British Leyland

**spanner spinner** · 14th February 2014, 21:03

Originally Posted by dangerous

Surely to Christ the closest he will get is mid 40's but ohhhh man http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used...-696483869.htm

any why would you remove the injection to fit bloody webbers unless this is a US import converted to RH drive, in which case the webbers will be a huge improvement on the standard USA emission type carbs.

**Motu** · 14th February 2014, 21:14

Not Leyland, but it is British. I've worked on a shitload of these things - in the '70's your icecream was delivered to your local dairy in a TK or TJ Bedford, it was a big fleet, and I was doing 9 to 16 hours a day on shift work keeping them running. Worked on more Bedfords in a year than most mechanics would in a lifetime....apart from those who stayed there longer than me.

So, 40 years later I get to work on a TK again. This is a '79, one of the last I guess, and has the 500cu in engine, 5 speed and Eaton. The big engine was normally in a bigger truck, this one looks just like a normal TK that would have a 300cu in petrol engine....I guess by the late '70's the 300 petrol or 330 diesel would appear a bit puny, so were upped to a bigger engine. I don't remember trucks being that slow back then, but there was a 50mph speed limit, and this thing is all done at 80kph. I used to row through a 5 speed and 2 speed diff like it was a Roadranger ..just can't be bothered now.

Interesting to come across one of these things again, to see what I was doing in 1974. Just a brake problem, handbrake control valve. It took the Japanese a long time to build a truck that could push the TK off it's pedestal, but that pedestal was full of dry rot and it didn't take much to turn it to dust.

**dangerous** · 15th February 2014, 07:59

Originally Posted by spanner spinner

any why would you remove the injection to fit bloody webbers unless this is a US import converted to RH drive, in which case the webbers will be a huge improvement on the standard USA emission type carbs.

In which case the webers will be a huge improvement on the standard injection, webers being a standard conversion for the PI set up, unless you could afford to do this

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http://www.carpoint.com.au/all-cars/...AD-825410&Cr=5

Originally Posted by Motu

Not Leyland, but it is British. I've worked on a shitload of these things - in the '70's your icecream was delivered to your local dairy in a TK or TJ Bedford, it was a big fleet, and I was doing 9 to 16 hours a day on shift work keeping them running. Worked on more Bedfords in a year than most mechanics would in a lifetime....apart from those who stayed there longer than me.]

Mate, as I said in a post above somewhere, after being to the national transport and toy musume you'd be blowen away... Or sickened by the Bedford collection there, straight of the road still with rego tags on them, square flat nosed militery and fire apliance things to a j something that Chubb used as armoured security, even a cf230 and the double bumper beddies.

**Kickaha** · 15th February 2014, 10:20

Originally Posted by Motu

Not Leyland, but it is British. I've worked on a shitload of these things - in the '70's your icecream was delivered to your local dairy in a TK or TJ Bedford, it was a big fleet

The Butchers used to get their deliveries in them to and they were used well into the late eighties, I used to cover a fleet of about 20 doing tyre work on them

**Motu** · 15th February 2014, 10:45

The TK was the most common truck on the road for a long time - same day I was working on the TK, I was also working in an '85 Canter, the Bedford of that size would have the 214 engine and 16in wheels. The Canter was gutless and horrible to drive, the Bedford a far better truck for the job.

**dangerous** · 18th February 2014, 15:57

nothing what so ever to do with BL but fuck it just as cool... http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used...-697947153.htm

**caseye** · 18th February 2014, 17:16

Thats the bewdifullest Ford I've ever seen!

**dangerous** · 18th February 2014, 17:34

Originally Posted by caseye

Thats the bewdifullest Ford I've ever seen!

not bad for a oll Gotina aye... beter would be a mk3 4.1

MOTU mate was thinking bout ya today, as its harvest season down here its amazing what ya see come out the sheds, TK I seen to day being loaded from a half mill header, origional markings and paint you know all florely pin strips n all.

**Flip** · 26th February 2014, 08:50

Well I know its not a BL but......

I have my weekends back so I have started working on my Austin 7 racing car again. I wheeled it out from the car store and into the work area of the workshop and are into it.

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Whish me luck. All I need is some wiring and the radiator fitted and we will be driving it up and down the road.

**Indiana_Jones** · 26th February 2014, 14:29

Originally Posted by Flip

Well I know its not a BL but......

I have my weekends back so I have started working on my Austin 7 racing car again. I wheeled it out from the car store and into the work area of the workshop and are into it.

Whish me luck. All I need is some wiring and the radiator fitted and we will be driving it up and down the road.

I am wicked jealous.

I wish I had storage space, as I see Pick a part quakechurch has this puppy lying around:

Rally crab? or wedge?

-Indy

**YellowDog** · 2nd March 2014, 09:28

Oh... Quite nice

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...x?id=700004747

**dangerous** · 2nd March 2014, 11:28

Originally Posted by YellowDog

Oh... Quite nice

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...x?id=700004747

yeah I been watching that, cool aye, note the dicky seat with windsheld... there is a nice one selling in Oz aswell but a bit dearer http://www.carpoint.com.au/all-cars/...D-2425861&Cr=0