zoltan

Yes, mine has a faulty starter motor too, I've lost count of the number of times I've rebuilt the solenoid. Good luck with finding something that works for more than five minutes. The modern offerings don't seem to be very much better, same story with the copper disc burning out on the contacts as on the old ones

Is this the black one in Leicester?

I thought the traffic plan/system was excellent, gone were the horrible queues to get through the arena and then sit for ages in the one-way system further on. Instead the two way over by the NLBA/Helicopter worked well and the marshals ushered vehicles through the arena road efficiently. If the show is at the race course for the next two years then it's good news that the traffic system has finally been sussed.

Maybe has something to do with the amount of ethanol they've sneaked into pump fuel?

Anyone care to shoot a message to the mods at the Russiamilitarytrucks.com forums and ask them to activate member beefcake?

 

Been waiting..my account seems to be de-activated...

 

Thanks!

Just seen your post on RMT, if you could re-register it should go through OK this time. We've been hit with a large number of spammers in the last week so it has kept us busy dealing with that. I can only think your application got mixed up in all that. Sorry for that!

We think we have problems. What are the trucks. Urals or Gaz?

Urals,

The first posters clip contains one indisputable truth.... the RR Merlin and also probably the Griffion were the most important aircraft / boat / tank engines of WW2... the Merlin and the engines its design, all be it in modified form in boats and tanks brought about , did very much win the war . :-D

RR know a thing or two about making superb aero engines which is why it is slightly galling that their name is being hauled through the mud somewhat with the present A380 problems

What system do you have on Russian trucks? Do tell!

Chas.

Hydraulic on my Gaz

Also they thoughtfully provided a petrol preheater to heat the engine coolant and sump oil before you start the truck (which is petrol powered :embarrassed:)

Luckily they have figured all of this out on Russian trucks :-D

Finally getting some depth of snow on Romney Marsh, this earlier on of the Gaz

and of course it will be taking the kids to school tomorrow (which won't be open)

What did you manage to attach the lifting cable to on the mixer?

My Gaz 66 would like to come, especially if Rob is making curry

So if you were considering an engine up grade and the vehicle in question had a high/low transfer box would it be reasonable to regard the diffs in the axles to be strong enough due to the fact it was designed to be used in low range and with that type of gear reduction the increase in torque must be quite considerable ? so would that be a reasonable thought that the old engine in low range produces x amount of torque so if you were to fit a more powerful engine but used it in high range the drive train still gets x amount of torque. This is not taking into consideration the transfer box of gear box as these will be having more put through them directly from the engine.

I have a Gaz 66 and on that you must move into 4WD before you can select low ratio through the transfer box so that the increased torque from low ratio is split between the two axles

Would you be only using high range post engine upgrade?

True but only in length,very modular construction...

You need one of these for your collection for sure!

If my memroy serves me correctly the Loyus Elise had ceramic discs and standard pads on the production models.

The prototype hay have had fully ceramic brakes. I also believe they took a preproduction one to the Alps to do some testing.

Ceramic brakes (pads and discs are rumoured not to wear out.

 

Mike

The early Elise's used MMC, metal matrix composite which was a matrix of aluminium with ?silicon carbide? particles distributed in the matrix. Essentially an aluminium disc but one which had much better stability at elevated temperatures and due to the silicon carbide virtually wear resistant. Only machinable with diamond tooling. Dropped in favour of cast iron on later cars.

The Porsche/Audi ceramic disc is carbon fibre matrix with silicon carbide particles. That is said to be almost immune to wearing but I gather Porsche have had multiple warranty battles with customers whose brakes have worn out prematurely. At £5k a corner you can understand why customers might be a bit uppity. The manufacturer of the material is SGL

http://www.sglgroup.com/cms/international/products/product-groups/bd/carbon-ceramic-brake-disks/index.html?__locale=en

Yes, the powder is expensive, but nowhere near as expensive as the equipment required to spray it! More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_spraying#Plasma_spraying

 

Chris

I have to confess, having said that coating discs could be dangerous that we used to manufacture aluminum rear brake drums for classic cars with plasma sprayed friction linings and although expensive compared to our competitors who cast steel rings in,ours were pretty reliable and very light.

Too much heat could cause delamination so we only recommended them for the rear. One benefit of the plasma spray was being able to adjust the powder mix to put plenty of copper in and achieve very good heat transfer without lowering friction levels to much

Thanks Cosrec, this thread just gets better and better

I think this is the most likely reason no-one is doing it i.e. most vehicles with disc brakes are newish so not so scarce. Also there is a lot of compatability is most vehicles.

 

It is more likely that it is potentially very dangerous. There is a very real risk of failure under load. Cast iron discs have enough of a hard time with the continuous heat cycling in use without other imposed thermal stresses and variations in friction caused by the addition of other materials. Assuming you found someone brave or foolish to undertake the work I would expect you will have pretty severe juddering problems when the discs get hot. There will also be a very high probability of cracking from differential expansion of the CI and the filler/weld material

 

I really don't concern myself about liability as I work with insurance companies doing investigations and there is no liability if done correctly.

 

I guess in the end the best solution if they become completely unobtainable is to machine them up out of some billet material like Porsche high performance discs

The ramifications of a failure in any coating onto cast iron with the thermal cycling that discs see don't bear thinking about. Pound to a penny this will be downhill full load etc etc :shocked:

From a liability perspective I'd be surprised if you found a company who would undertake this

As a safe alternative you could consider getting a aluminium bells made and fit flat disc rotors to these thus making replacement in the future a great deal cheaper. There are plenty of vented and solid flat discs available from motorsport brakes manufacturers such as AP Racing

Correct second time!

Hi, welcome to the forum. Too many Landrovers! Never.

Lets see pic of Gaz.

Andy.

The Gaz is a work in progress, it lives on flickr here

I've had it about 6 weeks and intend to convert the box into a camper. Working out which bits of the original MV is the difficult bit: the Geiger must stay but the curious electrical boxes will have to go!

Welcome which bit Kent? Welcome to the South East mafia!

Romney Marsh, on the way to Rye

Zoltan=Colin

Owner of too many Land Rovers and starting with MV's with the purchase of a Gaz66. I know that this will lead to bigger and heavier things so I'm not fighting it and just letting it roll

Its terrible, you won't like it, it's not you at all, let me buy it instead!