First job this week was to make new gaiters for the rear brake servo. These are now awaiting the attention of the seamstress. After that, I touched up the paint on the cab door window with undercoat.
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7/12/2025
Started the week by cleaning and painting the brake rods with silver Hammerite and silvering the oil filler pot off the main servo. The parts and Neatsfoot oil I was waiting on arrived, so I assembled the servo piston, incorrectly, as it turned out, which wasted a day’s work but was quickly corrected and I finished assembly of the servo vacuum cylinder. I’m awaiting a spanner of the correct size so I can dismantle and clean the distributor valve on the top of the servo, so I will make the gaiters next week.
30/11/2025
First job of the week was an attempt to tidy up the cab door window, prior to fitting. Fitting the window proved much more difficult this time, compared with the trial run, but it eventually went in, bit by bit, as I fitted the screws. Some minor repairs are needed to the frame and the paint. I next turned my attention to the leather seal for the brake servo, drilling the mounting holes as accurately as I could, then cutting the central hole, which took some time. I could go no further now as I was awaiting new fibre washers, so I returned to the cab door window, repairing the fitting damage, touching up the paint chips and removing the loose anti-rattle piece that was not properly fixed. I decided to abandon it as untidy and unnecessary, removed the weld residue as best I could and primed the now bare frame vertical. In between jobs I primed and silvered the brake servo vent covers, the brake servo forward mounting block and the oil filler pot. Last job of the week was to start scraping oily mud off the cross-chassis servo pipe.