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With a Rover that will not start , one of the best methods to lell if fueling or ignition - pour a little neat petrol directly down the 36IV throat - if the plugs / HT are OK - it should fire, if it fires immediately but does not run with various positions of choke - then it probably lack of petrol / air mix for whatever reason.

Thats why 'some' (living in warm climates where choke is strictly not required) , still use choke as the wet petrol on bores gives initial lubrication until the oil takes over.

A stab in the dark - possibly a HD Wolf upgrade incorporate to Tithonus, or possibly pure Tithonus ? - I would send the photographs & query direct to Hobson Industries , they did the Tithonus contract & possibly still have parts.

Regarding Lend Lease etc. - of course it's true that prior GB had to be bankrupted , the good British investments within U.S.A and some other countries had to be fire sold and £$ raised handed over first. US destroyers (to certain the delivery) sent to South Africa for any gold held there. Some reverse lend lease in the final calculations , Some bitter disputes - of course a few para. in a forum post are no use. A good book to read _ US Wartime Aid to Britain 1940-1946 by Alan P. Dobson (1986) . Even the Introduction page 1 to page 13 is far too much to type up. Long time since I read it - but no mention of Churchill Tank supply from Canada. ---------------------------------------- Roosevelt grabbed all - even Al. Cappone's armoured limo. the best in the U.S.A.

As said - do the service checks , always change the condenser with the contact-set. A small hole in exhaust could give popping on the overrun , but other things can also do this, sometimes a slight enrichment at idle(volume screw) can clear. If it has stood a while I find the carburettor top gasket dries out and cream crackers into bits 6mmx6mm - some of the aftermarket gaskets are better than a genuine Land Rover item. Worn / stretched timing chains and exhaust valve guides worn/oval are the archilles heel. Spitting - sounds fueling problem , hesitation - more ignition . HT wires don't last for ever (don't use cheap £ ones). Ignition - I use a set (4) Laser spark plug testers , use twilight not bright sun - often you can see bad HT to a plug(s). Don';t do too much at once - it's a process of elimination. E5/E10 - I always add Wynns - there is a new E10 Protector that I intend using , just I have rater a large bulk box of earlier product(for E5) to consume first, supposedly stops valve seat recession and also a fuel stabilizer (so any lay-up) - I double dose a low tank and make certain a short run gets it all through the carb.

Well - I have no intention of a battery electric conversion in a LWT , Propane still has possibilities but seems to have died a death (the idiots wanted a Gas Safe registration), Land Rover did a good 2.1/4 (2286cc) petrol conversion for Kalmar/Climax fork lift trucks - way back in early 1980's. I had a Landi Hartog conversion rigged up in the 1970's IIRC that originated from a Coventy Climax or Hyster FLT. I never got around to telling my Insurance Company (actually - I was employed by the same firm) that t was just a Super Ser type cylinder clamped in the tub with a ratchet strap. More advanced systems of Liquid hydrogen is a possibility when Tesco etc. give up petrol sales ?

You can go online and enter your Reg. No. & it states if OK to use E10 , possibly car manufacturers have not done adequate research ? I suppose any claim is not financially viable by a individual in County Court. The opposition would just have excuses if not services by a franchised dealership - like you drove it too fast.

E5 I don't think too bad , E10 - the reports coming in are contradictory IMHO. The good thing about such as a Lightweight / Rover with military underseat tanks is that it's easy to peer in and see what is happening and take out a sample. Even with leaded / unleaded you could expect to beads of water rolling around in the bottom, if it is discoloured / cloudy then with such a tank it can be easily drained with the brass plug that does not rust underneath. I have recently been weighing in a few scrap cars , tared off = £ 180 / ton BUT any tyres left - they remove £3 per rim. I think the price of cars/mixed scrap must be at very highest ? I have a Mk. 1 Fiat UNO that is being difficult to extract and it has been laid up exactly 20 years. So - the last two afternoons I have spent 2 hours cutting it up / unbolting bits like doors. I am about to cut through both driveshafts to get the engine/gearbox out (I will then split to get in wheelbarrow). So yesterday while axing the front out , I answered my own query - did I leave petrol in the tank ? So - I put the axe through a fuel line to the carburettor , I splashed my face with petrol , it smelt high in light ends and where it hit my face it certainly burnt - so light-ends are still spirit ! It seemed quite clear -what I collected on a jam jar. Steel tonnage is down as floor & sills quite corroded , at least that should make it easier to reduce. Engine out - son 2 & I will roll the shell over and I will fully drain the tank - what I collect will be mixed with 2-stroke oil and be consumed by my oldest Victa mower. Of course this will be real Petrol (thank you Carless Capel & Leonard for that word) - I have my doubt on the ability to power the Victa with E5/E10 ??

It has the look of Cam Garage Equipment (Radstock). They could have made it in the distant past. I have one of their garage floor cranes/engine lifter - it's all HD if they make it. Their house colour always used to be a pale blue.

Does AB mean the Valentine ? In any case - his present research is getting very lax.

Actually Stobs camp should not have a apostrophe s

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-64581025

It's quite large , bigger than A4 & pale blue colour (at least the set part the buyer is handed)..

A few weeks ago within a local history book - I found a photograph of a Comet tank upside-down after going through a dry stone wall. I think it was on the final driver assessment course between Barnard Castle & the village of Copley. So at present time I am observing dry-stone walls instead of keeping by eyes on a sometimes straight , with hills and bad corners 'Coal Road' (as it's known). If ever I find the location , then I will take my 1942 ET (English Tools /now Bulldog) General Service spade and start digging - it may have continued to sink into soft earth.

Is that possible ? , I have my doubts. Normally a 645 was handed over by auctioneers or direct sales org. When you went to a local DVLA office for first registration - it was best to photocopy prior because once hander over at counter they never gave them back. I suppose it was legal title to ownership along with sales receipt. So how you prove your Militant was not nicked from a Material Park - I don't know. However I suppose 'Registered Keeper' is more important presently , I would try a FOIR (freedom of information request) - however I doubt if the MOD retained their copy for more than 10 years (I think this would be the legal limitation period).

You'r too late , seems like Eddy8men has first bags on the lot !

It happens , I well remember a case abt. 1986 - the start of RAF Leeming HAS shelters. I was told to drop everything for a PSA job. So - I reported to the gatehouse & showed ID , then I was directed to go to the Control Tower - this I did. Flying Officer kite told me to get in my own car and drive down the runway to the far end where I would find the office. I queried not being granted a LR 90" taxi & was told the place was free of aircraft, I asked for it in writing that the place was not ELG status. I was told to pi$$ off , so I drove down the runway until I hit the grass at 100 mph ! No Portacabin - zilch , Then I heard a phone ring , so I raised the lid on a plastic dustbin (Telecom had beat me) , at the other end of the line - Flying Officer kit enquired if I had located the office ? !

https://avgeekery.com/dont-be-a-moron-and-stand-behind-a-jet-like-this-guy/ So Andy observes - two pushbikes sent spinning 150 yards into the woods , two human grass-cutters gripping the grass so they didn't follow, engines throttled back for taxi condition . This is what happens when aero engines rev up for take off. Somewhere - there is a classic film where a floor sweeper with his brush walks past a jet engine exhaust in a lab. It may have been Frank Whittles place.

So - 05/02/2023 after 6+ years , the Andy Brown story of hundreds of burried tanks is deemed - codswollop , the work of a creative mind. Then it is suggested that one looks at AB's other post as originator :- History repeating itself.a waste of 60 years (posted 15/82022). AB - gets the last word and gets no bite in response , it's a case of down but not out on the case of the black ball. Andys - last typing , I was unaware that they produced a missile in the shape of a sphere. --------- So - the day Andy was a tractor mechanic (civvy) on a RAF field, like most technicals - he would be nosey & store in memory ? If the story is not contrived - then w.t.f. did Andy observe ? Could it have been the "Radioactive Bomb" ? Probably the greatest secret of WW2 on ? Not the two route to a nuclear explosion. At close down of Tube Alloys and hand over £$ free to the USA , the greatest secret was the Cyclotron. There was the idea of an Americal scientist (as if a British scientist had not considered, as if Blunt & team had not passed it on to Russia (until Op. Barbarossa Russia shared all secrets with Germany). Both Chadwick and Oliphant were ordered to keep their mouths shut. The idea was a dirty bomb, to use the radioactivety of the cyclotron - the nuclear accelerator for producing a stream of electrically charged atoms or nuclei travelling at a very high speed - in a bomb. This could destroy the human population of a large city. Apparently Sir Mark Oliphant - made no mention until January 1994, posibly by then he had lost a few marbles ? Oliphant merely said - that the radioactive bomb was a contentious issue in the immediate post-war years !

