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Alright.... deep breath, dont be nervous about starting a new thread for the first time... I'm sure no one's going to laugh at you.
Here are some progress pictures of my truck. I hope you like 'em as much as I do!
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You may have guessed looking at the very crude igntion system that I was itching to see how it would run.
So we used an ancient but well known receipe.... Fuel
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A method of obtaining Air
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And various ingredients for spark
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Cranked her over to bring up oil pressure then hit the ignition button and she ROARED into life!!!! It ran a little rough but once my good mate Howard & myself had tinkered with carbie settings and the Idle circuit she eventually settled down to a beautiful steady beat.
Side valve V8's have the sweetest note, I pity guys who are only interested in modern Fast 4's. When I find out (hopefully from one of you guys on MLU) how to do the youtube thing I will footage of it running. ![]()
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Nice Work on the truck mate. Nothing like the old monkey face blitz's especially the Ford one's!
![]() Before Utube comes along perhaps you'd like to learn that you can upload up to 5 photos onto the one post instead of a post per photo. All you do is wait till the first photo is uploaded then press 'Browse' again and repeat the process. ![]() ![]()
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Cheers Cliff Hutchings aka MrRoo S.I.R. "and on the 8th day he made trucks so that man, made on the 7th day, had shelter when woman threw him out for the night" MrRoo says "TRUCKS ROOLE" ![]() |
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