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[Split_Pin]

I love the Guy big Js. Bloody ugly but purposeful looking, the best incarnation of the MotorPanels cab imp.

[willswitchengage]

Is the ZF 16 speed Ecosplit shift pattern like this but without the dedicated crawler gear?

 

[gordonbennet]

Is the ZF 16 speed Ecosplit shift pattern like this but without the dedicated crawler gear?

 

 

I'm almost certain that was the box i had in the manual CF (or was it something else, me bloody memory's joining the rest of me faculties), so i'm going to say yes but happy to be proved an idiot, again....as you say the crawler position is not there

 

The two switches on the gearstick (one range, one split) i always get the wrong way round when i drive a 16 speeder till i get back into the swing of it again.

[quicksilver]

What do we make of this then? It's the most bizarre and wrong-looking lorry I think I've ever seen. It came out of the factory as a bog-standard 4x2 artic but whoever did the rebuild obviously got carried away with stretching it. The owner said he has to take it carefully around every bend and I doubt it'd be able to pull anything bigger than that paybox.

 

 

EDIT: found this pic of how it looked originally. That's quite a transformation!

[wuvvum]

I caught the old ERF wrecker again on the way home from work today - this time coming to the rescue of a stricken Optare Soslow.

 

[worldofceri]

That ERF... Can't imagine why anyone would bother stretching a unit like that when there's plenty of 6x2 rigids knocking about. I expect it has to go straight over the middle of most roundabouts.

[Pillock]

It would be awesomer if they'd stretched it, and then left the fifth wheel on so you can hook a trailer on it - just twenty yards behind the cab. Or make a massive sleeper to fill the gap, like a small bungalow with a conservatory on the back.

[Vin]

I picked up a copy of the latest 'Classic and Vintage Commercials' today. There is an excellent article about the well known Volvo F88 (previously discussed in this here thread) and it's owner/driver Bob Carmichael...I can recommend.

 

[scruff]

Is the ZF 16 speed Ecosplit shift pattern like this but without the dedicated crawler gear?

 

 

Yes that's what my old Daf has. 

[scruff]

This is also highly recommended: http://www.commercialmotor.com/latest-news/truck-is-back-souvenir-issue-out-now

[scruff]

Believe it or not, there is a 'Shiter with a screamer in his boat!! I hope he sees this thread. 

[gordonbennet]

Jeez i'd love to hear that in full song going up the river, past Marlow about 6am on a spring morn would be nice, and impress the natives*, you'd hear it from the M40.

[rml2345]

Just caught up with this thread, GR11 pics Billy.

That stretched EC is madness though. Wouldn't an 8 wheel chassis have been easier?

[Urko]

Lorry Chod from the show at Donno in October last -

 

One of my first jobs was throwing bags of spuds on and off the back of one of these - later I had a temp job on the Bins - we had a little one of these and used to go and clear up all the stuff the rounds had missed, as well as dead dogs, cats etc

 

Nice little V8 Artic

 

A card in the dash described various dire things that happened before this got to be this good

Suspected ex-fire engine.  No proof

 

 

 

 

 

Always liked these Dodges when I was a lad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[DSdriver]

Believe it or not, there is a 'Shiter with a screamer in his boat!! I hope he sees this thread. 

 

I've got a SABB engine in mine but its only two cylinder. It was designed as a lifeboat engine so can be hand cranked to start. Small boat exhausts usually have the engine cooling water injected into them for both noise suppression and to cool the exhaust gases.

Single cylinder marine engines are usually known as donkers (donk donk donk donk sound) so when the wind drops the cry goes up "fire up the donker". Also known as donks or donkeys.

I don't know why I have decided to share all this knowledge letting you blag your way into the secret society that are seamen and mariners, you have been blessed. 

[Urko]

I also had a Saturday job at a boatyard for years - we rented out steel narrowboats.  A couple of the older ones had these Coventry Victor single cylinder engines -

 

 

The Coventry Victors were the only ones with that exhaust cooling - it was blinking troublesome, too, always getting blocked with gunge from the cut.

