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hmmmnz

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  1. well thats the boxes done, new/really old steel mudguard added as well, for extra awesome, pics. from the back, the panniers/ammo boxes are just a touch wider than the heads, so thats good, i could probably get them the same width with a bit of a design change, but that'll do me ammo box/crash protection
  2. update, for shits and giggles, after fitting a new subframe and seat, i decided to rub off all the paint and am letting it rust a bit before chucking a clear over it, you know because all the kids are doing it, so it must be cool, i thought about sticker bombing it, but came to the conclusion that im 35, not 17 excuse my niece and nephew. umm since that pic, not that you can see it, the exhaust has been changed to run lower and closer to the engine and frame so it doesnt burn my fucken leg, and allows the boxes to be mounted as close as possible to the frame the boxes are 20mm us army ammo boxes and come in at around 30 litres (29l) so are a fairly decent size without sticking out too far,
  3. leffe brune was on special, so i had a big bottle of that, its one of my favourite easy to get belguin beers, not too strong (for a belguin beer, only 7.5%) and very tastey
  4. right its been well over a year, since any real love has been shown to mr merc, he did famously around europe, the only trouble we had was the gear linkages came loose and i couldnt shift gear, that was in montenegro, turned out it was the rubber bushes, which was a 5 euro fix, and luckily i found the offical merc parts supplier less than an hour away from where it happened, so that was awesome, we got stuck once in romania when the road turned from nice tarmac thing into gravel, then mud, then a bog, any way a few weekends back we decided to take the camper up into the highlands of scotlands and meet up with some mates from the ski season in france for a bit of a bender, the temp was getting a bit high 90'C which seems fine, but when you have driven 10000miles with it never getting above 84'c even in the hottest 42'C Italian sun or up super steep mountain roads in Austria and Switzerland, that extra 6'C was a tell tale sign discovered we had a small leak in the core and topped up a couple of times through out the trip and got to and back home again with out any major problems when i got back i pulled the radiator, and sent it off to the only radiator place left in edinburgh!!! for them to replace the core, replaced the thermostat and cap, checked out the pump, thank fully the whole cooling system is super clean, no brown sludge to be seen anywhere, and looks like its always had coolant in it, rad and gubbins back in, nice new fluid for everything, long life coolant, shes like new again although i have to fix this oil leak from the injection pump (its been leaking from their the whole time we've owned it) its not a major issue, but its annoying that the van thinks its english and that its allowed to leave its mark where ever it goes
  5. well its been a while, a whole load of hurry up and wait has been happening, i could have had the cab on well over a week ago, but they couldnt get the power car in the shed because other power cars were being worked on, then when there was a free space, they discovered that there was rust that needed to be repaired, which fucked me off immensely as it had been sitting there for 3 weeks, then they wanted to get photos for a fucken rail magazine, which was ridiculous as they had people who haven't even come near the cab pretending they were fixing something for a photo so its been a very slack week or 2, with lots of lunch time finishes (paid for a full shift so shouldnt really complain) any way cabs on so now i can do some wiring and get this piece running again the team, me with the ginger beard on the left, the faceless apprentice in the middle, and john the english fitter on the right, cab being lifted cab almost in place, with the apprentice and fitter inside trying to get the bolts done up so thats it, we got all the mounting bolts underneath and inside all lined up and torqued to a spec that we made up on the spot, i think it was tight with a wee nip more, quite precise us earth bond done up and thats it, now its a few days of connecting the wiring to the junction box in the engine room, (very tiny space for a 110kg 6'4" kiwi to be jamming himself for a couple of days) then run all the non original wiring from the engine room back into the cab, and then the desk cover and the actual guages and what not can be fitted, my money is on they wont have the desk repaired, but i have 3 weeks before i go on my euro motorbike trip, so they best be pulling finger if they want this fucken train done
