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Good stuff! The Bedford will break -but fix it! There is no truck out there to compare. We have run others. Yes, they are smoother, yes, they are more luxurious, but, they still break as often if not more so and they are even worse to fix.
The TK engine is the same but probably does not have a turbo unless it is an army spec which is brilliant as they tend to have, not only a turbo but a big fat turbo!
I was at a dealers in Walsall about two years ago. He was supplying a part for an old Bedford horsebox that was about to drive to Spain. He exclaimed about the amazing distance they were about to undertake. Their response was that they were relocating to the south of Spain and didnt want to entrust their possessions to an unknown company. They had hoped to get it all into the truck in one go. Despite filling it to the roof they had obviously underestimated how much stuff they had. He said it seemed a little brave and they said 'No' this was to be their fourth trip down in it!!
A good bit of preventative maintenance and GO FOR IT!
It may be a good idea to swop the power steering for a conventional set up. When we bought our trucks new, we opted for upgrades on them. Most buyers did not. We now find that when the up grades go wrong that they are so rare it is impossible to find parts or people who know how to fix them. The same goes for the much later trucks that are still in production!!
The brake compressor on mine has just been rebuilt. The garage did the work for me. The parts for mine came to 90 quid which I did not think was bad as mine has a dual pot system and it was really knackered. The labour cost was the killer. If you want to swop it back to standard I know of a 7.5 ton AWD being broken in Chester. Ask for Gil on 01244 535104 The company is called Davro. The truck used to be a horse box too. I assume the AWD has the same bits as the Bedford but I have never had one. Shame you dont still need an engine as this one has a Perkins phazer which is, dare I say it, even better than the Bedford unit.
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Just to say thanks for your help, Happy Christmas and looking forward to hearing more of the marathon restoration project.
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Well the best intentions often go to the wall. This Christmas was no exception. No more work has been done to the truck. The roof is leaking above the truck and we cant take the tarpaulins away until it has been fixed. We will have to fix it ourselves. The tradesmen are wanting thousands to do it. One guy quoted us 20 grand!!! It will probably leak after we have done it but we will have a lot of change out of the 20k we dont have! We have been having a real tidy up all around the truck. There is an unbelievable amount to go through. My uncle was coming to help us yesterday but very selfishly died the week before. Our whole family is a bit shell shocked so our 12 hour days have dropped to 'what the hell, why bother'. In the morning we are going to get out of bed and do something hopefully useful. To be continued...
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Well we had fun getting in today as the locks had frozen solid. We could not move the forklift as it would not start. The leaking roof cannot be bodged, sorry I mean repaired, until it is not only dry but at 5 degrees above freezing for the adhesive to work! The truck cant come out from hiding beneath the tarpaulin just yet. I repaired two of the stillages the Bedford will be carrying when it is fixed. There is about 30 of them waiting to get welded and 50 to paint! Join the queue! Oh and my welder died. I need it for my Beddy. Tomorrow will be office work and tidying. Looks like the truck will just have to wait.
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Mon 04 Jan 2010 @ 23:59
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Happy new year
Just to say, I'm sorry you'e having such a bad time. It always seems to go like that. One thing goes wrong and then another. Will look forward to more about the Great Restoration when you can go ahead. Only consolation for you is that our kitchen roof leaks like a sieve and it'd cost a fortune for real people to mend it! Here's to 2010
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Whilst cutting broken legs from a stillage today the angle grinder emitted a bright blue flash and a big cloud of smoke. I didnt drop it and run away crying this time! Now if I turn it on it just sends out a bright flickering and crackling flash of blue, rather like a pixie is welding the inside of it. Damn those pixies! (they take my pens too!)
Good news is that I tried using the welder again. After a bit of messing and fine tuning and so long as I use it at the most annoying and awkward angle known to man, it works! Just!
Its not all bad. Without an angle grinder I cant slice my body any more!
Sorry Olga but your roof leaking doesnt help at all. Now I just feel bad about your roof as well!
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Wed 06 Jan 2010 @ 00:08
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Jeffo, have you given up, is it too cold, or are you continuing feverishly but haven't got time or inclination to write about it?
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Wed 10 Feb 2010 @ 13:48
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He's in the pub, too nippy for bashing bedfords about..;D
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Wed 10 Feb 2010 @ 19:25
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Pub? I think I remember one of those but I am not sure!
I have done nothing to the truck since the last post. The water has been running off the tarpaulin non stop even though the truck is inside. Spent a day on the roof of the unit but to no avail. If you look at the second picture on page 1 you can see our buildings roof. Must be over a foot thick concrete. I have been doing yard work as there was some catching up to do and we have our environmental inspection due yuk yuk yuk. The regulations are crazy. We cannot dismantle cars unless we are licensed to remove the screenwash! Oh, and the oil and so on. To remove a battery will cost us £1200 a year! It is not worth the hassle. Cars just get sent through the shredder whole. We cannot put a scrap engine on the floor but we can store it in a cage (in the rain) which has no solid base. How is that environmentally sound if the oil can still run out? I could moan forever about the EA idiots.
I was going to line the roof above the truck with a tarp but its 20ft up. How do I reach? Forklift isnt tall enough and there is nowhere to lean a ladder as the walls are 40ft apart. DOH!
I will get back to it soon as I can.
BTW -yes it is too cold!
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Well it may seem like I have given up but...................
I have!!!
What happened is that the people we were intending to use to do our haulage have all let us down. With a choice of three companies running roll on roll off skip equipment you would think we had more than enough of a safety zone to fall back on. I decided there were several alternative choices.
1)Rent a truck @£575 +VAT for a week.
2)Cancel work.
3)Buy a temporary truck
4)fix the Bedford quickly
5)M.O.T our Leyland
1)-I thought renting a truck, despite the awful expense would be a good option as we could do plenty with it in the week. The money we were going to spend on haulage would be a pretty penny anyway. When I looked into it further I found I would have to pay to insure it, steam clean it on its return and even pay for it to be valeted too! A weeks hire would be over £750 without the insurance or delivery!!
2)-Cancelling work is not a real option. Currently storing stock whilst things are quiet is an option but there is only so much we can hold.
3)-Even at 15 years old we are talking £4000 plus. At that age it could be a tremendous amount of trouble. The time we have previously spent travelling the country only to find wrecks needing a small fortune to be spent before we can use them. The lifting gear on these lorries is critical and one replacement part can cost £12,000!! Once bought we become legally responsible for its seviceability in a VOSA check. We have to insure it and so on.
4)-To fix the Bedford is a problem as I want more and more to make it gleam. The depot roof is still leaking over the cab. I am not willing to rush the job. I will not cut corners to throw it back on the road and then run it into the ground prematurely. It needs too much doing to it to be a quick job.
5)- The last option! MOT the Leyland. A hateful truck with no cab wings and holes the size of the Mersey tunnel. Sadly it is option 5 which has been stealing time from the Beddy. Pics to follow if you dont lynch me for gracing this site with such low quality vehicles!
I had spare wings which were fitted very quickly. Be under no illusion this is not being repaired to the standard of the Bedford!! How much do you think a set of 20 self tapping bolts cost, to hold the wings on? No, not even close it was just short of £700.00 from Leyland or £2.00 from the shop down the road. Guess where I went?
I must let you know I bought the paper because it was 20p and I needed to mask off. I dont read the star!
Thanks again to Bluebedouins tutorial. I forgot how to post photos! Has taken me hours to figure it out as the photobucket layout has changed just enough to trip me up! Yes, slight is all it takes!
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