C8AX Tac Sign

Lynn Eades · #1 02-05-10, 11:22

I recon that when you do that wheel barrow, it'll look great too!
Nice job of a neat little truck! I have enjoyed following your posts. Thanks.

Ausmick · #2 11-06-10, 05:25

Finally got around to putting the seat covers in. The canvas ‘anti squeak’ that runs along the front guards, I used plastic drench hose inside the canvas to lessen the moisture hanging round if they got wet. The original stuff I took off, what was left of it, looked like it had some sort of twisted cord in it and was very rotten.

Was forgetting the turn indicator was on every time I went around a corner so pulled the inspection lamp socket out of the dash and put an indicator light in there. Now I always remember to switch the indicator off.

Did a small movie of the truck at a mate’s place. We are getting some steel and a carton and making the canopy frame this weekend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC36yintfMI

Ausmick · #3 01-07-10, 03:33

Thanks Rupert from Perth!

Picked the spare tyre up this morning and bolted it down. Your a life saver having that 6 stud rim for me as I found heaps of 8 studs. My son carried it from flight to flight Perth to Dubbo and got it here (Qantas staff always thought the worse when he dropped down a box with 22kg of metal in it!)

Got a guy doing the canvas canopy now.

warren brown · #4 01-07-10, 12:29

Just a great job - congratulations, really inspirational.

Ausmick · #5 02-07-10, 01:03

Thanks Warren,

I have so many people to thank for their participation and advice in this project that are members on this site. I have received advice and direction from not only members around Australia, but many part of the world.

I have a new camshaft from America, things from Holland, parts from Belgium, Canada and England. (Learning about the euro)

Will plan on a big thank you to all when my project is finished. Just waiting on the canopy to be fitted and then throw the WW2 camo net over it - then have to do a few last pictures and a ‘big thanks’.

Oh – will sling Geoff a bit for the site as well! I haven’t forgot!

Mick

Ausmick · #6 06-09-10, 03:30

Have not been on line for a bit.
Finally got the truck just the way I wanted it and took off to the Alice Springs Truck Show.
Left home and one of the two good looking ‘old’ tyres on the back blew out, so two news ones in Narrabri on day 1 – also – at Moree the 6v pulley broken in two and went into the radiator! The pulley had a hairline crack in it, maybe where some fool in the past had hit it off with a hammer, or fatigue? I hitchhiked back to Coona and pulled a radiator out of one wreck I knew had a good one, and found a new pulley on another wreck beside it.
Got going and didn’t have another problem – well one – till I got home after driving the old truck 5600km up through Queensland into the Northern Territory to Alice Springs, back into South Australia to Broken Hill to home.
Other problem I had was the earth strap not doing its part properly – which it is now.
Left home with 110 litres of fuel in her tanks – 500 litres in drums in the back - $400 dollars worth of tucker – generator – cloths – spares – and most important, 10 cartons of beer.
The parade on the Sunday at Alice was 8 km long having 900 old to new trucks lined up, went for three hours through the outside of town.
You wouldnt believe it but on the day another C8AX got in line behind me!

Bob McNeill · #7 06-09-10, 05:05

Was there ever any doubt, its a CHEV, well done.

Mike K · #8 07-09-10, 02:40

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Originally Posted by Ausmick

Have not been on line for a bit.
Finally got the truck just the way I wanted it and took off to the Alice Springs Truck Show.
Left home and one of the two good looking ‘old’ tyres on the back blew out, so two news ones in Narrabri on day 1 – also – at Moree the 6v pulley broken in two and went into the radiator! The pulley had a hairline crack in it, maybe where some fool in the past had hit it off with a hammer, or fatigue? I hitchhiked back to Coona and pulled a radiator out of one wreck I knew had a good one, and found a new pulley on another wreck beside it.
Got going and didn’t have another problem – well one – till I got home after driving the old truck 5600km up through Queensland into the Northern Territory to Alice Springs, back into South Australia to Broken Hill to home.
Other problem I had was the earth strap not doing its part properly – which it is now.
Left home with 110 litres of fuel in her tanks – 500 litres in drums in the back - $400 dollars worth of tucker – generator – cloths – spares – and most important, 10 cartons of beer.
The parade on the Sunday at Alice was 8 km long having 900 old to new trucks lined up, went for three hours through the outside of town.
You wouldnt believe it but on the day another C8AX got in line behind me!

Christ almighty what a feat ! You deserve a medal .. or a trip to the local funny farm

MIKE