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8th & 9th Jan laning in Wales
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I'd say some time between 6:30pm & 7:30pm for me getting there Gav, depending on what time Steph gets home from work.
Keith Shuttleworth
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Packed, vehicle loaded, just finish me cup of tea and i'm out the door and on me way to Wales to meet the boyos. See you mad crew in a couple of hours. yippee 
Keith Shuttleworth
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Grrrr. Back FKN home 
. Had new exh down pipes fitted this week...lasted three bloody days, Nearly at Craven Arms and suddenly started blowing like mad somewhere round the manifold area. 
Had to turn back the fumes are coming into the cab!!!!!!! 
Pi**ed off. Gonna wait for garage to open and then see if they can fix it....fingers crossed, If they can will start off again and then will try and meet up with the lads on route somewhere.
. Had new exh down pipes fitted this week...lasted three bloody days, Nearly at Craven Arms and suddenly started blowing like mad somewhere round the manifold area. Had to turn back the fumes are coming into the cab!!!!!!! Pi**ed off. Gonna wait for garage to open and then see if they can fix it....fingers crossed, If they can will start off again and then will try and meet up with the lads on route somewhere.
Bugger, hope you get it sorted ASAPKeith Shuttleworth said:Grrrr. Back FKN home
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Yes Keith made it around 2pm. We did a short lane together and then I left for home. I was not man enough to camp for a second night! All was going well. Karl lost an entire side step and the other fell off in his hand and before we even started Chris had a leak in his power steering pipe but was soon rectified and once 5 x 1 litre bottles of locally sourced (by Gav) Auto fluid was poured though a plastic wine glass we were on our way. Good luck top them all today!
Camping was great by the way.
I forgot my camera so I only have a few pics from my phone.
Location is stunning
Sea in the distance
Karl being careful!! in his 100
Steamy pics after a good water crossing
Thats it. Great camp and days driving. Hope they have a successful day today.
Camping was great by the way.
I forgot my camera so I only have a few pics from my phone.
Location is stunning
Sea in the distance
Karl being careful!! in his 100
Steamy pics after a good water crossing
Thats it. Great camp and days driving. Hope they have a successful day today.
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So what's the buzz, guys? We're all waiting for an update 
Got a text from Gav suggesting it was eventful...
Got a text from Gav suggesting it was eventful...
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It was very very eventful andrew. You know us and these little get togethers. Always a story or ten to tell.............. 
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And again a big thanks to jon for organising it. Really enjoyed it again. Nice to meet up with the same faces and others as always. I will post my few pics soon.
Jonnie, Where are the vids
karl
Jonnie, Where are the vids
karl
Slight mistype on the power steering pump leak there Jonnie, it was actually my transmission cooler pipe that ruptured spewing about 7 lts of ATF out onto the road. A little more than a leak I think. Other than that, I don't think much else happened. Pretty uneventful trip
OR WAS IT.........
OR WAS IT.........
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Chrispin next time get your ass there with us. We could do with some pro s showing us how its done
cut the cr@p guys - we all want to know!!! Need pics.
Pics i will post but very few this time,Just few lanes done,great time yet again, Two steps shot on the truck i said i would never us dinted the wing. All good
karl
cut the cr@p guys - we all want to know!!! Need pics.
Pics i will post but very few this time,Just few lanes done,great time yet again, Two steps shot on the truck i said i would never us dinted the wing. All good
karl
pretty dramatic trip for a weekend in Wales, just chilling then I'll see what pics I have. Jonnie you left us just in time to miss the action 
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Right, just got minute free from the missus from getting back home to tell the tale for you all 
So we hooked up as planned on Friday night. Great photo's from Saturday BTW Jonnie - superb from a phone
I shall be getting one of them ASAP 
After a superbly prepared breakfast on Saturday morning following a wet & windy Friday night in the woods... Uh, wassat?
...
Sorry dear, coming now...
Just switching the feckin computer off now dear...
Yes hon, its those chaps on the forum again...
Yes love, they are a PITA...
No sweet, they're just asking how the weekend went...
Gee string?? No dahlin'... I think Karl meant 'winch thong'...
Honestly sweetie, I haven't been anywhere near Amsterdam...
Check the feckin credit card & bank statements all you like love... I was just telling them how we found out that we now know the air ambulance doesn't operate after dark...
Put the fecking axe down Pol...
Lads, gotta go - sh!t going on here - sorry...
So we hooked up as planned on Friday night. Great photo's from Saturday BTW Jonnie - superb from a phone
I shall be getting one of them ASAP After a superbly prepared breakfast on Saturday morning following a wet & windy Friday night in the woods... Uh, wassat?
