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Mate the amount of stuff you have to get remade is heartbreaking. And I make most of my own stuff twice. I did enjoy the speed camera traps you laid though! Hope your progress and health are going well. After a 5 month holiday the workshop is now working on the Volvo without me being around. I am m...

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1 September 2018 Long weekend and I gave myself 3 days complete rest after the long hours at work then the kids home kayaking trip I decided rest was needed. Went and visted Volvo 2 and 4 while they welded up the mighty Isuzu's exhaust. They have completed installing the Axles under the chassis and ...

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Tuesday 28 August 2018 Got 3 pictures sent to me. The wiper arms and brackets are finally installed http://www.geckoadventure.net/Volvo/20180828_WA0000.jpg http://www.geckoadventure.net/Volvo/20180828_WA0001.jpg And the dash is starting to look completed http://www.geckoadventure.net/Volvo/20180828_...

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Volvo 1 is coming home to Kuala Lumpur will be sometime after 1st September as I am away the next 2 weekends with the kids kayaking adventure. So Volvo 1/2/4 will all be in the same workshop. and I will finish 1 first then 2 and then 4.

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11 August 2018 Wife went to screen printing class I went to work on Volvo 2. Axle assembley day. Took us 4 hours but eventually we got the axles assembled. Now I have to go buy 24 new diff lock nuts and replace every diff nut one at a time. Then every portal bolt - 8 per wheel as some of them are sh...

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5 August 2018 Worked the last 4 weekends I have no idea which day it is. But quitely in the background Andrew has been weaving his magic on Volvo 2. Since the front panel was 2 piece Andrew replicated it exactly - no I'm not replacing the orignal 1.2mm with a single 2mm front plate. Side view of the...

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21 July 2018 Working today so morning rush out have nice breakfast then and do shopping errands. Collect the new race seats for the Volvo and deliver them before heading to the office but not after going to the Garmin shop to sort out the continuing insane issues with the crap product the GArmin 585...

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14 July 2018 LIfe been busy 5 days with the orphanage kids on a kayaking training camp then working last 3 weekends and next 2 sigh. However meantime the freight company contacts me 12th July the Container arrives and delivery will be around 17th July. The 13th 2pm I get a OCS message with pics on i...

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9 June 2018 I have help today little Joe from the kids home wants to spend the day with Grandpa and he is good help. His job wire brush the rest of the roof for me while I tap more of the big roof dent then start on the rear panel repairs. Mark then cut and make a new piece http://www.geckoadventure...

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2 June 2018 I have been given during the week 3 months freedom to drive and travel etc then if my heart does not improve I'm under the knife if the heart does not return to normal rythmical level i'm having an operation of some sort.I had a long chat with the Cardio and he believes firmly that the c...

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30 May 2018

The cabin is on the way from Sweden to Malaysia roughly 4 weeks before it arrives in Kuala Lumpur.

It looks pretty good

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29 May 20186 Public holiday so I worked in the morning and then head off to the workshop 10 minutes away. Allen was there working on his Pinz. Only one thing to do tap the roof dents more. Then it was lunchtime at restaurant "Silly Billys" how apt.After lunch they started welding up the ho...

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I'm watching your front axle suspension setup very closely and see how I can implement to Volvo 2 as I suspectt they will be very similar conversion process. There is also these airbags we are looking at https://www.truckspring.com/products/Firestone-Reversible-Sleeve-Air-Spring__W01-358-9388.aspx

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26 May 20186 Since I'm still banned from driving long distance I'm only working on Volvo 2. Volvo 1 has made no progress since the last set of pics I posted for it. The cabin bottom for Volvo 2 is all paid up and leaves Gotenburg on 30 May and is due about 4 weeks later in Malaysia. Early start at V...

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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...

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Well some good news. The pictures I posted about 2 months ago of the Volvo 2 cabin 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 ...

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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...

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Jeepers, It sounds like you need as much work done on yourself as Volvo 2 does. Hopefully the docs can sort you out quickly and let you get back to the important stuff. The cancer in that cab looks pretty bad, A new cab may be the way to go. Funny how you can go from being able to paddle 60-90k in ...

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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...

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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...

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Have heard from someone who dropped in the new front windows to the shop the Volvo looks good. They have finished the mudflaps and fitting the service hatch internal cabin spring loaded latches. They are finishing a 10 trailer order then back on the Volvo sometime late this week. If I had any doubt ...

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Cameron wrote:hope you come right mate!
looks like she's getting to the pointy end of things! be so good to see this thing running and driving

Thanks - 16th is checkup day lets see if the heart is still erratic or settled down. Else I will be investigating a pacemaker.

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4 April 2018 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!!!!!!!. An...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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.

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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 th...

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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...

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