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Looking good Glen
Are you driving over with it to Peterborough ?G4 Gone ...but not forgotten
12th Jun 2012 9:09 pm
cold_n_wet
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No its just too far, for the Peterborough meet. It would cost me over £700 just in ferries, Im flying for £100 and rental car for £120,-
Would be nice to bring it over, but have to be fo a little more than one weekend.
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12th Jun 2012 9:26 pm
cold_n_wet
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Managed to drill a hinge in the wrong place today.
Must have had a no brainer for a few minutes, four holes to weld and grind
On the good side the fridge sliders arrived from accuride.
Good heavy duty ones, rated 227 Kg pair, so lots of capacity for cold ones.
Work continues very slowly... need to get it ready for the Norwegian national gathering, but its looking like I will be using the tipee tent again IDTOOL PRO / Faultmate programing and BAS remaping services in Norway.
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14th Jun 2012 8:26 pm
DiscoStu
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Update:- On Monday the frame went to Powder coat together with the side panels. Norway shuts down for the Holidays on the 2nd of July, so the doors are going to be plain aluminium for the summer and will be painted after the vacation.
Lots of work done though, all doors fitted, plugged the holes which were drilled wrong.
Got a sample from Camlock for a door lock, but its not waterproof so I just ordered a bunch of Southco locks.
Camlocks compression lock.
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Holes plugged - no more drilling holes in the frame late at night
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Starting to mount piano hinges.
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Still lots of work to do inside.
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Parts buffed ready for poweder coat.
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And the colour choice is RAL 7044, it is as close we could get to a Jotun colour called pale sand.
I might get it "ready" for the Norwegian national gathering in 14 days we will see.
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29th Jun 2012 6:25 am
cold_n_wet
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Back from powder coating.
Not totally happy but will live with it.
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29th Jun 2012 8:20 pm
cold_n_wet
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Parts keep coming....
Wife is not happy and has gone to the cabin, now I can finally work on the trailer.
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The locks arrived from Soutco today, I am happy with them.
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Riveted the roof and sides on yesterday, 185 rivets happy I had the air riveter.
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Got the body on the trailer today, and making up the shims for the door seals.
Need it in 10 days so lots to do.
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looking good Glen Home of RLD Hidden winch mounts Spare wheel Locks Trailer Body Fabrication ray@rld-tech.co.uk D3/4 sump plates MY 14 sump plates and the Discovery Sport wheel protectors Discovery 5 wheel locks
more Helsport tents and other things for camping Law of Mechanical Repair:
"After your hands are coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch and you'll have to pee!"
6th Jul 2012 1:17 pm
cold_n_wet
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Been a busy week, but we got alot of the door seal holders cut to size and mounted the trail top tent today.
Aimed at getting the base spot on the senter point with height 155cm, when installed 157cm, forgot to account for some rubber gaskets. still its a +/ - 5 cm tollerance, so we are there.
Now hope to drill the doors tomorrow for the door locks.
Bolted down and packed away before a big rain cloud came and released its contents.
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7th Jul 2012 3:19 pm
cold_n_wet
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Got tired cutting 2mm stainles for the door seals and spacers so trial mounted the locks from Southco, happy with the results.
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1 1/2 door seal mounts to cut.
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9th Jul 2012 11:07 pm
cold_n_wet
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The day was spend getting all the strips and spacers for the door rubbers ready - finished at last.
Now I can do something constructive
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Got 2 dors fitted today as well.
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I then got Simba to check the recovery points - approved.
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Will mount and seal the strips for the door rubbers tomorrow.
D-day is sunday, need to shake it out then before we hit the road Monday ?
Got a big parcel from Flatdog to day
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10th Jul 2012 10:55 pm
wiggs
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Looking good Glen
Personally I would of tried to stick to one lock on each door... You'll soon get bored of opening them all the time G4 Gone ...but not forgotten
10th Jul 2012 11:20 pm
Moo D3 Decade
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Looking good. Will you make one for me?
10th Jul 2012 11:30 pm
cold_n_wet
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I wanted to go the one lock on the door route(also economical) but the sealing rubbers are quite stiff, and need alot of pressure to seal properly.
So I was wanting to make sure I had a good seal and 2 locks it is, once we are stationary I only need 1 lock to enguage to to keep them out of the way.
Simon,
It wil be a one off mate - lots of reasons IDTOOL PRO / Faultmate programing and BAS remaping services in Norway.
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11th Jul 2012 7:15 am
cold_n_wet
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Its been a long july, got it ready (1 day late for the norwegian national meeting).
Threw all the kit in the back and was ready to go, when I found the wheels were fouling the Mudguards, son and wife mucked in and we were reay to go after 2 hours only to discover an earth fault on the electrics.
Got the tools out and bypassed a multiconnector and everything works, so a rewire is required in the not so distance future
Finally got on the road and stopped at a local weight bridge, D3 = 3000KG Noname = 1000Kg.
Carried on the main road heading for the Norwegian national and after about 1 hrs driving, I feel a strange wobble from the trailer, look in the mirror and I am about to loose a wheel, I never knew a D3 could stop so quickly
Manged to get it on the hard shoulder, and find the wheel is only held on with 2 wheel nuts and 2 turns left on them...
Got the trailer jacked up (drilled the frame earlier to accept the D3 scissors jack - good mod ) and retightned all bolts.
After that, continued to be worried about all vibrations in the trailer, but after nearly 800km all is OK.
It took us 45 minutes to get the tent up and about the same to pack it, but we have now got it down to 30 minutes.
some pictures taken at the Norwegian national meet. I have some work to do on the brakes as something is hanging up, and I am still waiting on the new spacers.
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Still lots of work to do, not hapy with the Mudguards, interior walls need to be mounted, I need to do the 12v, 220V and gas installations. Doors need to be welded, sanded, and painted.
Now to find some Avonride spares, has anyone experience of changing the damper ??
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