...
Sorry dear, coming now...
Just switching the feckin computer off now dear...
Yes hon, its those chaps on the forum again...
Yes love, they are a PITA...
No sweet, they're just asking how the weekend went...
Gee string?? No dahlin'... I think Karl meant 'winch thong'...
Honestly sweetie, I haven't been anywhere near Amsterdam...
Check the feckin credit card & bank statements all you like love... I was just telling them how we found out that we now know the air ambulance doesn't operate after dark...
Put the fecking axe down Pol...
Lads, gotta go - sh!t going on here - sorry...
Well that was quite an epic weekend considering it was just a trip to Wales but it might take a while for the full story to be told. I need to spend some time with the user manual for my camera because the auto setting is getting it wrong more often than it gets it right but here's what I have and a little bit of the story.
Gav was first on the scene Friday night and getting a bit worried he might have unwanted visitors until I turned up followed not long after by the others. It was a wet and windy night but we got a nice fire going etc. Gav was our alarm clock in the morning clonking about reminding us we were supposed to be meeting Keith at 9am so it was a dark but mostly dry start:
My experimental mod for the door flap on my new tent worked a treat:
We had a call from Keith on route who was still having exhaust problems and would meet us later. We'd only got as far as just the other side of Machynlleth when Chris noticed he was having gearbox problems and we had to pull over to have a look:
An ATF cooler pipe had split spilling most of his ATF
but the split part was cut off and new ATF that Gav fetched went in and we were on our way again:
There was even a few patches of snow
and some water:
some more water:
grrr, stupid camera, both on auto:
more water, fancy that:
Stopped for lunch and check in with Keith who was at Newtown waiting to see where to head to:
Carried on, nice day if a bit chilly:
ooh look, more water
bit of a squeeze through here for lwb trucks:
ok so far:
oops:
We met Keith in Machynlleth as we passed back through there, topped up on supplied from the co-op and then carried on:
100's leading the way
bit tippy here:
and there was some more snow
Jonnie left us after that lane and the rest of us went back round the coast road to Talybont and then into the lanes around Nant-y-moch. It was too dark for photos by this time (at least for my camera) but I much fun was had I think We finished up at the visitors centre just west of Ponterwyd again and motored down to Strata to camp for the night where things got a bit interesting but more on that later.
After a bit of too'ing and fro'ing in the morning we carried on along Strata:
then we went up to the lane below the dam on Claerwyen and stopped to look at the overflowing dam again:
Then as we were making our way along the lane a big plane flew quite low overhead. By the time I'd stopped, got the camera sorted etc this was the best I could get:
and then it was the end of the lane and our trip:
but we seem to be missing someone ...
Gav was first on the scene Friday night and getting a bit worried he might have unwanted visitors until I turned up followed not long after by the others. It was a wet and windy night but we got a nice fire going etc. Gav was our alarm clock in the morning clonking about reminding us we were supposed to be meeting Keith at 9am so it was a dark but mostly dry start:
My experimental mod for the door flap on my new tent worked a treat:
We had a call from Keith on route who was still having exhaust problems and would meet us later. We'd only got as far as just the other side of Machynlleth when Chris noticed he was having gearbox problems and we had to pull over to have a look:
An ATF cooler pipe had split spilling most of his ATF
but the split part was cut off and new ATF that Gav fetched went in and we were on our way again:There was even a few patches of snow
and some water:
some more water:
grrr, stupid camera, both on auto:
more water, fancy that:
Stopped for lunch and check in with Keith who was at Newtown waiting to see where to head to:
Carried on, nice day if a bit chilly:
ooh look, more water
bit of a squeeze through here for lwb trucks:
ok so far:
oops:
We met Keith in Machynlleth as we passed back through there, topped up on supplied from the co-op and then carried on:
100's leading the way
bit tippy here:
and there was some more snow
Jonnie left us after that lane and the rest of us went back round the coast road to Talybont and then into the lanes around Nant-y-moch. It was too dark for photos by this time (at least for my camera) but I much fun was had I think
We finished up at the visitors centre just west of Ponterwyd again and motored down to Strata to camp for the night where things got a bit interesting but more on that later.After a bit of too'ing and fro'ing in the morning we carried on along Strata:
then we went up to the lane below the dam on Claerwyen and stopped to look at the overflowing dam again:
Then as we were making our way along the lane a big plane flew quite low overhead. By the time I'd stopped, got the camera sorted etc this was the best I could get:
and then it was the end of the lane and our trip:
but we seem to be missing someone ...
