1975 Atkinson restoration

If you restore a truck, I guess the next job is to build a shed to put it in. I bought a 24m x 15m x 5m shed in early 2019. Unfortunately it arrived in April 2019 and it was too wet to get on the paddock to unload, let alone erect it. I finally had it put up in Feb this year. When I built my last shed 15 years ago I painted the floor with 2 pack epoxy paint and swore if I ever built another one I would do the same. It makes it much easier to keep it clean and oil spills etc just wipe up with a rag without leaving a mess. If anyone is interested, the 360m2 used 42 litres of PPG Epoxy Top Coat, 42 litres of PPG Epoxy Hardner and around 12 litres of thinner. On the 1st coat I used 25% thinner and on the 2nd and 3rd coats I used 10% (instructions say to use none). Each coat took around 8 hours using a 270mm roller but I did it in two halves so 4 hours a coat and you have to do it on 3 consecutive days. Total cost for the paint about $2000. One job I'm glad is finished.

OMG, now that's a shed!

Looks gr8 OilMan
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with time
U'll find U never build m big enuff
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cya

And how about showing us the inside with the epoxy floor job . . . please

Appreciate that this is going back a bit, but when refurbishing the engine did you check the injection timing.? With setting the injection point line on the flywheel at the topmost point did the lines on the little windows on the injection pumps line up. If there is wear and the line on the plunger is lower than those at the window sides, fuel injection will be retarded.

PDU wrote: And how about showing us the inside with the epoxy floor job . . . please

It just looks like painted concrete (nothing special) but photo below. I used Light Greay as probably closest to natural concrete color. The scissor lift is there because the shed sat outside for 12 months and the paint on the columns and trusses didn't look great so I repainted them.

Eightpot wrote: Appreciate that this is going back a bit, but when refurbishing the engine did you check the injection timing.? With setting the injection point line on the flywheel at the topmost point did the lines on the little windows on the injection pumps line up. If there is wear and the line on the plunger is lower than those at the window sides, fuel injection will be retarded.

I didn't check the timing, the injector pump was just reinstalled with the same timing ie marks on the driveshaft lined up the same as when removed.

Eightpot wrote: Appreciate that this is going back a bit, but when refurbishing the engine did you check the injection timing.? With setting the injection point line on the flywheel at the topmost point did the lines on the little windows on the injection pumps line up. If there is wear and the line on the plunger is lower than those at the window sides, fuel injection will be retarded.

Whilst having never done this on a Gardner I have done this on old Cat motors and it can make a huge difference at try to start them when cold
If it hasnt been checked it would be well worth checking at some stage because unless it was just checked it will be slightly out as everything wears

Paul

never had a Gardner that was hard to start.....and some of them were pretty worn.....Anyway ,the LXBs have an external pump drive,and also an external advance mechanism ,so adjusting the timing is quite easy,......generally wear of the long timing chain is the cause ......Gardners are designed to be very easy to service,comes from the marine heritage.

I did adjust the timing chain as it was a little loose. Not sure how to check the timing, will have to read up.