  6. right been a few days, managed to get the floor in, and the earths done, got the vents for the air con done and cut out underneath, then got some of the pipe work in before the desk went back in, fotos bitches cab lifted to cut the vent holes underneath floor and some of the vent stuff in what!! desk back in all the wiring run back and up the wall ready to go back to the motor room junction box so yeah, not doing to badly, bad news is that some one scribbled out my penis picture but i do have a kiwi pic that has survived
  7. the only thing i can do with a welder is create holes round bits need to be made to weld to the floor, but none of it is rocket science, i just don't have the bits available to me, or good enough skills with a welder to attempt it myself, should really get myself on a course at some stage
  8. well the last few days have been a big waste of fucken time, i need the earth lugs welded on before i can chuck the desk back into the new cab, but every fucker seems to be dragging their feet, in 3 days i have literally cut 2 holes out of the floor for the aircon, and pulled out the window frames, paid for 28 hours worked 2, yeah no wonder shit in the uk is going to the dogs
  9. a mega squirt, or link is easily had for them, link have a nice plug and play unit that runs well, on na or turbo'd units,
  10. id keep with the rb30, they are pretty solid engines, a cam change/grind can be done for quite cheap, and makes quite a bit of difference, up the compression etc and your at around 250-260 hp, is that enough?? twin cam head will def get you more though
  11. ok, been a few days, disconected all the wiring and what not then removed the desk from the cab and of all its wiring, today all the pipe work was removed, she is now an empty shell, ready for some one to win the tender to repair the fibreglass front, (best tender so far is £25k ) have prepped most of the new cab ready for the desk, most of the airlines are in, but need to lift the cab in the air to cut out 2 x 200mm holes on the underside for the air con stuff (as if they need air-con in scotland) had to mod the floor and shit, but she is coming along, still hoping to get the desk back in by friday, but we'll see, kind of waiting on other shit to happen first, no one seems to be in a hurry, i need some earth points welded to the new floor, but the fuckers don't even have some one who can weld ali on site, so it has to be sent out to an engineering firm !!! ffs, useless no floor=no desk= no work to do but i drew a picture of a penis behind the light switch for future generations to find so yeah, might grafitti a random kiwi somewhere as well
  12. id go for a 12v li-on battery pack and 12 led lights, the'll last for ever on single charge and on a dynamo you have to be moving to get power, and you can't really use efficient lighting with out having a battery to smooth everything out
  13. dunno why all black, may be a discount on a 1000meter roll of cable, bugger if i know, by biking, i mean motorbikes, so from scotland down to romania and the black sea and back up, hopefully hit holland, belgium, france, switzerland, italy, slovenia, croatia, bosnia, serbia, romania, hungary, austria, germany for the beer fest, czech republic, back in to germany and holland and back to the uk, we'll probably get to litchenstein and luxembourg just to tick them off the list, the main objective is to go to as many mountian roads in as many countries as possible, have a swim in the black sea, drink loads of cheap beer, eat goulash, and hopefully have no crashes or breakdowns any way photo for thread, the 2 cabs sitting back to back while i change everything over, im aiming for most of the inside to be changed over by this time next week, all things equal, famous last words
  14. right today the cab came off, all with out a hitch, (actually i missed chassis to cab earth bonds on the underside of the train, but they were disconnected with in seconds) they hired a team of guys to lift off the cab, talk about a waste of fucken money, 6 guys to run 2 straps and hook up 4 block and tackles, meh, its not my money, but ffs, it literally to 2 mins to get it off the chassis, although with the number of managers around you'd think it was the first time start up to a nuclear reactor, (actually last time i was at a nuclear reactor there were bugger all people about) any way photos and when all the monkeys had gone, we moved it over the power carrage, so it could be moved out the way as the space was needed at the end of the shed so another carrage could come in to be serviced so now the real fun begins, i have to pull out all the old equipment, frames, dash, controllers, etc and shift it along with the wiring ive already disconnected from the main junction accross to the new cab, and fit it all up, ready to go back on to the power car, bets are 3 months, but ive only got 7 weeks untill i go on a 6 week bike trip with my bro, uncle and a mate who are flying over at the end of august, ... i foresee some long days for the lone kiwi spark,
