john1950
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Looking for a couple of Hippo Mk2 wheel dishes for a friend.
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Are you turning sinical by any chance.
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That shows my shallow knowledge of the vehicle. Which model of Perkins was fitted? Back then would it be the T6354.
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I am not a biker but can appreciate the Bonneville, cats only stay where they want. After the J60 was the upgrade not a Cummins B ceres. Good luck with the hunt prices have gone stratospheric lately.
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That would be. From experience if Dexron was used in a Hydraulic system it stayed there, if Hydraulic oil was used in a Dexron system to get back to base, it was then drained and flushed. But on some Cat's we used engine oil in everything except Hydraulic brakes.
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Red ATF Dexron type oil is the oil the Cummins pump was designed to use. It is a very tolerant benign oil, with froth resistant characteristics.
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If anyone would know it's Susi on the Repair Shop.
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If you were up here Gary from Cab Glass cut 3 windows for a long reach Atlas 1804 in a gale the other day and fitted them. Top front is a big piece of glass.
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A wire brush and WD14 and a bit of elbow grease. I put them in a bucket of diesel with a cover on and forget them for a while.
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I would think you mean £200 pounds per tonne. Then you would have to add transport and any yard costs and profit, so purchase cost is rising. Then you need somewhere to keep it, then the hard slog starts with any renovation. As the man says on Bangers and Cash, you cannot make money doing a ground up restoration. Or words to that effect. Things are preserved because someone falls in love with it what ever it is. I remember reading an article years ago about the late Ted White and the B17 where his wife said If it was a choice between aircraft parts and the electric bill the parts won.
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Apparently a movement has started to raise and restore a former command of King Charles, H M S Bronington. She currently lies partly submerged in a dock in Birkenhead. It would be interesting to see how those Deltic engines have weathered being submerged.
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It is posted on Facebook by Steve Mahon in British Lorries
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Sorry I am not that tech good, I will see what I can find.
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I saw a picture on face book this morning of a blue Albion CX22 that has just gone into a scrap yard, it looked as it was in a good condition for it's age. Such a shame if it is cut up. Apparently it is in A1 Wokingham Berkshire, it even has the canvas on the rear body.
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That is rare what a project. Does it still have the original engine?
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There seem to be quite a few survivors and rumoured survivors, of the Coles Amazon vehicle. Duxford, Elvington, Ainscough crane hire, Ulster Museum, yours, to name but a few. Also some in private hands.
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Pretty well settled on it being a Thornycroft Oil engine.
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If I remember rightly the inlet valves have swirl ribs/vanes and are difficult to grind in the seats, as you cannot get a full rotation.. They have a guide that sits under the valve spring to stop the valve rotating. Pistons are spheroidal cavity type. When using an oil bath air filter and the engine gets a bit of ware a carbon build up occurs between the valve stem and vane restricting the air flow to the cylinder rendering the swirl ineffective and increasing the weight of the valve.
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I have had a better look now it was the fuel pipes that were putting me off, looking like heavy cables. There should be plenty of information on the rocker covers and if that is a data plate on the side of the block. Providing your engine has them attached.
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A couple of 432 driver restraints and various assorted length straps, some with brass buckles and some steel.
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At least you know what it should look like when assembled. I cannot quite make it out but if that has a starter motor to the right of the dynamo on this side that may be a different engine.
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I think there is a Thornycroft archive. if you have a chassis number it may be a good place to start. According to the photograph the ones built for the RAF had petrol engines I have seen them with a Meadows petrol engine.
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I should have realised it was not a Gardner of that era as it is a mono block. Finding gaskets for that will be interesting. You did say you like a challenge. Low revving slugger the last Thornycroft I drove was a Sturdy. It will probably be BSF and Whitworth fastenings.
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That is going to be fun putting that back together. There is a good Gardner engine site on Facebook they know there engines inside out, also where to get parts from. If you can find the engine information plate. If the main engine drives a generator it is a late build. It would probably be cheaper to find a running engine than rebuild the one that you have. Do you have the starter motor and dynamo?
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I think it is a Coles mkV11 crane the same as fitted to an AEC 0854. There was a blog about 4 or 5 years ago of an AEC restoration and I think someone had spare crane manuals. Yours looks like the short wheelbase Thornycroft Amazon version. I am guessing it has a Gardner 6LW power plant. I would think the crane engine is by now a replacement I think originally they were Ford petrol powered. If you have photos of the engines we should be able to pin them down.
