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Made up a new copper fuel pipe and also the oil pipes for the magneto chain case drain and crankcase breather.
Decided to have a crack at Silver soldering nipples onto the pipe ends, rather than using a swaging tool. Turned out to be much easier than I thought. Apply a generous amount of flux to the pipe end, pop on the nipple and then heat it up with a hand held gas torch. Don’t hold the torch too close to the brass nipple or it will melt (guess how I found this out!!!). Once the flux turns clear, feed in the Silver solder and it is drawn by capillary action into the gap between the nipple and pipe. The solder used was 55% Silver, along with Easy Flo flux powder.

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Hi Chris,
that sounds brilliant, let me know how much i owe you and i will pay you on paypal or send a cheque, whatever you prefer,
best regards
Dave

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cheers chaps the old girl came back to life ! 🙂 and promptley ratteled off a few bits so a bit more work to do lol

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Thanks gents, some good starting info for me– thanks for your replies.

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Hi there
seems like we may have similar machines as currently mine is fitted with a Honda engine but fortunately the chap i bought it off kept the Briggs engine tucked away under the bench as it had a broken exhaust valve luckily i managed to locate one from our neighbours in the USA and am now awaiting said item to arrive so then i shall be able to refit the beast with her original heart

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Any luck Chris ?

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That sounds great Chris,
just gave it a primer paint coat to hold the rust off a bit and itching to start the old beast up !!!
regards
Dave

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This one ends tomorrow and I know who is bidding on it !!

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Couple more pictures, nearly there….

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If its the one I think it is its in my home town of Crowborough in East Sussex…

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True Auto Trucks had 3 wheels as per the pictures and the originals were JAP Petrol poweed Later one had achoice of Lister Diesels mostly HR twin Cylinders Some wee made in association with Crompton Parkinson , another Hawker Siddley group company and were Battery powered . Lister also made a four wheeled tug unit usualy HR 3 3 cylinder powered Lister eventually sold off the Auto Truck business and production moved away from Dursley How long it lasted I’m not sure But the last Dursley made ones were late 1970’s Ther is a Club for Autotrucks Listers had one as a works fire Engine which has been preserved Some had chassis designed to take skips of hot foundry waste and Swarf from Listers factory. Some had fixed dropside bodies some had low lowder type bodies for heavy stuff.there were even 3 wheeled tug units Spares should be aviable for the engines but Chassis parts may not be so plentiful The front Driving wheel had a pnematic tyre, most of the rear wheels were solid though pneematics were an option They were Film stars too making into the Italian Job and at least one James Bond movie !!

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Had a new exhaust fabricated recently, which is now fitted (photo 0006).

Also had some felt washers made for the reduction gear housings (photo’s 0007 & 0008). I can’t emphasise enough how important these are to the healthy running of a Trusty. The reason my Dad abandoned the tractor in the first place was down to the left hand side reduction gears jamming solid. This happened while ploughing, with the engine pulling hard. The weak link in the transmission turned out to be the countershaft, which ended up twisted like a corkscrew (see photo 0009). The drive chains and sprockets were undamaged. I was fortunate enough to have another Trusty which has been canabalised for spares, donating it’s countershaft for the restoration project. When I originally stripped the reduction housings down, both were missing the felt washers which had resulted in them being full of dirt. There was so much muck in the left hand side housing that it had packed solid around the small drive gear.

While the wheels were removed to fit the felt washers, I took the opportunity to fit the tie rods which hold the side plates of the transmission housing square (photo 0010). The lower one near the large drive sprockets can only be fitted with the wheels off.

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Apologises for getting the wrong end of the stick trusty-mad. It’s the sort of thing I’m capable of doing.

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Your grandad needs to go to spec savers!!

Bird table looks rather shot any how!!

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I have 4 of those.

Some people seem to think they are worth a fortune!!

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