Richard Farrant

Hi Montie, It is likely some of the gear bands are out of adjustment, hence the difference in movement. Once you have fiddled with your tool we can move on to the next stage.

Casing looks to long for 7.62 SLR, the indents were so that it could be recognised by feel that it was an inert drill round, sometimes they had red paint in the indents.

Montie, What I meant was to select and engage each gear in turn and make sure all five adjusters move across, 1st gear is nearest the back and top is at the engine end. All you have to do when measuring is first select a given gear, if your tool has a pinch bolt to clamp the rod, set the rod out a bit,delve around through the oil until you are sure it is in the valley of the busbar, then slide cross piece down and clamp it, withdraw tool and wipe the end .... oh sorry, thinking of something else :blush:........ measure the tool, I mean rod. .....

Hi Montie, A bit confused by your first paragraph, the bus bar height is taken from the top face of the gearbox casing, the part you have arrowed at the top is only the fixture part of the measuring tool. You set the rod down in the valley of the busbar and measure from tip of rod to top face of box, ie under the fixture. Done this hundreds of times! Just a thought, perhaps the tip of the rod is not in the right place, also, no need ot bolt the cross piece / fixture down, just postion it drop rod and tighten pinch screw so you can measure off. Also, when you select and engage each screw do you see each adjuster move across? Richard

Hi David, What a wonderful lady, no doubt it brought back a few memories for here, and her sister and a few stories I would imagine. I suspect a very satisfying day for you. regards, Richard

Lines Brothers being the Triang toy makers if I recall

Sounds like material for another article there :-D

Clive is scrapping the bottom with that book ...........

P6 was a Perkins six cylinder diesel, the company adapted these engines to replace petrol engines in cars and lorries in the early 1950's. You could use them in anything from a Humber Snipe, Fordson E27N Major, Austin Loadstar, Bedford O type and so on, as these vehicle manufacturers did not make their own diesels at that time. Fordson Thames lorries very soon had their own 4D and 6D diesel engines. The P6 evolved into the 6.354 and a friend overseas fitted a 354 in his QL but it is a big engine compared to the 28hp and was a shoehorn job!

The Fuller box as fitted to the Eagle in the Crusader is a sweet box and reliable, they use the Lipe clutch.

Ah, becoming clearer now, will have to study the drawing and see what I can work out. It may be that there is a restrictor in the spool valve to keep the particular ram from operating too fast, but will look deeper into that. When you said bottom foot, I was thinking of the rear legs, but now understand. cheers, Richard

Knowing the amount of oil and muck that is normally floating about in the engine bay, I would doubt the cause was salt from the roads, more like due to being degreased and pressure washed prior to export, rust probably set in before the road haul.

Now called the Weald Foundation

Your questions are not easily answered, due to the removal of all the electro part of the system. Now to answer the second post first, re. main winch. those levers up on the deck, one slow, one fast, that is correct, as you will know, fast winch in for recovering the rope with no load on usually. As you normally use the remotes to operate the winch they had a toggle switch to select fast or slow and then use the winch control lever on remote console. Regarding the other question, I am not absolutely sure what circuit / operation you were refering to, so if you could clarify, I will have a think about it. Problem is it is now over 15 years since I was doing the troubleshooting on them.

Right Montie, I'm back. When we used to do the gearbox set upson these, we had a special tool which was basically a hand operated lever to replace the small gear engaging lever on the top of the box. Reason was that the pedal linkage can sometimes inhibit the free movement of the lever, as in your case in 1st gear. What you do is to select and engage 1st gear, without the pedal linkage on, and operated the lever to engage the gear, and to see if it is adjusting up. A fierce lever indicates band linkage going over centre, ie not adjusted up enough, once you are happy with all the gears, you then go back to 1st, select and engage, then connect the pedal linkage and adjust for the correct free play. Here endeth lesson No.1

Montie, A quick reply for now, as I'm cooking my meal. The state of the gear adjusters is excellent, I think it is down to pedal adjustment and maybe gear adjustment, but will get back with more later. Richard

Hi Cosrec, I have mislaid the folder with all my Foden EKA notes in, here somewhere, so as soon as I find it I will try and answer your question. Richard

Correct Montie. The pedal has least clearance in 1st then progressively more as you go up the gears. If you have not done it before, taking the tin lid off the box will tell a 1,000 stories, you will be able to ascertain band wear and operation of gears, and auto adjusters.

Correct Montie, 1st has least play and progressively more up to Top gear.

Hi Montie, You should have adjusted the pedal free play when in 1st gear. There may not be anything wrong with your box adjustments as yet. You need first to get the box into 1st gear, then do the free play. Once that is done, all the other gears can be checked. Also having the pressed steel inspection cover off the box will give an indication of the condition of the bands and adjusters. regards, Richard

Just spotted this, will try and reply this evening. Got to set my memory back a few years now !

Spot on !

That is the one I was refering to, and knowing Ian's location, the one he is thinking of.

Ian, I think you will find that Albion has been cut through the chassis behind the cab, with only front remaining. Back was used for a trailer I believe.

Well, with the options of finding Lloyd drums more difficult than Universal Carrier ones, depending on which way the offset is, it could be only a matter of making a spacer ring, or machining the face of the drum. Thinking outside of the box !