A serious case of 'Flatulance'

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blue beasty

Leaks an prone to bits dropping off
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Picked up the Ambulance today...well....yesterday but got home today, a '78 Marshall bodied 2 1/4 petrol Series III which had been stood up not running since April.

Went to see her last weekend and got her running well enough to attempt the 150 miles home so yesterday grabbed a lift with Pikey (shed loads of thanks and a few thousand favours due....) and went to get her with a 110 full of bits, tools and oils.

Pinched Pikeys aux battery, fired up and headed for the nearest decent sized lay-by to do a full fluid change and replace a badly leaking hub seal which all went well enough but as it was getting dark, tired and hungry we abandoned attempts to get the dipped headlights working and settled into a trading estate for the night.

The journey back today was straight forward enough, apart from me getting lost every 5 mins (I like taking the scenic route :eek:) she runs well with a quiet gearbox and diffs and I'd taken a proper Series steering wheel to replace the silly little sports jobby that was on it so it was possible to drive round corners.

We arrived back about 2 ish with the brakes getting hard so we threw everything out of the back and replaced a section of the servo pipe that was kinked which sorted that out and off I headed to the MOT station.

She failed on what I knew she would (lights)
Passed on what I was concerned about (chassis/bushes/bulkhead etc)
And failed on something I hadn't thought to worry about (emissions)

Popped in to see a friendly Indy on the way home who chatted away for about half an hour about what the cause of failing the HC part of the test might be while I grinned stupidly and resolved to do some indepth reading about hotstarts, vacuum advance and some bizzare petrol related thingy called a dizzy :confused:

Yeah yeah I know :nopics: but my phones been dead for most of the last 24hrs, it's dark and raining, it's parked up 1/4 mile away and at present looks like it's been painted with a mop by a baboon on amphetamines....but Pikey might have taked a few and I will as and when there's something interesting to see
 
Rolling resto, she's going to have to pay her way fairly soon so get the legalities in place and then work through. Camper/Utility back without straying too far from her military roots, I like to keep things so they can be returned to original wherever possible and as far as I can tell littles been changed since she was demobbed.

The first big question is repair wiring or re-loom but exploration will have to wait a few days while I MOT my 2a
 
If you're going the camper route, might as well put a new loom in and run a few extra wires for extra lights or something :)

It's already got lights and heaters all over the place but most of that I'll re-do from an aux system anyway....it's the road lights and dash switches/ wiring I need to work out whether to repair or replace
 
hey bb does yours have the little sticker on the inside by the steering wheel that says its not to exceed 45mph?
 
hey bb does yours have the little sticker on the inside by the steering wheel that says its not to exceed 45mph?

Nope, not on mine. It handles suprisingly well at speed :rolly: :D

Does yours have the 'over the chassis rails' anti-roll bars front and back? Apparently early one didn't and suffered from the chassis flexing :eek:

All things being well with the 109s mot tomorrow I'll post up some detail pics and we can compare querks
 
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