Huge thankyou......the FOG-BOG has landed!!!

[gregster]

Wotcha foggers...

A huge thankyou to Garyrange for giving us his old caravan, and everyone who has helped FOG expressing down to Kent...

We start work on it tommorow turning it into the FOG-BOG, which partition walls and doors going in...
Its a nice size with loads of other space for storing all the other stuff for up the woods...
Had a gander under it and I can feel a suspension lift coming on, making some brackets to drop the beam axle further down and then some bigger wheels and tyres...thinking about a 6" suspension lift and then a set of redrilled sj wheels with 235/70/15's, should help get in and out of the woods a bit easier!

Again big thanks to everyone for making this happen and setting a new record for FOG express I reckon...

Laters

Gregster

[Krusher]

FOG BOG!

[jmc]

Gregs a poet

[garyrange]

i just like to say a big thank you to the guys that took the fog bog from north wales to kent

[john (smifffy)]

i think he wants to change the name from the fog bog

try putting fog bog in to google

[BadBoy]

I'll go with John for the name change.
If it turns up on site called the fog bog, then there's no way I'm gonna use it, or maybe Greg's trying to attract George Michael to the site






PS He's serious about the suspension lift.

[gregster]

[BadBoy]

[Retro Pedro]

The spanners and sockets were swopped for the tape measure and screw driver and here's a couple of pics showing the work in progress.


Near mind, it'll look nice when it's all decorated.
Whilst I was doing a 'dad, can you just do this for me' on my daughter's car this morning - which mean't I didn't get there till 2 p.m. with the timber - the boys were busy doing their own work in progress. Here's a few piccies

Jimbo and Kel doing a counter-balance job to make the springs fit back in

And the finished product - gone way up there now


And this is Kel's lifted up - looking good Kel

[Drift]

Well done guys

[gregster]

A most productive day, well done and thanks guys (and sal).....

Kel's 2.8 lwb now has coil spacers in and torsion bars wound up...
wilberforces 2.8 shorty now has manual hubs, coil spacers in and (much to his disgust) the torsion bars wound up...and new drivers seat...
The FOG-bog now has less holes in the floor, partition walls in, just needs toilet doors now which will be done wednesday...

Was bloody cold though!!!
Tap had frozen up, and everyone thought I was daft defrosting it with a hairdryer...
Jim got "had" a good un when we were doing his hubs....
I told him to make sure the AVM logo was horizontal as it looked better than being at an angle, when he was putting the covers on em...and he fell for it, took it back off and turned it round to the next hole so the Logo was level...he only twigged when I said the same thing when he was reassembling the 2nd one, that the logo on the hub goes round with the wheel.....hahaha gotcha Jimbo!!!
Got his spacers in and his car looked like a dragster, would need to look out of the sunroof to see where you were going...but he flatly refused to tweak the torsion bars today...but I sneaked and done em when he wasnt looking with Kel blocking Jim from seeing me...he caught me when I had half done the 2nd side...
Made the "Ultimate screwdriver" but no-one wanted to use it....tis right powerful a 1/2drive air impact wrench with a screwdriver attachment welded into a 1/2 drive socket!!! Girls eh!!!
Unleashed the air nailer...a wicked little tool that makes light work of attaching things to people....Jim took it for a spin too...tis fun...
Sal cleaned all the inside of our 2.8lwb...can see out the windows now! Cheers babe...

Big thanks to...
Sal for the constant supply of teas and coffees and keeping me under control...
Pete for the timber, and his wood working tools, and help as always...and nearly cutting the workmate in half more times than I can remember with his circular saw!!!
Jim for the custard creams, his unique marking out techiniques, and letting me do his torsion bars and being so gullible!!
Kel for his help starting the FOGbog conversion with pete while Jim and I did the shorty...and no kel, you dont need to undo BOTH end of an antiroll bar...undo one end and it dunna work no more...

A good fun day...got some stuff done and had a laugh...shame it was so bleedin cold though...

Oh and managed 4 2.8's in one place...would have been 5 but Pete bought his Kia SlowDoner as the timber wouldnt fit in his shorty!

[bobbinsjob]

Great work Chaps and chapess

[Retro Pedro]

Oit Greg - 'Kia SlowDoner' - Got it up to 100mph on the motorway going home - a good 30mph faster than I dare take Bertie (2. - reckon easy 10 mins off the journey time - 'Respect bruvver'.

[gregster]

Only jesting mate....reckon the body off one of them would be cool on a LWB 2.8 chassis...make a blinding weekend expedition motor...

[Retro Pedro]

Tundra bus - the power of the tundra bus

[gregster]

[Retro Pedro]

Don't Mitsubishi do one - think they call it the Delcia - import jobbie

[gregster]

[country_Est]

And I thought it would be more like a proper Bumper Dumper.

[Retro Pedro]

Is that what they mean by Mitsus*h*i*t*t*i*e