  15. ok been a while, finally got my seat and subframe done and fitted like the copper cable exhaust hanger the subframe goes inside the shock instead of around the out side tail light is still original, untill the new one turns up exhaust needs to be re-done new gel battery needs to be fitted in a hidden location 33/11 ratio bevel box needs to be found so i can fit the 17" rear spoked rim, longer rear shock needed of all the bikes i have, its my commuter weapon of choice got a 6 week euro trip planned as well, so the beemer will be doing that as well,
  16. yeah its a bit bullshit really considering in the next couple of years all the diesel trains are being replaced with "hybrids" so if there is electric lines they have to run electric, and only use the diesel engine as a last resort, they are all being supplied and serviced by hitachi so i dare say alot of the smaller sidings will be closed down, and the boys will have to jump ship. but there will be a few v16 diesel motors lying about
  17. right as it turns out my other phone doesnt take the same size sim, so you'll have to put up with the crap pics, sorry here is te crack on the inside hmmm i wonder where they all go looming over the looming this is the junction box in the engine compartment, all of the original wiring come via here, its just everything else that doesnt thats being an arse at the moment and here is our replacement cab, supposidly its new, but it has some cut cables hanging out of it, so.... at this stage im aiming for tuesday to lift the cab from the chassis, and pace it next to the new cab so the swap over can begin fun times
  18. fuck knows a 43 something http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_43_%28HST%29 with a mtu engine, and a big fuck off generator, a massive diode bank and some dc traction motors
  19. shit sorry lads, never realised how shit my phone camera was in low lights, ill take my other phone tomorrow any way front of train, it has the bottom removed, in this pic you can see the crack running up from the headlight on the inside near the windscreen its pushed in about 15mm the last couple of days effort, ripping out (disconecting nicely and taking notes) the inside consuls so yeah, pretty much every thing in the cab is original except from the gsm-r phone and tracking system, and some solenoid control valve for the power brakes, im a bit surprised that everything isnt done in a modular fashion, big plugs, unclick undo a few bolts and the whole cab comes off, as it stands, every fucken wire is a single core, not even multi core cables to different equipment, just fucken hundreds and hundreds of little cables going everywhere, im going to push for a modular system, but being an out sider, ill probably be shouted down i think if i did it right, a cab off change over could be done in a week or 2, as it stands im thinking this is probably going to take 3 months
  20. its for east coast trains in scotland, ill take some pics when i get to work
  21. ok, where to start, basically i got a call yesterday, saying they needed a sparky to do some work on a train that had been in an accident, a person had jumped from the platform and hit the front at windscreen level and bounced up and over, tangling himself in the 25Kv overhead lines, obviously he died before then, which is just as well, but he did some major damage to the front on the train, needing the whole cab to be replaced, so anyway, i agreed to do the work, not quite knowing what would be involved, or that it was going to be a cab off job, the last time this was done was about 15 years ago, of course the guys are now retired, there is no sequence manual, and there isnt even any bloody wiring schematics, ive got a feeling i should have asked for more money, oh and to top it off its just me and an a random apprentice, and ive never worked on a train before fun times, i'll post some pics tomorrow, oh its one of these trains all i know is it has a v16 quad turbo motor in it more to come tomorrow, and every few days their after, if its something you guys are interested in. me i dont really get the trainspotting thing, but they are paying me so.. heyho
  22. they make a huge difference, change the whole riding position, and i thought easier to handle the knife edge handling that the 7's had. pretty easy to handle a wheely with them too
  23. this was mine earlier model 89 i think, machined speed triple swing arm, and later zxr usd's on the front, and koso clocks, a gilera dna headlight, zx6 radiator, custom made stainless exhaust and a titanium fmf can, was pretty fun to ride,
  24. i had an old zxr750 that i street fightered, i dubbed it the mobile torture rack, the 7's had the hashest rides, handled awesomely but was too rough for me,
  25. why not share said pro info?? i'd be interested to see if it matches up with what i know
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