sharky

Hi,

 

Looking for a liitle help, guidance and direction.

 

The wife just gave me a fantastic Christmas present...

 

An FV432/30... Most of us expect aftershave, socks maybe something for the car, but No I get 17 Tonnes of fun...

 

Anyway, we have known the vehicle for the last 8 years and she is a good runner. She has a couple of known faults and we would like to try and get them sorted.

 

1. Since the vehicle arrived it has aleays had a fault with the Gearbox oil which runs hot and ends up a milky brown colour (emulsified?), has vever got any worse over the years but I would still like to get it sorted. Could any of you point me in the right direction to probable causes?

 

2. Coolant leak that a new radiator and visual power pack out inspection failed to identify but still looking.

 

3. Pretty sound but in need of a once over, current colour scheme is olive drab but keen to put it into green/black colours. Are there any specific painting schematics for this pattern or a rough guide to the green/black split?

 

Any help or direction is very gratefully recieved.

 

Happy New Year :-\

Arent you the lucky one my missus bought me a car sterio thought i was spoilt . the fault is definately heat exchanger and as ferret fixer says it s amust to fix as it wll cause problems for your gearbox. Its an awkard job to do but def worth the graised knuckles any more advice just shout up and we'll help as much as we can .

As for paint scheme no real fixed way just break up the shape as dieasal demon says ifirst one i sprayed i went on google and studied a few pics first to get the basic idea.

I think but no doubt i will be proved wrong artilery vehicles always have each corner black .

Iain

always interesting to read mike

Iain

is that jonathan who runs tanks for everything?

morning ben ,

what we do is have a visual on stick before starting just to make sure you have oil then start up run for 5 to 10 mins in gear at about 1000 revs (it says on the stick) then check level should be in safe zone

well weather permitting i should be flying from heathrow on monday to new zealand for a month to enjoy their rather nice summer 4 weeks off work,:-) oh yes

Iain

No problem at all your welcome anytime as for the conqourer i'm not sure we got one of those lined up just yet:D

Iain

Howard,

You are more than welcome to come and have a crawl round our 5.5 .Boss might want a good deal on a kit tho but the good thing is he'll get me to build it.

Just p.m me when you want to come over welcome to measure any of our other vehicles whilst your at it we have a few to choice from .

Iain

we have a 5.5 at our place, cant see the boss having a problem with you taking some photos and measurements and we are a bit nearer to you than the cobbaton collection as we are in south leicestershire.

Iain

Evening,

as long s it goes out at 800 rpm or so dont be to worried my 432 has had 3 different packs and the oil light still has a mind of its own

evening john glad you could make it hope you aint broke the marmon ?

iain

that is so apt for most of us here . brilliant;)

Will look great with a lick of paint Iain ! :nut:

thinking of having it chromed paul

It translates to 'Porton resistance movement/group'. Perhaps it was used in wargames or something?

 

Greetz

 

David

David, that would make sense and explain the camo scheme .

many thanks

iain

is that a walker bulldog in the first picture?

heres our newest vehicle at work some may rcognise it . hopefully in the next 18 month she'll be up and running any help aquiring part would be much appreciated

Iain

this becoming a proper enigma so far we have a bio hazard belonging to the south african far right ??????:nut:

on a serious note i get the dutch translation as "capacitance movement" via babel fish on the net still none the wiser, perhaps armour evaluation of some kind ???

incidently if you add the porton bit into babel fish it comes up with "poke barrell capacitance movement"

nice one Andy trust you

nice work :-)

finally got some progress on the abbot its now out of the workshop .Its not finished yet but is now on the back burner for the winter other projects are taking prioritybut drove her today and that was a nice feeling to finally have her moving on decent suspension .

I'm quite pleased with the paint aswell not bad for the bad light in the workshop .

anyway heres some pics

Iain

here is the writing on the back door maybe one of our dutch friends could translate

cheers

Iain

thru work i have met david hasselhof (ferried him about in our BV206), scot mills (radio 1 dj),

Alex James the bassist from blur ,mungo jerry, N'dubz(chav rap group) and by far the best suzie Perry:D my god she is gorgeous and really nice to go with it, just a shame the other bloke jason from the gadget show was a proper idiot,least we got to shoot him .

years ago when i lived on a narrow boat the boat moored next to us in the marina was owned by david suchet and he was such a nice bloke often had a drink with him in the summer.

Iain

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Sad old me i Goggled Porton wegelts in and this is the only posting it came up with

i could say your talking bulls**t

nice one chris for that we bought from a lad down near diss he never got it running it had starter issues and the dash was missing .

where did you get that imfo from very interesting.

Iain

thought so but didnt want to type it just incase cheers

Robin,

what does the SP reg mean?