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I've had a look at the GTB blog, also had a look on Google but couldn't find one with a Garwood winch. It looks like the drum itself comes in 3 parts, is this normal for a Garwood winch? The other ones I've had in the past have had drums that are cast in one piece. There's always the posibility that the winch has been stripped and swapped around to suit a different application, the rally season is starting soon, I'll start looking round vehicles when I go to the shows. One of the winches I had before took about 6 months to identify it, it wasn't until I went to the Muckleburgh collection that I found it was off the front of a White half track.

It sounds like spontaneous combustion to me!:cool2:

We've talked about the 4 cylinder Perkins earlier on, I went and had a look at a Dodge 75 today at one of my customers, he is converting to camper so took a couple of pics of the engine bay.

Here'a some better pictures to help with identification.

I had a chance to steam clean it today, made a novice mistake though when removing the cable, I'll sort out the big tangle when I get a chance. But the cable is in excellent condition, still in it's red packing grease. The dog clutch is rusted to the shaft, the arm is bend and I can't quite work out by how much, the shaft support bush on the dog side is seized to the shaft and turning in the yolk. I've given it all a good coating of WD40 so I'm sure it will all free off. The winch model number is 2U 512 and the serial number is A-216875.

I've picked up another Garwood winch today and the chap thought it originally from a GMC truck, I've had a quick scan on the the dreaded internet, the only thing I've found similar was on a Zil forum. Weren't the Zil's based on GMC design? The identification is more for personal interest. There is one thing I noticed that I haven't seen before, there's been a series of holes drilled in the winch drum on the dog clutch side and a spring loaded peg, I presume this is to lock the drum into position.

Quite surprised how little restoration information has been posted on the QL, found a few pictures on flicker but not as many as I was expecting, I hadn't seen the one in your link before Mike.

I couldn't recommend Ifor Williams trailers highly enough, I have a 14ft beaver tail and it's taken everything in it's stride from Minis to Range Rover P38, using it for picking up truck engines and bits of plant. Mine has no sides but I've seen them with sides, the ramps are fairly light and easy to handle, the trailers construction is very strong but light weight. On a flat hard surface you can easily push it about as long as you wind the jockey wheel down and get the weight on the back axle. As for loading, you'll soon work out where your load needs to be, I tend to drive or winch the vehicles on forwards and get the load over the axles as evenly as possible. The only thing I would say, make sure you've got a decent tow hitch, I recommend Dixon Bate adjustable hitch with a ball and pin as it's more versatile. Fit standard height heavy duty rear springs and decent shocks on the Disco.

I've come across a far few different engines in Landrovers over the last few years, I've got to admit the 200TDI is the winner hands down in a Landrover, I think I've now done about 30 TDI conversions in Defenders and Series. I had a 110 with a Perkins 4236 turbo in, it was actually quite good, very nippy but I can't remember what the gearing was. My 110 station wagon has got a 3.5 TDI Nissan in it which is supposed to be 170hp and 266 lbft, if the parts were easy to get hold of I wouldn't hesitate to put one of these in, it's been a very good engine. I did consider bolting two 200TDIs together to make a straight 8 but it just worked out too complicated to do it how I wanted to, the idea was to couple the engines with an electronically operated clutch so you could run on 4 or 8 cylinders (it's a silly idea but I had lots of 200TDI engines laying around). I plumb instead for a 150hp Cummins, I just bought the whole truck and stripped out what I wanted. I wanted the turbo version so I could have an exhaust brake. Was talking to an old boy today who tinkers with older vehicles and he seems to think the Cummins would be the best option. Somebody else suggested moving the cab back and fitting a bonnet if I'm not going to do it original. I don't think I'd do this but it would be interesting to see what it looked like. But I'm in no hurry.

Yeah the Cummins 4 cylinder out of the 45 were a nice engine but the old 4 cylinder phase engines out of the Renault Dodge 50 with it's Spicer box would fit easier but I haven't got either of those, I've got the 6 cylinder with a ZF 5 speed box. I'll have to go and have a look.

Would be interested some photographs, it's definately looking tight in the engine bay for the Cummins, be a pitty, it's a damn good engine. I would be interested to see how somebody else has tackled the problem and as usual I can't seem to find anything on the internet about engine conversions for the QL or post war civi conversions. But it could just be me being thick. There was a book about post war military vehicle conversions but I can't remember what it's called.

Well spent most of Saturday making room to get the QL in the building, put my spare ramp outside for pressure washing and waxoyling, just glad to get it in out of the elements, just have to wait now until I can find the bits I need to get it going again.

Are, so I take it that would just equate to an SAE 90 GL1 with an anti-foaming agent. I suppose anything higher than GL2 would bugger the axles up. No that's not the name I've been given, perhaps I misheard, I do have a memory like a sive.

