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Baz, I'm no ace welder, but damn, I'm cheap!

I was waiting for that!!! :-D

R, Have'nt you finished that simple little five minute job yet?

True enough Tony!

Hi 72, without seeing a picture, my guess is it's a 70's or 80's 3/4 ton 'narrow track' Sankey. 1/2 tonners mostly have the drawbar differences that we have already mentioned, and generally different positioning on the three jack legs, as well as having a totally different rear tow hook, bolt together combat wheel rims, and the very early ones (early fifties) have large X pressings in the sheet metalwork for strength. Also, on the fities examples, roughly 50% were made by Sankey, the rest (like mine) by Brockhouse. Hope this helps! Post a picture when you get a chance!

Hi 72, Is it definately a 1/2 tonner? I was under the impression that by the late sixties the 3/4 tonner was the standard. Do you have an A frame towing arrangement or just one straight bar from the chassis frame? If it is a 1/2 ton thats a fairly rare bit of kit now. Welcome to the forum!

Hello Wayne, welcome to the chaos :nut: Nice to see another military Ser 2a is safe, they're getting very thin on the ground now. What parts are you missing? I will keep an eye out for you. A mate has a couple of the glass four fin light lenses for sale if you are missing them. Cheers

Hi Jaap, great pictures, Ive always been very interested in the desert war, my sadly passed Uncle fought at Alamein. Just one point, second batch of photos, top photo, I have my doubts about it having been used in this form during WW2. It looks to me more like the sort of improvised armoured truck that the Israelis used in the 1948 and 1956 conflicts. But keep the photos coming, loving it!

Theres a guy on one of the WW2 Dodge forums in the US who has built a replica from a CCKW! Not a bad effort actually, and quite similar to this 6 wheeler.

Important Note...... When getting friends to help ensure they don't take all the weight of the cab and then slip over, if this happens you get !!!!!. . THIS . . . . . [ATTACH=CONFIG]22365[/ATTACH] Well after the initial crash and bang, I went for the camera first, well you would wouldn't you, then it was "oh are you ok over there" After some mumbling and other words which are best left to the moment, we got back on with the job. Its your own fault for using cheap foreign labour (from Southampton) If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys..............

And don't forget to try ebay for parts!

Hi MT, when you take the cylinder head off the engine, hopefully there should be some faint writing visible (it will be very small). This will tell you what size piston you have fitted, if it says STD this means Standard, ie, the original size piston, this is very good news. If it says 020, this means the cylinders have been bored out by 0.020 of an inch, and slightly larger pistons and rings have been fitted, this is what O/S refers to (Over-Size). This may have been done because there was a groove found in the cylinder bore, or just the wear was more than an acceptable level. If it says '040' there is generally no more room for boring out. If there is wear or damage you dont have too many options; New STD cylinder block with STD pistons and rings is needed, or have a pair of liners fitted and bored out back to STD size (I recently had to do this second option). If the damage is only very light you may want to try just honing the cylinders, often a glazed cylinder bore can cause excessive exhaust smoke/high oil consumption. Something to check, on some smaller engines like this, there may be non genuine 010 and 030 pistons and rings available, best to do some research. Hope this helps!

Hi MT, A couple of UK based classic bike dealer's web sites that may be able to help; http://www.forestclassicsmotorcycles.com http://www.trisupply.co.uk Give them a try first, if they dont have the parts you need they may know who can help. Dont forget, before you start the dismantling process of your restoration, take lots of photos of the bike, showing how all the brackets/bolts/wires/clips etc sit, when you have a box full of the bits you have removed, it isn't always very obvious where they all go! the TRW is a great bike! Good luck with it

Hi MT, firstly, where are you based?

Hi Richard, whats the latest progress?

Hi Adam, she looks salvageable, but a serious amount of work needed. Strangely, the fact shes a cargo makes her worth saving, very few left. Most of the survivors seem to be the 'Dry Air Charging' and 'Welding Plant' bodies, which used the cargo body as a base. Presumably the cargo (GS) variants were sold off first, and were used and abused in civvy street, before being scrapped. The specialist bodied trucks stayed in service longer, and by the time they were released MV preservation was far more common. Really hope someone saves her! Thanks for posting the link

For sealing canvas, Thompson's Water Sealer (the stuff you paint on house brickwork) is amazing. Used on my Landy three years ago, its been water-tight ever since. Its transparent, so wont help you with the colour issue. Available at B&Q.

Im in a similar boat to R Cubed with my Chevy's reflectors, I've been lead to believe that the metal surround should be circular on a '42 truck, with oval (as per R Cubed's photos) coming in around 43 onwards. I have bought repro Corcorran Browns with circular surround, but now I'm not sure that what I have is right! So in summary, round = early, oval= late? Or is it the other way round? H E L P :nut:

ACH, looking forward to seeing more pics. The R type/S type cab is certainly a challenging cab to repair, but well worth doing!

Nice cup cakes Rosie.................. Ooh er missus

[ATTACH=CONFIG]20911[/ATTACH] Here is my mate in action, hard at it, lucky to get this action shot, usually you can only catch him drinking tea. Cheeky :coffee:

There was also a Bedford RL, that got turned into a giant swamp buggy, I think there was a thread on here somewhere about it. I have to say I was a big fan of the old format of the show, with Robert Llewelyn and Lisa Rogers, but it does'nt do much for classic MV preservation :-(

Hi Deadly, welcome to the forum. I was working in Karachi for a couple of weeks back in 2003, had a great time! Nice bike, had a 1965 TRW back in the nineties, hope to have another one day! Cheers

Good man Kylohere, another Triumph fan :clap:

Yes I've seen that thread. If it comes your way grab it! I had to sell my MRA best part of 20 years ago, and have bitterly regretted it since, they're a lovely little truck