Truck257

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Haha everything is Yellow I even bought a 1980 Land Rover Series 3 and within 5 weeks of purchase I did an engine swap for a 3L Essex V6 and sprayed it all family yellow

Got to crack on whilst the buzz is there, yeah 2 pack the chassis and all the green will be synthetic as it’s nice and thick and covers well. Well spotted its a 1915 Leyland, served in WW1 in the Egyptian desert apparently according to Google haha

She’s slowly becoming the yellow beast !! Now 60% covered in RAL 1018 the family racing colour. Soon to be covered. Hopefully within the next few weekends the cab will be fully painted and then I can work on tidying up the inside sorting the wiring out and paint the inside. Then do the final few jobs on the chassis side sort out the wiring loom and lights give her a good steam clean then paint everything in sight deep bronze green haha. Once that’s all done time to fit the body and whatever extras then she’ll be fit for the shows. Hoping to get her road ready by Christmas... much work to do will try and post when I can

I’d have loved to have seen a really army auction. I will definitely have to do some more digging to find her true history. So my theory of her being a yellow range control vehicle are now gone I’ve just got to find out all the why where’s and when’s. Also I love older technology hence me having a truck almost 3 times my age, at school I was more pen and paper than computer

Okay thank you for your information

Waw thank you that’s great can you remember the truck itself ? Was it a standard green LWB 6x4 Militant ?

Hello all very interesting information your all supplying, just out of interest dose anybody have any information about sales at Ruddington 17th June 1983 ? Lot 1925 sale 179. Militant 26BR34. In parks 2 and 3. Any information would be great Thank you

That’s some bloody good information mate lovely to hear it. So she’s not what I thought she was but I’ve now got to figure out why she had a new cab new engine and why/where she was shortened ? Do you have any other information on her or know anybody that would ? I’ve got more digging to do haha

This is interesting so my assumption that it was a range control vehicle at the firing rage in Lulworth might be wrong ? As I think it should have been sold in yellow ? They wouldn’t have painted it green to sell it I presume ? Also do you remember if it had a back on it would it have been a dropside ? Last question. Was it a SWB or a LWB ?

Waw that’s brilliant. So my question to you is was she yellow or was she green on her sale date ? This will be a huge determining factor in her history

Waw that’s fantastic information so is there a chance you would have seen my Militant on her sale day ? Thank you I aim to really get on with her now and try and get her completed as quick as I can

From Neglected to Newark. I haven’t posted on here for a long time because sadly I have been busy or was doing other things to make time for my big old girl. Fortunately I had a spur of spirit and set myself a target to get her to the AEC show so with 6 weeks to go I set about everything that needed doing to make her roadworthy. And at the end of the 6 weeks I was happy she was fit for the road. So me tired beyond compare after weeks and weeks or AM finished after work I left for the show at 6:20 am up all the A roads and arrived at 9:17 with no problems. Brilliant time at the show and made it back with no troubles but a numb arse. Looking forward to finishing her off now and getting her all painted up hopefully she’ll be done for Christmas and going to shows next year

Hello I would like to do a full oil change on my AEC Militant so that would be : Engine Gearbox Transfer box Diffs Axles Hubs i would likw like some help as to what oil to put it what ? I believe 10W40 Mineral is okay for the engine ? As for the gearbox and others is it 140 Hypoid ? 90 Hypoid ? Something else ? Many thanks.

I think my militants got that same bracketry behind the drivers door frame ?

That video was painful to watch :'( maybe she'll be recycled into metal sheet to be used to restore other Militant's ? I hope.....

Are those wiring looms made to order rob ? ......

Yet more pictures I have found ! This is becoming a history lesson for the old girl found another picture of her in the hands of the travlers. No wonder the clutch was lnackered dragging that caravan round on a draw bar for the remains of her life till she was parked up somewhere which I am yet to find out. That will be another lesson when the time comes.....

I think I've sussed the air system out now got her building up to 120 then blowing off as she should very happy next thing to do I think I'd start sorting the cab out do the little bits of welding and paint the cab

Hello all first thing I have to say is I need parts for my truck I have spoke to Bernie Smith about the parts I needed and I got some parts but he told me to come back to him with a list. Which I did. This was 4 months ago and I have been trying to contact him through out this period with no luck. So firstly can anybody help me with this. Is there a way I can actually talk to him to buy parts ? Secondly if I can't get anything off Bernie for whatever reason is there anybody else who can help me ? Any advice would be great. Many thanks

Yes got that bit mate

Will continue with the gearbox relationship at a later stage my current situation is to get the air system working at full pressure. So I've stripped the unloader valve and cleaned it out renewing gaskets still won't build up to full pressure I've be told is 120PSI it's stopping at 87PSI so this morning I stripped the head off the compressor cleaned it all out put it back together and started to adjust the blow off pressure then realised when I blew down the feed to the unloader valve from the comperssor it came straight out of the recirculation pipe to the intake. So since I've stripped and rebuilt the unloader valve and everything seemed okay I think there's possibly something missing ? Rob said to me that there's an air filter in the unit. I did not find one ? Is that the problem ? I blancked off the recirculation outlet on the unloader valve and built the air up and its fine no problem, so how much am I missing ? Also on the other had this morning I was yet again scrolling through google as my inner archaeologist decided to try and find some more picture of my truck and after a while I came up trumps. astounded yet again. This time I found a red truck in a hedge with the registration JAS707 the current registration given to me by the DVLA

I believe this is the first time she's driven on the road under own power for about 20 years I think she's beautiful ! Can't wait to get her to some shows !!

After parking the old girl up for about 4 months due to race car commitments, I finally got her back into the workshop and did the biggest job to her that I've wanted to do since I got her. Get that nasty Bedford body off the back, so after getting that off and sent down the scrap yard (I did try and sell it with no avail) I set about with the steam cleaner getting to all those parts i couldn't before after it drying in like 2 minutes al it was about 30 degrees I cleaned the yard up that I'd just covered in dirty water grease and 60 year old paint flakes. Then got the truck back in and started to free up the rest of the brake rods and arm joints cleaning all the threads and greasing them, once the brakes were adjusted so some of them worked (need to do it properly next time) I thought it's time for the big moment, trying to drive her...... I was already insanely nervous as weeks before I met up with Rob the fellow militant owner who kindly allowed me to have a drive in his red beast down the car park. After getting one gear change in and grinding the rest I have the truck back with shakey hands and was confident I will be rubbish at driving mine. So I got her out in the street and began my long rod to crash box glory, after about 30/40 minutes of grinding frustration and swear words I thought il turn to the internet, that knows everything. I found myself watching videos of Americans driving old truck with crash boxes with ease. No real help. Then a suggested video I'd recognised ! Robs son driving the red beast ! That was it 10 seconds of watching the swift leg movements and I was confident so I hoped back in the old girl and gingerly pulled off in second, miraculously I grabbed 3rd then carried on to grind 4th ! But I was so happy ! So I had a few more runs as the sky was getting darker managed to get into 5th twice ! Even made a little video needless to say I went home tired but smiling another chapter complete in the book of my Militant next job. Finish all the brakes and start sorting the welding and wiring . That's all for now....

Also just a quick question is first gear in the militant up over to the engine and backwards ? If so I've been driving it in 3rd round the yard till today :') no wonder it was jumpy