Richard Farrant

The FV number of that brow pad does not appear in the Illustrated Spare Parts List for the Ferret. I am wondering if it might be from a Centurion?

Hi Diana,

From my memories of around 25-30 years ago, the outer seals were renewable by workshops, but inner seals were part of base repair. However, I found a way of doing them and the vehicle examiners allowed me to do it. There are some special tools required to do the outer seals. I recollect having to stand the transmission on end to do the inners to keep things in place. If you have a sectioned drawing of the box then it will give you an idea of what is what. I do not have one to hand here and a lot of vehicles have passed through my hand since that time, so memory is a little vague at present.

regards, Richard

Hi Adrien,

Your English is fine, no problem at all. We look forward hearing more from you. Welcome to the forum.

regards, Richard

Hi Graeme,

It is a water pump for an Austin K9. 'BLR' stands for Beyond Local Repair and 'RV' is usually Receipt Voucher. By the look of it it does not appear to have been fitted so BLR on the label does not make sense, unless someone noticed a problem with it.

Make sure all the earth connections from battery to chassis, chassis to engine are good. Has ignition timing been done on the compression stroke? Not unusual to find it has been set incorrectly.

regards, Richard

The Stalwart would have been coming to the Corowa Swim-In this week, it has attended several times during the last few years and we were saddened by the news. Our thoughts are with the driver and his family.

regards  Richard

12 hours ago, LarryH57 said:

How much does it cost to get the Perenti FFR from the UK to Australia and back again?  I'd love to attend Corowa in my Lwt

As Iain says, this is a Perentie that belongs to friends in Australia.

Shipping a vehicle into Australia is fraught with problems, not just cleanliness but all items of asbestos have to be removed and certified otherwise you are in for big problems and costs.

I thought the rack system on the 8x4 Foden was called Ampliroll or similar, and made by Boughtons.

A photo from Corowa today (Tuesday), a LARC V, GPA and Weasel waiting the signal to launch in the water. This is the Murray river. There are more amphibs arriving this week.

8 hours ago, Mk3iain said:

Very nice, almost as good as an RFSV, but I am biased....

Hi Iain,

I thought you would appreciate the photo. I am at the event this week and a lot of Perenties, 4x4 and 6x6 of all variations here.

regards, Richard

Due to no internet connection this photo was not today, but last Friday. Spotted on Holbrook to Culcairn road ........... actually I was driving it and stopped for a brief rest on way to the Corowa Swim-In & Military Vehicle Gathering...... a Perentie FFR

On 3/9/2019 at 2:50 PM, 10FM68 said:

Sorry Richard, the mistake was mine.  I meant Rowcroft!  It was late at night.  We've talked about this before - I knew it well from running my BFT round the place some years back!  And, as you know, EC was Eastern Command, latterly Eastern District.  Now, of course, it is all gone, though the manor remains among a lot of new houses.

 

10 68

Hi  10 68,

Apologies to Ruxy, I was replying on my phone and did not realise I had addressed the wrong person. Latterly it was actually South East District, but the old code, EC02 which I think may have dated back to WW2 was used right up until the workshop closed. Looks like several forum members had jogged around the workshop area! Only bit remaining is the end of B Shops which is now part of the TA Centre.

Sorry we have deviated off the subject again !

11 hours ago, 10FM68 said:

I believe they were the Directorate Support Systems (Combat Support Vehicles) - now something entirely different in DE&S MoD possibly Director Land Support, (Vehicle Support), (OSVs) Operational Support Vehicles or somesuch.

Here's another one, of similar design, on a Land Rover 2286cc engine refurbished at Rycroft Bks, Ashford, Kent (EC02) in the mid-80s

Ruxy

a correction, it was Rowcroft Barracks, which was 44 District Workshop REME at that time. 

The Mk1 with the petrol engine ran very hot and would have vapour locking issues. I know from experience the exhaust manifolds suffered badly with the heat., this was when they were in-service.

