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. Progress slowed a bit then, but some scraping and cleaning of the chassis and mounting bracket for the servo was carried in preparation for paint and the servo forward mounting block through-bolt was cleaned and made a better fit in the servo. A little relief of the servo appears necessary, too, to ensure that the block allows a little adjustment of the servo horizontal position.
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23/11/2025
First job of the week was to finish painting the fuel filter bowl and the cab sliding window upright. I then did some detailed final cleaning of the rear brake servo before putting it away to await the arrival of a new leather cup seal. I then turned my attention back to the cab window, gluing the handle on to the sliding pane with silicon and making a proper job of it this time! I also painted red the outside faces of the frame. Another coat of black to treat the thin areas on the fuel filter bowl and that is ready for a filter when it’s dry. Cleaned the brake rod linkage for the rear brake servo next. I’ve now found a supplier for the leather cup seal and am awaiting its manufacture and arrival. Meanwhile, work continued on the cab sliding window, which is now assembled and just needs cleaning before refitting. Final job of the week was to coat the inside of the filter with gear oil, to prevent rust forming, before the filter is fitted.
21/9/2025
Work continues on the braking system with the refitting of the offside rear brake drum. I next removed the grease nipples from the brake cam shafts and pumped strong pentrating fluid into the holes, in the hope that this will release the adjusters. I intend to repeat this several times before final greasing. After that, all the studs on both rear wheel hubs had a die nut run down them and nuts matched to the thread and lubricated with copper grease. I have enough (hopefully) new wheel nuts to replace all the rounded-off and missing old ones. Since my only means of adjustment of the rear brakes is now the operating rods from the crosshaft, I removed the O/S one fairly easily and cleaned up the threads, noting that one end had a left-hand thread. The nearside is proving more stubborn, as the pin through the cross shaft lever is well stuck. The nut was removed easily enough, using an angle grinder and hammer and chisel. Some powerful BDX penetrating oil was then applied and left to soak over night. A long application of heat loosened it and then I was able to move on to the large rear wheel servo just behind the cab. BDX was applied to all obvious fastenings that need to be undone, then a short break while I painted a cab window component red. Then back underneath the bus to remove the nut from the fork end of the rod from the servo to the first joint. Surprisingly, it came off easily, although of course the pin is reluctant to move. I gave it a good heat with the blowtorch, it was left to cool then more BDX applied and left overnight. I then tirned my attention to restoring the threads on the two rods removed earlier. The pin I left soaking in BDX came out after another heat session, so I turned my attention to the brake pedal rod. Removal of the enormous retrun spring is proving difficult at the moment, but will no oubt be accomplished next week, then I can move on to removing the rear brake servo for overhaul.