FEC

So any thoughts, could this be an electrical problem when it gets hot? any easy quick tests that I can apply at the side of the road, so there will only be me there meaning I can't crank the engine and have my head in the engine bay at the same time so limited as to what I can easily do.

Hi

Are you sure it is heat related. I say this because I had a Stalwart doing similar stunts when in motion. I thought the same as you and trolled through the same usual culprits.

I fell upon the problem when broken down on a traffic junction. It would fire a number of times while cranking, but this was intermittent. I pulled the distributor cap off and by chance spotted a shard of the centre electrode sitting on the breaker plate. it had enough mass to short the ignition when halting and turning corners.

Probably not but worth a look?

Really don't understand how this vehicle missed the mass re-purchase of Humbers that went on in the late mid 70's for units. Must have been well hidden. The cash being offered especially to farmers was obscene, even for total scrap.

Dear All,

 

I am now working on the rear engine mountings. Since there is a flexible coupling between the engine and the clutch / gear-box assembly the rear mountings need to be adjustable in two directions in order to be able to perfectly align the two. This is the one bit of significant manufacturing that I have to do on the project. I hope to have this bit finished within the next two weeks.

 

John

Hi John

What's new with the big bird rebuild?

Many thanks FEC

 

So just to confirm, is the plate the chassis number is on inside the front nearside of the cab or the outside? and the data plate left rear in the cab also?

 

Thanks again mate.

 

Matt

The number on the main data plate should have the digits of the chassis plate on it. They never had to my knowledge conventional chassis numbers. The "chassis number" is the boat/hull number, there was no need to have a number with details of the build specifications in it. The specifications came from the contract build number which is on the main data plate.

Hi all,

 

My name is Matt and currently have a Mk2 Stalwart in our possession but no documentation with the vehicle so was wondering if anyone could tell me where to find the chassis number and engine number on the vehicle?

 

many thanks in advance

 

matt

The chassis number is on a small plate on the front nearside of the cab and the data plate left rear in the cab. The engine number is on the plate fixed to the crank case, offside of the engine below number eight exhaust port. If my memory is correct.

I was going through an old shed and came up with Farmer's Weekly 9th April 1965 (50 years ago). Apart from the Jackson's fencing advert, a Kent company that has gone from strength to strength, the Farmer of the day was offered all sorts of ex military vehicles. The picture says it all, Austin Champs, Land Rovers from £225, Bedfords and Humbers. What did strike me was the selling off of relatively recent vehicles, anything with Rolls engine (almost certainly a B series) will be not much more than 10 years old. (No Saracens or Ferrets)

 

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Funny how in the mid 70s they were going round buying up rusty hulk Humbers to provide units for Pigs. Short-sighted somewhere. The farmers probably made on the deal.

Hi Paul

Can you help. I keep seeing images of Mk3s without head lamps in the front bumper. I was working on and testing them over a 13 year spell and never came across one.:???

Sinful butchery:-|

I have a replacement set of seals for my accumulators, I read somewhere that one needed a heavy vice and a large pair of stillsons to remove the end caps. Armed with my recently acquired set of 36" stillsons, I tried to unscrew the end caps from my spare accumulator tonight. The stillsons gripped well but my medium sized vice was not man enough for the job and the accumulator just turned. Assuming I can find someone with a heavy duty vice, do people think this is the best way to remove the end caps, I presume there is no way I'm going to distort the body of the accumulator by heaving it up REALLY tightly in a vice?

 

Another related question - if I wanted to remove (for some time) the accumulators I would want to blank off the hydraulic lines. Does anyone know what size and thread I would need to screw into the union I have circled in the photo?

 

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We had a tool made with the four pins as seen in the photo, lever 1 meter long, very affective.

Oh and a big vice.

Now that is going to be brilliant when its done. Talking of Mk3 re-builds here's one that I think went into Fazakerley. Do you recognise this one FEC.

I can still feel the sun burn from the amount of heat used to haul the chassis in to shape again. Ironic that this vehicle still has the FEC contract number in the passenger side vent (636).

I recall doing the chassis alignment test, (drop test) with a group from our panel shop looking on. Thinking, if I reject it, I may have a few curves straitened.

Always in awe of our panel shop, they will have re-manufactured 90% of the damage seen in the photo. One I recall came to us flattened down to the winch drum, but went back looking new.

Did get into trouble with the panel bashes once for rejecting, "obvious witness marks in repaired area". That was my brief, "minimise evidence of repair".

Dear All,

 

And this is where I am now!

 

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This is a view I have not seen since the 70s. Rebuilding some Mk 2s and 3s with collision damage. Brave.

