montie

How was the flail drum driven, as a matter of interest? I can't make out how from the pics. The chains must have taken a beating probably require a lot of replacement?

Welcome!

That's remarkably similar to this animated avatar one I found somewhere:

 

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The similarity is astounding!hehehe

Hi Richard,

 

Fortunately that problem was sorted with a specially turned-up tap.

 

Interestingly, when checking the threads with a thread gauge, the metric 1.25mm pitch rides ever so slightly on the plug threads whereas the 20 teeth per inch fits perfectly. Checking the plug outside diameter, it comes to a perfect 30.02 mm as against the 1 and 3/16" that should measure 30.1625mm.

 

So, I had the "tap" turned up to 30mm OD and 20 teeth per inch. Voila, everybody happy!

So this morning, being a public holiday with perfect weather, I tackled the damaged thread on the Lower suspension arm with the "tap", the tap is a bit on the soft side, but after dressing the tap and the plug threads with a thread file, dressing the entrance of the plug hole with a rotary file, a lot of grunting, shoving, bitching, lubricating, swearing, the hole threads were chased, plug reinstalled and wheel replaced. Now I am all smiles.

I have been promised useable wheel reduction box spares from England at a reasonable price at the end of this month, so the next obstacle will be that dreaded wheel reduction box. I am rather nervous about the correct assembly of this wheel station, I don't want to see a repeat!

Last big challenge will be the replacement the oil seals on the lefthand centre bevel box. Have already procured the seals, so it is a matter of taking things apart for the replacements!

An avatar is quite small, so one don't really see the details. Mine for example, is a picture af a painting commemorating the return of the boers after being banished to Ceylon, after the 2nd Boer war, following the defeat by England. On returning home to their farms, all they found were burnt-down farm dwellings and graves.

This particular photo depicts such a farmer on his return. For me, this it is heart-rending.

The under-writing means, when loosely translated:

"It is the clear, it is the blue:

it is the field, it is the sky:

and a bird winging overhead in a lonesome flight--

thats all.

It is abannished returned over the ocean.

It is a grave in the grass.

It is a falling teardrop--

Thats all"

Hi Andy, welcome and please, do post pics!

Ouch!!, fortunately it will not be "Range wrecked"!

Welcome! You will, there are a few walking encyclopedias on this forum!!

Hi and welcome!

Post some photos, friend, it always helps.

Looks like great fun you are having! Welcome in!

Hello all..

I am interested in a scammel that was used by EARAT .. someone on the forum boards has a photo of the machine in dover... My dad is amost certainly the driver. I would love to see it.

I have a photo of the machine and her minders working. Dad cant remeber where the pic was taken. I would be happy to share if any one wants to see it.

If any one want to know about the beast I can remember quite a lot about it and what i cant remember i can get it from the horses mouth..

 

Tina x

Welcome! Pics are always appreciated and the Scammel is a handsome beast....

This Saracen 88 is still used today by a security company for crowd control in South Africa and is seeing regular service!

I will have a look to see whether I have something that might help. I unfortunately don't have any experience on the "English Saracens" as I have a South African "Saracen 88" version myself.

Does anyone have Saracen manuals they could send me? I have an acquaintance with a Saracen with an issue they are trying to diagnose and I wanted to surprise him with the manuals. I will PM my email addy to keep it private, just let me know.

 

Thanks,

Chris

Welcome to the forum, espescially if you are Saracen inclined! There is a great variety of manuals for the Saracen out there, not all of them easily available. I have been battling with manuals myself but through the kind people on the forum, managed to get hold of a few. What specifcally are you looking for or what are your mate having a problem with? Better yet, help him join the forum, you will do him an even bigger favour! Their are walking encyclopedias on this forum with knowledge not readily found in manuals either!:-D

With the ticks over here we take the oil from an engine dipstick and flood their rear ass..etts as this is where they breath. They have no choice but to back out, head and all. Northern bush trick with an automotive slant.

Drew

Problem is that they regurgitate before letting go!. You don't feel them walking on you and their bite is painless (apparently they aenesthetise the skin where they bite), it is best to inspect oneself every day as you need to find them before 24 hours lapse. They also bond to the skin at the bite. They then drink and then start regurgitating small amounts after that.

