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Any ideas?

David, don't excited I don't have the documents. They are not in EMERS TELS but in AESPs. The octad you need to look for are:

5820-F-400 Pegasus Type M252AB

5820-F-401 Pegasus Type M252AA

Maybe REME or RS Museum?

John that was 1994, I assumed it was just the one that got moved around. Whether it is still there I don't know, but there was a similar Saracen ambulance at the Ambulance Museum in Tavistock about 10-15 years ago. Whether the ambulance or even the museum is still there I don't know. But I have a photo of one round the back & I think at the time Neville said it had been on loan but there were major transmission problems that the guy couldn't sort so it came back. I hope that isn't yours!

Seems ok here, look in your profile & check your settings.

I've used tyre paint as it seems to be a liquid rubber. But nothing beats a new plug then covering it up from the elements.

Balancing does seem to be important even for MVs, but a range of other factors can effect wheel wobble as this 1954 EMER shows:

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If you tidy up Clive you will never find anything again - live with the mess.

 

At present valuable time can be lost if I drop a washer or something. The real pain is not enough room so that stuff gets stored on the vehicles. The roof leaks a bit that doesn't help & everything easily gets buried in angle grinder dust. If it's a nice day I can drive a vehicle outside to make the mess there. But it's during the rainy season that I find I have to do most of the work. There is a strange logic in that I know more or less where most things are.

Well Chappers has got a very tidy worksop/shed. By way of contrast look at this lot.

Amateur radio station G4MBS inside Trailer, 2-Ton, 4-Whld.

Two Shorlands, grey one MOTed & taxed (for sale) & sand one not been out for 10 years!

Hornet FV1620 + stores

Pig stye! FV1609 on left, FV1612 on right

Apologies for so many pictures, but it is difficult to communicate the sense of chaos in the workshops! I have a choice I can spend 2 years tidying everything up or just get on with doing what I want to!

the helmet looks familiar

:naughty: Yes I think she's right!

Further to my earlier suggestion of CCTV & remote control is that arm part of an EOD equipment?

Given the slightly improvised look to the antenna system & a CCTV camera on the extension. Is it a remote controlled vehicle?

Rich, I think that one was 23 BK 96 which was genuinely EOD. It appears on the inside cover of "The Encyclopaedia of the Modern British Army" Edition 1 by Terry Gander. It was very nicely restored by an owner in the UK but it is a shame to see it today looking in a rather neglected state.

Join the EMLRA & a vehicle search costs just £2 per vehicle.

http://www.emlra.org/

So the binned trailer is 22 FL 93, chassis no 40563 struck off to Withams on 5/1/06, from a batch 22 FL 89 to 23 FL 78.

The office version ran from 23 FL 79 to 23 FL 92.

Taken a REME Arborfield 1992

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You might be forgiven for thinking that Neil has spent most the last month fiddling around with his Stalwart brake lights. But I can reveal he has spent a vast amount of time helping me.

I have a large collection of British Army technical documents. Although I have catalogued them in Word documents, I felt frustrated that I could not extract things like: all documents printed in a given year, all user handbooks, all regulations, documents on a given vehicle or equipment etc. I also wanted to see how the earlier classification e.g. 26/Regs/3181 tied in with the WO or Army Code No.

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Well last year Neil set me up a database to allow me to do just that. As some may be aware not only I am significantly dyslexic but a complete nitwit with computers. So just as we try to help each other out on the forum with things we know about Neil with his professional expertise has been a real star in helping me.

I recently asked him if he could take things a stage further to try to decipher the coding of groups of codes used very often at the end of the documents. There are obvious ones like, date, the printers name & the number in the print run, but other little puzzles like Gp or Group at the end, the start is sometimes just a number or preceded by G which is in addition to Gp at the end. The other puzzler is Wt split into two groups. I have weighed large numbers of books & can find no relationship to weight at all. In fact similar sized documents have vastly differing Wts recorded. Some similar sized ones of similar subject matter can have quite varied Wts. Added to this Wt comprise two independent number groups.

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So Neil’s new database encompasses this including the print run. It will allow a vast option of searches & correlations. I haven’t fully grasped the potential of all the knobs & buttons. But it will allow the comparison of the new DAT type records & even the codes used in Indian Army documents.

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The books I have, are not like my vehicles exclusively post-war, but span over 120 years, I find it fascinating that the system whilst evolving contains many of the original features. So a big thank you to Neil for his hard work behind the scenes and I have to warn you that once I cracked the logic of the codes, there will be the inevitably article to follow. :shake:

Yes I was thinking of getting an old valve set like Clives.. he's lucky as I reckon he has a whole shelf of EMMERS to refer to for his computer ;-)

 

But I don't have any problems with the forum! Maybe it's because I just use the forum bit, I don't bother with the fancy bits. I don't blog & certainly not in public, nor do I wiki as I think my mother told me not to do that sort of thing. I hope whatever new forum comes won't get too fiddley that the actual forum bit gets submerged in animations, novelties & fancy bits.

But at least valves will survive EMP, not like these devices that if you look at them in a funny way or touch don't work because of a bit of sweat & static are beyond me.

Computers & those sorts of things are covered in EMER MANAGEMENT J 000 I have to confess I don't have the complete series mine starts at J 020.

But I have got the workings of a hand operated computer that even I can understand from 1911.

