scammellpioneer

Cheers, gave it a try think it has made a bit of a difference, might just want using a bit

I know!! It's just finding time, as hard as it sounds, by the time I'm home it's dark haha! There will be some tomorrow I swear! won't be getting the new one home for some time as its not yet drivable, it runs just that the clutch stop drum is a tad distorted and has a few chunks out of it haha! So once we put a new drum on that we have hopefully we can drive her down the lane, in the time being it will be staying at a friends house who has the low loader! How are your scammela doing Niels?

I will add some photos when I get home tonight, starting in the cab now! We have purchased another Scammell!! That's 3 now the restoration has been started but not finished it needs a lot of work but comes with a lot of spares which will help us with the other Scammell!

Seem to be having trouble with the throttle on our Scammell, the linkage is fairly free, well as free as we can get it up to the engine, but the arm that is attached to the side of the engine near the engine oil lid, in the timing case? It is very stiff on its own this arm and we can't work out how to free it up? Also the engine when running never seems to stay at a steady idle, it's always going up and down even when the engine had warmed up, the control rod is still going in and out all the time. Any help with these issues would be great! John

Sorry there has been no updates for a while, not had much time for the Scammell! We have just started on the cab and have taken of the front panel and ate just drilling all the new holes in the new panel. We still need to take of the rest of the cab panels, the radiator, finish stripping down and painting the winch cleaning engine and gear box and then paint them! Then while the cab is still stripped down we will start on the re-wiring which looks like a big job!! We had a Diesel engine specialist up the other day to have a look at the engine and he seams to think there could be a tappet/exhaust valve problem so we are going to have to do something with that. Have done a little bit more painting in the chassis only first coat will be getting some more! Welded the bottom of the tank as it was leaking and put it back on for time being!

great stuff! certainly takes some efort getting the hubs off, we know that!

me and my dad went to see this scammell a couple of years back when it was for sale, very nice truck! the owner was going through a tricky divorce so the scammell had to go, think the owner selling it now is a different person though.

thanks guys, and yes we haven't got the drum of yet we are in the middle of making a hub puller and trying to source a spanner for the rather hefty nut. haha, if that fails we will have a spanner made somewhere.

hi all we took off one of the Hub Caps today on the left hand side rocking beam to get to the large Nut that holds the brake drum on and when we took of the cap the like top hat shaped thing in middle of wheel a fair amount of oil dropped out... would this be the leather oil seal in the hub? John

the rather large holes underneath the fuel tank will be taking that off soon for welding and paint. Rear axel and chassis rails painted I primer will get the winch ready for paint then need to strip all the brakes down and get them to actually work!

yay! we have got the scammell back today after it has had its rear axle re-bushed, so happy its back now we can start to get on with some work

We will be getting the Scammell back in the next week or two after having its axel re-bushed as the bronze bushings had worn through so the casing had to be metal sprayed. So it I'd all back together now and will get a coat of paint before it is out back in the Scammell!

finally finished the rear body now and it looks great! the scammell should be back in a couple of weeks and we can start on that again

hi all. we are holidaying in wells-next-the-sea this week and took a trip down to see someone with a lot of spares for trucks, and we bought a air cleaner,dash bored gauges,front towing hook/hitch,on engine oil filter and a metalastik coupling for the drive from engine to gearbox and two nearly new tyres and a regulator and a starter motor. the rear body one the first scammell is nearly done just one more box to make for one side and then a bit of painting, the scammell is still having the bronze bushings made for the rear axle. john

hi Eddie welcome to the forum, me and my dad are also restoring two scammell pioneers when not raining haha