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by Slooby
Tue Aug 22, 2023 11:06 pm
Forum: Loaders/Backhoes
Topic: 3cx grey cab 4x4 turbo been bitten I think
Replies: 16
Views: 5470
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Re: 3cx grey cab 4x4 turbo been bitten I think

Welcome Andy, from a fellow 3cx victim! If you look out some of the threads I've started on here you can hopefully learn from my mistakes, and perhaps alternates sources for some of the various 'JCB' fluids Vicary Plant will also become your friend as they have just about everything available either...
by Slooby
Tue Aug 22, 2023 10:25 pm
Forum: Tractors
Topic: New toy
Replies: 20
Views: 13621
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Re: New toy

hair bear wrote:Laddingford.


Even closer!
by Slooby
Mon Aug 21, 2023 2:55 am
Forum: Tractors
Topic: New toy
Replies: 20
Views: 13621
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Re: New toy

Bloody hell! You were right near my weekend hideaway, as Tonbridge is about 5 miles away! Didn't know we had a tractor emporium that close, I only know a couple one the Tonbridge side of Maidstone, the others all out Ashford way
by Slooby
Sun Aug 20, 2023 5:28 pm
Forum: Tractors
Topic: New toy
Replies: 20
Views: 13621
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Re: New toy

Very nice! That's the size of tractor we should have rather than the MF 65, which is just about the wrong everything for what is needed down here in Kent!
by Slooby
Sun Aug 20, 2023 3:30 pm
Forum: Dumpers
Topic: Winget 2S project
Replies: 61
Views: 535704
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Re: Winget 2S project

While watching an episode of Finnegan's Garage on YouTube the other day I watched Mike Finnegan (of Roadkill) use bread rolls (!) to remove a pilot bearing from a crankshaft; you start pushing the bread through the centre of the bearing and as the cavity fills start ramming the bread with a suitably...
by Slooby
Sat Aug 12, 2023 5:57 pm
Forum: Loaders/Backhoes
Topic: Unusual back hoe
Replies: 13
Views: 6498
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Re: Unusual back hoe

Could it be a home brew, where someone has grafted on the Backhoe section onto a loader from another manufacturer?

The Backhoe itself looks quite Ford (550?), but the front loader very much isn't!
by Slooby
Wed Aug 09, 2023 12:39 pm
Forum: Heavy Haulage
Topic: Classic pictures Updated 24/03/2024
Replies: 4254
Views: 2984392
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Re: Classic pictures Updated 06/08/2023

That series land rover truck cab is worth 400 quid on its own!
by Slooby
Mon Jul 17, 2023 7:12 pm
Forum: Heavy Haulage
Topic: Classic pictures Updated 24/03/2024
Replies: 4254
Views: 2984392
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Re: Classic pictures Updated 16/07/2023

In that pic of the Case- Poclain 1088; there's another digger down the 'ole to the left of it! :wtf:
by Slooby
Thu Jun 29, 2023 1:30 am
Forum: Loaders/Backhoes
Topic: 3CX 1984 Service
Replies: 7
Views: 3253
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Re: 3CX 1984 Service

I compiled the following list of equivalent fluid for my '87 Black Cab: As part of my ongoing research, and to try and collate the information in one place after trawling through many posts in many places I've put together the following list of what I believe are the various lubricants used by a 1st...
by Slooby
Thu Jun 29, 2023 1:17 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: Alternator tell-tail light conundrum
Replies: 9
Views: 5059
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Re: Alternator tell-tail light conundrum

essexpete wrote:How and where to fit?


You replace the stock flasher relay with one like this:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/272665874287 ... media=COPY

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