The RAF did not obtain best agricultural land for Chain Home radar sites or airfields leading up to and during WW2. RAF Dundonald near Irvine is interesting on what they did (quite a few goes at it) - badly waterlogged . Ripped up now and ISTR the site of Olympic Business Park after earlier being a large factory then Trading Estate. However - this was for light military aircraft. In my extensive library - I can only think of a single procedures for runway construction for a badly waterlogged site. . It was built on a farm called Goosepool (that tells the story for starters). It's 20 years since I purchased the book circa. publication date 2003 , it's a weighty tome 295mm x 210mm x 2m , now with a £ weighty asking £$ price (most seemed to end up in Canada and you would probably have to re-import). Not read it since 2003 - so will have to find time to revise. I don't rcall the depth of foundation being so deep or from costly material. From what I recall - ballast brought to site via. a rail sidings built for purpose, lots of work IIRC - longest runway in England for bombers. It was slave labour almost by out of work miners, the unwell/physically impaired and youths (four actually died on the job) , if they didn't accept the £ free pair of boots and get on a taxi truck - then the Ministry of Labour stopped their DOLE. Of course more info. can be gleaned with great difficulty that is not within the book. GOOSEPOOL : The History of RAF and RCAF Middleton-St. George and Teesside Airport by Stanley D. Howes.

The Dambuster Lancaster bombers took off from RAF Scampton when it was a GRASS field , the odd Lanc. returned early against all orders with a hung-up bouncing bomb on the same grass field (probably the heaviest landing by the RAF on a UK grass field during WW2). Hard runways were with advantages but even grass with surface water is not a great problem. In fact light aircraft in Alaska/Canada have larger than standard balloon tyres for landing in shallow water. Several years ago a pilot similar equipped was reported for repeat touch down (practice) on Lake Ullswater,Cumbria - he was taken to court but won his case.

03/4/2016 post by AB 'The Russians are coming' - talk similar to Hitlers Op. Sealion - where does this info. come from ? All that I am aware of - but just what is true/false ? 1971 MI5 under Martin Furnival Jones - apparently Soviet Spetznaz were to attack MOD & US bases , saboteurs target public services, such as water,power, transport , communications and nerve centres of government. True ? Well I will not mention Peter Wright types & apparently the NAFTA petrol filling station chain (later sold to Q8) , many uneconomic stations built in line of gov. microwave communisations. Twenty five Russian intelligence officers running about 400 agents Heath PM wanted the lot thrown out. MI5 swooped and expelled 105 Soviet Agents.

btw - you may be due to check the valve guides , especially exhaust that wear oval sooner - that's the full cylinder head off job but best preventative maintenance.

Gaskets are just common 2.1/4 (2286cc) new ones now seem self adhesive on one side with peel-off strip. IIRC the ones I get from a local factor are British Gasket who do good stuff. Rocker/valve stem clearance , excess due to face wear on rockers is the Archilles heel. I tend to do a precise check with a DTI (dial test indicator) if indentation not too bad - compensate using DTI & feelers. ABRO engine recon. the rocker faces are often re-faced - not a good idea because I think they are induction hardened (look hard & you can often see evidence if the surface 'flame' hardening / oil quench. A common Classic tool for this wear problem is to use a SPQR tool for adjustment. Some say - viscosity for barrier - use 20W/50 , however the last few years of S3 production a 15W/40 or semi version was cleared & quoted in civvy User Handbook (MOD instructions lagged) & then the Defender 2.5na came along with its own particular engine oil problems. Good unworn engine - I use 15W/40 semi arguably it may not provide the same cushion , however a semi has far better anti-scuff & anti wear properties.

Happy New Year for 2023 ,,