Its a pleasure watching you repair the tinwork of your cab…Your fabrication skills are superb…Thank you for sharing
Hi Gaz70 There was only the bunk in the sixwheeler no curtains or track.My uncle used to throw a small sheet over the cab then climb in abit like a tent but he slept over the seats.
Phil
Keep them pics coming Phillip , Just had some of that stretchy curtain wire round the cab but the curtains had to be made long enough to tuck in round the sides of your bed if not they hung at an angle, think mine were green with big bonny flowers on 
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Philip Allanby:
I had a go at starting the six wheeler the other day,It had run out of fuel so I checked it for oil filled it with water the turned the key and pressed the
starter button and nothing happened,so gave the fuses a wiggle and pressed it again and this time it turned over,so did this a few times then
blead the system and tried again she fired a couple of times then started on 3 or 4 then went on to all 6
I have a short video on youtube of it running I anyone knows how to link it to this pos please do so,just look under Volvo f86 and it will come up
Phil
Sweet as a nut!
I recently found out that my old F86 HMJ 24N came up at Cheffins classic tractors auction at Sutton (Cambs) 29th. April 2000…and didn’t sell, so the chances are it’s been cut up 
unless someone knows different?
HMJ 24N
Hi all the F86 my dad used to drive. Tony
A better picture in Joint motorways colours . Tony
Might be better in 800 . Tony
My dad drove FFU 841L it was ex Gordon Tune of either Humberside or Lincs it was a dark blue unit when it arrived with a 40` flat trailer bought as a pair from the auctions for £5500 ,anyone got any info on it
Hi I’ve been doing a bit more cutting and welding this time on the drivers side of the cab,I made the new curved part of the wheelarch then repaired the door piller,I had cut the rear section from the sixwheeler cab to use as the corner section because of the curved part of the cab.At the moment all the bits are held in place by selftapping screws as I have the cab floor to make and weld in place.So it looks a bit like a tin jigsaw at the moment here are the photos
Phil
Came accross this pic today of another French Sleeper 86,looks factory but dont know,but looks good with extra height also. 
Could also be the sleeper pod of a old Maggie 
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Came accross this pic today of another French Sleeper 86,looks factory but dont know,but looks good with extra height also.
Could also be the sleeper pod of a old Maggie
I remember seeing these sleeper cabbed F86s around France in the early 1980’s…You’d always spot a couple in Rungis. They did look like a factory version when examined up close or else a very good conversion.
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Came accross this pic today of another French Sleeper 86,looks factory but dont know,but looks good with extra height also.
Could also be the sleeper pod of a old Maggie
I remember seeing these sleeper cabbed F86s around France in the early 1980’s…You’d always spot a couple in Rungis. They did look like a factory version when examined up close or else a very good conversion.
Maybe i’m stating the obvious, but the example shown is from a driving school, and would have had seats at the rear of the cab.
hi
this is the 86 i drove for my dad,the bunk was out of an ex ferrymaster F86(the driver chaged to an F7), the bed didn’t fold up. it was a shaped wooden board on a frame fixed to the engine bonnet at the front and resting on the upper part of the bonnet and along the window frame and the mattress was the bottom F88 bed. you did loose the back of the passenger seat though. Most Ferrymaster F86 were the same, when the drivers had a new F86 they had to take it out of the old truck and fit it onto the new one, it was a properly made piece of kit. you still needed something along the windows to stop that cold , wet feeling on you back when the condensation made its way through your sleeping bag.
I have just finished moving house and came across this photo of our 2 86s and BMC 6 wheeler parked in the garage over spring bank holiday 1972
Here are some photos to bring you up to date,The drivers side of the cab was far worse than the other side so I have had to make a new floor panels for the rear behind the seat,the curved area down to the pedels and round the steering wheel base.The door piller has started to pull apart from the windscreen piller and the top hinge has had to be rebuilt.
Time & patience Phill keep em coming, if you ever get up to the Tyne Tees run wouldn`t mind a spin 1976/7 since I last drove one
Hi Greek Once I get the cab done should not be to long,and I will be going to as many events as poss and the tees run is not too far away
nice little run over the Helmsley TT
Phil