oily Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 I was sent an email today by one of my 'contacts' and they are selling, admittedly by auction, rather a lot of Saxon based spares.....including New/ remanufactured Bedford 6 cylinder 8.2 ltr Normally Aspirated Diesel Engines... I have numerous pictures of them, you can have one for starting price £1000, or lots of 2, or 5, priced accordingly. Looking at the photos, they seem to be very similar in physical size to the B80/81, exhaust is on the left side, so that suits Saracens/Saladins, also the crankshaft appears to be nice and low down, with the flywheel very close to the base of the shallow sump (dry-sump?) ...check out the picture...... they also have matching new fully auto boxes, relatively reasonably priced, although not sure whether they'd be easy to match up to the transfer box on Saracen/Saladins... might be ok in a Stolly though.... think of the extra oomph 8.2 ltrs will provide!:laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulob1 Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 I was sent an email today by one of my 'contacts' and they are selling, admittedly by auction, rather a lot of Saxon based spares.....including New/ remanufactured Bedford 6 cylinder 8.2 ltr Normally Aspirated Diesel Engines... I have numerous pictures of them, you can have one for starting price £1000, or lots of 2, or 5, priced accordingly.Looking at the photos, they seem to be very similar in physical size to the B80/81, exhaust is on the left side, so that suits Saracens/Saladins, also the crankshaft appears to be nice and low down, with the flywheel very close to the base of the shallow sump (dry-sump?) ...check out the picture...... they also have matching new fully auto boxes, relatively reasonably priced, although not sure whether they'd be easy to match up to the transfer box on Saracen/Saladins... might be ok in a Stolly though.... think of the extra oomph 8.2 ltrs will provide!:laugh: ooh that is interesting, I have just bought a company that specialised in engine replacements, on a small scale but they are going to be fitting engines, diesel in my zils, and ural, and then I am going to buy two diesel converted stollies as mules and then offer conversions for other owners..this engine looks good. What is its power output, too much power would be bad news for a stolly...just googled the specs..its only 164 bhp bet the torque will be good though, and with turbo power would be up to 200 bhp..enough I think... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulob1 Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 oh and its on the right side, the right, for a stolly too.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 I was led to believe that certain parts for this Bedford engine are getting very dificult to obtain. That said, if you need some 8.2 litre parts then these engines appear to be very good value Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 I wonder if the Bedford 500 for Saxon auto box application had a different flywheel to the standard one for clutch mounting? This is often (but not always) the case with engines used with autos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oily Posted February 11, 2011 Author Share Posted February 11, 2011 ...apparently they have quite a few lots/items of engine spares too....:cool2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oily Posted February 11, 2011 Author Share Posted February 11, 2011 being diesel and Bedford.... it'll probably run quite happily on old chip oil for donkey's years! so it should be cheap enough to run,... not only that Saxons are being gotten rid of in their droves now too, some will have useable but non-running engines no doubt.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oily Posted February 11, 2011 Author Share Posted February 11, 2011 I'll look out the rest of the pics and post them too..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulob1 Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 if they have loads of them £1000 sounds a bit much to me...I would love to have four of them sitting here for that obscure conversion project but it would be just that, sitting here...would be a nice engine for the zil, but I suspect it would be too long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulob1 Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 anyone got any sizes for the engine, length weight etc..will it run multifuel or is it diesel/bio only.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirhc Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Plenty of Saxon engines for sale if you look in the right places... http://www.liquibiz.com/auction/view?id=4140619 Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amphibi boy Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Paul, Have you seen the larc for sale on milweb, that would be a good project for you! Shaun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oily Posted February 12, 2011 Author Share Posted February 12, 2011 Plenty of Saxon engines for sale if you look in the right places... http://www.liquibiz.com/auction/view?id=4140619 Chris ...yes, that's my contact for goodies.....where I saw the saxon engines... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirhc Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 ...yes, that's my contact for goodies.....where I saw the saxon engines... Not for much longer aparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin craig Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 All you need is a bare hull and cheque book and you could have a complete one after all the spares they are flogging, wonder if the winning bid will be a man or woman from Jordan? R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oily Posted February 14, 2015 Author Share Posted February 14, 2015 Looks like they've gone to Syria, then....😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean N Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Ukraine, apparently, according to the news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 The most important thing for any B series engine replacement is the maximum rpm. Most modern diesels don't rev high enough to match the B series, so unless you want to be doing 20mph flat out you'll have to think about changing gearboxes/transfer boxes or having new gears machined. Not then quite as cheap a conversion as it first appeared ... Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oily Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 Ukraine, apparently, according to the news. That's what I meant to say.... Oops! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean N Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 The most important thing for any B series engine replacement is the maximum rpm. Most modern diesels don't rev high enough to match the B series, so unless you want to be doing 20mph flat out you'll have to think about changing gearboxes/transfer boxes or having new gears machined. Not then quite as cheap a conversion as it first appeared ... Andy I think that's one of the points about the Bedford 500. Being a small truck engine it revs to 2800 or so - not B81 revs, but not too bad. It has been used successfully in Stalwart conversions before now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stolly Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 ooh that is interesting, I have just bought a company that specialised in engine replacements, on a small scale but they are going to be fitting engines, diesel in my zils, and ural, and then I am going to buy two diesel converted stollies as mules and then offer conversions for other owners..this engine looks good. What is its power output, too much power would be bad news for a stolly...just googled the specs..its only 164 bhp bet the torque will be good though, and with turbo power would be up to 200 bhp..enough I think... Dear All, Is there anyone outhere who has a dropp in replacement for my stolly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold_War_Collection Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Dear All, Is there anyone outhere who has a dropp in replacement for my stolly? Stolly? why not a RR K60?, its a conversion thats been done before. Cheers Nick CWC Canada Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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