Too exciting for me on a Saturday morning. It a long time since I saw one of the beauties that naked.

:blush:

Hi folks

 

I got an email yesterday from a chap in the USA - and I quote his text here:

 

"Sirs,

 

I recently found your webpage while trying to find information on the Antar. I am building Accurate Armour’s Mk-2 with the fifth wheel and the instructions are lacking in showing where the brake system lines run, the air system in total really, in particular from the air tanks to the compressor.

 

Looking at your site and the restoration you did (even though yours was a Mk-3), I am hoping you might be able to provide some assistance in how the air tanks and compressor (there are 2 units attached to the frame on the right side) are plumbed so that I can add just a little more detail – hopefully in the way of a diagram or picture. I am assuming both of these items on the frame are for the air brakes, but one might be for the fuel system. I just thought a picture might help, but I am at work right now. If you need one, I can provide it to you to help what I am asking for.

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Stan"

 

No whilst I know my way around a Mk3 I am less familiar with the Mk2, so can anyone help? If so let me know and I will give you this chaps email address - or alternatively post something here and I will get him to join the forum!

 

Many thanks

Hi Guys

The user hand book at page 93 and 94 is very helpful. I will gladly copy some pages and send?

Burscough Lancs

Local get to get together.

Dear All.

Did I dream this, I recall there being a Scammell Blockbuster used by the RAF.

ive seen a picture in one of the books showing a stolly braking hard, and the back coming up! :-D

 

will look through my books see if i can find it.

I got a Mk2 to thump the road with the front towing hitch once, when a young girl ran out on me on Knowsley Village. People who witnessed it taught she was a goner until the Stolly stood in its front wheels.

Hi

Is that 636 in the front window. This denote that the vehicle was a contract overhaul at Fazakerley Engineering Co. Liverpool.

All vehicle were marked with this. It is the first three numbers of the contract identifier.

PM sent

Saw this. She may be available.

Being ignorant of them ...what is it about them that is duff ??..:-)

shame ,cos they do look good though... a proper bruiser of a thing !.

The kick-down peddle will attempt to launch you through the turret due to gearbox bus-bar adjustment. Fluid fly wheel needs constant monitoring. The accumulators when working well are fine but when not can be gitts. All the stuff buried in the engine compartment has to come out for some repairs. Other wise they are a fantastic drive and in the hands of a top driver will go like the clappers.

Wish I had one and petrol station.

Re SJ's list of Beavers, the West Yorkshire Archives Service have got the Leeds motor vehicle registration cards which will include the one for NUM593. The cards don't contain a lot of information but they do have the chassis number, so you could reduce your "unknown" list by one.

 

Their website is: http://www.archives.wyjs.org.uk/archives-leeds.asp

This is the only image I Have of of a beaver trailer and a Hippo in the back ground

When I was 16 I worked on maintaining the NHS chest Xray units. Leyland Hippo with Beaver trailers. We got to dismantle eight of them once they had been BER'd/finished with in the late 70's. The lase one I saw was tucked away in the Liverpool Royal Hospital grounds in the mid 80's. But she was in a terrible state.

One of the magic memories I have of Hippo Xray units is a chap named Jo Dash, who was the paint charge hand, hand painting the lettering on the broad side of the units. It was something mesmerising-the level of skill and perfection.

hi Bryan,

"C" vehicles and plant was a major part of my job in Workshops in 70's/early 80's, and I found the LMD a fascinating machine, but had a few weak points. Most of the problems were due to the periods out of use, when the digging chains siezed up.

regards, Richard

Have not heard you mention the dammed air cleaner. Would shock the life out of you when you were having a quiet moment.

I would have thought that the MBT's (Conqueror, Centurion and Chieftain) will be the hardest items to disperse to other museums. If they do manage to disperse them they could displace other MBT's in other collections allowing collectors to buy them. Very simplistic but could be good in the long term

What is the point of an Antar with no Cent on it's back. I will send them my address just in case they have no plans for it.

Clive I found some of the remains of these today and the data plate says shorland SB301 Mk3 but cant see the VIN

 

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We reconditioned land rover gearboxes for MOD stores (100s). Surprised to see a batch of heavyweight come through. Were they units for the APV. I say this because the main gear case was longer by 1.5" and all the constant mesh gears were double helical. Very impassiveness assembly.

14 years training and working on MOD kit, ending up as a Vehicle Examiner.

Moved to the DOT as a Vehicle Examiner.

Had some years as a Bus Fleet Engineer.

Returned to the DOT (VOSA), climbed the greasy pole.

After a period for them in India. I took the early dart offer.

Now operate a small consultancy helping transport companies and governments comply with legislation.

Been lucky really.