Caddy

P.S. love the ‘Mr’ BTW, makes me feel important

Sorry to disappoint - a bit too cultured, like my sausages grilled or fried 🤣

(apart from a dirty frankfurter sandwich now and then 🤫)

Boiled sausage? Sure we’re not getting Leopards?

with regards to whether the BV boils why produce a new one that only fits CR3? Surely you’d utilise current BV’s so that you’ve just got 1 type to worry about.

Also H&S wise, wonder how many accidents there have been from BV’s?

I guess the biggest physical change will be with the new smoothbore and the storage of the 1 piece ammo.

wonder what they’ll do with all the extra space once the charge bins are removed? Will there be any room in the hull to store ammo?

Well if it makes you feel better, I have not been able to do anything really to my Range Rover for well over a year. Been in storage for ages, find a workshop near where I live then Covid.

Small successes are successes nonetheless.

Still in awe BTW

😏😁 if they don’t rust then why the hell have I been welding it up for 5 years?

Many thanks, looks very useful

So I need to find a way to stick some C channel to the rear of my Range Rover.

The channel holds the rubber seal in place for the boot.

problem is there is not enough gap to pool weld it on and I don’t own a spot welder.

any ideas? Thinking about hiring a spot welder but would probably have to get my own set of electrodes.

Ta very muchly

Paul

Going to be moving to just North of Cambridge soon and looking for somewhere to rent to restore my Range Rover.

Yes, not quite a Military Vehicle, but wondered if anyone knows of anything available, doesn’t need to be massive, guess about a double garage size-ish

Cheers

Paul

Hi Malcolm,

I don't think we have the special tool, Barney might, but I rather suspect that he found an easier way of doing it during his time in the field with REME. I know he has a secret stash of shims that he used.

I've managed to not only slip a disc in my back, but also damage my hip so I don't think I'll be at Duxford till mid October, but won't forget.

with regards to the engine I forget where it was rebuilt, but it was done in a REME workshop towards the end of the first gulf war. Think it was one of the very last Meteors rebuilt so the thought may be that it was never repaired, just crated up safe in the knowledge that the British army would never need it again.

who knows. 

16 hours ago, sexton said:

Hi, Caddy, I'm resurrecting this old thread in the hope you are still around. I'm getting close to installing a Mk 4B Meteor in our Mk5/2 Cent at the Ontario Regiment Museum in Ontario, Canada. It's a 1974 rebuild by Scottish Aviation, and it runs well on the test stand after some magneto and carb cleanup. 

I am really interested in the engine installation photos you posted. It looks like you removed the starter, generator, and oil filter, then dropped it in sideways into the hull and rotated it 90 degrees into position. Is that correct? I wasn't planning on removing the oil filter but you say that's needed.

We have the fans installed, but you didn't. Is that a show stopper? 

It also looks like the exhaust manifolds weren't installed. I know we have to remove the right hand one to allow installation of the oil tank post engine install, but is there a reason you had neither installed?  

How did you align the engine to the gearbox? There's quite an elaborate procedure for this in the manual, and I'm struggling with it.

Finally, did the Mk 3 get running under its own power? 

Regards, Malcolm

PS Mike, John's getting back to me.

Hi Malcolm,

So, where to start with this?

After my last post funding for the Mk III restoration was not available for a few years, and it was taken outside and covered up. 

About a year back (maybe longer, @Lauren Child what do you think?), we got given the green light to get back on with it and massive progress was made.

All the hull wiring was redone, a replacement main engine was sourced and installed with the clutch and gearbox.

We were also very lucky in that we managed to get Barney back (anyone familiar with the MVW will know Barney - cent man through and through). He was vital when it came to getting the engline, clutch and gearbox back in, and I'd need to pick his brains as to how he managed it. But I think it involved aligning the gearbox to the final drives, then the clutch to gearbox and engine.

The replacement engine has been giving us some grief and looks like the valve timing keeps on slipping, @Lauren Child Myself and a couple of others have become a dab hand at timing the valves and the magnetos but it seems to slip....

Unfortunately there has been another reorganisation with the IWM and I am unsure at the moment as to what the DAS MVW's involvement with the MkIII will be. I haven't been in several months as it's been cricket season and I managed to slip a disk. Hope to be back the week after the Battle of Britain show. Can ask Barney then for you.

Cheers

Paul

Absolutely lovely

Guess there could be a later mod, the MkIVB that came with our Cent III has these filters.

Guess if they are on the scavenger side then they will be relatively low pressure so perhaps an O ring will suffice? 🤷‍♂️

Hope this helps!

My parts list has it as 

JOINT, scavenger filter cap, 2 of LV3/RR/EM5265

from memory the ones I have come across are a fibre washer.

hope that’s of help

1 hour ago, andym said:

If you purely rely on charging the batteries from the vehicle, yes.  But if like me and, I assume, many others, you keep them topped up from a separate charger it shouldn't be an issue.

Andy

Would another way is to use the battery balancing box from a Cent?

That provides a 12v feed for the wireless system

Love the work BTW

57 minutes ago, Asciidv said:

I have just realised why the delay. The films must have been Super 8 and have been sent away to be processed......

Nope, not super 8. They need the orchestra to play the music for their moving pictures

This idea that modern playgrounds are to be bubble wrapped and hermetically sealed against all risks is a load of old tosh.

I’ve managed playgrounds and the European Standard actually states that  a child might break a limb in the process of playing, and that is an acceptable risk as that is how the child learns.

Doesn’t mean that we’ll just leave lots of huge pointy things laying about though.

I believe that for braizing you can use oxy-propane instead of acetylene.

I've only used oxy-acetylene, but have heard it said that the other method will work. All the same kit, just different flammable gas? Hope someone on here can confirm

Thought i’d add a bit in here regarding PPE (yes, H&S, yawn).

For Brazing and Oxy-Acetylene welding this is the type of visor that works well and allows 2 hand operations. Look for a shade 3 visor, and make sure that it will also deal with hot flying materials.

https://www.fastenal.com/products/details/0800425

9 hours ago, Aussie said:

Sorry Paul

Those are photos of plates but not sure what manual they're from, and the info relating to numbers wasn't included - so limited benefit!  Perhaps someone else will be able to help.

The only other bit I found was a circuit diagram which might be useful.

Sorry I can't be more helpful.

James

Hi James,

That's not a problem, I think that as Lauren points out it's for when it was changed to a Mk V

8 hours ago, Lauren Child said:

AVRE turret side

26 to wireless distribution terminal block in order - 6 to 10 onto 2 to 6

17 to control cubicle

19 to turret switch and fuse box b- and wb

20 to turret switch and fuse box b+ and spare

 

 

Lauren,

That's the bunny!

Will send you a PM

Cheers Aussie,

The RBJ we've got us the one detailed in plates M29 and M30, so it's fair to say that the Cent we're restoring to Mk3 status is not a Mk3 but a later version (whether it was a Mk3 at one point is a different matter).

Have you any more info to go with those plates?

cheers

Paul

Hi all,

i don't suppose anyone out there has any information on the RBJ for the Mk 3 agent?

just started to go through the turret wiring on the IWM's Cent and someone has disconnected everything.

Now I don't know whether it's a RBJ that is originally fitted to Mk3's, but the FV No is

FV31559

Any help much appreciated

Paul

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