jerry

Hello folks, hope this posts under wanted! I am looking for a centurion clutch assembly, this could be a worn out unit as it won't be taking the weight of a tank. What is out there.....? Jerry 07962 240847

Hello, would any kindly soul know what vehicle these are from? Jerry

Work still going on, I will add some pictures asap.

The green wreck on the back of the low loader is mine, only fit for spares really, but....

Early Scammell Pioneers did, latter ones didn't.

Further to my previous post, this is the turntable, I simply need dimensions!!

Hello gang, would anyone have detailed plans for the turntable on a pioneer tank transporter. I need dimensions and drawings as I'm going to fabricate one or maybe more if anyone is interested? Jerry

Ok, its very easy, whether my description of how to do it will make it sound so remains to be seen. Turn the engine over by the ring gear in an anti-clockwise drection through the inspection hatch (top of the flywheel housing) until the marks for number one cylinder come into vision (on the flywheel). Then depending on whether the advance is set forwards or backwards, read off the settings on the housing and look for these on the flywheel and align them with the pointer in the inspection hatch. Now look at the injection pump and number one injection pump element, there is a little window in the body, and this has a scribed line on it, this will align (if the timming is set correctly in the first place) with a scribed line on the mooving element inside the pump. Then its simply a case of removing the pump. The first time it takes a bit of time but from then on, it can be done in minuites. The engine can be turned over with the pump removed without any issues.... Jerry

A few pictures of the dashboard, the lower picture shows the original damaged item with the donor dash at the bottom. Simply a case of cutting aligning, making sure the mounting holes still aligned and welding the two together. A qhick skim of filler and back to new again.....

Here is the text that I'd wanted to include but having a few tec issues! The previous pictures show the dashboard, windscreen panel and wooden cab bulkhead all now atached and shown on the chassis a few posts ago. I will try and upload more but this is playing serious games with me! Still need leads on a radiator and an osf wing in any condition? Jerry

Various pm's sent.....

A picture of some progress, however info on the rear floor would be useful as I need a surface to work from.... Jerry

Hello folks, there have been a few dramas recently, but I'm bac to work on the K2. Would anyone know of details for the rear floor, I need to know the width of the floorboards. I have the inspection hatch in reasonable condition and some lengths of hardwood, but I need to know what dimensions to machine it? I'm also in need of a nsf wing and a radiiator if anyone can help? Jerry

Hello, I see they are old posts, have you removed it now. If not, I can help....

BEC 381 is a little buried but still needs an air filter..... who has one? Any leads gang?

Check out this site.... talkmebetter.com/scammell another tank transporter that lives!

Hello Steve, Its is now alive and kicking, starts immediately and is looking very impressive. Was with the Fairgroung people Emmerson and Hazzard. Jerry

By the way, the wooden frame shown is to preserve the fragile remains.

Thanks for all the offers of help, will contact you all.. Back to the cab, I really needed to get some structure into place. The only substantial piece of sheet steel that I had was the piece that goes between the bonnet and vertical windscreen support member (made of wood forming a partial bulkhead) However the piece of steel (originally made in three sections and welded together) that I had needed repairing. This is how it looked before repairs. Jerry

Thanks for the help chaps... Here are a few pictures of the same area (just in case I wasn't explaining things clearly) a) on a K2 and b) from the manual. This was about all I had to go on at this stage plus a few K2 fragments but unsure how they linked together! Jerry

...... well I didn't want a vehicle that was simply a case of fitting charged batteriesw in and off you go. So where to start? Where do you start indeed, I had to ponder this for a long time as the scrapman was a temptation. The rear body on the K2 ambulance is a universal fitment, that is it was designed to ft various other vehicles the Morris and bedford for example. This then mates up to variations of there cab via an extension piece. This piece forms the rear part of the cab and joins by a large transverse step. This therefore could be my datum point from which to build the cab from. As bits were still present from which to take measurements and two brackets were atached to the chassis I had a chance of replicating some of the structure. A starting point at least... Jerry

Exactly! So after going to visit, and thinking that a rescue plan could be hatched I arranged with the site owner to have it craned out and onto a trailer, not forgetting to cut the tree down first. Once on the trailor it was a case of cutting off vegitation that had become part of it and securing it firmly. However I hadn't barganed for mooving it a) by crane and b) by road and having what looked like a K2 ambulance by the time I got home. In fact I had to stop in the first layby and cut lots of bits off that would have fallen off anyway. When I got home I started to moove bits of the cab that had settled on the journey, this in fact turned out to be all of the cab!! Am I stupid because this is all that I was left with, very little reference points etc, idiot. What had I done....?

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

Ok doing so now.... Jerry

Thanks Radek, should be posting a few more pctures of it. Might title it the worst K2 ehat has been atempted! By the time it was taken out of the scrapyard and I had stopped in the first layby to cut bits off that would have fallen off anyway, there was nothing left of the cab. I was left thinking, what have I got myself into here. Jerry