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  1. Malcolm

     

    Wouldn't hurt to pull the oil tank even now, when we cleaned ours out you wouldn't believe the mess that came out of it. You are in a great position now to do a bunch of chores that never get done due to the cramped quarters of the T-54 engine bay.

     

    I hope I can make it out your way and come see this beast in person...I am not sure how many of this type of tank are currently in Canada. Mark Flemming from North Vancouver sold his T-55 to a well heeled collector in the Fraser Valley, we have our Type 69 captured in Iraq, there is a turretless T72 in private hands in the Calgary area, being or been adapted for fire fighting, the T-54 sitting in front of KW Surplus also in Ontario and yours. Do you guys know of any others?

  2. Malcolm

     

    those steel disks are the friction material, page 390, para 5 of the manual states:

     

    " like the drive discs, the driven friction disks are steel with ground friction surfaces. The drive discs have external teeth and the driven discs have internal teeth"

     

    In our clutch that is it, there is no conventional friction material like you see on the clutch of a car or truck. Very interested once you get yours open to see if it is any different but I suspect it is not. In our clutch we have ten steel driving discs and nine steel driven discs for a total of 19 discs (up from the previous models which had 17). You can see why when the tank sits and there is moisture in the engine bay how the clutch plates can become frozen together, I realize that is not your issue but it can and does happen.

     

    John

  3. Malcolm here are few pictures of the clutch guts, you can see the friction disks (all ground steel) and the driven disks.

     

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    Also on our Type 69 there is a clutch in the blower fan hub itself which will protect the fan drive from shock in the case of sudden RPM change or debris jamming the fan itself. After you set up the drive gears you could check that if it is still noisy. Not sure if the T 54 has that feature or not. That was a very nice tank as I recall and in great shape inside, I believe it was imported and owned by Greg Taylor, the head restoration guru at the Littlefield collection, great acquisition!

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  4. On the subject of fan noise, once your transmission is out you can thoroughly check the fan for damaged blades or areas of the fan surround that are coming into contact with the fan. On the Type 69 we have the fan is much larger than the T-54 as the Chinese copied the large fan of the T-62/64 family. Lots of tanks have the hinged panel on the right rear hull missing which allows debris to fall directly into the fan intake and can wreak havoc on the fan blades/vanes.

     

    Malcolm where did your T-54 come from? Is it actual Russian manufacture or Polish or Czech? I am assuming it is the one at the Ontario Regiment Collection? Would love to know the history of it. We have been able to trace ours back to within days of its capture in 2003.

  5. I have a spare clutch that has been disassembled, I will try to post some pictures in the next day or so. Unlike a truck clutch, they do not seem to tolerate excess slipping, it is not uncommon to see these tanks lurch forward when the clutch is released. Is this a cause of improper adjustment or simply a characteristic of the design? David can you weigh in on this?

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