Cyanide Steves FSO Truck restoration

[RobT]

I'm glad people like you exist Steve Wish I had the skills/facilities to take on such projects!

[gearoil]

Brave & mad in equal measure.

 

I look forward to seeing your truck progress.

[HillmanImp]

Great work.

 

I hope it holds:

[Ian Nexus]

Great work.

 

I hope it holds:

 

Is that Roger Moore in a Renault 9 ?

[dollywobbler]

Great work.

 

I hope it holds:

 

Is that Roger Moore in a Renault 9 ?

 

Close. It was a Renault 11. View to a Kill.

[Richard]

11 I think, it's from one of the 1980s Bond films, maybe A View to a Kill? Not sure how I know that because I've never seen a Bond film.

[Ian Nexus]

Thanks, I have been away from the UK for nearly 2 years now and am loosing my euro spottage skillz

[Cavcraft]

Jesus wept, this is taking shite-ism to a whole new level. You must be completely mental for taking this on and I doff my hat in your general direction.

[outlaw118]

Couple of hundred quid and a few weekends and you'll be laughing.*

 

 

 

Oops, wrong thread....

[Albert Ross]

You HAVE to make this a camper. like the Cortina "Starcraft" jobbies.

[Shep Shepherd]

^

http://starcraftmotorhome.weebly.com/index.html

 

Why someone would willingly subject a Cortina to that sort of treatment is beyond me

[AeroNautiCal]

Truly a cruel and unusual punishment!

 

Just WTF did you do that this is your punishment?

 

Great stuff to bring this back to life, but I'd definitely support the sills with inner bracing as well as outer.

[CYANIDE STEVE]

You HAVE to make this a camper. like the Cortina "Starcraft" jobbies.

I would actually do that if I didn't already have my self built iveco camper and I will never part with that.

[CYANIDE STEVE]

More piccies from today.

Moved the truck outside for a while to give me more room to remove the nearside door and wing. Much easier now the truck is in one piece. I also disconnected everything from the engine and removed the rad ready to lift the engine and box out. Next week I've got a friend helping me remove the windscreen and rear window. I'm pleased with the progress so far and really enjoying every minute of it

[Albert Ross]

LOVE the Reg number..... Pee ORF!

[Shep Shepherd]

Looks so much more viable now it's in one piece

[CYANIDE STEVE]

LOVE the Reg number..... Pee ORF!

I know! Great isn't it.

I was intending to by a reg number with FSO on it, like B19 FSO, which is available, but when I saw it's original reg number I quite liked it

[Lacquer Peel]

That XUD has a Bosch injection pump, best for LARD, etc. It looks a bit odd with the orange indicators.

 

FSO Caro pick-up decomposition by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Here's another one for you to save.

[CYANIDE STEVE]

You may joke! I think that one is on the Isle of lewis. I'm going up the with the camper and trailer sometime next year so may come home with it!

 

I used to run my Ssangyong Musso on veg oil.

[Lacquer Peel]

Aye it is on the Isle of Lewis, I took the photo. I'm not sure there will be any useful parts 3 years later.

[jonathan_dyane]

You don't sit around do you!

 

This is officially the best thread of evah, I am loving it!

[stilo_active]

You mental sod! Fantastic stuff

[Vin]

There were loads of 'RF' registrations about when I lived in Stoke. A Staffordshire number it be...

 

This thread is wonderful. A restoration of my faith in humanity. VAST quantities of love and care being given to an old commercial vehicle. And a very shite one at that. Good work CS.

[CYANIDE STEVE]

Yep, it was registered in Staffordshire to an owner in Oakham on 30.09.96. It cost £7784.00. I found the warranty book in the glove box but unfortunately it seems to have expired.

Thanks for all the comments. They've made me laugh as they pretty much sum me up!

Hopefully a few of you will see the finished article during next year and meanwhile I'll keep the photos coming of my progress

[garethj]

This is awesome work, as said before you'll spend huge amounts of time on something that no normal person would want anyway.

 

Say it quietly, but other than when you found it the wheelbase was measured across a right angle, it doesn't look too bad for rust. The awful, fiddly kind I mean. Other than the bit around the top of the door frame, the rest looks pretty straightforward.

 

But full marks for taking it on, you're a hero!

[CYANIDE STEVE]

Not alot to report after this morning as I've been to Machine Mart in Maidstone to buy some more welding wire and gas and a new pair of welding gloves.

I managed to remove what was left of the exhaust front and middle pipe, then went on to unbolt the gearbox crossmember, engine mounts and then removed the master cylinder and servo.

IF we get a dry spell this evening, I'll get the forklift over from the garden centre and lift the engine and gearbox out. It's not looking promising at the moment.

[CYANIDE STEVE]

A bit more progress this afternoon. I removed the engine and gearbox the best way I know how

[ruffgeezer]

Great progress, I wonder if there would be room for a XuD Turbo unit in there?

[CYANIDE STEVE]

Probably but I'd rather keep it a standard plodder. The gearboxes in these aren't the strongest. My last FSO which I had from new, I did 102,000 miles in four years and it went through 3 gearboxes!. That was only a 1500 petrol.

[CYANIDE STEVE]

I removed all the brakes today and the mudguards.