1960s to early 70s
which meant when trawling around autojumbles your eyes were always on the look out for bits in this type of packing!

Well that was a good start to the week, Mrs GTviva and pregnant dogy forced of the road by an artic, w*nker!
They are all ok we think but I doubt the Troopers going to survive

Yikes
But a good time to be in a tough as old boots 4x4.
Hope everyone is okay.