Thanks for the offer Niels, I'll definately take you up on that in the near future. Be interesting to know about interchangablity of parts from later models and other Bedfords from the period.

Runflat - I think I was given the chaps telephone number today by somebody walking past the yard today who saw the truck, that's a hell of a coincidence. NOS it sounds like a days work, oh god! Spent a couple of hours steam cleaning the chassis, looks a bit better now, well cleaner, all that WD40 I've been spraying on bits will actually penitrate now rather than just soaking into the dirt. I've added a couple of pics of where the chassis is hacked off at the back by some monkey with a gas axe, must have been wearing a blind fold as well. There is also some rather nasty flakey corrosion on the chassis channels, the worst bit being where the chassis cross member is behind the cab. Have found some markings on the front axle casing, looks like it's on the original paint work that doesn't steam off as easily. They are OEP220.

The more I look at your QL the more I reallise is missing from mine.

No, I saw one at the back of Ipswich last year, I was going to pick up and engine, I just can't remember where it was. Yes I definately still want those rims, I've just been busy with other things lately. Do we still need to get the tyres off (I haven't made my thingamybobit). Cheers mate.

That's marvellous mate. I have been given two wheels today for it, got to go and collect them from a little village, thanks to Richard Cowles who transported the truck for me.

Definately interested Glen if you could find out how much he wants and some pics. My books arrived today, it'll take me a while to get through them. I saw that QL in the scrap yard thread, is that the yard the north side of Ipswich and I thought it had gone. If I remember correctly there was one sitting in a derelict yard the other side of Norwich. Neils - nice QL wrecker

Cheers for that. What did the seats look like? I have noticed that mine has not got the slots for the bar that goes round the front of the radiator. I think I might have to look for a QL with a rotten cab as there's so much missing to put it back to anything near original. Buying the parts here and there will end up costing a fortune. I may just put it back on the road as best I can as a light recovery truck.

I forgot, I renewed my subscription to Classic & Vintage Commercial and got a free book, Bedfords at War, which came today. Just had a quick look while having my lunch, I like the half track prototype and the tractor and fixed trailer, but there's no recovery trucks, I'm surprised that they weren't converted for light recovery. Niels - yeah saw that, but no cap unfortunately, I would have most probably had a bid if it had a cap on it. Any chance anybody could furnish me with some detailed pictures of the cab so I can work out which holes are supposed to be there and which are just happy driller syndrome. And what went under the passenger side seat, the air filter? Cheers Adam

Cheers for that, somebody had said before about the Bedford to Berlin book, but I have ordered both from Amazon so hopefully they'll be here at the end of the week. The plate above the chassis number has been torn off, there's no plates anywhere else, the cab looks like it's been sand blasted at some point so it's probable that I won't find any numbers there. The back of the chassis has been really badly hacked off, which sums up my feeling about this as well. It would be nice to drive an original one for the experience, could I do better than driver Twisik?:nut: I've got some steam cleaning to do this week so I'll clean it for a proper assessment and hopefully get it under cover soon.

Cheers Richard, I did wonder about that. So is there some pictures of these weired and wonderful conversions on the internet that I can peruse as you've peaked my interest? I don't know about a nice truck, there's quite a bit missing, that's all I got unfortunately. The chassis number is QLT11xxx. Is it possible to find out where it served and it's military registration?

I had a good look at it yesterday, it is a bit tight in that engine bay. Had a go at getting the petrol engine running, it turns over but needs a new distributer cap and the proper carb. I thought these engines were only 28hp but I did a search on the internet and it came up with 70hp. Found the chassis number, it's a QLT how do you work out what year it is, hopefully will be able to attach photos. There's a makers plate on the back of the chassis that says Allan Taylor, Wandsworth, SW18 would this be the original body builders makers plate or is this something from later on in the lorrys life? Apparently it was used on a farm for years, according to the speedo it's only cover 36k miles, whether this is correct or the speedo is broken I'm not sure.

I wasn't thinking of fitting a P6, I was just curious to see how they got one in there. To be honest I've got a Cummins 5.9 130bhp n/a which would be more than adequate and I'd be able to afford to run it which is a pity because the petrol engine looks like it's been overhauled and before somebody suggests LPG, I'm not a fan, I'd rather put up with the noise from the diesel. It was nice of you to offer the engine though utt61, if you had been closer I may have had it off you anyhow. Niels - I haven't decided what to do with it yet, I had a sneaking suspicion it was a tanker, there are some large square brackets on the side of the chassis and there's none of the bracketing shown in your pictures, but this could have been a post war conversion, there's also an aluminium makers plate on the rear cross member. mogmaner - thanks for the info mate. Oh well I'm going to go and pick it up on Saturday morning, we have the lorry booked, preparing for my wife to say 'what the bl**dy hell have you bought now' when she actually sees the vehicle without the rose tinted glasses which I have been wearing!