Hi To All
Sorry for another delay in getting onto the site. telephone services went down again. A weekly occurence as the place dissolves.
To answer the boat question, it is a Hagg Fast Pursuit boat. Found it beached in Mozambique, in the Port of Beira, and ex-police boat. Was in excellent condition structurally and bought it for nothing. Some one had been using it as a shanty room through the civil war. The irony being that one of the poorest people in the world, in a country where diesel was like gold, this guy had been living on the boat that had it's tanks full of fuel. Over a thousand litres of the stuff!!He never thought to check! Who would I guess until we used a crane to lift the hull and realised just how heavy it was. Was going to have it as a deep sea fishing boat until I realised I'd probably die before I could finish the thing. It's for sale now...
Enough about boats though.
I have stripped this truck down and I now I have a chassis and nothing else left. The paint is stripped and I'm now making a list of what needs repair. Amazingly the motor needs nothing more than a set of standard rings and a complete set of seals and gaskets! The bore on the cylinders matches with the various specs I've dredged up. Almost as if this engine never did any work. Needs a very light honing and that's all. Quite remarkable, as I can't see any evidence of resleeving.
I have question if any one knows, do the front axles have a curve to them or has my front been bent in what seems a perfectly symmetrical way? It curves to the front of the vehicle. I've taken a straight edge and measured the curve from all perspectives, it is a perfect curve. Which seems to be unlikely that damage can be so regular. Any one know?
Regarding the cab of this truck - Is it therefore correct to say, it has '54 grill on a '53 cab? So the interior of the cab - layout, guages etc are all '53?
I been looking at that grill, thinking it may look kinda pretty in chrome...
Thanks for the input, I'm going to band-aid my knuckles and catch some sleep.
