C8A HUW restoration in Greece

[Haridimos]

Back to work! This is a last week's photo. The HUW without her engine waiting patiently for our care.

More news to come next week!

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[Phil Waterman]

Hi Kostas

Glad to see you are making progress on your HUW. Been working away on my HUP steadily but sorry to say have not kept up progress postings on MLU or on my own web page. But your work and others this summer is prompting me to get caught up on posting the Overhaul process on my HUP.

Cheers Phil

[Haridimos]

I took the doors and the wings off, and Im ready to lift and separate the cab from the chassis.
At the same time Im scratching a rear door from sheet metal and some bits from an old rusty one.

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@mr Waterman:
One other reason for posting the restoration work is to prompt and encourage each other to go on..

You are the leader for the rest of us, don't forget that!

kostas

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Kostas

Just as I was reminded, remember to get the 4 bolts through the frame of the body and the chassis at the front of the body. They are kind of hidden from view so easy to forget.

Keep us posted on your progress.

Cheers Phil

[Haridimos]

Hello Phill,
Thanks to you and R. Clark (HERE) we saved a lot of time and pain, and we finally managed to remove the body from the chassis. We remove the front sections and we found the hidden bolts. Everything was there.
The chassis revealed in a tired and rusty shape, but the good thing is that there are no cracks or other lethal damages..

Next phase is to sandblast the chassis and other parts in the comming days, as long as we have the weather on our side. Three weeks without any rain...


The 1st photo is from mr. Waterman's site. 2 to 5 is the HUW.

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[RHClarke]

Haridimos,

Your truck looks to be in great shape. I note with interest that the "skids" (in the 4th photo - the curved rails on the bottom of the frame) on your HUW have not separated - a common point of failure on Heavy Utilities. You may wish to inspect them to make sure that cracks have not developed. If they have, a simple weld repair will do.

Keep up the great work!

[Haridimos]

Hi Rob,

Thanks for your comments and the recommendation for the "skids". I remembered that you have a similar talk with mr Waterman about cracks on that area of the HUP's body, (with some photos also! ), but to confirm that I have understand exactly where the point is, a post a todays photo of how the "skids" looks to me..:

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Thanks again for any help!

Kostas