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29-03-10, 20:40
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Ice Roads..
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To build an ice road over a lake.. Step one... Wait until the lake is frozen hard enough to support a light weight motorized plow or scraper.. Then plow the snow off the route that you want to make a road on..extra wide usually triple the width of the actual road surface.. That gets you down to ice only on the surface..you must do this as snow is an insulator and keeps the lake ice from freezing.. Next step .. Every hundred meters bore a hole through the ice down the center of your proposed road.. Pump the lake out on the ice to spread out from the hole all around to over lap the next hole.. The water will start to freeze from the center of the road out to the edges..if it is cold enough this water will freeze in a matter of minutes..and start to thicken your ice road.. Step three.. Using pink fiber glass insulation form a plug to plug your ice hole to keep it from freezing.. Move on to your next hole and repeat procedure.. If it is cold enough,you can move quite quickly ,hole by hole along the route..drilling ..pumping..flooding..plugging.. When you get to the end ..go back to the start and go again..but this time you just have to pull out the frozen plug and start pumping.. In no time   you will be able to drive a tank on your road..you can easily build two inches of ice on the road in a day..,depending on the temperature and length of road..lots of help is nice to have..And Whiskey..!! Each flood will add strength to your road.. The trick is to move quickly..keep the snow clear from the road and keep pumping and freezing water on it..By this method you are building the ice thickness from the top down..that is the way you build ice roads ..drilling pads..to drill for gas or oil or gold under muskeg or lakes that you can not access in summer time.. The ice will melt from the top AND the bottom so care must be taken when transporting anything by ice road.. Good luck.. Keep pictures... all of us want you to succeed..  Step
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25-04-10, 15:51
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Hello, any news from Sweden?
Hendrik
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07-05-10, 13:06
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Carrier is now recovered!
Yes, I have great news from Sweden. Yesterday night my friend draged the UC over the frozen lake in ideal conditions with his very very very nice diesel Hagglund BV206. Winter up in the north is still holding on, very late though. At 24.00 it was up on the truck and heading back, a 5h trip. Did get a picture from the cellphone and hope to get some more pictures soon.
This has been a long adventure but this little crawler will get a special spot in my collection. This summer I will interview some people who remember when it came to the village and driven out to the mountain farmers in the 50's. Will also take a hike and investigate the other UC I've found (much closer to a road and not behind a lake  ).More info soon Erik
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07-05-10, 15:02
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Engine info
If I want to buy sparkpluggs, distributor cap, rotor etc, which engine modell shall I quote when buying parts?
Thanks Erik
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07-05-10, 18:54
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hi erik
i've been following your adventure and i'm happy to see your hard work and determination has paid off finally. i've just acquired a mk1 for restoration but i took the easy route and bought it from a dealer, i think your way is the best well done and all the best for the restoration. eddy
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11-05-10, 05:10
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great post
Hello Erik, I absolutely love your post. Please keep up the pics once you start the restoration. Great work !
Cheers Phill
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18-05-10, 17:03
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Got delivery of my UC yesterday. Must say it was a great moment after years of struggeling getting it home. My primary goal is to get the motor running. Everything seems to be there except for the starter motor.
I started with getting all birchleafs out of the hull. Started digging with my hands and then used a vacumcleaner. Remember, this UC has stood outside since 1950, never been under cover! Found a couple of tracklinks and some more trackpinns in a box on the right side of the engine (Ammobox?). Also found the screwcap for the hole where the starterhandle goes in to.
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01-01-12, 01:57
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Update
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It has been a long while since you posted about recovering the carrier - how are things progressing with its restoration? Kind Regards Lionel
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17-01-12, 14:45
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Well what can I say... Progress is slow... Focus on family and a new home made me put this project in a kind of sleeping mode. Even the project with recovering a burried UC was put on a hold, new attempt this summer.
Regards Erik
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22-08-15, 00:08
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Hi folks
As I said, progress has been slow but with over 25 crawlers time is short... I decided to keep it "As found" and do as little as possible to get it running. Distributor was totaly renovated, carburettor and fuelpump got a cleanup and a gasket set, new coil, new starter, all new oils and a battery: http://images.mydozers.com/#!album-40-0 Monday or tuesday I'll try to get it in gear /Erik
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25-08-15, 23:08
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When trying to engage a gear I noticed the clutch was stuck... Opened the mini inspection cover and hit what I saw with a hammer. Put it against a wall and pushed the starter button when gear and clutch was engaged, after a couple of attempts it broke loose. I disconnected the boogie steering and then I sat of out into the open. Brakes worked perfect without touching them. Easiest way to drive it is in low gear, sure is noisy.
Realy happy with it working so good. A little water leakage from on of the waterpumps, it may self heal. How fast can it go? /Erik
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