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You have a Scorpion with good visibility, do the test in that... not being as wide will be a great help too. If you know how to drive it then you shouldn’t need to worry.

Been here since Sunday. Those moaning about not enough armour maybe haven’t explored the site enough. There’s the Challenger, 2 Centurions, T34, Super Sherman, Stug, lots of 432s, CVRTs, OT90, dozens of half tracks to name a few.

It’s been very hot and dusty but the main toilets and showers have been good all week. Away from the main roads it’s quite relaxed. When the public go home the roads come alive, then there’s Medway field with everyone running flat out down the back straight. 

Trader numbers are down and prices are up, but if they want to sit at home and do website orders you can’t force them to come. 

Is the pressure relief valve fitting clear where it goes through the hull? Mine usually leaks a bit from there on a good run. If it’s blocked it might cause pressure to build up.

Try http://www.comptons2000.co.uk/

The paint colour in NATO Green BS381C shade 285. You should have no problem buying it online. Try Trade Paints, Marcus Glenn, eBay or get it mixed at your local supplier.

There is a tow bar which fits across the back door of a Spartan etc. Some turreted variants have the 2 attachment points for this, most only have one towing eye in the middle. You won’t find a photo of anyone towing anything with a turreted variant other than another disabled vehicle because they never needed to tow a trailer with a recce vehicle in service. They had trucks for that.

Have you tried looking for it on thexmod.com? 

5 minutes ago, Zero-Five-Two said:

Oops!! Didn't do it intentionally, Hopefully a mod will sort it out 

Deleted the duplicate. 😃

I've only had a few issues in 15 years or so of ownership.

The first Spartan broke down the first time out because the fuel tank was full of water and debris. Got home by rigging up some clean petrol into the carb. A few years later at Beltring in 2007 in the mud we lost steering in one direction, resolved by cleaning the cylinders and bleeding again.

My Sabre broke down at Beltring in 2011 due to a dodgy coil. Worked fine when it had cooled down, but embarrassing when doing a convoy round the site. I replaced the coil with one bought in the stalls.

The diesel Spartan was delivered at the farm and ran perfectly fine when thrashed around the fields etc. When I drove it home it died in about the same spot as the petrol Spartan, water and debris in the fuel tank. Got it home and on the drive with the help of an RB44. It also broke down in Hythe on a road run when the nut holding the ball joint for the throttle cable on came loose and bounced around the engine bay. We towed it back to the camp site with the Striker.

Scimitar drove into its first show in a smoke screen, resolved by backing off the handbrake bands a bit. 

I've also been called out to rescue a Striker when the final drive locked up on a roundabout. We removed the track on that side and towed it home. 

Loss of rubber on the wheels is also a common problem, I always take a spare anywhere we go, along with a recovery A frame.

1 hour ago, andym said:

I presume this is a rehearsal for Armed Forces Day tomorrow?

Andy

Probably practice for this?

https://www.raf.mod.uk/raf100/news/10-july-centenary-celebrations/

The oiler should be at the top, you have it on upside down. 

Order one from the same place the MoD do. They are good to deal with.

http://www.comptons2000.co.uk/

The 'Bling' Ferret may well have suited the taste of the guy who built it, but it was for sale on and off for more than 10 years without finding a buyer. If it was left stock it would have sold no problem. This is the point I was making about keeping all the parts. 

26 minutes ago, MiketheBike said:

I am sure someone has it.....they just don't dare admit it

DVLA shows it’s not been taxed since 2015.

You could try buying this book:

http://www.bookworldws.co.uk/9011-tankograd-british-special-recce-p-3346.html

others in the series are also good.

Not sure why you need camo on your vehicle, with all those shiny bits etc?

This is the correct tail pipe for yours:

https://www.thexmod.com/item_detail.asp?id=12647&t=Pipe_Exhaust_Tail_Pipe_FV839432

it should point out parallel to the ground.

24 minutes ago, Diana and Jackie said:

I must ask the next electrician I see if I can have hollow cables as the inside bit isn't any good and I am paying for it 🙂

 

Diana

Think of the cost savings if we could get away with hollow cables everywhere...

That mount is only of any use to you if you want to mount a Bren. There is a similar one for a GPMG. If you want to mount anything else you'll need to either make one up or find out what vehicle that kind of gun might have been mounted on and investigate what mounts exist.

Are you sure they are sealed beam units? Undo the clips and have a look. They should be standard 7” headlamp units as fitted to Land Rover Etc.

Malcolm,

the diesel gearbox has a different input module with different gearing.

Chris 

Usually the gun that’s meant to be there. You need some drain pipe.

Looks like I’m sorted thanks to someone on Facebook. 

Annoyingly I broke a middle ring while replacing the piston rings on the GPW engine. I put it in the piston ring pliers and it broke in half before I had even stretched it over the piston. All other rings went on fine.

I don’t want to buy a complete set if I can help it. Can anyone suggest a source for a single piston set, or has anyone done the same as me and now has some spares? 

Thanks in advance!

Chris 

Do you have a parts list? Try looking up the part number on thexmod.com

9 minutes ago, Richard Farrant said:

You seem to be implying that the fans are driven off the J60 camshaft? Wrong!

Fans are driven by toothed belt from the crankshaft. When the J60 was in service I have fitted ones built for CVR(T) in to the Fox when engines were unavailable and it was only a question of swapping some external components including crankshaft pulley.

Richard

Perhaps a copy of the parts book and or user manual might aid understanding? As Richard says, the engines are the same. We swapped a T engine to a W engine for our Fox, as have many others.

If you need a crank shaft fan drive flange I might be able to help.