Clarkair CA-1 Discussion Board

Also restored a WW2 toolbox, and cut some stencils for it, to put in the ballast box, it just fits! http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/data/3102/medium/IMG_61132.jpg http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/data/3102/medium/IMG_61155.jpg http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/data/3102/medium/IMG_61164.jpg Also bought...

Ok, so where was I ?? the too short hydraulic line, in the end I found out, was OK, I just had fitted it wrong, the brackets had been extended upwards, so I cut them down, and used the original lower holes, now everything fitted OK! http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/data/3102/medium/IMG_60892.jpg http...

Hi all, yes, seems to work OK, all my posts and pictures still there!

Thanks!

Lex

Another problem I ran into is that after the valve block was fitted to the oil tank, this metal line doesn't fit!! as all these parts come from different machines it's maybe understandable, but still very strange, and don't know what to do with it, exept make a longer tube. http://www.surfacezero.co...

Thanks Bill! thought I could not leave it hanging up like that! So now it's 2019, and I still haven't finished the Dozer! Had to wait for the proper rubber hose for the hydraulics, and that came in recently, together with the cold weather, so it will take some time, before I fit anything, did get th...

Then we've arrived in August, and got a big box in from Christopher, with a lot of missing parts! all (but the rear ones) metal hydraulic lines, a bit bent and battered, but very usable, also the towing hitch, did not have a good one, and this one's perfect. al was worked on and blasted and painted....

Well, then we get sort of into July 2018, and at the end of the month the plan was to take the Clark to the big War & Peace show in the UK, there was some little room left on a friends truck, in front of his Studebaker Weasel. This left an overal respray, with everything now together, and do the...

So in June 2018 I had a look at the side panels, and decided they were too far gone and cut some new ones, the r/h side has a bulge for the governor, so that needed done too, don't copy the sizes from the picture, as they are not good; http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/data/3102/medium/IMG_07093.jpg I...

So, also the hydraulic rams and supports were painted (they had been refurbished years ago by a friend of a friend) and the first test ride was succesfully done in May 2018, on one run we almost ended up in a watery ditch!! in fourth it really flies, so now we got a nickname for it! "Deathtrap&...

Ok, I'll make a little update, as I'm far behind here! this was April 2018. Here's what was left of my battery box, checked it on the drawings, that I had scaled up: http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/data/3102/medium/IMG_09455.JPG And then had one made by a friend, came out very nice!! http://www.surf...