john1950

Those vaccume operated fuel pumps are prone to the diaphram that works the rack perishing, giving vague throttle control and uneven tick over. When they stand for a long time condensation builds up in the lower part of the chamber and rots it through.

Sorry not for myself, people do collect wreckers on this forum and others. Owners like One of the biggest recovery companies in th U.K. has a collection of Cranes and wreckers. Buyers will want to know exactly what it is if possible.

I would many people would be interested, it depends on the price and information on what it is.

Just the newness wearing off, or to much T cut.

If the 4D was running it would shake most of the rust and any loose metal off.

I have a feeling I have a piece of main engine exhaust pipe off a Challenger.

Thats more than I knew, I should have taken it out of the packaging but I did not want to tear it. I did wonder if the tie rods are off a Panther or Husky. I think the tortion bars my be to assist opening a rear deck door.

I am trying to identify these parts. First one is a Tortion bar made by Baumann Feden for Bae Alvis Part Number 096414. 271615500400RF. Date on the envelope with a certificate is 2001, 24 spline, O/A Length 52 and 3/4ins 134cm. DIA 0.559ins 14.2mm, Spline dia 0.996ins 25.30mm. 2nd is an exhaust pipe Nato 2990993015912. part number 503/7/16918/000. Lastly a Tie Rod Parn number 271615320564.

John Nettles did a TV series a few years ago detailing a lot of works from the German occupation time. Including concentration camps, and underground hospital.

You will need to find a lubrication chart for it, It has an inordinate number of hexagon greasers. If you go looking for them just when you think you have found them all you will spot another one then another.

Sorting hardwood jacking blocks and wheel chocks, Scoches.

An adjustable slips into a pocket unlike a vice. A diifferent bolt is because someone did not have enough correct ones and substitution to get the job away was the order of the day. If you are climbing down 60 feet or so vertically into a ships hold at sillyoclock in the morning with not mutch light an no harness, you carry as little as posible to get the job done as on the way back up I am sure those top rungs get further apart. None tween deckers had nowhere to take a breather. I used to take My favourate screwdriver/chisel, one or two adjustables a smallish hammer and an assortment of combination open ended/ring spanners. Usually all the information was, its broken down or if I was lucky there is a leak no fluid specified. A problem I have had in the past with rounded nuts and bolts is people using point drive sockets instead of flank drive ones in high torque situations.

Date on wire cutters folding 1980. Adjustable spanners may be the tools of the devil but they save a lot of time if you are working any distance from a tool box or at height, or down a hole. They are handy for holding 2 pieces of metal in place to get a tack on, very versatile. You may find 7 nuts and bolts the same size and one different some distance from a correct spanner, gives an option. I have scotch locks in a box somewhere but have never used them. Maybe one day, never say never. A rusty nut is an adjustable nut.

Last time I used locking wire was either a Foden dump truck diff or an AEC 7.7 engine. and I did not have any fancy pliars. 1970s I think.

As well as the normal pairs of pliers blunt and pin nosed, these two examples have surfaced.

Adjustable with the handle cover and the Kennedy next to it Helixs work the opposite way to the others.

Ambidexterous and Impimet compatable.

I have been looking for my adjustable and other usefull tools. These are some of the lazy ones that have not grown legs and run off.

Thanks for the reply. With a manual start push button on the starter. I presume basically the engine that fits in the Morris Quad FAT.

Now with a new custodian

I hate to be pesamistic but I think any show that goes ahead will not be until near the end of 2020 at the earliest. This is a time for using the potential of sites like this to talk scense, and supply reliable information using the written word to keep members updated, and on vehicle engineering progress, also helping in the bigger picture of combatting four wall syndrome. Stay safe and keep the pictures comming.

I have this compressor to identify, so far I have not found a part number. Then is it any good to anyone.

If you have some numbers I will have a look to see if I have any.

Welcome with your enthusiastic post. I think the last time I was near a Foden steam wagon was in the 1960s at Parky Bates at Lanchester County Durham.

I was only going of a very old memory in the grey matter.