Rob2497

guys, thank you for your input. i may try a spare first  but as you point out they have been on these rims many years and stamina may be the biggest hurdle !

thanks again !

i am quite a competent engineer, but when i suggest i am changing my own tyres on military Bedford 3pc rims i get a massive inhalation of air as a response !

i have the new 12.00r20 tyres, surely if the gap in the locking ring is within limits during assembly, the outer ring is locked ? 

can i have some professional opinions please, maybe from someone who has actually done it themselves for the first time ?

i dont want to re-invent the trebuchet but i'm sure common sense and brute force would get the job done ? or should i put down my keyboard and phone the local hgv tyre fitters ?

many thanks in advance

hi guys hope you dont mind me taxing the experts but i have a bad pinion bearing on an MK front axle and i wondered if i can slip the pinion out with the bearings, flange complete ? or whether the pinion has to come out through the diff casing and the bearings the opposite way ?

thanks in advance, i'm just wondering how much of a job i'm getting into regards laying up my truck ?

thank you everyone for the input. Richard you were spot on, i thought i'd investigate at the weekend and the six holes in the seal are indeed locating holes ! 6350119 seals ordered

thanks again !

hi Robin, thats not something i've even considered to be honest.... lubricants have come on leaps and bounds in the last ten years but on the other hand i'm a bit funny when it comes to new ways of doing things, first thing i think is, if the boffins at Bedford designed it to swim in EP120, then i know it's working fine until the oil pours out

food for thought tho

....Rob

hi Sean wondered about the type 'R' but it was only 3 ton ? this is definately bigger. the mk part number is for the 6350119 seal with only six bolt holes in it. i cant seem to find any other tracta seal of bedford origin

hi guys, i have an airport crash tender based on a heavy duty Bedford MK chassis modified by reynolds boughton.

i wanted to replace my tracta seals and clean my spheres but all the seals i can find have only six bolt holes in ? mine has about twelve bolts holding it on ? it looks like an mk axle and definately has mk brakes/wheels.

i wondered if any bedford experts may recognise the tracta housing as possibly off a heavier bedford, maybe TM ?

kind regards ....Rob

hi all, thanks for accepting me into the fold. i am of the airport fire truck scene, in particular the Bedford and Scammell/thornycroft chassis under Pyrene/Chubb Fire bodied vehicles. my father was part of their test and development from the 60's to their demise in '85. i own the build sheets and sales records for most of the trucks around the world.

i have city & guilds in motor vehicle, fluid transmission, welding and metal fabrication, vehicle electrical, combustion engine and carburation. my current restoration is a chubb spearhead, pretty much the only one left it's based on a modified MK chassis with heavy duty axles and powered by a chrysler 440 petrol V8 through an allison MT640 box. most chassis parts are easy to find but the axles i'm struggling to i'd....

so i thought i'd dip my toe into the military scene where i know knowledge is plentyful !

regards Rob