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Dougie
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Rebuilt 2.3 slant Bedford engine.

Hi to all,

Rebuilt engine block and head with manifolds and flywheel, camshaft and buckets. £17,000.

doujoy
Thu 10 Dec 2020 @ 21:27 View Dougie   Email Dougie   Edit this messageQuote this messagePMQuote this message
Dougie
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Bedford CF engine.

Hi to all,

Checked out that rebuilt slant 2.3 engine to get it rolling over on a starter motor, first with no spark plugs and then with plugs fitted, it can now be started and ran before fitting, all working well.

doujoy
Sun 13 Dec 2020 @ 15:35 View Dougie   Email Dougie   Edit this messageQuote this messagePMQuote this message
Colin Birch
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Hmmm.....£17,000 for a rebuilt engine seems a bit steep to me

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Pontypridd, S.Wales
The Bedford CF Web Site
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Mon 14 Dec 2020 @ 09:22 View Colin Birch   Email Colin Birch   Colin Birch Home Page   Edit this messageQuote this messagePMQuote this message
Dougie
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Hi Colin,

In this real world of machining new pistons new oil pump reground crank and rebored block plus new gaskets and seals, with no cost added for my time rebuilding and a cylinder head with recut valve seats and refaced valves.
The machine shop price to do the complete rebuild was over £2,000, so quite a lot for £1700.

doujoy
Mon 14 Dec 2020 @ 11:28 View Dougie   Email Dougie   Edit this messageQuote this messagePMQuote this message
Colin Birch
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So do you mean one thousand seven hundred pounds or the seventeen thousand pounds that you posted?

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Colin Birch - CF-UK Admin
Pontypridd, S.Wales
The Bedford CF Web Site
http://www.cf-uk.co.uk
Mon 14 Dec 2020 @ 20:33 View Colin Birch   Email Colin Birch   Colin Birch Home Page   Edit this messageQuote this messagePMQuote this message
Dougie
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Engine rebuild.

Hi Colin,

Well spotted the deadly decimal point, now that would some engine eh?
No wonder you though it was a bit expensive!
I can claim old age or insanity maybe both!!

doujoy
Mon 14 Dec 2020 @ 21:23 View Dougie   Email Dougie   Edit this messageQuote this messagePMQuote this message
Colin Birch
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I thought it may have been the Scotland/UK exchange rate

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Colin Birch - CF-UK Admin
Pontypridd, S.Wales
The Bedford CF Web Site
http://www.cf-uk.co.uk
Thu 17 Dec 2020 @ 12:23 View Colin Birch   Email Colin Birch   Colin Birch Home Page   Edit this messageQuote this messagePMQuote this message
Dougie
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Figures.

Hi Colin,

I have been infected by the amounts of money Westminster has decided to give away to other country's so that they can develop weapons of mass destruction,
and then send their well armed and trained terrorists to attack us.

doujoy
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bluebedouin
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Dougie wrote:

I can claim old age or insanity maybe both!!

So can Colin!

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Bob Hillier
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KETTLES AND POTS (COLOURED OF COURSE) COME TO MIND. HAPPY XMAS

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We don`t stop when we get old, but get old when we stop
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Dougie
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Happy Christmas to all.

Hi to all,

I was brought up on a hill farm in the 1940's and Christmas was a one family a fair so we as children seen nobody other than our direct family, and for my father it was just another working day with stock to be fed and cared for.
Yet they are the Christmas days I remember as the best ever, on the days following the returning Germain prisoners of war with gifts handmade of wood for all the farm children on the estate.

Have a safe and happy Christmas.

doujoy

Sun 20 Dec 2020 @ 13:46 View Dougie   Email Dougie   Edit this messageQuote this messagePMQuote this message
Dougie
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completed.Hi

Hi to all,

Rebuilt engine strapped down to a trolley and turning over on the starter motor so the next stage is to get enough turnover speed to get an oil pressure reading I will then know it is ready to be fitted into a vehicle once a compression test has been done, this is time to take out all the gremlins.

doujoy
Mon 28 Dec 2020 @ 11:34 View Dougie   Email Dougie   Edit this messageQuote this messagePMQuote this message
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