How often was a Stalwart seen driving on the road loaded? Most of their life they would run around unladen, especially now in private ownership. A lot of the transmission problems we encountered working on in-service ones, was tracta joints. The difference between the Saracen and Saladin to the Stalwart is that the former are running around at pretty much max weight, only crew and ammo to add on to basic vehicle weight. The suspension on a Stalwart is so set that when the max load is onboard, the horizontal view of the drive shafts is just slightly sloping down hill as on the armoured family. Unladen the drive shafts work at quite an acute angle, which with wind up does not help. I remember one in service with a RE training unit, which was suffering problems and we set the torsion bars so that the drive lines were in a loaded position. I also did this to a private owners Stalwart many years ago when he was experiencing similar problems.