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Posts for Medi, 2025

Tuning, and Roofing   1 Medi 2025

h'okay! Made some more tweaks to the warm-up enrichment, because apparently at some point after I got it cleaned up last time, I wrote an old version of the tune in there and made the ol' gal rather smokey again. In the process of doing that, discovered the main cause of my fuel pressure wibbles. Turns out, it helps if there's fuel in the tank!

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Posts for Awst, 2025

Getting Itchy!  30 Awst 2025

...so much for waiting for the outer skin of the silencer and trying it without packing. A big cardboard box, filled with plastic bags of brown rock-wool insulation sort of material 2kg of loose basalt wool, and a square meter of E-glass. (Both from Merlin Motorsports.) The skeleton of the silencer, but now with white fibreglass matting wrapped around the perforated steel inner section

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Getting Oily  26 Awst 2025

Well, I've had the box of exhaust wadding riding around in the car with me for a week or so now, and still haven't managed to remember to drop it off at the unit. Even after I was there for several hours, doing an oil change on my car. "Several hours? On an oil change?", I hear you ask. WELL Main and rod bearings, a sump gasket, and a Haynes manual laid out on the bonnet of my car

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More air tanks?  10 Awst 2025

Lightened my wallet for some exhaust wadding; but it'll be a couple of weeks before I have enough in reserve to buy the material for skinning the silencer. Still 50/50 on whether I want to wait and try it without the wadding first! In other items, I have gotten a pressure limiting valve ordered so I can try get the brake response under control, and my boss has donated

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Hole Deletes Continue   3 Awst 2025

Still haven't gotten the new tyres yet. Every time I think I'm close to having enough saved up to get 'em, something else goes wrong. Nevermind, I'll not be needin' 'em any time soon. Anyway, more hole-deletes. Back of the bedford's cab, with a wide strip cut out at the edge where the roof panel meets the rear wall of the cab Which, naturally, requires cutting more holes.

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Hole-Deletes   3 Awst 2025

Still haven't gotten the new tyres yet. Every time I think I'm close to having enough saved up to get 'em, something else goes wrong. unamused smilie Nevermind, I'll not be needin' 'em any time soon. Anyway, more hole-deletes.

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Posts for Mehefin, 2025

Wheely exciting news!   7 Mehefin 2025

Some minor pottering about has been had, mostly just a few little bits of tin trimmed to size to be welded in to finish up the floor on the passenger's side, once I can bear to pick up the welder and start glueing poxy tin-plate together again. I have also spent Sunday tinkering with the tune file for the truck, and reviewing logs, and discovered that I had the fuel injector setting in the tune set for the 280cc/min injectors I was originally

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Wheels!   7 Mehefin 2025

A little before afternoon brew at work, a pallet turned up. Wonder what it could be? A pair of wheels, stacked on top of eachother on a pallet, all wrapped in shrink-wrap Looking down through the top of the wheel stack, at the wheel flange with its countersunk bolt-holes Mmmmmmmm... After finishing out the rest of the day, and rushing down to the unit, let's try them out!

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