Maria's Van

[ben]

craig to the rescue!!!

[Tweaker]

Wishing you good luck with your next Beddy adventure!

[able]

sorry to hear of your troubles maria!

but i am very glad indeed that you where nice enough to let a mould be taken of your dash!

my standard dash has the structural integrity of a shoe box tied on with a shoe lace and i will have to cross that bridge eventually!

better luck in the future! and could we please have a better (full) pic of the dash when it is convenient for you.

[Jock]

Maria,

Take the bad with the good! The van is looking amazing and apart from the head and the cracked windscreen
(must have been a rough trip to Melbourne - because it was not cracked when I inspected the van for you!) you
should be on the road soon - I hope!

Bedfords are a handful, they require constant love (maintenance and $) and if they are not given it - they give you
a hard time. Like 90% of the Bedfords out there - your van must have been a little neglected.

The engine trouble is strange? It had no tappet noise when I heard it run. I started it and left it running for nearly 5 minutes.
It didn't sound rough or rattly (like  a loose tappet) it sounded smooth as butter? I am confused? Did you do anything to the head
recently that may have caused this problem?

I hope you sort it out soon. Just wanted to make sure that you know that I did not give you the "bum steer" the van was running on song
when i looked at it for you.

Cheers and Merry Christmas to you all.

Jock

[Marishka]

it will all be worth it in the end maria, hang in there.
marty

[ben]

hey jock.. may have been something i did:( i changed the head gasket.. didnt know about adjustable tappets.. say no more..

ben

[Jock]

Maria,

How about some updated pics of the van in it's latest state?
Would love to see the progress.

Cheers

Jock

[maria]

hi all,
back from adelaide now, via anglesea. lucky there are aeorplanes and friends with cars. not quite the same though as having one's own little home away from home.
jock i know you wouldn't have given me a bum steer. i always anticipated there would be more than met the eye, or ear. the van is older than me and i'm fairly rattly. anyhoo, with some help and guidance from craig The Lady Obama will be on the road soon enough. (Craig, i'll call you this weekend, you too ben)
I'll post the pictures of the busted tappets etc this weekend. most of me is still on holiday somewhere between anglesea and adelaide. saw a nice(!) gold bedford in adelaide, near morphett vale (anyone's?) and a white poptop in a front yard as we sped through geelong, or maybe torquay.
thanks for all the support. as always, it's really nice to hear

[maria]

"The master's apprentice"

Just a wee update to say the van is now running, and quite nicely too. Craig came over on sunday and we (WE) put in a new set of lifters, pushrods and replaced the exploded tappet. I will add a photo of that shortly. Have put one of two of the very bent pushrods in my gallery. So she's purring along very nicely and is quite zippy!
Thanks to Craig for being so kind and generous, teaching me heaps.

[Jock]

He's a top man that Craig Hamilton! aka "Hammers Spanners" good to hear about such generosity and "Bedfordship"!
Keep it up.

Jock