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OK I might nit be the brightest spark, but I've followed the advice on https://www.gov.uk/importing-vehicles-into-the-uk and jumped from section 4 - vehicles from outside EU - which looks like: to the lower link, which gives me: Well yes - but I'm not importing a vehicle from within the EU…. :help:

It won't take long to blow out the tyres - but a set of bar treads and rims is waiting. I got thrown by the wheels - they are 6 hole Budds which should mean 11.00 x 20, however they are 10.00 x 22, the rims of which should have more cut-outs. Might be enough good ones for the trailer, all of which started out as road treads but during service both sizes got swapped around and mixed on tractors and trailers so anything goes really. If anyone has any 10.00 x 22 road pattern tyres I'd be pleased to hear from you! Also 8 off 11.00 x 20 Budd rims please? Tony

Try John / Jamie at SBS Spares, Ipswich. They should be able to help and send to you.

Thanks Tim. It seemed appropriate to the original thread to reveal what happened to the truck. The Denver area Craiglist carried an advert (originally posted here by draganm) for a collection of 40s and 50s trucks. I asked a friend over in USA on a visit some time later to look it up but the advert had already timed out. Some while later I did a search (just out of interest you understand…..) and eventually found it re-listed. With some more help, a 1,200 mile haul to Galveston and a ferry ride later, here she is. Unusually (in fact I've not come across this before), the data plate is stamped with the allocated W registration number for the truck, also the USAAF contract number. It also confirms it as a truck-tractor. Does anyone else have a U.S. data plate showing the registration number?

Had to treat her as a non-runner for shipping purposes. Adds to cost but a lot cheaper than missing the ferry due to not starting when needed for loading. It's all your fault!!! But thanks anyway :-D

On the link in the opening post Tim! Nobody seemed interested in saving her. I initially took the sensible approach and took no action - some time later the advert disappeared but after a long search I found the Reo in a re-listed advert. With help from others I lost the plot completely, lowered my guard, and after a long journey here she is. Fortunately for me she isn't too too bad and seems to be a genuine truck if a little tired. It should be feasible to carry out a rolling restoration.

You mean the correct pattern 5th wheel, the run-up ramps and the rear lighting plate? :cool2: I reckon so :thumbsup: (as suggested earlier it appears to be a F1 tractor, not a C2 wrecker).

An interesting question. Only one way to find out for sure. Today was the day. I think I got away with it. :banana: Thanks for posting the link draganm!

The box looks like a standard T5 turned 90 degrees (I never thought to do that but the front prop just clears at full spring deflection :cool2:). That pto drive looks like a bog standard unit too.

Agreed. Sometimes you just have to read between the lines. I hope that if I was in trouble up in Cosrec Country (which would probably mean being bogged a long way from any tarmac and well out of reach of flash recovery trucks), I could rely on him to haul me out. And I hope that if I left a sad trail of oil and gears down in paulobland I could call him with confidence. :sweat::cellphone:

:thumbsup:

Axles? Depends who you ask. :cool2: Without taking sides, some thoughts below: Banjo generally regarded by postwar civvy abusers as being the stronger, but Split have a reputation for being quieter (not sure why as a well set up crownwheel and pinion in either should be quiet, and will you really notice over the whine of gearbox and transfer case? :-D). Are you going to break a good axle in preservation use mode? In all probability no. Might you break a previously worn / damaged / badly set-up axle (of either type)? Possibly. Keeping wheel bearings properly adjusted will help to avoid axle shaft failures. Availability of parts for both types - Banjo seems to win on ease of finding parts. Also transfer case / torque rods are specific to axle type.

:banana: Well done!

:shocking:

From a pre-sale report in the Eastern Daily Press: Mr Rackham said it took 12 months to bring the ageing machine back to its former glory – complete with gas lamps, and working 75-horsepower four-cylinder engine – with the cost of the purchase and the restoration work amounting to almost £140,000. Add to this the auctioneer's fees and I expect there might be a decent meal for two to be had out of the balance……...

I'm thinking that one leg of each journey would be a bit slow (with the T in reverse gear). I wonder how fast reverse in high transfer box mode is?

Here's something a bit different! A flashback to 1968 - I think Exmouth station, a contractor lifting the Budleigh Salterton to Sidmouth Junction line was using a DT to haul materials and supplies. (Photo believed to be a crop of an image by S P Derek in the Middleton Press book Branchlines to Exmouth).

......which according to a pre-auction report just about covers the restoration and selling costs. Was the paint on that howitzer dry, and did it sell?

Hey John, got that trailer yet? :cool2: Tony

No, I have no proof that 5 thou was the upper limit of piston size range. This is what I was told by someone who has a good standing in the Jeep engine business here in the UK. But on the basis that we have found 3 sets which are 2 1/2 to 3 thou adrift, it seems quite plausible to me that that there will have been some pistons made with a greater sizing error. Whether it is actually 3 1/3, 4 or 5 thou is really not important to me in the great scheme of things. I accept the idea that pistons were made with a wide tolerance - how else could you explain the situation we encountered? Believe it or not, not every situation we encounter in life is covered by a TM :trustme:

You're not wrong there!!!! Some years back I went to look at, and acquired, a vehicle stored amongst others at a bunker location very near here. I really could not believe the appalling conditions - water literally cascading from the ceiling slab into a space with no ventilation. From a moisture point of view I'm sure the vehicles would have fared better out in the open where at least they could have dried out from time to time. At least the bunkers provided a measure of security.

Does anyone have this edition of Allied-Axis? Can you give me any idea of the content of the article on Chevrolet M6 Bomb Service Truck please? Thank you!

I don't know, but I often have the same trouble!!

http://nigelef.tripod.com/fc_laying.htm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prism_paralleloscope :rolleyes: :n00b: