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    Mystery Hubs

    in I may be stupid, but......

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    Hi, I have had no luck with the Morris Eight path. Does the fact that the brakes are Cable or Rod activated throw any light on the likely origin. Has any one got any information on early British trailer hubs?

     

    cheers

    Michael

    Mystery Hubs

    in I may be stupid, but......

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    Hi Catweazle, Thanks, I shall see what information I can find about the Morris 8. I noticed the amount of air present under the U blots. It's only obvious from that angle. The packing pieces were a result of the U Bolts being made to long! I shall radius the packing piece and then rebuild it.

     

    cheers

    michael

    Mystery Hubs

    in I may be stupid, but......

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    Hi Guys, Thanks for your comments. I realised as soon fv1609 posted the sectional view that I should have taken the wheel off the hub before I photographed it. So here are some new pics. The brake drum and hub appear to be one piece. The brake actuator is rotary and has a toothed face so it can be mounted in any position. There is no obvious way to adjust the brakes.

     

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    I'm reluctant to split the hubs as this will mean disturbing the bearings, something I don't want to do until I know how to set them up again.

     

    cheers

    michael

    Mystery Hubs

    in I may be stupid, but......

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    I'm trying to identify the hubs my trailer runs on. The trailer is of undetermined manufacture but runs well behind my jeep. I have just rebuilt the trailer but I'm reluctant to split the hubs until I can get some maintenance information.

     

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    The thread of the studs appears to be 1/2 inch BSF. With the pitch at about 2 7/8ths and the Diameter at 4".

     

    The hubs are braked.

     

    Any help will be gratefully received.

     

    cheers Michael

    Bedford powered Chevy

    in British Vehicles

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    Hi again

     

    I finally got back to the museum and the Chevy. I set it up with the new settings (thanks to Richard) and gave the starter a spin, nothing. I messed around a bit and took a plug out to check it, it was as dry as a bone. So of with the air filter and in the time honoured fashion I poured half a cup of petrol down the carb. Pushed the starter and it fired straight away. It ran for a bit and then stopped. I kept doing the petrol down the carb thing hoping that eventually it would start to draw fuel itself, but to no avail. So now that I have the timing sorted it has developed a fuel problem. At least I know what to do next.

     

    Thanks for all the help

     

    cheers

    michael

    Vehicle permit

    in British Vehicles

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    Hi all,

    I'm looking for a scan/image of one of the vehicle permits (similar to the tax disc) that were carried by British military vehicles during the second world war. If you have such a thing or can point me in the right direction I'd be much obliged.

    cheers

    michael

     

    Yet another Jeep

    in American Vehicles

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    hi

     

    meanwood ridge is on the steep escarpment on the south side of Meanwood Road. Although the wood is open to the public I only get to drive my jeep there as I'm part of the voluntary group that looks after it. It's a long time since I have played at Tong. Back in the good old days of the pennine land rover club. I can't afford or don't want to pay the £50 for the off road days. I guess it's these off road days that are making the course less damaging. You have a whole load of people with no experience and badly prepared or unsuitable vehicles trying to get round. So you minimise the risk of damage and recoveries.

     

    cheers

    michael

    Yet another Jeep

    in American Vehicles

    Posted

    Hi

     

    Just for information.

    This woodland, know as Woodhouse Ridge, was the first public park in Leeds. For about 60 years it was a very formal park, with gardeners and the like. The beech you can see forms the end tree of an avenue of beech trees running down to the beck. Since the late 40's the park has had less and less attention, basically being left to its own devices. There is a small group of us who do what we can to look after the woodland.

     

    cheers

    Yet another Jeep

    in American Vehicles

    Posted

    Hi guys

     

    That area of the woodland used to be a nice stand of Hawthorne and Oak.

    As part of the management plan we would clear all the other trees out. This will particularly help the Hawthorne and provide secure habitat for the smaller birds. See I told you it wasn't just me messing about in a jeep. If I remember the birch had been felled and then caught up in the trees next to it. This is a frequent occurrence in a dense woodland. I usually use the jeep for pull outs as, being a bit smaller than the Land Rovers you can get it amongst the trees. The woodland is in the middle of Leeds in gods own county.

    Yet another Jeep

    in American Vehicles

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    I would rather break my Jeep rather than not use it. But I figure that it did about 45 years military service. If the combined efforts of the British and Norwegian army's failed to break it what chance have I. Anyway just running on to the end of a rope isn't going to do any damage, unless the tree falls on it!

     

    cheers

    Yet another Jeep

    in American Vehicles

    Posted

    Hi Ashley

     

    Here is a scan of a copy of the vehicle key card that covered my vehicle.

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    You can see my jeep 4th from the bottom. As you can see It doesn't give you much. It gives you the chassis no. and the war time no (mine is M5845301) it gives you the contract no. I belive that contract SM2275 covered most british jeeps. And it gives you the date it was sold off. I presume that the CR refers to the depot that it was sold from. I got this key card from the as was Beverley Museum of Army Transport. This has now closed and I don't know where the cards were moved to. The Rebuild plate gives you the Unit that rebuilt your jeep and the date. The reme museum can give more details as to where that unit was at the time. Mine was rebuilt in the Demag factory in Wesser in Germany in April 52. I know of one other Jeep rebuilt in that factory.

     

    hope this is some help. I have heard that there are people out there that claim to be able to tell which unit your jeep served with but i've never found them.

     

    cheers

    michael

    Yet another Jeep

    in American Vehicles

    Posted

    Hi guys

    thanks for the comments. Ashley, sorry about the choice of green, but this is an ex British Army Jeep, supplied under contract No 2275. It was rebuilt on 13 04 1952 by the 23rd Heavy Workshop R. E. M. E. who were I believe at Wetter in Germany at that time. The rebuild plate gave the post war reg as 93 YH 19 from which I was able to trace the war time number M5845301. Being a R. E. M. E. rebuild it is a 44 Ford chassis with a 43 Willys body on it.

    The nearest I have come to "spotting" the bonnet number was M5845586 the HQ Jeep for Prince Bernhard commander in chief of the Netherlands Forces and 5844685 a Ford GPW belonging to the Czech Armoured Brigade.

    In 52-53 The jeep was sold to the Norwegian Army from there it was re imported back to blighty in the mid 80's. That's about all I know/can guess.

     

    cheers

    Michael

    Bedford powered Chevy

    in British Vehicles

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    cheers Richard

     

    I'm glad you happend by, as I load the pictures and they hang on in there for about an hour and then they vanish!

     

    Next time I'm at the chevy I shall set it up as per your info and let you know the results

     

    thanks for your help and patience

     

    michael

    Bedford powered Chevy

    in British Vehicles

    Posted

    Hi Richard

     

    I'm having problems with the photos. I load them they are there for a bit and then they disappear. With all the excitement with the photos I neglected to say that yesterday it fired on more that one occasion but wouldn't run. The plugs are very wet when you take them out but it will only fire if the choke is fully out. Next time I'm over I will set all the gaps as per your info and that should help as well. If I get time today I will try with the photos again.

     

    thanks again

    michael

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