k2lofty

Great progress, look in here every night for my fix, outstanding work and dedication, a credit to the restores art. Thank you for this wonderful thread.:bow:

Two great nights of looking in, great progress, great thread, great guys, it's all just great, well done, and thank you for sharing.

You guys are amazing-------keep up the good work,---- I find myself visiting here every night before bed, its now a habit, but a good one.

Total dedication, I look in here most nights, in my opinion the most fascinating thread on the world wide web, thank you Gentlemen. :clap:

Gentlemen, You all, more than deserve after all the hard work so far, the short and unexpected moments of real pleasure that getting to this stage of the restoration can bring, its onward and upwards from here, we are loving it and willing you on.

Great team, great thread, great work, great inspiration, JUST BLOODY GREAT ALL OF IT.

Regards lofty

Sorry I did not want to alarm you, but I would simply check that when all timing gears are fitted and marks aligned, and the crank put on TDC. (easily checked with a piston in and I know you have non at the moment) it would be a good idea to check the cam followers on the firing cylinder are both at their otimum lowest point IE both valves on that cylinder absolutely shut, and the opposite two followers on the rock, as for valve openings BTDC, providing the cams are timed correctly can do nothing but come out right as that is built into the cams, I am quietly confident all is well but this is the time to check just to be sure, as regards TDC mark its well worth marking the flywheel and the block, thus making life easier when attending to the basic IGN timing and even to allowing you the opportunity to see how near you are with a strobe, I except they are modern but it great to see you got it spot on, by ear. :blush:

Never meant to worry you but now is the time to check just to be sure

best regards to you and your crew lofty

At the point of timing all the cam sprockets to crank sprocket might be worth checking for TDC, on the crank. Although the taper pin hole lined up on the crank sprocket, could it not be half a tooth out, or even a tooth or 180 ? or did grandad drill them identically,and relative to the timing mark, or infact dot them last from TDC (OH I AM SUCH A WORRIER)

Fantastic thread, I keep up to date, and absolutly love it.

KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK---- LOFTY

Congratulations on a superb restoration, I have read the whole thread twice recently, and am thrilled for you, that all your hard work is coming to fruition, enjoy the run, and thank you for having the foresight and determination to see this job through, so others can enjoy this piece of history.

best wishes lofty

Have posted a few pictures of my K2 Y ambulance. First saw it after going in the search for spares and stupidly thought that something could be made of it!! Excuse the pictures, they are pictures of pictures as the scanner doesn't seem to be working. Curse these modern tools...

 

Jerry

Keep going kid,they are worth it,have attached some pics before and after, of the K2 I done, (took 6 years) to spur you on, if you get stuck in should be done for Beltring 2020, best of luck LOFTY, by the way, on ww2 talk , 23 years of my k2, loads of restoration pictures, might be of some help,

Hi Malcolm

I wouldn´t take the illusion, but how can you identify that it is the Austin K2/Y Ambulance.

On the chassis is lorry cab, it looks like as GS lorry.

 

 

1st, take the measures of the chassis!! It looks like the K2 chassis or any more. The K2 has 192" and the K3 has 225" and 6/16"

 

2nd, find the shock suspenders, or the holes for the suspenders on the chasis, the axles have for the suspenders the eyes. Only the K2/Y Ambulance theyr have.

 

3th, the chassis No. will help more

 

 

Radek

Hi Radek, AUSTIN K2/A GS is the same chassis as K2Y with shocks fitted like the ambulance

Interestingly I believe the k2A was supplied mainly to the RAF for airfield use, as only one fuel tank, Is the Malta K2 a k2/A as this makes it more rare than an ambulance, it is marked RAF, this should be checked before ripping it into an ambulance regards LOFTY-----on looking again at pictures it has no drivers side fuel tank straps, will bet it turns out to be a k2A very rare, dont spoil it.

Hi everyone, came across this site and found it very refreshing to find so many members interested in British vehicles, I bought a k2 ambulance and restored it over a period of 6 years, finished in 1993, have driven it for 25,000 mls since, summer and winter,quite a lot of that in europe, its been a great friend.

This is a great site, so enough of this and back to the Dennis restoration,and on from there to the Austin pages

regards LOFTY