Robert Pearce Starts to restore

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the fuel company rep stoped by yesterday and left a gift as a thankyou for spending 90% of my income with them should come in handy

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Another day of breaking floor studs and I am close to being able to remove cab frame. It's amazing what you uncover this pin in the accelerator linkage was a disaster waiting to happen lucky I haven't had to walk home. The twist of tie wire was about half worn through.

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At last all of the cab is off Next I will have to hot wire it to drive it out into the paddock for degreasing. A few new seals are needed and the back of th gear box looks like it will need repairing with putty steel, I'll have a better idea after the muck is washe off . I now have three months to get it back together for club rego day so I may have to abandon the farm

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I managed to salvage a small piece of canvis seal from the cab frame to look at all the stiching is gorne and while the windscreen had rope sown into the fold the frame seals apear to have a thin strip of canvis spiral rolled and sown in. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

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The piece of timber from under the back of the cab is in good condition considering how many years the blitz sat in the bush, a good clean and a soak in linseed oil and it should last forever

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With the return of almost normal weathr, nine days of rain and still overcast, I've resorted to spreading sand over the floor of Vicki's garage to get it dry. Vicki is looking forward too me finishing she claims I'm starting to push the boundries of friendship.

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All dressed up and no dance partner Cleaned a couple of pieces with first full tank of sand, will defenatly need the second aircompressor from Dad's shed to keep air up. I will have to get a suply of tips in as the creek sand is wearing the first one fairly quickly.