rbrtcrowther

HI. not a scammell but just a few other toys that were at manby when i picked her up. And a picture of my nice new recoditioned couplings mmmm...:bow:new rubber....

That's a really tidy looking cab. At least taking the floor out shouldn't take too long and, as you have said, because you have only recently installed it will come out fairly easily. What sort of wood did you use ?

 

There's a relatively inexpensive hardwood that's often used for the beds of lorries and trailers. It has a very high oil content.......em does anyone know the name of the hardwood I'm thinking of ? It's sounds ideal for cab floors. Or, what wood do you recommend as this is a job I've got coming up sometime. Cheers.

Hello.

To be honest i used pine wood from the local timber mill:eek: (Cos i'm really skint) and they cut it to the correct thickness, he said "i've got a trunk that will be perfect for that" It cost about £30 for the whole floor.

I then stained it with BnQ dark oak wood stain.It dries rock hard and its exteior stuff.

Time for more pics. In the shed at manby motorplex where i bought her. I think she looks rock hard!!

At home, and work underway.

The office. Shame i've got to take the floor out again.

the drive couplings muffs are fairly easy to remove i had no trouble with them .

 

would be nice to see yet another exeplorer blog i would be interested to see how you go about engine removel hope u have got loads of pics of wot u have done so far

 

have a gd new year

 

nick

Hi Nick have you sorted your engine mounts yet? I did mine a while back, i used two bottle jacks to lift the engine up at the back end. You find two large bolts that join the flywheel housing to the engine, there is a nice flat bit of casting that you can lift on. I used two pieces of scaffold tube on top of the bottle jacks and put wood packing between the flywheel housing and engine cradle for safety. Think i did somthing like that at the front too.

Hope this helps someone.

PS. just stripped a meadows petrol down and have heads, govener, fuel pump and other bits and bobs left over.:cool2:

Rob.

Hello. (well chuffed:banana::banana:)

That photo was taken about 4 months ago and she now has a bonnet and new side panels. This was before i knew about the main bearings ect. Have finnished all the cab reskining and made a new opening front screen and new doors, I managed to save the top parts and cut the bottoms off and made new lower frames and reskined them. I made the cut in the door behind the aluminium trim strip so it's coverd up. You'd do well to spot they have been cut in half!

Spent most of today getting the radiator off and removing the oil filters (really easy to get at the nuts and bolts on them!!:banghead:) The next job is the cab floor (reaaly easy as i've just lovingly put it in:() and couplings ect.

My scammell has a ground spade thingy on the front that has been welded to the chassis extensions and chassis rails so i think i can jack up under this then yank the crossmember out. I cant think of any reason to remove the towing spring or chassis extensions.

Think i might start a restoration blog thingy soon.

All the best and a happy new year:dancing:

Rob

Hoooooray!!!! oh yes!!! can you feel it?!! who's the daddy!!:yay:

If this fails I give up!!

Rob.

well that didn't work very well did it. How on earth do you put pics on here? I really don't get on with computers so it may take me a long time to get this sorted.

Sorry for for the interuption

Rob.

Hi there. I'ts about time i tried to get a picture of the old girl on here. So here goes!

Just saying hello to you all but having a struggle with computers and technology, would rather see some moving parts when sending messages.

Bought my Scammell Explorer about 3 years ago and it's beating me into the ground. She's called Big jenny and i think there is a picture of her on page 5 of the explorer gallerie.

I may have met some of you at a few rallies hope to get mine to some one day.

I your ever in the porthmadog area pop up for a brew.

All the best

Rob.

PS. Am i putting theese messages in the right place the right way? I really don't do computers.

But thinking about it diesel cranks are usually beefier than |etrol, but the Meadows diesel delivers quite a lot less power than the Petrol doesn't it? It might ne the same crank...

I think Meadows supplyed scammell with 6 dc 630 diesel engines and scammell converted them to petrol hence the Scammell Meadows name plate on the rocker covers. The block and bottim end look the same. The cylinder head bolts are different on early and later engines but there is nothing in the book to say the cranks were alterd.

Will start removing radiator now (whats the best way to sling up when lifting it off?)

many thanks

Robert

Come on don't be shy how much? how long did they take?:-D

Did you have your clutch relined if so who did it?

Sorrry forgot to say,

Engine had low oil pressure no knocking at all! Popped the sump off found a main bearing bolt on the filter(doh!) Removed said bearing cap and shell found no white metal and scored crank, removed other caps all the same! Hence crank out ect.

I have already done the metalastic couplings cos my engine mounts were knackerd and they got ripped apart. Got a mould made and had them re rubberd, the bloody mould cost £400 od quid and i can get them re rubberd for about £40. they come out a tiny bit small so i had to hold them gently in a 4 jaw chuck and turn out the shoulders on the aluminium blocks. still £40 each is cheap when you see what people pay for knackerd one off ebay. One of mine looked ok but if you put it in a vice and bent it over it was barely stuck together. When i was turning one on the lathe it popped out and got scrunched round the tool post and squosed between the chuck and bed!! Thought it was curtains but not a mark on it!!

All the best

Rob.

The only information i know for sure is the Meadows 6 dc 630 in my explorer was rebuilt in 1950! with 25tho crank grind (so i can't just swap the shells from the petrol)

The petrol engine came out of a much later explorer and was rebuilt in 1960. I have popped the crank out of the petrol and it looks the same as the one shown in the meadows 6 dc 630 engine manual (a lucky find on ebay!) Even the strip down instructions in both the explorer manual and the diesel manual are the same. But there are no timing marks on any of the gears of the petrol. I am know for a fact that the camshafts are different as the valve overlaps are larger on the diesel. So if anyone has converted a petrol to a diesel and not swapped the camshaft it won't pull granny off the pot!

When i drove my explorer up to the house(minus a windscreen mirrors and loosing bits of cab on the way) she hit nearly 30mph (According to my mate following behind in the landrover) in 5th but would not pull top as the control rack in the injector pump was gummed up. now thats free it picks up with a nice BARF!! and the whole engine rocks over on its mounts...... Shame it's buggerd!!

Cheers

Rob

Hi there.

Don't know if i am posting this in the right place or right way but i am about to remove the engine from my Explorer as the crank and bearings are knackerd. It is currently running the other meadows diesel engine (I think this is the third one I know of with a meadows diesel in it). Any advice on getting the engine out would be very handy. I have got the Explorer manual but any extra tips would be a great help. I have managed to get hold of a petrol engine and hope to swap the crank and bearings into the diesel. Hope they are the same as the diesel is about 20 years older then the petrol one.

cheers

Rob.