antarmike

If you can't find something to fit, These people amongst others offer steering wheels/ shaft and columns to fit Orbitrol Steering units. May be worth talking to them? http://www.hydraulicsltd.co.nz/hydraulic-steering-orbitrol.html Some info here but all the contacts are in USA http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=426790 This part available from Eaton See page 84 of PDF http://www.hydrowest.nl/pdf/Orbitrol%20stuureenheden.pdf

I think he means the carrier partly in shot to the right of the AEC in the lower shot of the real vehicles not the models.....in post #4

Leyland Martian Recovery, worth doing if you ditch the RR B seies......

Tyres don't look too bad, easy restoration, just needs tidying......

I meant to say "is in a shed" not "is a shed!"

So is mine at the moment.....but it is in a shed!

The prop shaft is quite short and a further complication is that the Transfer box input shaft lies lower than the output from the gearbox. Had they been almost in line the propshaft may just have shortened. I note that the E.B. chassis rails are narrow compared to an RL so there isn't a busting lot of room between gearbox and chassis rail for the six bolt PTO on the side of the gearbox, and without actually knowing its physical size and layout there may well be conflict between the gearbox PTO and the flexible Hydraulic pipe feeding into the offside connection into the rear axle power steering actuating cylinder.

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Modern Cetop valve will have on the mounting flange four ports which will be marked P,T,A and B. P = Pump (where fluid enters the valve,) T = Tank (the port from which fluid returns to the Tank or Reservoir) A and B are the two ports (A Port and B Port) normally connected to either end of a double acting Cylinder The post relates to Crab Steering. Of you take a 3 position CETOPP spool valve, disconnect the pipes going to the two blue handwheel valves that select Four wheel steering and connect them instead to P and T, then connect A and B to either end of the rear steering ram. it should behave as follows;_ when Cetop valve is in centre position P, T, A and B are all closed off so no steering , the wheels wheel sare held wherever they pointed. (two wheel steering only) If the Cetop is switched one way so that oil from steering circuit enters at P and is fed to one end of steering Cylinder via A port of the valve. Oil from the other side of the piston exits to port B and is fed back to the steering circuit through T port. Turn steering wheel the other way and the reverse happens. (contra steering) If valve is switched the other way, oil entering from P goes to B driving piston in opposite direction, Oil on the other side of the piston now exits A and returns to the steering circuit via T. Turn steering wheel the other way reverses this action. (Crab Steering)

Existing pump is driven from the timing gears, it sits directly below the Injection pump. I cannot see how a back to back pump could be fitted.

No that is the 4X4 (with frame to carry Maskeline camouflage) The Model is of the 6x6 ( Model O857 ??if my memory serves me right)

Volvo PV 831/ PV832 Taxi At the time it was a fairly new Taxi....PV831was a new model in 1950, The Sugga Military version Started in 1953. The Suicide rear doors got hung conventionally on the Militatry Sugga....

Or one changeover valve....P to A and T to B or P to B and T to A, you could even do it with an electric Solenoid (Cetop valve or similar). Have a three way valve with P and TA and B all blanked in centre position and get rid of the two blue handwheels.

That would be a very good solution....

Ex Fensom's MAT's are fairly easy to recognise because Albert nearly always trimmed the front corners of the cab roof, over the quarter-lights, to give an extra inch or two clearance when he was in the woods.

Last one is one of Fensom's from Frairs Wash. I believe registration is actually KTM 188 Chassis O8532359, sold on to Storey Bros. Barrowden. See below.

Eager Beaver just has a single pulley on the crank that drives the alternator and the water pump/fan

Mk2 Hydraulics diagram What do you propose to run from a Hydraulic take off Giles? What Flow rate at how many Bar? Will it run continuously? Do you want to use it on the move when you will be steering? The preferential flow control valve is I believe what is now more generally termed a Priority bypass valve. The three mast cylinders are driven from the bypass side of this valve. The Controlled priority flow is to the steering valve. I think you will always need to protect the flow to the steering valve, (for safety reasons) Therefore any tapping would have to be taken, I would have thought from the bypass side of this valve. ( at the test point? Item 4 fig 15) You might have split the pipe at the test point and put in another priority bypass valve at this location, (where it is fed from the bypass of the existing priority bypass valve,) with the controlled priority flow from this second valve feeding the three mast cylinders,(i.e. new valve before the Pressure relief valve of the three bank spool valve) and take the Hydraulic tapping you require from the bypass of this second Priority bypass valve. But I am no great Hydraulics expert so I suggest you copy this info and talk this over with your local Hydraulic company. Unless anyone on here has any thoughts now the hydraulic circuitry is available for study?

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We both (reluntantly) sold our Antars, all that is left is the stain on the shed floor, an empty bank balance, and the name we still use on here!

I said that somewhere.....(there is both Antar, and AntarMike on this Forum and we aren't the same person!)

Watch the weight on the trailer the EB weighs 2759Kgs, The Tri-axle plant trailer has gross weight of 3500, Take one from the other means trailer should weigh empty 741 Kgs or less or you will be overloaded. Ifor williams list the three axle plant trailers at 905 to 930 Kgs according to specification so I would advise against using tri axle plant trailer only the LM 146 two axle flatbed has a low enough empty weight of 735Kgs to legally carry an Eager Beaver. I can't see another in their range that can do it legally. Mike

Motor Tractor is a Construction and Use category, A Ferret is a Motor Tractor even though this may not appear on any of your paperwork. It is a legal definition of what it is, not a taxation class or term or description written on a 5. Ferrets gain exemption by being Motor Tractors.

Is it hot air balloon launching time again? Well done mate.

I thought the RB was designed to tow the 105mm, that's why I doubted they would have air braking connections. If this is so, towing a 4 wheeled office is a no-no, since there will be no trailer braking facility whatsoever..