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  1. Has it got a diff-lock? If it has, engage it and make sure that it has engaged by looking at the mechanism. If you now get a drive, you may have a broken half shaft on the other side from the diff lock. It is quite easy to take the 'hub cap' off complete with the hub reductions. No need to jack up. Just undo all the 1/2" bolts on periphery of the hub. You will need two of them or two longer ones to pull the hub cap/plate off. You will then be able to extract the half shaft and inspect it for damage. If a piece of the half shaft is left in the diff, you will have to repeat the exercise on the other side in order to be able knock the broken piece through. It will be a lot more difficult to get the diff out for inspection and you will have to remove both half shafts in any case. Therefore, use the diff lock to help diagnosis and then check half shafts. It might be a hub reduction gone belly up. I would imagine that Dave Crouch has some axles from breaking up DROPS. For the gears, make sure that you have the right number of teeth! John
  2. I worked on that vehicle with Trevor. Easy to identify because it was stretched. IIRC it had Holmes twin boom recovery equipment as well as its original winch. John
  3. It is easy enough to start a project but completing it is another matter.! You just have to be extremely determined and avoid getting side tracked into some other task, however, attractive. You just have to keep plugging away at the job and eventually it gets done. I can't wait to see it done. What was the field arty conversion? Was it a light gun tractor? John
  4. Dear All, I am sorry that we have not responded to 109ffr but it is easy to miss an introduction. I don't do social media and I do not have a smart phone. I like it that the forum is a repository of knowledge and experience. That is why carefully posted my solution the the problem of broken cylinder head studs on a Meteor engine. John
  5. Dear All, Thank you for the suggestions. John
  6. Dear All, We are re-commissioning my 'big' trailer in order to be able to transport the Conqueror ARV from the REME Museum to MOD Lyneham. Unfortunately, there os quite a bit of green algae on it. Some of it will scrub off. I am reluctant to pressure wash as this might damage the paint, although I might try. Does anyone know of a product that will tale off green algae? John
  7. I have a manual for one now and they are attached. Have you found one? John 565 OPERATORS MANUAL (1).pdf 565M SPEC (1).pdf 565M SPEC (2).pdf 565M SPEC (3) (1).pdf
  8. Do you mean an electrical cable assembly or a bowden type control cable? I would imagine that the internal parts such as pistons and liners would be very hard to find as the basic engine would have been overhauled at a base workshops, the manufacturer or a contractor. Wherever, it was done, there would be no spares for us! Sooner or later we will have to start rebuilding 'dead' L60s. Does any know anybody who has internal NOS parts for an L60? John
  9. A few years ago, Wayne practiced the task on the REME Museum's 60 ton tri-axle Dyson tank transporter trailer, what we call the 'little trailer' Sam has done a fab job. Far better than my work. John
  10. Although the drive sprocket is very large, it is not a Conq because of the brackets that Richard mentioned but also the road wheels are much larger than on the conq. The suspension units are are also correct for a Cent
  11. When I did the big trailer I spent £11,000 on materials and that was between '96 and 2001. And Sam is is doing a far better job than I did! It really is 'off the scale'. John
  12. The switch is in the post to you. John
  13. I think that it would be much more fun to set up an escort agency and you don't need any insurance.
  14. This afternoon I had a quote from Ageas via Footman James. £2364 and that is without being able escort the transporter. At this rate I will be calling he car breakers to come and tow the Disco away for scrap. Since in my opinion you need a tough vehicle and not a car to escort an abnormal load, the outlook for the Big Trailer is bleak indeed. John
  15. I am pretty sure that I have got one. PM me your address. John
  16. I believe that the trouble with the trackers is that the thieves will put the vehicle into a container ie a faraday box ASAP and before the vehicle is missed. Once the tracker starts transmitting, it is easily found and disabled. John
  17. Apparently Landrover have stopped their insurance scheme because the rate of claims made it unaffordable. I have always been astounded how childlike the so called security systems are. For instance, being able to use a relay system to stimulate the Fob to transmit its code to malevolently acquire the unlock code. Surely you would have a system whereby when the Fob meets the car, the car sends a one time code that the fob has to authenticate. If the 'car' sends an invalid challenge code the fob ignores it. If it is a good challenge, ie it is a code that the Fob is expecting, perhaps even only for that time and day, it sends back a code to the car which the car recognises as the correct response to the challenge code. With such a system, it would be no good recoding the transmissions for use later as the codes used each and every time would be different. If you consider 20 unlocks per day, 365 days per year for 20 years that is still only about 150,000 authentication codes which is nothing for modern storage devices. I suspect that part of the problem is that there are large numbers of engineers involved in developing the systems. Organised crime could easily afford £100K to corrupt the right person. Very often there will be a 'back' door into the system. Thank you to everyone who has offered help and advice. I now have a plan although it will take a few days next week for it to come to fruition. Members should note that Howden Insurance Brokers know that they have left me without insurance and have done nothing about it. They have only got one offer available at £800 but the insurance company concerned will not cover anything to do with "MOD / military premises". John
  18. David, Under the insurance principle of uberrima fides, now that I know that "tank" is a potential problem, I have to mention it. I cannot later claim that I did not know what I am doing. I forgot to mention that I have NEVER been prosecuted for any motoring offence, or any other offence. John
  19. Dear All, I am 67 and have had a Landrover all my adult life. In that time I have had three insurance incidents with a Landrover. In the late 1970s I had a minor collision with a Van. He crossed a give way line at a crossroads and I think that he was prosecuted for careless driving ( he was as unwise as to insist on reporting the accident to a kind policeman who said "are you sure that you want to report this?). In 2018 I had a car bump into the back of me and their insurance company accepted liability in writing. In 2021 my Defender 90 was stolen and what remained of it was found by the police in a 'chop shop' near Odium a few days later. I have held an HGV licence since about 1977. I have been a qualified Army driving instructor since about 1981 and have a full C + E licence. I am married and own my own house. Those who know me well will recognise that I am under untense and proper scrutiny as regards my personal conduct. The Chelsea Tractor Manufacturing Company has been selling expensive and unreliable tractors suitable for use in Chelsea. Unfortunately, the company appears to lack the willingness or ability to make them secure so they are very frequently being stolen (as was my Defender). The insurance companies have obviously had to raise the insurance premiums in order to meet the increased claims. I use my 2002 Disco D2 as a workhorse as it was intended to be. Unfortunately, the insurance companies are linking together Chelsea Tractor owners spending between £50 to £100K on a vehicle with people like us who use a £10K vehicle as a workhorse and maintain them ourselves. The upshot is that the large national insurance broker who has bought up other well know brokers is unable to put forward any insurance company who will insure me at a reasonable price. There is a complication. I was obliged to notify that we use the Disco to escort the tank transporter. Last year we went from Lyneham to Capel. This year it might be Welland Steam Rally as well. As soon as I mentioned the work "tank" this became a huge problem whereas it had never been in the years before when I have notified of this slightly unusual use. One insurance company withdrew their offer and would not re-instate it even if I said we would not use the vehicle for escorting a tank transporter. Note that the problem appears to be the Defence connotations and there can be no doubt that I am intimately linked with Defence. In other words, what we have is wokery. Below is what I got back from the broker in respect of the insurance company that was covering the Disco and in the knowledge that for several years they had agreed the risk. XXXX declined the renewal of the car insurance purely on the basis that the vehicle will be taken to and driven on the site of a MOD / Military premises. With my day job hat on, I would be very grateful if anyone in the wider Defence community is experiencing similar problems which seem to be linked into Nick Mead's. PMs would be appropriate. When I was looking into Nick's problem, I discovered that the banks had been quietly debanking firms in the defence sector and this was not understood by Government at the time. This is because it is a very sensitive issue for firms concerned as going public could make matters even worse. Therefor, for those who are in the Defence sector but not at the top of your organisation's food chain, it might be worth just drawing your top person's attention to this post. Finally, does anyone still have an 'old time' independent insurance broker who can secure insurance for a Disco D2 used as a workhorse for play but with subsiding the insurance costs of the Chelsea Tractors. I am also worried about being able to renew the insurance on the Contractor for similar reasons. John
  20. The Government does not need to be in the supply chain. All it needs to do is to tell the bank not to worry about the Money Laundering Regulations and in respect of and Tanks a Lot and the export of AFV's to Ukraine. It chooses not to for reasons that I know not. They must be laughing their socks off in the Russian Embassy in London and in the Kremlin . John PS Is anyone experiencing difficulties with obtaining insurance because of involvement with 'Defence' in its widest sense and for either play or work? Any info would be much appreciated.
  21. The easiest solution would be for the Government to TELL the bank concerned to disregard the Money Laundering Regulations in respect of Nick and exporting AFVs to Ukraine. As I understand it, most of the money is coming from private sources rather than the Ukrainian government. If the Government handled the sale, it would still have the problem of taking money from unverifiable sources. Ministers have indicated in Parliament that "the complete integrity of the Money Laundering Regulations is more important than facilitating the export of AFVs to Ukraine". If you are in contact with your MP, of whatever political colour, ask them whether this is a sensible policy or not. I have been trying to help Nick all this year but have still failed to be able to do so. I did find out that many banks have been quietly debanking the Defence Industry without anyone knowing. Ministers are now on that case but still will not sort out Nick's problem. John
  22. I hate people who lie and claim that legislation prevents them from helping. These machines appear to be made 40 years ago! If our opponents wanted to, they could buy one S/H and reverse engineer it. There may be some secrets about reducing the electromagnetic signature or why it has to be so complex but they are not relevant to what we need to know. I wonder if the actual alternator is rather simpler than we might think. Normally, it is a rotating field coil and a stationary armature that supplies the output. The military version will have all sorts of facilities such as being able to parallel machines and, no doubt, tight frequency control with complex systems to achieve this. Could we / you not bin the complex military system and take a modern commercial voltage regulator and fit that instead? John
  23. However, it is interesting to see how well what we would "low mobility vehicles" do in Africa off metalled roads. BTW on the Cuthbertson Landrover, we have one at the REME Museum which presumably came form Beverley. John
  24. It is probably a 1300 or 1400 series Hardy Spicer. I think that you will find that the Pitch Circle Diameter of the bolt holes will be convenient imperial size. What also matters is the outside diameter of the drive flange, the OD of the locating spigot and the overall length of the shaft when the spines are in a suitable position. Judging by the amount of rust on the flange, the UJs will have to be dismantled for inspection before the shaft can be relied upon. If you google "1300 or 1400 series Hardy Spicer you might find a data sheet. John
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