Great War truck Posted October 13, 2019 Author Share Posted October 13, 2019 The Shackles and bolts for the back of the front springs have now been recovered from the "spares department" and mainly cleaned - and all look reasonable for re-use. They will want further cleaning and the Molasses dip is calling! The front of the front springs is secured directly to the front of the chassis and longer bolts or pins are required for that. The pictures of our whole Peerless show that. Those bolts do also have to secure the front Tow Hooks, Unfortunately we do not have long enough bolts amongst our collection of "spares" so they will to be made. The Spares Book describes them as "Front Spring Bolts long for Tow Hooks"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted October 13, 2019 Author Share Posted October 13, 2019 So now our thoughts move onto the rear Springs and Hangers. They are very similar to the front ones - though understandably quite a bit heavier - and again we are fortunate to have a number of the bits in the "Spares Department" once more. Generally the front of the rears is similar to the rear of the fronts (says Pat!) but the shackles at the rear of the rears are linked together by a cross tie - described in the Parts Book as a "Rear Spring Shackle link". We are fortunate again here that we have one - very heavily rusted and whoever recovered it by cutting the chassis from whence it came, took out the whole assembly, parts of the chassis rails as well! We would like to think that the actual long rod - some 50 inches long will fight again as it is threaded at the ends and it would be difficult to put such a long piece of steel rod in our set up to thread the ends on a new one. The ends have been protected so they may be OK! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiomike7 Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 2 hours ago, Great War truck said: How does that work, is the rod clamped to the chassis bracket with the shackle pivoting on the rod? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon_M Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 It looks like it functions like a cross between a torsion bar and the worlds slowest anti-roll bar. 🤔 plus it would add greatly to the rigidity of the rear end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiomike7 Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 13 minutes ago, Gordon_M said: It looks like it functions like a cross between a torsion bar and the worlds slowest anti-roll bar. 🤔 plus it would add greatly to the rigidity of the rear end. My thoughts exactly, just trying to work out what pivots about what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon_M Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 1 hour ago, radiomike7 said: My thoughts exactly, just trying to work out what pivots about what. If it was free to pivot in the chassis brackets it would be fine. Trapping or restricting it wouldn't work - the first time something bottomed out it would shear. I'd guess both sides would pivot freely - it would help the high-speed cornering too. 🤐 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiomike7 Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 2 hours ago, Gordon_M said: If it was free to pivot in the chassis brackets it would be fine. Trapping or restricting it wouldn't work - the first time something bottomed out it would shear. Not if the shackles pivot on the rod, no doubt GWT will put us right soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bill Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Hi Chaps. We have been fortunate to have a day when we were all in the same place at the same time! The cross bar is pinned into the castings and the shackles pivot freely on it. It does seem a very odd way to do things. The only reason I can see is that the vertical spring force no longer tend to twist the chassis rails inwards. It takes a lot of metal to achieve that, though. Any further thoughts would be appreciated. Steve :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiomike7 Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 The more modern way would be to have a cross member directly in line with the spring hanger to support the chassis rails and the hanger would have an outboard section to place the shackle pin in double shear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted October 13, 2019 Author Share Posted October 13, 2019 One of the issues that seems to plague Peerless trucks is bent wings - especially the back ones. This photo seems to demonstrate the cause quite well. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted October 13, 2019 Author Share Posted October 13, 2019 We will need some wings made at some stage. Steve has a very battered and rotten one up with him which he intends to use as a pattern for drawings. I thought that we had a better one in the spare parts caravan and got it out. Hopefully having both will give Steve enough information to draw out the front wings and get them made. Back wings might be less of a problem as although we do not have an original they are fairly uniform in shape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andypugh Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 11 hours ago, Great War truck said: This photo seems to demonstrate the cause quite well. Do you intend to bend your new ones, for authenticity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted October 14, 2019 Author Share Posted October 14, 2019 That is a tempting option. We need a ship and a large crane but we could do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiomike7 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 41 minutes ago, Great War truck said: That is a tempting option. We need a ship and a large crane but we could do that. Is the groove around the front hubs designed as a slinging flange? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon_M Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 26 minutes ago, radiomike7 said: Is the groove around the front hubs designed as a slinging flange? I don't think so. Those hubs would have metal and wood centres and the load of sighing them there might be problematic. If I'm seeing that right, the spoked wheels are just acting to retain the lifting ropes, which go through the wheel spokes and presumably under the axles. If you were lifting from the outer grooves on the hubs it would be near impossible to keep all four in place long enough to get a safe lift. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted October 16, 2019 Author Share Posted October 16, 2019 Yes, you are quite right Gordon. I have a photo somewhere of it all having gone horribly wrong and the Peerless hanging by its rear wheels only. We had a rare family gathering on Saturday which allowed us to progress a bit more on the Peerless engine. Main objective was to get the crank shaft out. So first we had to flip the engine over which even with a chain block was a little bit exciting. When we had turned it over we found all of the nuts which secure the journals were just finger tight, so we were wondering what the previous owner who had taken it apart was planning. He is the same guy who smashed two pistons so maybe he didn’t plan on running it again. The bolts at the front were partially obstructed by bolts securing the clutch so these had to be removed first. Everything was found to be in super condition which was very pleasing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted October 16, 2019 Author Share Posted October 16, 2019 With the crankshaft out the next task was to clean up the flywheel and remove the engine mountings for sand blasting. Nothing is ever straightforward though and this took a great deal of heat and time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted October 17, 2019 Author Share Posted October 17, 2019 Checked the journals and they were all found to be fine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted October 17, 2019 Author Share Posted October 17, 2019 We have been looking at the springs. We seem to have two fair sets of rears and one mediocre front pair. I dont think that we have any others in stock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted October 25, 2019 Author Share Posted October 25, 2019 Just had some sand blasting done. Time for Dad to get out his paintbrush again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andypugh Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 3 hours ago, Great War truck said: Just had some sand blasting done. Time for Dad to get out his paintbrush again. Maybe he should paint the photography table 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted October 27, 2019 Author Share Posted October 27, 2019 Dad has been busy painting things. Despite all the chassis that we have owned we only seem to have two pairs of these shackles (the second pair being on the complete chassis) and these are quite worn. Nothing insurmountable though. I do think that we might already have another pair on the chassis in the back of the garage. It is a bit buried at the moment but I will try and take a look at it when I am down next. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IAN_B Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 (edited) Here is a photo of the shackles and bolts for the front axle of our International truck project. The holes were very badly elongated, and we chose to bore them out until true, press in solid plugs, then drill them at the correct centres again. We think it will work. You can see the eccentricity of the inserted plugs quite readily in the photo. Ian Edited October 28, 2019 by IAN_B Text correction 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted October 28, 2019 Author Share Posted October 28, 2019 On 10/25/2019 at 10:54 AM, andypugh said: Maybe he should paint the photography table 🙂 What? It has taken nearly 30 years to achieve that patina! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minesweeper Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 2 hours ago, IAN_B said: Here is a photo of the shackles and bolts for the front axle of our International truck project. The holes were very badly elongated, and we chose to bore them out until true, press in solid plugs, then drill them at the correct centres again. We think it will work. You can see the eccentricity of the inserted plugs quite readily in the photo. Ian A nice neat job! Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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