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Don't you have a strict diet you need to stick to? Just giving up beer seems a small price to pay! John I don't have high colestrol Don't have diabetes Don't have high blood pressure So can eat what I want lol. Tablets cause issues with alcohol so 1 beer is enough to really impact me. Ask me how I ...

19 May 2018 ISuzu is returned Friday 11 May from IPOH. Saturday fancy breakfast is ruined by seeing a water leak from the ISUZU. So instead of working on the Volvo I have to head 30k the other way and spend 4 hours in the workshop repairing the cooling split hoses the Turbo shop caused. We had fixed...

Well some good news. The pictures I posted about 2 months ago of the Volvo 2 cabon caught the eye of the Volvo wrecking yard TATANKA. They contacted me on FB and said we have one bottom RHD cabin in stock do you want it. We have gone back and forth waiting for a price of shipping. I recontacted him ...

5 May 2018 Damn ISUZU is delayed by 2 days coming back from 200k away in IPOH and is only back on Tuesday with 67HP gain (to 177) and 38% increase in torque from 360nm to about 496nm. Up call taxi to Nice breakfast. Call taxi to take me to auto store. Buy a dolly hammer set. Then another taxi to boa...

Saturday 29 April 2018 Visit to the Chassis/Cabin workshop to draw up a detailed chassis plan. I have been doodling away on the design of Volvo 2 and its looking like this, now I need to get this onto a proper scale drawing. http://www.geckoadventure.net/Volvo2/20180428_130920.jpg Crikey it's a stru...

Wow, though it's a common story with body shops who dip into resto work unfortunately. In the US it's to the point that restoration body shops, who do good work and are remotely close to major cities, can pretty much charge what they want since it's getting rare to even find one willing to take on ...

Thursday 26 April 2018 Finally after weeks of trying to get hold of the cabin workshop and several visits to see if they were open along with others dropping in to see if he was open he finally answered a message - he did not ring etc. I made an appointment for a progress update. Thursday 12.30pm YE...

What a bad bit of luck for you, when it is so close to being finished. Get better soon, so you can at least drive it once it is finished. This is probably the longest thread with the most views I have come across on the formus. Just goes to show, do something that interests others and put it on lin...

Went down to the cabin shop and surprise he was open and not one bit of progress has been made on the cabin except they say the cabin cross member is ready for collection from the laster cutting shop - so why have the not collected it - oh we were closed all last week. Crikey!!!!!!!. Another custome...

27 March 2018 A quick trip down to the cabin shop after work to see if they are in fact working nights like they said - no they are not. This has become a common sight from the others in the group who are watching out for their vehicles being worked on. Some have been here 2 years or more with littl...

Sunday 31 March 2018 8am start. I do the Sump 2.5 hours later the sump is bolted in after complete preparation of the sump and the engine block. http://www.geckoadventure.net/Volvo/20180401_152713.jpg The air intake is completed and the connecting pipes made up. http://www.geckoadventure.net/Volvo/2...

Saturday 31 March 2018 I'm back on deck after 2 weeks of complete rest. Lets see how I go. Up early eventually leave the house 5.25am - what the heck the highway is crowded and it's pouring down. It's impossible to even stay on 120kph the idiots are all over the road. Eventually after 100k the rain ...

Saturday 24 March 2018

Chauffer turns up early in the morning and we order the front windows yet again for Volvo 1 and hand over the perfect template which are 3mm smaller than the window frame.

Monday 12 March 2018 Ok 12 March I knew something was wrong getting exhausted climbing a set of stairs - wanting to pass out after being under the Volvo when I stand up etc. I went to the docs at work got sent to the cardio immediately and was grounded for 2 complete weeks Some friends collected the...

How wrong could I be, since my last visit to the cabin workshop they have not answered the phone nor have they been open when I have popped by for a visit. Others have also been trying to visit their vehicles and also getting the same results. Needless to say i'm getting rather pissed. it costs quit...