Of all the methods, the safest one is the little crowbar method, hook them as close to the skin as possible to bet hold of the head parts, apply some pressure and after 30 seconds or so, they come off. To much force and their head parts break off. Any other method where you apply petrol, parafin, wax, oil, detergents or any such things, causes them to reguritate as they struggle to undo the bonding effect, and unhook the teeth. Also, their "teeth" hooks to the outside! Try not to touch them by hand either and if you do, wash your hands very carefully with soap.

Montie, here is a recent photo of my poor old girl. I don't know if I said or not, but this is the actual one I drove from 1969 to 1971. (It still has my name scratched in the right forward outside locker.) With only 28 in Australia, I had a one in twenty eight chance of getting the right one.

 

During 1971 I was on exercise in the Little Desert south of Nhill, Victoria, with the 4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse and the gearbox was playing up and it was taken away for repair. I didn't know what happened to her but later found out that she nextt appeared around 1973 in Victory Park in Shepparton Victoria with the left back door removed and all the hatches welded up for the kids to climb on and in. The engine and radiator was removed by the local shire for later use as a pump engine or such. After a multi death shooting episode at Port Arthur in Tasmania in 1998, quite a few Shires removed any thing connected with guns etc. from their parks including this Saracen. Colin Anderson from Shepparton obtained it and onsold it to me. The Army delivered it to my home on the back of an M113 transport trailer along with a Unimog with the engine and radiator on board. (I had dropped a hint to the WO. of a Army recovery unit that it might be a good training exercise to recover a dead Saracen and deliver it to my place. The best 2 slabs of beer I have ever bought.) I had it for about 6 months before I was able to confirm that it was my Saracen. (The locker was sealed up and I had not opened it.) My old RSM had photos of her including one of me driving it and showing the ARN 115378.

 

I am in need of a left rear door and the fan covers if someone has some out there. The vehicle needs quite a bit of work to bring it back to use. There are no electrics and the steering pump and accumultator pump are also missing plus a host of smaller items. Oh well! One day we'll get into her and get her back on the road. (We are currently building a new shed for her and then a sandblast will clean her up and we will see some progress.)

 

Hope this helps your records.

 

Regards Rick

Hi Rick,

This is/was the info I had on your Saracen; 81BA97 524 115378, Privately owned by Rick Cove

The pic will help and I will add it to the register (which needs a lot more work!)

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Hi Rich,

 

Answer is .. yes ! You have to lift the boxes up, pivoting around outputs, in order to separate, so this also allows access to lower nuts. Check the EMER, it should show the procedure.. Slacken clamps on transfer box to allow pivoting.

Richard to the rescue as always! Rich, you are on to the right man with valuble info!

Welcome! Do post some pics of it, here are lots of people that can guide you in the right direction.

Hi Rodney, I will dig in the Saracen register, also search for Saracen on Youtube, Safariwing uploaded a Saracen tribute video a while ago.

There you go!

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?19529-What-!-No-Saracen-Gallery&highlight=saracen+register

I have gone through the register, lots of pics but very little detail. Oily does have antennas on his Sarry, maybe you can PM him?

Beautiful!!

Condolances, sir.

Nice job.

The front looks rather nead..

Personally I would have gone for the NI 5 bar gate look

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alvis_Saracen_Mk_2_front_HKMCD.JPG

Well in this case a HK 4 bar gate.

 

Mike

Thanks, I now have a better pic of this particular vehicle for the Saracen register! Alaskan, do you have the vehicle number of your sarry as shown on this pic? I'd like to add your's to the register as well....

So help me understand please. In the photo of the engine it appears to show the outlet for the compressor side of the turbo terminating near the front right corner of the radiator. Is that somehow hard plumbed into the intake side of the motor?

 

I will also assume it is no longer reverse flow cooling so the hot radiator air will be exiting the beehives just in front of the driver's hatch. I suppose in Alaska weather that will likely be a good thing.

 

Your video does look like it drives easily and it will certainly be one of a kind. Congratulation on a large project completed very quickly.

 

Regards,

 

Bob

Hi Bob, the open end of the turbo is the intake which will probably ducted to a cold air intake somewhere. I am also in awe of their accomplishment:shocked: