Starfire

The restoration of your Series 3 is mildly interesting to me, but the way you write about it is bloody hilarious! When it's all done and dusted, please do us all a favour and buy another vehicle to restore

The Landy is looking good.

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Terry

As far as I can tell, it looks like this body has never been mounted on a chassis, by the way. It is exceptionally clean underneath and in the engine bay, and there are no signs of wear on the mounting points, tow points or lifting points.

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Terry

Good to hear that you've got her running again

Leo is a strange looking dog. He's a shepherd crossed with something?

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Terry

Rust. You need to look for rust

Speaking of which, Paul, when are you going to update your site with more progress on your Mack? Also, your site gives no indication at all about where you're located.

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Terry

No problem. I always figure you're better off having too many photos and not needing them rather than not enough. Even if you only use one or two, that's fine.

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Terry

Ok, that's enough spamming from me - unless you want a specific shot of anything in particular. There are some duplicates in here; the uploader is kinda crappy

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Terry

The sun came out later, so I got some better external pictures:

More photos are uploading

Our museum has the body shell of a Short Brother S600 series variant (AS-S607-00-002) on display in the yard, which was donated to us by BAE Systems Australia.

I asked Clive if he'd like some photos for his Shorland site, as he didn't have much on the S600. I figured that rather than trying to email them to him, I'd put them here and then let him use any of them that he wanted. In order to clear up any potential confusion, I am putting these pictures in the public domain and they can be freely used by anyone for any purpose. I would them credited to the National Military Vehicle Museum in Edinburgh Parks, South Australia, if you do use them but this is not a requirement and entirely optional.

This post will be very picture heavy.

Yes. That is the default. Please change it

Cheers,

Terry

While we're at it, can you please update your indexer to allow 3 character search terms? It's bloody annoying having to use google for articles about things that use a three letter acronym on this site; something that the military tends to do a lot of.

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Terry

I need a Saracen one, if anyone has a spare.

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Terry

1/2" break adjusters? The luxury. The Saracen has 12 (2 per wheel) 7/16" ones.

The Landy is certainly starting to look good, by the way.

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Terry

You've probably inadvertently changed your text size. You can either adjust it through your browser menus or you can hold down your <Ctrl> key and use your scroll wheel to put it back up to a more normal size.

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Terry

This is relevant to my interests

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Terry

I've got one in my Saracen and use it to open the fuel filler. While I guess that it's supposed to open hatches and the like, it doesn't quite fit any of the ones I have.

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Terry

Actually, the dimensions, heavy padding and height above the ground leads me to believe that it may have mounted on the roof of a railcar or stage coach.

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Terry

The things around the edges appear to be padding that is pleated with buttons, like an old couch, viewed from a high angle (I'd say that they are on the walls of a box like structure and we are looking down upon it). What it is and what it was used for I have no idea.

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Terry

...proven track record.

I see what you did there

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Terry

Good to hear that you got it sorted. Where does the oil pressure gauge plumb in to the engine? My Saracen is only fitted with a warning light and that is staying illuminated at the moment (pretty sure that it's an electrical problem). Unfortunately, the manual that I have says to refer to the EMER Power for details about finding and removing the sensor, and I don't have that one

I'd like to fix the warning light (pretty sure that it's actually water damage/corrosion in the junction box) and also fit a mechanical gauge.

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Terry

It looks like power distribution for the Clansman series of radios. Was the vehicle FFR/24v?

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Terry

Yes, they are. More information can be found at http://www.ferret-fv701.co.uk/electrical_equipment.htm and the image is shamelessly stolen from there as well.

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Terry

Thanks guys,

I'm a bit confused about the bevel boxes: The original doc specifies OEP 220, which is an EP90 gear oil (and what I run in my Saracen), while Richard mentions an SAE140. Which should I be using?

Does anyone have copies of the manuals? The service schedule would be fantastic

Cheers,

Terry