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Very impressive job you guys are doing!

Terry, there is a restriction on "military-type" spares being imported, this was from England. I had the same story from 3 or 4 sources, who were keen to do business. The spares was readily available but permitting and red-tape unfortunately put an end to that. I never tried getting spares from Oz. Do you have an idea as to how many sarry's were exported to Oz, from the info I had gathered at some point in time, it could not have been more than thirty or so? I will look up your email address again and put in some effort to send you the info that I have.

Toner, I had similar thoughts at some point but after I had a bevel gear repaired, the thought had evaporated! The wheel station in question was covered on Page 5 of this thread. Here is a pic...

No progress at all, still trying to find wheel reduction spares, importing is no good, so stuck between a rock and a hard place at the moment. Good news about your sarry! I have been out of circulation for a while, have you managed to get all the manuals/ info you were looking for?

Another South African Army Saracen. It is the first South African which I have seen that appears not be a Saracen 88 version

What would be the story behind that?

Another highly modified version

Borrowed from facebook from a friend

Is nobody ever going to post a video on how to drive a sarry? From the inside, showing the routine that the driver goes through, driving it??? PLEASE???

I learn't something too! How does it hold the plug, is it magnetic?

These look very nice manfactured in Stainless Steel! What grade was used?

Beautiful, hope you have lots of fun!

First parade on a South African Saracen in the '80's

What a shame! Stole this one of facebook. Another Saracen88!!

No sir, we have had plenty promisses but nothing solid to date :cry: http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?19162-Help-with-driving-my-saracen

Picture is not very clear but here you go, I used stainless rod but pretty much any material will do?

Oily, you may pick up something from when I wrestled through adjusting the settings on this one's gearbox [htmlHappy new Year to all of you and may prosperity bore you! My year started of well with me eventually getting round to spend some time on the gearbox. Having first read up in the manual regarding the slack on the gear pedal, mine definitely was not adjusted correctly. After battling for quite a while adusting this way and that way, it seemed that I had my 1/2" clearance between the pedal and the bulkhead. After bolting everything down and checking the clearance, I was satisfied that it was a job well done. Great was my shock when cycling the gearbox! it was in neutral and all of a sudden the pedal stayed well down. Flabergasted I shifted the gearlever to 1st gear and nearly got my knee against my chin from the kickback! 2nd gear and 4th gear gave the same results as 1st gear returning solidly against the bulkhead with no play whatsoever!. 3rd gear is mild in comparison and left some play to the bulkhead. 5th gear in turn is even milder with even more play between pedal and bulkhead. My opinion is that the gearbox adjustments are way off and needs to be opened. Your opinions, please. Oh, and another thing, what is the "pedal up" procedure, please? I don't seem to pick it up in the manuals that I have. ][/html] http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?16817-Saracen-Build-up/page37

Interesting question, Oily! I also battled with the gearbox adjustments in my sarry but with Richard's help over Skype, we managed to sort it. It was not taken for a test drive yet as the ultimate test, but all other tests proved satisfactory. There was a bit of a write up in that sarry rebuild thread of mine. Did you win with the missing page from your manual? My sarry still has that leaking centre bevel box, though!

Good show, looking forward to it!

Great news, Oily!!

Saracen 88's in use by the Transvaal Scottish Regiment during the 1980's

Why the blue lights, was it used for law enforcement?

I have attached a few pictures showing the mount and before you ask it currently sports a .303 water pipe! I like this! Very original!

Great! Can you find the registration number of it?