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Sunday PM update. Just got a note from Jim. He had a breakdown, and had to replace an alternator and two batteries in the rain. So that put him way behind today, and of course Sunday traffic on I-95 is terrible. So it looks like Tuesday will be his arrival day. Sure glad he is doing the driving, I would be hating it.
Greg stopped by this afternoon for a chat. He said that he has ordered a custom car trailer. It is going to be a 26 footer, gray in color with a side door. It will be tall enough so he can drive in his antique cars with their tops up. Delivery is a couple of months away.
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Thanks for sharing on the forum. Always enjoyed your build. Keep up the great work. Thanks to all the guys! Cannot wait until your next build.
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It is Sunday, April 23rd. We received a note from Jim that the Traveller, now named Dexter by Alice, will probably be arriving on Monday. I have a spot in my garage for him. Alice vows to clean out the house garage for him. We will see. It is full of garden stuff right now.
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Roger, pls keep us updated on its journey through the shipping process.
The location of the Traveller is unknown. Waiting for Jim to let me know his progress up the east coast.
In the meantime I decided to assemble the Eastwood media blaster and parts washer. All was going well on the media blaster when I stgripped the threads on the air pressure gauge. So I stopped. Will have to get a thread chaser as I mangled it pretty good. My fault.
I had better luck with the parts washer. Thankfully, I only had to install the nozzle and fill the tank with fluid. Works good. It is small, but will do probably everything I need to do. Here are a couple of pics of both machines.
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It is Saturday, April 22nd. A new adventure begins. After a short trip to Long Island, NY and then to Carlisle, PA we made it home late last night. I got a note from Jim, our hauler, that he had picked up the Traveller. He did not give me a schedule for his trip so he may be here late today or tomorrow. We will just have to wait and see. At least we know the car is on its way. I did call our insurer and added to the car to our "large lines" policy with JC Taylor.
And while we are waiting. Here is a little video on the history of the Morris Minor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD79yY2diMI
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Just a quick update on the projects as we are on our way to Long Island in New York. Going with friends to visit the east end of the island and staying away from the city.
I got the Jagrar's brakes done late last night and took it for a quick spin. The brakes work much better without much of a pull. I am happy. I am sure they will improve with more time on the engine. No oil or water leaks that I could see also.
I paid for the Morris Traveller. So I guess that the little station wagon is ours. It should be here sometime next week. Maybe as early as Monday/Tuesday. Alice is sure excited.
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Jim, Alice is going in to register the car, err truck. She will take a picture of the Traveller and try to convenience the DMV that it is a little English truck. Worse case we will just use them for display and run the regular vintage/antique plates, which you can get in black/white combo.
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Still Monday. Well, the Suburban is officially done. Got the inner fender back on and secure; and I got the windshield washer tube replaced. Everything is good to go. It was a little tight working around the Jaguar, but at least I did not have to kneel in the gravel and rain.
I have been using a Crosland (made in England) oil filter for the Jaguar. I only have one left so decided to order three from XK Unlimited. They came today. They look pretty good, but they are made in China. Side to side they are pretty similar to the Crosland. The Crosland may have tighter pleats, hence a bit more filtering media.
I also got the adjustment bar for the Jaguar brakes from Welsh Enterprises. The adjustment teeth look great. I will be able to finish the Jaguar tomorrow. Can hardly wait to take it for a test drive.
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Roger, Carnegie is 250 miles north of our home in Virginia. I would imagine that you car will be taken to the Port of Baltimore, MD for a quick trip across the pond. They have a couple of roll on/roll off ships there all the time. My Unimog came from Europe thru the port.
If your new car is in FL then maybe they will be together for the trip north. I have contracted with Jim of Trulyvintage on this forum to pick up the Traveller and bring it to Virginia. He said that he will be in Florida at the end of the week. Looks like we will have our Traveller by the beginning of next week.
And I tried to wire money to no avail. The bank wanted an address for the seller, which I did not have. So it looks like tomorrow morning for the wire transfer.
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It is Monday, April 17th. Hope to hear something about the Morris Traveller that "I think" we bought. Glad I put down the deposit. If they do not call me, I will call them this afternoon. I would like to complete the deal and start making arrangements to get it up to Virginia.
We headed over to Camaro Steve's place yesterday afternoon. He has been working on "Barney", the 1953 Ford F-100. He had the front seat redone and it looks really good. Added seat belts too. The floor was solid, but soft in a couple of places and had several holes where the floor mounted shifter resided. He cut out the soft parts and welded in new metal, and welded in new metal where the holes were. He buffed up the floor and put down a coat of "POR" to seal everything up. Next he plans to put down some thermal insulation and then a new rubber covering.
We are all going up to the Spring Carlisle PA show on Thursday. Will be a great day for walking around looking for old car parts.
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Nice ride. Looks to be in great condition. How does she run?
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And I hate it when I wake up at 3 AM with nothing to do. I tend to get in trouble. And I hate Eastwood, they keep sending me specials with free shipping. So this morning I bought a little table top parts washer system, $54 to my door. Of course then I had to have cleaning fluid, so to Amazon I went. Got 5 gallons of special fluid, $47 to my door. No more using cans of brake cleaner at $7 a pop.
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It is Sunday, April 16th. Happy Easter! Hope that you are all out looking for colored Easter eggs. Here is a picture of my favorites.
Nice day, but decided to work on the Suburban sans the 2 post lift. Wanted to see why the windshield washer was leaking like crazy. Well I found out. The pump housing was cracked. It is a pain to take out the reservoir as you have to remove the inner fender liner and the battery and battery tray. At least I had the liner out for the brake job. As luck would have it, I had a new pump in my spares box. So put it in and got everything all connected and the battery back in it place. I hit the lever for the washer system and water came out everywhere. What! it is coming out a break in the hose under the driver's side wiper arm. I have to order some hose, I have none.
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Roger, congratulations. Cannot wait to see pictures.
Headed out to the garage this fine Saturday morning. Wanted to finish up with the Jaguar by bleeding the brakes. Used my little Mighty Vac to do the job. The fluid was not that dirty or discolored. Only the front passenger side had a little debris in it. Well that job is done. Just waiting for the part to arrive so I can finish the brake job.
Next car up will be the Suburban, just going to check all the brake fittings for leaks and repair the windshield washer system now that the front wheel inner fender is off so I can get to it. Then going to put new rear shocks on the Chevy Trailblazer and check the brakes. And finally, I have to do all the brakes on the VW Passat. By the end of all this work, the Traveller should be here, and I am sure it will need a good inspection and some repair. No rest for the weary.
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Roger, that is fantastic. Another new car! Now you will have to start another topic on the forums. What are you getting?
I imported the Unimog from Belgium. There was a lot of trust involved. In the end it worked out great. It just took a long time from start to finish.
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Spinneyhill, Opps, my bad. Too much enthusiasm. Thanks for the input and book recommendations.
Update: Saturday Morning. Bought the "right" book this time. Thanks Spinneyhill.
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Putting the cart before the horse I purchase a Morris maintenance manual and a NOS pair of 1966 Virginia license plates. These will be the only items I will be buying before the Traveller gets to the farm.
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Paul, we thought about going down to get it, but I think that the cost for us to get it would probably be more than the shipping.
Well, Friday is about done for car work. I put back on the Jaguar's filter housing, put in a new oil filter and filled it with oil and a couple bottles of zinc additive. So with 11 quarts in the sump I primed the system and then started it up. The pressure jumped to 50 and no oil leaks from the filter housing. I did have one small water leak, but that was easily fixed with a couple of more turns on the clamp. I then turned my attention to the front brakes. I removed the four adjusters on both wheels and gave them a good clean. The adjusters have two little friction pads that helps control the movement of the adjustment bar. So now everything is clean, free of rust, and should function as designed. So I have one wheel back on, and will put on the other side as soon as the new adjustment rod comes in the mail.
The dealer has been trying to get ahold of the owner of the Morris Traveller. No luck as he is out of town. To be safe I sent a $500 deposit as instructed by the Ebay sale. Ebay says that if there is a problem, they will refund the money. I hope that there will not be a problem. As soon as we get a bank number from the dealer we will pay for the little car.
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Jim, sent you a PM.
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Oh boy! We have a report from Greg.
Hey all,Just to let you know that something is happening even if it isn't happening fast. Overland bodywork progresses. I'm making every effort to salvage original metal and wood even if nobody will ever know. It takes a lot more work and time than just starting over with fresh timber and flat sheet steel. The pic with Nathan, torch in hand shows a couple things:the bottom edge has been replaced , that chore left to the capable hands of Thetan Ogle. I'm still amazed at the quality of his metal shaping and the fact that he joined it by welding and without warpage. That's why he got the job.And Nate helped me with the shrinking of some "oil canning" of the panels. Any time you pull the metal skin off of a wooden frame, it won't ever go back on the same way.Now after weeks of work, the back seat has the structural and some cosmetic work done, a coat of epoxy primer and now on to the platform. I'd done structural work to it back in the 'eighties (nineteen eighties) and now to get the wooden and steel moldings fitted .This evening, the primer almost cured, Nathan just stopped by to help me reunite the back seat with the platform. A nice reunion for all.
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Still Thursday. That was really fast. I ordered the oil seals for the Jaguar from McMaster-Carr and they arrived at 5 PM. Just 20 hours from ordering.
Now that I have the seals I can put the oil canister back on the engine and fill it with new oil. Yahoo! I will also bleed the brakes at the same tim.
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Still Thursday. The Morris dealer called me back and said that they needed to talk to the owner to see how he wanted to be paid. I guess that the car is on consignment to them. The dealer offered to arrange transport of the car to Virginia. I am getting a couple of other shipping quotes.
On the Jaguar. I took off the adjustment arms. They have a little sliding mechanism that froze up. They are both loose now. There is a simple adjusting procedure in the Jag repair book. The little pads that make up the friction material look good too. Here are pictures of the mechanism and also the notching on both arms, you can see one is a lot less than the other.
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David, great story.
More on the Jaguar. The rods that are suppose to slip like a ratchet are frozen. No wonder it ate the teeth. Looks like they were assembled without any lube. I was able to free them up with a shot of WD40. I am going to take them off this afternoon and clean up all the rust.
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Found a couple of places that had the adjustment bar for the brakes. Was going to get four, but at $75 each, I opted for one. So one is coming my way.
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It is Monday morning, Jim just sent me another note. He is in Battleboro, NC. He said that it is raining so hard he can hardly see the road. So he is calling it quits for the day. On the plus side he is only about five hours or 250 miles away. Told him to be safe.