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Just to get most questions out of the way at once. My reasons for fitting a Cummins L10 despite the amount of work needed to get one in an Explorer are these. Engine is the exactly right size, and weighs only, 876 kg (1930 lbs.) The clutch is easily accessible because the original length shaft and both rubber couplings can be used. Reliability, never heard a bad word against them, (running for cover now!) always starts on first jab of the button. Power band is perfect for an Explorer 1200-2100 rpm, red line 2400. cruising at around 30 mph-1700rpm and hardly ever need to change down out of top gear again, twice this year I think! Hit the red at a tad under 40 mph on the over-run but 30 suits me fine Spares are readily available. Only downside is, it looks a bit small with the bonnet sides off and the tick over is a little fast for delicate off roading. To fit one you will need to turn the exhaust manifold upside down, make up a spacer to the turbo, split the turbo and turn two parts to suit, blank off one inlet manifold hole and use the other one, make up a new exhaust and filter/inlet pipe. Then make rear engine mountings, move the fan up to suit the rad shroud and if your sump is at the front it will have to be reversed and the pickup altered. The clutch can be done different ways depending on the type used. It is possible to use the meadows clutch shaft unaltered, although I didn't. A 1980s/90s ERF fuel tank pickup has the same thread as the Scammell one so the fuel line is easy. If any one is really interested I could dig out some pix of what I did and post them, the most difficult part is the thinking, and that's all been done now.

http://www.ereplacementparts.com/images/part_2610991280%20screw.gif Pan head. But if the pix Andy just posted look like round head to me so perhaps it aint to important really.

Sounds like it could well have been Jules Corin and chums http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll21/ANDYSCAMMELL/AEC%20Militant/DSC01385.jpg

Thanks for that amazingly quick reply, George will be pleased with that.

The screw heads should be slotted pan head to look right on an Explorer, I suppose the same on Pioneers. I used cheese heads and they look wrong, as do round head, all screws should be slotted. sorry if I'm too late with this info. Looking Good.

A fiend of mine, George Taylor, has asked me to post this, it is on the back of an envelope that was posted to his father in April 1945. George is hoping someone may be able to tell from it what his father was doing at the time, any theories or WW11 pix of the place would be nice.

The Meadow engine has 2 timing marks on the flywheel, one for magneto, one for distributer, you are guessing in the dark as to what timing to use with LPG, and that's without going into advance and retard miss match stuff! I ran mine with the Meadows in it for around 9 yrs, I loved that engine, I love that sound and I loved flexibility and smoothness, but in the end, because getting to the place I wanted to go to became more important, I fitted a Cummins L10. It can and has been done (3 running around to my knowledge) just it takes a bit of savvy, if you really want to fit one I can recommend it 100%! I reckon 10-15 MPG and total reliability. Please don't let Andy Fowler see this post! :shake:

Got one in a cupboard, 50 miles on it,, for sale.

Now that is an example to all of us, me included, who sometimes can't really be bothered, more power to them! :bow:

So does this mean that Bremach (Job) decals have become the latest must have teen accessory (remember VW?) in Hampshire and are being stolen from vehicles parked away from CCTV cameras?

I found with Notepad that if I alter, edit or delete the text it often appears with a lot of spaces when pasted in the message window and I have to sort it out, better with Wordpad. Maybe just me though.........

STOLLY MORE EXITING THAN A SCAMMELL? :box: go wash your mouth out young man!! It's probably best you have separated them there could be a fight for your affections, not that they aren't stretched enough already, what with the 101 sulking somewhere as well! You are clearly up to speed again now, steam cleaning must be the worst job going, I never have managed to get mine done all over like that as the blowbacks on my glasses and too long a lance defeats me every time, believe me I've tried! Hearty congratulations to you both, all the best for the future, :yay: Bernard

I'd noticed that but didn't connect the two things Graham, good theory, it would help braking off road as the front does most work.

British MVs with driven front wheels often had the directional tractor or similar type of tyres fitted the wrong way round, why was this? Various answers I have had is to stop the tread 'scooping', to aid reversing in mud, or helps braking. Anyone know the correct answer please? IE text from a manual, or even personally ordered to do it!

You've got a lot more patience than me Les, but I like your attention for detail, like the bonnet sides ready to be run over! :-D I see you have complete doors on your cab, mine have the door/quaterlight bit missing, maybe my complimentary one was a second,. :-(

If the colour's a clue it's a bit more dangerous than that me thinks!

Very good, so what is the lever she has her handbag hanging on for?

Phew! I'm pleased about that, thanks Richard, when I first saw My Explorer the IRR green had faded so much I thought it was an RAF one, I was disappointed that I couldn't justify painting it blue!

Hi Graham, a trick you can use if you're posting something you need to think about or is just long, is to do it in word pad. Open WordPad start writing your post in there and 'save' to your desktop. You can go back to it any time until you are happy with it, (save it each time) then copy and paste it into post window and submit it.

If I have read all this correctly, this 1950s Scammell would never have been this colour in service? Pity cause I quite like it.

My father wouldn't say much about the war except talking about being on 'fire watch' on top of the roof, when other kids asked Why he didn't fight in the war, I was embarassed as I had no answer. After his death we found letters containing heated correspondence with the War Office. It seems he had designed a device which enabled many sizes of object to be dropped safely using multiple man size parachutes. He had succeeded in overcoming the problem of the lightweight lines snapping when the chutes opened. The idea was to simplify logistics as only one type of chute would be needed in most cases. Although this device had seemingly performed perfectly in trials and production had been ordered, the first company to be given the job spent many months and thousands of pounds "developing" it. My father thought it was perfect already and that they where ripping off the government (He quoted one as saying that it was not ugly enough for the MOD!) The job was then given to another company and they were apparrently no better, my father went as far as naming all those concerned and blaming them for holding up the war effort, he was very angry indeed at what he saw as profiteering. He had given all rights to HM government. Obviously this was all secret work and there may well have been other things. Before the war he had been a mechanic at Brooklands working on cars and planes and knew many of the famous drivers and pilots of that period, he did talk about this! The device was a sort of pulley block that contained a coiled metal strap much like a clock spring but the metal was soft, not springy. This fitted between the load and the chutes and pulled out to absorb the shock load. Objects of many different sizes could be dropped by selecting the correct device for the weight to be dropped, (or adjusting it I don't know which) and the correct number of chutes. Does anyone know if such a device was ever used During the war, or was proven to be impractical? I would love to know.

u scroll down under the video screen when it plays there is a link, click it for RBPBR.

CW, how come you didn't spot the sea water link under the video window? Must be slipping old chap............

I think Jade was in this stuff on Big Brother a while ago (so the papers said, I couldn't possibly watch such drivel)

Aggree, not a lot of locating lugs (or whatever they're called) so it all slipped about a bit until set! :confused: I soon found I had bigger and easier things to fettle. I would be interested to see your more accomplished results.