john1950

I would take a serious look at waterless coolant these days. That is a long road though as the block wants to be pretty scale free inside then de watered before refilling. One of the advantages is it does not get the system pressure build up of water based coolants. Houdini fluid because it will escape. other than that just use a universal anti freeze. I would also recommend with the age of these old Bedford engines in the spares box a core plug kit and just hope it is not the one at the back of the block that gives way on your travels. I think the main types of anti freeze are _                                                        HOAT, Hybrid Organic Acid Technology. Includes silicates to inhibit corrosion of Alloy parts. Yellow or Orange in colour.                                                                                                                                                      IAT Inorganic Acid Technology. Contains Ethylene Glycol, Silicates and Phosphates. could cause corrosion over a longer term of use. Yellow or Green in colour.                                                                          OAT. Organic Acid Technology. Phosphate and Silicate free. Includes corrosion Inhibitors. Dark Green, Orange, Pink, Blue or Red in colour.                                                                                                                                                 Then your Universal Antifreeze, usually contains 50% Demineralized water, Low Silica content for radiator and delicate parts protection usually medium blue. Partly from my memory and the remainder my notes on the subject 

They may have just used QL running gear. Is that a Mat lurking in the background?

Was Bluebell not looking for 431 pictures?

Gosh this is technical, Kinematic Redundancy. When I have learnt how to say it properly I will then have to work it into a conversation. This thread is the tops.

Hello Tamber, It has been some time since we have heard from you. I hope you are O.K. 

My friend and myself spent an interesting day out at Eden camp yesterday. I forgot to take a camera. One thing that pricked my interest was the Leyland Hippo that appears to have some damage to the rocker covers I was told. I wonder how this happened. I did not realise they had as many vehicles. It is a well laid out and friendly place well worth a return visit. 

Looking for a couple of Hippo Mk2 wheel dishes for a friend. 

Are you turning sinical by any chance.

That shows my shallow knowledge of the vehicle. Which model of Perkins was fitted? Back then would it be the T6354.

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.   

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.

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. 

If anyone would know it's Susi on the Repair Shop.

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.

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.

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.  

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.

It is posted on Facebook by Steve Mahon in British Lorries  

Sorry I am not that tech good, I will see what I can find.

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.

That is rare what a project. Does it still have the original engine?

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.

Pretty well settled on it being a Thornycroft Oil engine.

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.

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.