1 minute ago, Andrew Rowe said:

Is there such a thing as an original Dingo Mud flap, of a certain design? I have one that has a moulded bead both sides on 3 x edges

and is about 10" wide x 8" high, and maybe about 3/8" thick .  Open to ideas on this one ?, Thanks Andrew. 

Hi Andrew,

All the mudflaps on Dingos that I have come across are double thickness canvas with a steel strip sewn in the bottom, something like 1" x 1/8" steel. I would doubt rubber was used, unless any of the first ones of around 1939 era had them.

3 hours ago, tankdiver said:

Wow easy to get to with the engine in situ   Hmmmmm

Thanks 

Nothing is easy to access in a Fox engine bay, without removing rear armour and aux. drive. When we originally had them, the distributors were still conventional contact breakers and they needed regular adjusting due the the rotation being opposite to what the distributor was designed for.

41 minutes ago, DINGODOUG said:

I am now faced with the same problem on the Sabre. The carburettor needs adjusting which means taking the engine decks and front glacis off and also the engine bulkhead for a 2 minute job. Great

Doug,

To access the mixture screws on the carb you do not need to remove the engine bulkhead which is alongside the driver.

19 minutes ago, Tony B said:

Not a naval document dump box. To light and no holes in it, so it woud float.

Doubt it would float the lid is not watertight. Looks more like a locker fitted under truck bodies.

12 hours ago, Scurvey Knave said:

I regularly drove a Bedford MK in the  early 80's. It had a "Modified 330" engine fitted (I never did find out what was modified about it, but that was always written on the AF G1045 when it went into workshops for repair). SOP's were that you shouldn't drive off before you had 80 PSI on the air gauge (tho the brakes released at 60 PSI). I always remember that in the time it took to build up the air, the garage always ended up full of blue smoke. Maybe they are all just like that and you have to live with it!

 

Regards - David 

Hi David,

The MK did not have spring brakes, they were air over hydraulic, so you could drive out of the workshop on the handbrake as I recall as it lessened complaints about the fumes. There was a small number of new Bedfords, which could have been MK (or possibly MJ) what were modified at the direction of REME at Woolwich were trialed with the lower oil control rings removed from the pistons. The vehicles were to be monitored for oil consumption, etc and after a given mileage had them replaced. I did some of these ring removals. I cannot remember too many details now but sure it was before the early 1980's.

Richard

Hi Tadeo,

As Peter says, the number is on the passenger side of the chassis adjacent to the step brackets.

regards, Richard

15 minutes ago, cosrec said:

Don't forget you only have a short while to get new quilts  as them continental ones stop working after 29th march

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................................ and Continental tyres will deflate at the same time

The engine modification numbers relate to the very early life of the Fox, two of the Mods are to replace parts on the carburettor. This was in answer to a problem where every vehicle was suffering failure of 2nd gear! There was a flat spot in the carb and this was most noticeable when moving off and the drivers answer was to push the gear change pedal down and rev the engine, then up on the pedal, hence why the 2nd gear band in the gearbox was failing. They tried several things but never cured it until nearly at the end of their service life a major modification to the cab took place and this cured the problem, all to do with too much fuel delivered from the accelerator pumps and a new carb base was introduced. The Mod. no.14 was to do with engine ignition timing.

regards, Richard

If my memory serves me correctly, the FMW tugs that the army had, the engines were converted/prepared by Hendy, who I think were Ford dealers from Southampton area, which figures as FMW were in Dorset. We had to service them, but I cannot recollect any major work needed on them.

Those numbers relate to EMER Modification Instructions which were done on engine overhaul. That record paper is for the engine only. Most Fox’s would have had several engines in their service life.

2 hours ago, sprocket316 said:

As they say....beauty is in the eye of the beholder !

I only put it on here as the forces did use this model in many locations, rare to see one these days though.

Yes, I recognise this model of FMW, the army base I worked on had several from new. I well remember they had a Start Pilot pump and reservoir in the cab and there was no way the wretched Ford diesel would start, hot or cold without a pump of ether, they were all like that from new.. Used for collecting the rubbish and scrap metal in our workshops, and the Ordnance Depot used them for towing warehouse trailers around.

regards, Richard