Wooaaahaaahaaahaaarrrrrrr

It's alive!!!!

Replaced perished fuel hoses, put a splash of fuel in the tank.....cranked it a bit and off she went...after 3 whole years lost and untouched in the garage.

Only problem was a sticking No.2 injector, whipped it out, gave it a poke and happy days..Japanese reliability eh?

Now I have dirty hands and my clothes stink of hydrocarbons....just like it should be!

Couple of little jobs to do, and i am booking the MOT up....

GETTIN!!!!!

Edited to add: it's a lot louder than i remember, didn't rev it past 6000rpm (redline for CEC, tickover for BEC... har har )...the neighbours are going to love me, only been in this house for 3 years so they haven't really been subjected to it much....also realising i will have to learn to drive it again - it used to occasionally frighten the smoke out of me when i drove it regularly....then again that was when i lived in S Wales with plenty of cracking roads to hit locally - not so many good roads around these parts



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Congratulations!

No good roads around Lancashire.. I beg to differ! My back door leads onto the Trough of Bowland!

Nice to hear its all running again.. What engine is in it?

Mark.

Have you changed the diff ratio yet?

And get that turbo fitted

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Have you changed the diff ratio yet?

And get that turbo fitted

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Congratulations!

No good roads around Lancashire.. I beg to differ! My back door leads onto the Trough of Bowland!

Nice to hear its all running again.. What engine is in it?

Mark.

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i just got mine through MOT yesterday after a year & a half SORNED due to no work so itching to drive it again, shame we both missed the sunny weather last week & winters now come back with a vengeance, damn

Can't help but comment on the striking thread-heading and the how well it chimes with Mary Shelly's original creation, (Frankenstein).

"It lives" isn't far off the words in the Boris Karloff version of the film: "It's alive."

A creature cobbled together with various parts to make a working entity has 'life' breathed into it by electricity.

I feel all poetic. Think I'll go and clean the car until it wears off.

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Can't help but comment on the striking thread-heading and the how well it chimes with Mary Shelly's original creation, (Frankenstein).

"It lives" isn't far off the words in the Boris Karloff version of the film: "It's alive."

A creature cobbled together with various parts to make a working entity has 'life' breathed into it by electricity.

I feel all poetic. Think I'll go and clean the car until it wears off.

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Can't help but comment on the striking thread-heading and the how well it chimes with Mary Shelly's original creation, (Frankenstein).

"It lives" isn't far off the words in the Boris Karloff version of the film: "It's alive."

A creature cobbled together with various parts to make a working entity has 'life' breathed into it by electricity.

I feel all poetic. Think I'll go and clean the car until it wears off.

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Thanks Bob, glad somebody got it.....it's exactly how i felt! I even had the jump leads on it.....The only thing I was missing was thunder and lightening at the time...

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"You know it makes sense"

Glad to hear you got your old bus sorted, Rich! When you brought it round to visit me late in 2008 I was just starting out building - as I remember, you gave me a few problems to sort that I didn't know I had - eg - reaming out the Sierra uprights to accept the TREs and re-sleeving the Gaz coilovers to name but two! All sorted now, maybe when you get mot'd I can whip your BEC ass around the Trough of Bowland (if you are staying in this country long enough??)

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Glad to hear you got your old bus sorted, Rich! When you brought it round to visit me late in 2008 I was just starting out building - as I remember, you gave me a few problems to sort that I didn't know I had - eg - reaming out the Sierra uprights to accept the TREs and re-sleeving the Gaz coilovers to name but two! All sorted now, maybe when you get mot'd I can whip your BEC ass around the Trough of Bowland (if you are staying in this country long enough??)

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Thanks Steve...doesn't seem that long ago though does it? Still haven't seen yours completed....

Soon as mine it MOT'd I'll give you a shout, can't wait to visit the 'Trough'.....

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