Category Archives: K4 TL GXN215
Fitting new parts to the K4
Spent the day today fitting the parallel motion self-levelling bits to the K4 ladder. A few bits needed a little adjustment with a large sledgehammer to make them line up. Then I discovered that the rather useful hose holder got … Continue reading
Crew Cab and other spares for the K4 from Weedon Bec
On Saturday, Rob Michael and I visited Fireworld, the Fire Services National Museum to collect some parts. I had done a deal to provide the museum with some parts that they need for their restored K4 GXN249, and a pile … Continue reading
Papplewick 1940s event
Although this was in October, we had almost summer weather. On Saturday, we had the K2 and Dennis, and the Turntable Ladder. Saturday was a rather quiet day, and gave us the chance to try things out. We did a … Continue reading
Pity we missed the Victory Show. Workshop and Logs instead
Given a K4 that was boiling over on short trips (we used 5 gallons of water getting back from Rauceby last weekend), we decided that we had better do some workshop maintenance on Saturday. The cylinder head was removed, cleaned up, … Continue reading
Rauceby War Weekend report, photos and video
The Rauceby page has been updated with a report, photos and a video here. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2eEV1V92s4]
Rauceby 1940s Weekend
We went to Rauceby over the Bank Holiday Weekend, 27th-29th August, and took the K2 and Dennis pump, and the K4. We were a bit thin on numbers, with David, John and Michael, Dan and James being the mainstay. We … Continue reading
Easter weekend
Dan, James and Karina came over, and we tested the Turntable Ladder. There were just two problems in all the testing – the engine was under-performing, to the extent that it would sometimes hardly run and also almost boiled on … Continue reading
K4 Turntable Ladder declared Safe
A couple of days ago, Neil Billings, who has maintained fire appliances for the last 41 years of his working life, came to have a look at it, and declared it to be safe. We started by looking at the … Continue reading
Austin K4 TL Restoration
Eventually, it will be grey all over! At the end of August 2011, it blew a head gasket, and persistently boiled over, so the radiator was flushed, and the opportunity taken to do more work in the engine bay.