Richard Farrant

Catweazle, I am having guess here, the U boat has been captured and is in a port in either Canada or US, judging by the camoflaged grain silo and uniformed personnel.

According to your pictures of the oil flow, there are three valves in the lubricating system, Main relief valve 5.5 - 8 atu Filter bypass 1 - 1.5 atu Cooler bypass 1.5 - 2 atu Are you sure the oil / water problem initially, was the head gasket? Coolers are often likely problem, hence why you still have oil in the water perhaps? Richard

Mike, That has just brought it back in my memory. I thought we used to use a rope from above, to drop the box out. Too long ago now :-(

thats why I'm not spoiling the fun

Catweazle, This has a nautical flavour, not surprising really . It is called by the same name as Steptoe & Son might have been called. Am I warm ? :-D Maybe I will hold back for a while ......and have a cup of tea while waiting :coffee: Richard

:nono: its Quality...........not Quantity of posts, that really matters

Tony, Would not mind betting the screw was the wrong side of the inner piston, not allowing it to be pushed in. Seen it before. The screw stands proud of the bore and is to stop the piston coming back too far. I collected a Dingo for a customer once, drove it back and the brakes were nearly none existant. When I stripped the master cylinder down the end of the screw was bent where the inner piston was being held from going up the cylinder. Richard

:shake::shake::shake: :nono: aghhhh....you are not one of those "hit it if it is not working" types, are you? Piston out of "kilit"............new one on me, only had a QL for 20 years, never had anything out of kilit on it :???

Neil, Last year I registered an armoured vehicle and the Maidstone office said it would have to be checked by an inspector, despite having a verification letter, photos, etc. This took about 4 days wait, until he was in my area, it only amounts to him physically checking engine and vehicle serials against the application form, then I had to wait until he had reported back to the office and for them to send a letter with the reg number and authorisation to obtain number plates. With the 50:50 chance of having to have it inspected, it would be less trouble to go to a DVLA office nearest to where the vehicle is located. Also, if this is the office that the dealer uses, they may be familiar with the vehicles, so better all round.

The Driver should have noticed the sudden loss of fluid in the reservoir when doing First Parade :nono:................and reported the fault to Workshops

Jack, I know this was my original suggestion ( brake fluid sucked from servo ) when it happened weeks ago, you should remove the vacuum pipe from the manifold and check if it is wet inside and also if fluid level has dropped. If yes to either or both questions, then you have no option but to change the servo, or get it overhauled, but time being tight, changing is best option. It seems a bit odd that the problem comes intermitently.

Jack, Can you be more explicite re. the remark "it dumped shed loads of oil all over the place" :??? Was it engine oil? Where did the "oil" issue from? What were you doing with the truck at the time it happened? Richard

Good post Catweazle...........hence why I pointed out that RR had a lot of engines come back with distorted heads and blocks due to overheating, and that was in lorries, think how much worse it would be in armoured vehicles with the retention of heat. Richard

These versions were 100% gas and could run off mains gas as well for static units. You might be able to do a dual fuel conversion, but would not think anyone had done it before, so there would be a lot of trail and error I guess.

Good news, John Glad to hear it...........and just in time for the first events of the season. Richard

Here is a photo of a new gas version of a B60 or B61, you can see the main parts that replace the carb.

Adam, I doubt that Rolls would help, they washed their hands of B Range several years ago, selling off all the spares stock. I do not know if there was any major differences in the engine parts, so suggest that you should try and get hold of a service manual for the gas version, to see what it entails. Richard

You should have put this one up, on April 1st :-D

Adam, Rolls Royce actaully produced gas versions of B Range engines, used in a variety of applications, ranging from stand by generators to buses around the World. I have seen a record of all the engines they produced and in to what they were fitted and it included Bedford TK lorries. I recollect one customer name, who ran a number of RR gas powered vehicles, was Marks & Spencer. There were also notes about faults occuring and one was overheating, resulting in head and / or block distortion. Richard

hi Jack, Then once the drums are skimmed the linings have to be reprofiled to suit or thicker linings fitted Richard

That is quite true on heavy trucks, Tony. We had our own roller test facility which covered anything from Land Rover to Foden Recovery size. Just thinking with light vehicles it might not show. I know those damned L/R 1 tonne (101) would show good on the rollers but behave awful on the road :shake:.

Could be oval drums. This would probably show up as good brakes on the brake test rollers, but not on the road. Richard

All this talk of fitting Scammell gearboxes, has reminded me of an amusing incident many years ago when Explorers were in Army service. It was when I was working for REME and one of my workmates had just changed a gearbox and gone out on test. He came back and asked me to try it. All was going well, until the ignition suddenly cut out. It would not restart, so I turned the master switch off and back on, engine started and off we went again around the test circuit. Suddenly at the same place, it cut out again..........why, what was happening to do that? I realised that was the only point I had used the brakes. It was found that when tightening up the rear gearbox mounting brackets, the brake light cable had become pinched under a bolt head, when brakes were applied the cable shorted out, bringing the circuit breaker in.

Back in the 1960's there was a road planing gang that used to work in this area at times. They used a Pioneer gun tractor in pretty original condition with a bulk fuel tank in the back to fuel the burner. The firm was E.A.R.A.T., which I think was East Anglian Roadstone & Transport, truck was painted red. Anyone got a photo of their Pioneer as I did not take photos of it sadly. Richard

Andy, That looks like the site of Caffyn's Marine Parade Garage which was bombed in 1943. You can identify it by the remains of the end wall. Take a look at their history; www.caffyns.co.uk/caffyns-caffyns-in-war.asp Richard