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Just checked the compression, and all 6 are 50psi :-(

I guess having fuel as an engine lubricant has really screwed things up (apparently the fuel pump has been leaking for a year...when I drained the oil out it was like pure petrol).

It seems rather sad that the previous failed to investigate the problem. So have you run it a little while with its proper oil & measured the pressure when hot?

As regards fuel, I have an intermittent constriction/obstruction in one fuel tank. Often shows itself when trying to overtake, this shortage of fuel seems to show itself with backfiring. Do you get that? But your filter may empty itself but there is bit of reserve in the carb of course.

If the bore has worn as the result of inadequate lubrication then there are sets of piston rings to compensate for this in 10, 20 & 40 thou, so no need to mention it to your wife yet. So may not be the end of the world ;-)

Have to get this off my chest :whistle:

 

I HAVE JUST BOUGHT A MULTIGYM TO GET FIT :oops:.

 

 

No, no, no, you're not meant to put in on your chest. That won't work at all.

Got a picture somewhere of 56 RN 55 in white + some black at a REME anniversary Arborfield 1992.

Richard, have you considered a Carawagon? After all they were custom built for camping. I used to have one it was great fun. But in those days it was the only one that had been released & I used to get distainful comments when people looked in the back & say "Oh its not very interesting, he's made it into a camper" Despite it being 100% original, but people know what they are now.

they quote £153 +vat,

The price has gone up its now £157.64 + £6 p&p + VAT on both = £192.28

Still worth it though.

If you do fit it, remove the BALLAST lead from the ignition switch. Otherwise the full 24v is applied to the coil on start up. This is no longer needed with the improved spark & if this is boosted further by being given 24volts may establish tracking in the distributor cap.

how do you get to the timing weights? I tried to remove the base that carries the points but it seems very tight fit and did not want to force it. I had assumed I just undo the two screws and lift the black base out?

Yes it should then just lift out. I have replaced baseplates on several distributors with no problems. But I came to fit another Jolley kit & both the distributors I had chosen to be possible recipients, the base plate would not come out. I tried WD40 around the edge & modest heat around the metal body, but still wouldn't budge. So I chose the one with the most worn plates & gently smashed it out.

I gave it all a good wash out with solvent to get rid off the powder bits of baseplate. Was a good opportunity to clean & re-grease the spindle weights. Don't worry that one spring may be loose. Deliberately there is a 7-turn spring & the other is 6-turn one.

You will need to re-use the two base plate bolts, it is rather silly Jolley provides new ones but they are at least 3mm too long!

Mick

I don't have a Ferret, I am into Humbers but I believe you have reserve tank. But I had old fuel being drawn in because the fuel guage read the fuel level in the tank you weren't using! Anyway it ran very badly then died as an exhaust valve tappet shattered. I didn't realise I was drawing in the grotty stuff & kept topping up the OK tank which was not switched in.

Check your fuel tank breather is clear, many were fitted with a non-return valve in case of vehicle overturning. The valve is a haven to widlife & grot. Is also found an embolism of platercine in the breather left over from some wading nonsense.

As for copper pipe I tend to use pipe from B&Q for central heating jobs. Its metric though not as flexible as the proper stuff & as metric you have to file the connectors slightly. Its just easy to get hold of.

As Neil suggested do a compression test anyway. If they are nice & high that's great you have a benchmark for future checks. But low 2&3 or 4&5 are a red flag.

BTW all those things mentioned are not said through any cleverness on my part, they are all things that have gone wrong for me, damn nuisance at the time but good to have learnt once the crisis was over!

Mick. Is the fuel fresh or been hanging around for a while? Did it run ok once or has it been like that since you had it? The condenser that you replaced was it a brand new one or NOS, as they are often leak? The plugs your are using are they RSN13P they foul easily (unless you are using electronic ignition, if you use Rover plugs RSN12Y they foul up less easily. How are you cleaning the plugs? Nothing beats sand blasting, a wire brush can't clean inside. But even if the plugs are well used & clean there can be problems with the mica insulator abrading down as plugs are fitted & refitted. Are you absolutely certain the plug leads are on the right plugs? Is your distributor cap pitted / cracked if it has been reconditioned, they paint red oxide inside the metal bits sometimes it get splashed inside the cap itself. There may be a hairline crack in the rotor arm, have you changed that? Is air leaking in the fuel tank changeover switch or in the bleed valve on the fuel filter. Have you checked the fuel filter is it full of rust & bogies? Is your vacuum leaking from somewhere like the resevoir or to brake servo? Have you changed the engine oil now that it is diluted with fuel?

If you do a compression test they should ideally be 110 psi but the minimum field standard is 90 psi. If 2&3 or 4&5 are lower than the rest, then your head gasket is going I'm afraid. The ismus between 2&3 and 4&5 is quite narrow in addition the torquing of the cylinder head bolts is difficult as there is not enough room to get a socket on the torque wrench here. So RR say use a box spanner & I think a 6in tommy bar, the EMER I think says the same but with a 7in tommy bar. Now did the last fitter have a strong arm? But there is a risk that it may not have been done up well enough unless you use a 9/16 torque offset socket.

Green = 2&3 going :-(

Red = 4&5 gawn :cry:

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Ian, I have just sent you the EMER extract.

If anyone wants pdf of brake section of EMER WHEELED VEHICLES U 262/2 which is the Technical Description which seems to cover all makes 2-Ton 4-Whld trailers in the FV2500 series. Let me know & I'll email it.