M series Bedford home, the fun starts

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9 years 2 months ago #166189 by scratcha

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A bit more done in the run down to a wedding and "Crawlin the Hume"

1418 Benz now really impressing the bride :-)

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9 years 2 months ago #166192 by Mairjimmy

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You are getting there,it must be about 28 days to the wedding give or take a couple and 86 or so to the Hume, on schedule I hope, tray looking very good.
Colin

Time to get up andd get going.......todays bad decisions aren't going to make themselves!!!

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9 years 2 months ago #166285 by scratcha

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22 days for the wedding, the wheels i wanted are nil stock and i havent heard from the tailshaft bloke :blink:

Sheel be right!

1418 Benz now really impressing the bride :-)

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9 years 2 months ago #166315 by scratcha

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Update, spoke with the tailshaft fella today, its finished and i can pick it up wednesday :woohoo:

Bidding on a set of wheels on flea bay, (ford pattern as ive updated the brakes all round)

Three weeks today till the big day!

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9 years 2 months ago #166348 by Pierre

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Nice Tray job Scratcha, what timber are you using?
Are you using Ford rear springs & axle as well?
Original Spring hangers?
Great stuff
cheers
Pierre

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9 years 2 months ago #166432 by scratcha

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Gday Pierre, Ive done the frame in KD (kiln dryed) hard wood, itll be either mountain ash or messmate.

The tray top is tassie oak flooring 19mm x 130mm just deck oiled

The rear axle is BA falcon wagon, cut off and flipped the mounts and used original springs from the bedford. just rebushed the hangers

1418 Benz now really impressing the bride :-)