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Well the ACMAT went (sold) today..after I returned from "Beltring" early with a trailer I purchased there for my Jeep and motorcycles. Towed really fine.. Has HYDRAULIC deck that lowers for loading..then you pump/jack it back to level for travelling. Pictured behind the REO camper on return...

Well, I dont know where other folks store "huge" spare wheels..But mine is carried on the rear of the truck. Well this is fine untill we try to open the rear doors! (spot the delliberate error.) So I decided the wheel lowering winch had to be re-located to the other side of the truck and then...

Well now I am PROPERLY p..o..! YET AGAIN a battery exploded on my reo,. I was tightning the clamps (as you do) in routine maintenace. And 2 nights ago I heard loud bang. Yes a battery had exploded on another vehicle in the workshop. last month a battery "blew its top" on the wrecker. you...

I bought a centrifuge..but found the filtering through "bag" filters quite adequate..the resulting fluid is clean after dripping through 1 micron elements. summer ambient temperature good enough for a 1000 ltr flow in 72 hours. I will add 25% contam to this mix. ALL my vehicles go ever so well...

Today I finished fitting a "pin" drop hitch to my reo foy a new trailer I purchased to transport my ww11 jeep. Also fitted is the U.S. V bar as I found this the only place (space) left to fit it. ( usually fit the tow bars on a fender)

Well having watched with interest other members sorting out alternative feul options and having travelled a round trip of some 200 miles to collect 14 , 50 gallon drums of contamm which turned out to be 7 drums of water!!! (not even wmo or hydraulic fluid)..So I was driven to resolve my...

the people who design and manufacture these gaskets obviously dont use measuring instruments!.. or have quality control to ensure they (just might!) ((actually)) FIT!. I have seen posts before about these things being "difficult" to fit..(no one yet said they are B....Y IMPOSSIBLE to fit.). so...

Well the rally season is here again..and We have made ready the gamma goat , painted m new glass to windows..engine tune and replace supercharger...now to see if it starts..(on just two small car batteries!.. YouTube - gamma goat

Ok so I have my other trucks fitted with engine oil pre pressure pumps. BUT I have a post op knee and other age related things. (tripping & falling off the wrecker just to mention one!) and I was reducing my stock..well I will AFTER this newly obtained deuce!!??. So I cant believe the delay in...

Well ok I'm selling out and cutting down...(sighh) SO Iwait for the buyer of the ACMAT to show (which he does) and promptly canges mind to buy! and OH yes I'm more than a little fed up...(having waited for two months for him to show.) So anyway the low loaders here and at least one deal goes...

Well coming up within the next 3 weeks is another adventure of sorts..and I will be posting a video of the plot.look for the title "the adventure begins AGAIN" ( just when it is supposed to STOP.) .but it is all just part of the green obsession..and so as not to be too boring pending ..here's...

Not much to say really..( this huge vehicle ROLLED a few times! ) I could wish a "before and after" senario for it! (choose WHICH way round)..sighs

So, I see a tender coming up at my "militery shop" and go view an ex US army ambulance. hmm I rather like that thinks I...As I allready have one it would be good to tinker with or for spares (as the ash tray is full on the other!, (joke I do not smoke)). So I get my lad to take a day off work...

Well early tomorrow (6-15 a.m. to be precise)..I have decided to go get "this strange ugly but charasmatic vehicle from nothern Irsland. thoght about it hummed and har'd then decicided to (yet again) turn on the motivation engine and travell by car train and boat to go collect it. I WILL take...

Had and armstrong MT500 wich was a brute to start and allways required the timing dot to be in the engine case window to start it!!?? (imagine the scenario..You out on patrol..enemy comes over the hill Shooti'n SO you shout "hang on a mo' I NEED to get my white dot in the window" ..I spose they...

well ..sad to see it (them) go..but when you have just too many (is that possible?) then..somethings just gotta go..ho hum here's some shots of the collection by purchaser..The video of the semi unit trying to pull the recovery trailer over it's rollers was intersting! but was achieved by...

Well for a while my wrecker has been getting harder and harder to start. Untill it required ether!..then ran fine.well today the temperature went ALL the way up to -15 !..soooo I needed the truck to go help out stuck lorries as the weather over here is worst ever in decades..and most cities are...

And I have sold my tractor trailer and just waitng for the purchaser to take it away. (modern tractor unit pulls the military recovery trailer with the military M52 tractor aboard.) (econamy and speed I suppose.) so I took some pics today as we prepped it for the collection. oh and yes the yard...

found a collection of pics of my first deuce Purchased and then driven back from holland. then before and after re-paint, some shots of our early club the deuce here in uk. (one at a show where the P.R. and YES in sevice police car turns up at most of our shows! <the SUPRISE when "naughty...

Here's us getting ready to pull out of a show at our local museum. ya better believe there was my li'l ww11 ford JPW behind the deuce AS WELL! and I thought I would post "past vehicles" I have owned.. the half track came out of a river as chassis cab..and took 2 years to fabricate and complete...