Richard Farrant

OK Mike, so the master switch was isolating before. I have found some of the plastic type with red keys, can "weld" the contacts together, so without key in, they still make contact. Sounds like this is whats happened.

Mike, Some vehicles you can use the starter without having the ignition turned on. I suggest you do turn the ignition on and check you have power to the points, ie remove distributor cap and flick the points, if you do not have a meter. It is difficult to make a diagnosis from afar, but you need to check the basics first.

Beautiful sun all day down in South of Kent :-D

Hi Steve, I assume you have an existing clutch slave cylinder. If so, my suggestion is to have it sleeved in stainless steel to original bore size. I have a good number of cylinders done in this way over a year, by a specialist business, who also supply and fit the seals. They end up better than original.

By coincidence I have just been loking at a Normandy tourism website with details of events going on around the region and found this; St Mere Eglise 31st May 2009 Waco glider flyover ( place and time to be confirmed)

Bernard, I think you lost a bit of the meaning in the translation..........like the bit about fertiliser carrying though :-D

The correct ones for all RR B range engines is RSN13P. RSN12Y were for 24volt screened ignition Land Rovers, when a problem occured with Jaguar J60 engines in Fox and CVR(T), a temporary fix ( official instruction) was made by substituting the original RSN13P to RSN12Y. Subsequently private owners have been using RSN12Y in Rolls engines as well, and as they are cheaper and do not foul so easily, they appear to be satisfactory. I am sure others will say the same. The choice is yours.

Might have known you would come up with a quacker like that :rofl:

There is a Waco and a Horsa being rebuilt at Shawbury. Go to this website for current update; http://www.assaultglidertrust.co.uk

You may be lucky and find the technical manual for CVR(T) on microfische, and as the Cent BARV carried on in service to recent years, that may also be on microfische. Best person to confirm this is Clive (FV1609)......I am sure he will respond to this thread.

Croc, I see no reason not to use a straight 90 gear oil where OMD330 is specified.

Howard, If it is the wartime trailer, the suspension is on torsion bars, not leaf springs.

This all started when a Tesco buyer visited one of their suppliers of lamb in NZ, apparantly the sheepdogs were "running riot" around the sheep as they were herded in to the abatoir. Tescos have banned the supplier from using dogs unless they are retrained. Go to Google and type in "tesco sheepdogs".....

Thats what happens when two pages get stuck together :rofl:

Degsy, Did you hear on Radio 2 this week about some group of nutters want to ban sheep dogs, because they "distress the sheep"? Jeremy Vine had one of these people and also a sheep farmer on his programme.........These people do not have a clue........the farmer really went to town on him :-D Oh yes forgot to say.........they want the dogs replaced by men running around with flags............as I said.....nutters :-(

Hi Glenn, It is not a grader, but is a rough terrain forklift. It looks like one that was made by Chrysler around 1967 at the Detroit Tank Plant.

It is of nearly equal viscosity, but not the same oil.

Croc, The simple answer is this, there was no straight 90 gear oil in use in the Services. Often military oil grades are kept to a minimum to simplify supplies. My recollection is that OMD330 was used in a lot of vehicle gearboxes, probably because they contained non-ferrous metals and also because synchros do not work at their best with extreme pressure additives present. I have never seen any gearbox damaged through use of SAE50 engine oil.

It was probably a feasabilty exercise to see how the vehicle handled / performed with drive train at the rear. The adjustable suspension and added length could be a clue. There was no point in creating the complete piece of equipment if problems were found in the basic vehicle. It could be as someone has said, that it might have been aimed at something like the S tank, or possibly a lightweight CET. The CET has suspension locks when operating the bucket, you do not need the hull bobbing up and down when operating, those rams may have been for that purpose. As Mike says, at Chertsey, they dreamed up all sorts of ideas.

I have read articles about the TS3 Commers when they were used in Australia and New Zealand and they seemed to command a lot of respect. One article, which I will have to dig out, had one pulling a loaded trailer on long distance work as well. Known as "Knockers" over there.

Actually, there is no reason why one of these Albions did not have w/washers. The last ones in service would have been the RE Machinery truck, worked on one once. At around the same time we were installing Trico windscreen washer kits to Militant Mk1, under a Modification Instruction.........think they were the hand pump type.

The British Army also used them right up until late 70's. Not sure if there are any Canadians on this forum, but might be worth trying on another forum called MLU Forum, which is a military vehicle and history one based in Canada, several of the guys have links to army museums, so records may exist.

Hi Margaret, If you think the TRW came from Canada, then it might well be one supplied to the Canadian Army as I know they did have them.

Apparantly "loosely based on a Sulzer concept", to quote one of several sources. RA Lister also got involved and worked with Rootes to produce and market a marine and industrial power unit based on the TS3 There is a New Zealand website that has the story of the TS4, www.commer.org.nz

You had better tell Clive to warn him off then :-D