robin craig

send me your email by PM please

So what about at the lift pump? That sounds like it may be a possible culprit. Do you have a fuel system diagram to run through? And then a visual confirmation of fuel in the tank is a worthwhile double check, I say that having spent a lot of time and aggro one weekend on trying to get a vehicle running that had no fuel and felt pretty darn stupid afterwards. It is only time that has healed the wound that allows me to admit that.

Are you saying that having cracked a line you have no fuel at the injection pump? Or is it further down the system?

This thread deserves pictures of the vehicle for the rest of us

Clive, as always, thank you sir. I will go have a look at see what I can make out and get back to you if needed.

Good day all,

I am trying to help a friend remotely with some problems.

The British Ferrets had a two speed and then a single speed generator fitted.

Can we assume the the electrical socket connections to either one are the same plug and pin matrix? Is there a diagram of that with a legend.

Can anyone share any kind of bench testing method for a generator before installation to ensure the unit will work correctly?

Personally I am not an electrical guy at all and this baffles me somewhat. I know my limitations.

yours in advance appreciation

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Thats nice

Hartas can I ask you where in the world in simplistic terms are you located please?

Bob Matthew Jones at Ferret Spares would likely pay you asking an take both, worth giving him a call perhaps

Jolly smart Land Rover there.

How well put

Mike,

So sorry to hear about the changes in your life, sent you a PM. yes life is funny how we can be closer to people on places like here than family. I echo that.

Please keep your chin up and know others care, look forward to getting a reply from the PM

yours

Robin in Canada

Very nice Wally

Richard,

Thank you ever so much for posting that. Yes I was aware of it but still I thank you. I am planning on treating myself for Christmas to the RLC records for it as I feel the two will span different years and make a more complete history.

Can you decode or tell me anything about the Merlin entries as to where or who those were with? I am thinking some kind of RCT unit?

I have, over the past number of years been taught time and again that the truth is stranger than fiction. I have also been taught to ask the stupid question that no one asks.

I have always known that my vehicle features in a book by James Taylor showing it in Antwerp while in service. Recently I emailed James and asked him if he could let me have a decent copy of that image but moreover were there any other images from that time.

Well, surprised and overjoyed are words that spring to mind when I received other external view of my vehicle and the interior. I am reproducing them here with my crude watermark to them.

Winter is fast approaching here with first frost tonight. I am making plans for how and where the roof will spend the winter.

Slowly progress is being made

Mike can you interpret the words and numbers on the wood in front of the radiator please?

specifically the 611 TACP

the FAC i think is forward air controller.

what about the 1 and the red and blue square on the edge of the bonnet? The RM insignia and the Union Jack I get

Royal 42 may I please use that winter picture e;elsewhere with credit to you please?

As a self confessed Land Rover anorak, among other epithets, I find your 3 pictures 10FM68 quite interesting. Each has a tasty morsel within. The first image, in the second line from the left has a Land Rover hardtop with a cat flap to oppose the tailgate below. I have see one in British usage before. This suggests the vehicle was built with a tailgate and the hardtop may have been scrounged from somewhere. The second image has in the centre a 109 with a truck cab which again was a rare item to be seen at time of issue and I think someone was a good scrounger. I only ever saw this body style used by the Royal Marines training staff at Lympstone on a CL 109. The last picture while holding nothing rare it does show a Carawagon conversion but regrettably no identifying marks. As the owner of a Carawagon I lust for more in service images of my vehicle. Thank you for posting

San let me ponder on this and get back to you, can we take this to PM perhaps

Hans do you want to buy the axles?

There is a guy in the south of England who just saved some Humber pig axles. I'm friends with him on Facebook and can make an introduction

nice useful bit of kit you have

To be really honest if you do your first parades and maintain your vehicle to the manuals (buy them and learn how to use them)  and don't flog it around the back forty acres and dump it through every mud puddle and then drive it back to the shed and park it until the next flogging you will see issues developing.and be able to deal with them Also if you take the time to pay someone who is ex forces who knows how to drive to teach you then you have most of the bases covered. Armoured vehicles are big and bite when you don't drive them properly. If you want something safer, stamp collecting comes to mind. Manage your risks and don't take chances and drive sensibly and be kind to your wagon and you will be much safer that dicking around throwing money up the wall on a wild goose chase in the name of safety.  I am not intending to be rude just pragmatic. Ive watched others go down this rabbit hole and it doesn't go well. That is my opinion and it is mine but you can borrow it if it suits you

The big rubber pad idea sounds interesting. Is there not enough space to fit some or a  rotor and calipers inside in the driveline instead. It would make it tidier and more serviceable IMHO

It has been a while, I know. The vehicle is safely dry stored in our garage as I finish the outside. Two years ago a complete roof assembly for a Carawagon, Commanders Caravan or Command Post I wasn't sure but really not that picky as it saves me the effort of making one from the drawings and scratch. It was located in North Carolina which is 14 hours drive without pit stops and about 1500 kilometers from me up here in Canada.Covid also got in the way. I maanged to get it moved to New Jersey earlier this year. A week ago I made the trip down and knew I was going to be solo with no mechanical aids. I loaded this myself using cunning and guile. A cabinet came with it as a useful aide. I expect over this winter I will try to have a go at roof repair in our heated basement during a cold Canadian winter if I can mount it on a frame / rotiseri. Another slow advancement.