 

Everything else had 2 or three cylinder air cooled Listers - if you needed to start by hand you used decompressors like this bloke -

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDoyKQHRhSU

 

Later we got some really sophisticated stuff that had BMC 1500 marine diesels with glow plugs and everything - they were water cooled of course, but they had heat exchangers on the (in)sides of the hull, so it didn't involve trying to circulate dirty canal water.

[Asimo]

I doubt if any Autoshiters run one of these engines but somebody may know who does--

 

Genuine factory illustrated parts list for the Foden 2 stroke engine, 68 pages,good clean condition.  £20.00 posted.

 

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When I was going to school on (old and comically knackered) coaches a few of the routes were covered by coaches with these Foden engines. Never my route though, which I have always regretted as they made a fantastic sound driving past and I would have liked to hear those engines from inside.

[Vin]

Part of a film - Holland to Pakistan 1975... 

 

 

[Split_Pin]

My mate gave me this photo in 1994 of a Foden S21, taken a few months earlier in his sawdust yard after a large fire. The Foden was being used to try and extract a melted trailer chassis from a morass of wet sawdust.

[Split_Pin]

He also gave me this one of an ex Sellafield Cask hauler, taken arouns 1990/1, again pictured in his yard.

[willswitchengage]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2014-64-reg-Hino-700-Series-3241-8x4-Tilt-Slide-Vehicle-/151923256157?hash=item235f54eb5d:g:xUsAAOSwo3pWetUr

 

 

How did this manage to get 64 plates when it's only Euro IV?

[worldofceri]

Never seen an eight legger with a tilt 'n' slide.

[cms206]

Never seen an eight legger with a tilt 'n' slide.

The Barnsley breakers are fond of these - two 10.7m Dennis Dart SLFs in one go.

 

[Vantman]

I have been in my loft again,reliving my youth!

 

Lorry driver of the year,Lockmeadow, Maidstone,sometime in the late sixties. All in black and white!

 

[worldofceri]

Brilliant. Looks like a school sports day got gatecrashed by the patrons of the greasy spoon next door.

 

Also, Berry Wiggins & Co made me chuckle. (Sounds like someone taking the piss out of my name.)

[Vin]

[320touring]

behold

[conkerman]

Arise semi dormant thread!

 

It seems my old mans truck that we barried modified in 1990 has surfaced on the Internet.

 

I managed to find a couple of pics on Trucknet from the seller but could not register over there to say hi. I have nicked the pics as I can't find any of it.

 

W Reg 141, originally a 4x2, bought by my old man as a project (he was doing paint and body stuff at the time) and planned on getting this sorted for some long distance Jaunts.

 

Lift axle added and paperwork done. Then he started to have ideas. I was about 18 and a bit listless so the roof was chopped off and a high roof made to give a gigantic amount of interior space. This fucker sat in the corner of the yard for bloody ages being pointed at with comments of "you'll never finish that". So in spare time work continued until the decision was made to take it to Truckfest 90. (there may have been a bet made here, it was a long time ago and we were pissed).

 

Engine received pistons, liners, bearings, some replacement valves and guides, a replacement diff (can't remember if it was a fabled coach diff it was fucking heavy) and a proper good walloping with the maintenance hammer.

 

So far so good.

 

Interior was trimmed in red velour. Nice, buttontastic.Seats trimmed in velour and leather with contrasting piping. It really was like a tarts boudoir in there, but that was what he wanted (for some reason).

 

Decision was made to paint in ford Ivory (Beige FTW!), then some green was applied, then the signwriter turned up with the airbrush. Hmmm.

 

Well, we won our bet and here is a pic of the (mostly) finished article at TruckFest 90.

 

 

 

And a Pic of it recently. I believe it's getting/got a standard cab.

 

 

 

[cros]

I'd completely forgotten about those little Fiats Vin. Can't imagine there are many survivors around.

[Vantman]

More black and whites from my collection, LDOY late sixties,early seventies.