TooTallMike

Scrap them! Scrap them all! Makes those that are left more valuale.... :whistle:

I'm gonna wash your mouth out with caustic you little %^*$£!!!

I've been told the 22R was prone to low oil pressure. I don't know why though and I don't know what the cure is either :dunno:

Many Rover V8s have almost zero oil pressure when hot but last for years nonetheless. Hopefully the same will go for yours :-)

I shall be there with the rest of the rable that is known as the Gulf War Society!! :-D

 

Excellent stuff! When are you going? I'll be leaving around 06:00 on the Friday. I want to clear the M25 before the rush hour. Grasshopper is thinking of following around 09:00. According to multimap it's about 120 miles so I'd hope to be there late morning.

Hi Clive, I've got some to test too if that's ok?

Hopefully see you there.

- Mike

Who's going then? And where & when are we all going to meet up? I'm taking the Ward & MUTT. Grasshopper will be in the pickup. Fingers crossed for sun!

I'm afraid he's asking way too much for that one but there's a story attached as to why :whistle:

The one I mentioned I advertised on here a couple of months ago; it's still available and has just made it onto Milweb too. It's had a Daf diesel fitted to the original 'box. It's had lots of civvy mods so it'll never be an original truck but it's very usable and practical as is. Think of it as 'product improved', eg. steel chequer-plate rear floor, twin-circuit air brakes, diesel engine etc. The front brake work needed is very minor and could be done in a couple of hours by someone not a million miles away if the price was right (beer). Other than that it does need a coat of green as it's not a very pretty shade at the mo. I've got a lot of the bits needed to return it to soft top and the correct seating config. It's in Camberley, Surrey.

By the way Jack, if you want to join the exclusive UKWLFOC I know where there's another diesel one available not too far from here :evil:

..are we meeting up at Bolero :evil:

Sadly I can't go as I'd already booked that weekend for going camping with my non-MV friends. I'm going to show them what proper camping involves. Apparently they all have tiny comedy two-man ridge tents; I'll have a 110 Land Rover with a 9x9 attached to the rear and double airbed etc. Luxury!

Do you want me to give Grasshopper a slap for you? :box: (I don't mind :whistle:)

If you fancy getting your hands dirty on Friday afternoon after that office furniture job, feel free to pop by our place in Coulsdon and wrestle some 11:00 x 20s :-)

ps. Great pic's! As a relative young'un it's interesting to see shots of the early days of shows like Beltring, if only to see stuff which no longer comes out. Where do things like that ambulance hide now?

Sure you didn't mean to add one of these at the end there?: :banme:

If you're looking at the 2 on Milweb I'd suggest you talk to Rex Ward first. Parts are available but he'll give you the low down on the work involved as he's rebuilt dozens.

Prices are about right though., but talk about needing a nut and bolt resto... especially the one with the saggy bottom!

Looks like maybe this should be next year's campaign subject then.

Just remembered I have a reference pic showing the two cranes intertwined :hug:!

The crane on the Autocar is the W45 taken from a DT. Clearly it's mounted higher here but you can see it has a less substantial frame, boom and jack arrangement and far less reach.

Everything involving DVLA is painful but the more paperwork you can get, the less bad it'll be. It's all they're interested in. Any time they have to use initiative the whole thing will grind to a halt but if you can provide the right bits of paper they'll be happy. If you can get a registration document with it you're pretty much home and dry. Oh, and don't tell them it's American.

Try a new condenser :-D

 

Have a read of this http://www.hmvf.co.uk/pdf/TESTINGCONDENSERSRW.pdf

 

Agreed, that sounds very much like a condenser beginning to fail.

They were complimentary vehicles. Basic difference is that the DT is on a 4-ton chassis, whereas the WLF is a 6-tonner. Ok, those designations don't mean an awful lot outside the military but the point is they are different sized vehicles. The DT was a medium wrecker, the WLF a heavy wrecker.

DT has 2 booms of 5 tons capacity each which can be used linked together or separately. They are powered in luff and hook raise/lower but not in slew, WLF M1A1 has a single boom of 7 tonnes capacity which is full-powered. This means the DT may be more versatile as a wrecker while the Ward is more like a crane.

DT has a larger engine so obviously its power/weight ratio is much better being lighter as well. This is why most of them retained their petrol engines while the WLFs were commonly dieselised. Being heavier, the WLF is a better tow vehicle and it also has a 21-ton rear winch which the DT lacks. They both have front self-recovery winches.

That's all I can come up with off the top of my feeble nut. There's probably more to come if you're not bored yet...

Was the WLF introduced because the DT couldn't proform its job - did the war effort need a heavier wrecker? Was the WLA over kill?

WLA's a motorbike... :whistle:

Oi! stop encouraging grasshopper, I'm very sensitive you know :cry: In fact if he's not careful I might not let him work on my vehicles any more.

ps. it was the left one and it's still hurty.

Any idea why one side has a smaller diameter than the other?

 

Do you mean one side of the vehicle is different to the other or just the susp. arm hole vs. link arm hole diameters?

Sorry, yes, our description was referring to the Armstrong install which is what we presume you're trying to achieve?

Matt,

There should be a metalastic bush in the suspension arm with a plain rod sticking out. The link arm just slides on to this.

- Grasshopper and Mike

I used to own two Matador wreckers, and i can testify to there winching capabilities, having rescued a few vehicles at shows. When Mike used it to tow something at a show one day, he told me that the clutch had been slipping. I replied that it could not have been, as it was new, and someone had reported that the front wheels had left the ground while he was towing!

 

It was a full-size artic unit with a ploughing engine on board bogged down to its axles. We were going to winch it out but I thought I'd just give it a tug 1st and it more or less pulled straight out. Happy days :-)

CMS Commercials at Paddock Wood (where's that then...? :-)) have loads of 2nd -hand HIABS in stock from teenies to biggies and their prices seem quite sensible.

CMS 01892 832418

- Mike

Just bumping this one up again folks. The MV area has just got a bit bigger and Grasshopper has promised to single-handedly get both CVRTs finished in time to play on the off-road course. I've also been told I'm doing a tree-winching demo which sounds sufficiently dangerous to be good fun :evil:

I'm up for other people getting me drunk. No problem with that! :nut: