blackshadow:
I have found a bit of information out about the F88 that came from Australia. Have a look at this web site… oldaussievolvos.com .There is a bit about it on this site. I spoke to the previous owner of the F88 and most of what he told me is on that site.
An interesting site! This appears to be yours, complete with its roo-bar. Robert 
This is one of 50 F88 290s imported to Australia in 1976 It now has a 9speed box in not 13 like I said 
Lance Biscomb:
This is one of 50 F88 290s imported to Australia in 1976 It now has a 9speed box in not 13 like I said
Even better! A stick-shift for every change! Impressed. Robert 
Hi Lance, sent you a pm, but it seems to say its still in the outbox.
My email is johnantonywest@gmail if you haven’t got it
John
EBAY 121486663095 ex Preston firm very very tidy
Lance Biscomb:
EBAY 121486663095 ex Preston firm very very tidy
Tidy, but not as tidy as Paul’s F16 
…, very very tidy boyo
So Lancey how about the Steelboys motor? One for 2015■■?
Very sad to hear William Hunter has passed away. He will be sadly missed on the vintage commercial scene.
Lance Biscomb:
Very sad to hear William Hunter has passed away. He will be sadly missed on the vintage commercial scene.
Yes very sad and what a nice guy he was, No one every had a bad thing to say about him ever. RIP Bill 
Cheers Welly
There are plenty of people who were closer to Bill than I ever could’ve been, but I will always be left with the impression that Bill did everything as well as he possibly could - whether it was restoring a wagon he remembered from his youth, designing and building his family home, or designing and creating (with his own hands and know-how) a lot of the agricultural and production machinery & equipment used in the Huntapac/Coe House Farms/W&J Hunter Transport companies he built up over the years.
He will be remembered fondly by the many people who knew him, worked for him and looked out for him on rallygrounds around the UK. RIP William.
Went round to see Lancy Boy today as had taxi job that way. He had one ot Volvos overt pit doin a bit o servicin. so I had to make me own brew.
Couldn’t you have found him a proper mug, Taxibear?
Tell you what ROF… I was spollt for choice thought I’d stumbled into Thomas Hardie parts department by mistake!!
Probably got more than Hardie’s!
We once bought a bulk lot of derv filters off our local Volvo dealer which were common to both Scania and Volvo,genuine Volvo branded filters.Once we started using them we began to get motors breaking down with fuel starvation,at first our Traffic office lads blamed our Workshop (totally out of order!) then we turned our attention to the bunkering sites we used but nothing was evident.So we tackled Volvo who denied all responsibilty (as the ■■■■■■■ would!) We stopped using the filters from Volvo and I sent a couple down to the Mill in Devon we hauled from where they made the filter paper for just about all the UK filter manufacturers,FRAM,AC DELCO etc etc.The Mill Lab tested to samples I sent and reported back that the paper was of inferior quality and was breaking down and clogging up,I hasten to add the paper had not been made my our paper mill,but when I set about Volvo the admitted that the filters came from Spain where they were manufactured.IIRC Volvo supplied us with boxes of new filters FOC and a “token” very small credit note for all the Aggro we had had.VOLVOS------a load of crap !! Cheers Bewick.
Penny-pinching never pays, Dennis- you should have known that!
Retired Old ■■■■:
Penny-pinching never pays, Dennis- you should have known that!
It wasn’t bloody penny pinching they were “kosher” Volvo parts.But I can own up to dropping a bollock while trying to save money.I once bought a set of pistons and liners for Scania 81’s off a firm called Swedish Truck Parts,they absolutetly 100% gauranteed they were off the same German production line as those supplied to Scania !! We used the liners on one job and the pistons on another engine,guess what !,both engines failed, ■■■■ it !I was that mad I got the Scania technical engineer out and he examined them and said indeed they were off the same line BUT they were from the approximately the 10% that their QA people rejected out of every batch !! Could I get any compo from Swedish Truck Parts,could I ■■■■.The supplier had been OK for none mechanical parts,Light lenses,door handles etc etc,but not for engine or drive line parts.Cheers Bewick.
