supertrack Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 Ok Ken , i have just the engine not the sherman , i always do things in reverse You need an oil tank like this model ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpu121265 Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 J'aime les Francais, toujours les plaisanteries... Looks like a picture of seats, a dynamo and some 'otherbits' to me mon ami..... I do need the oil reservoir as fitted to a sherman with a radial engine, and all the linkage from the clutch pedal (i have the pedal but nothing else) all the way to the clutch release bearing (i have the bearing but nothing in between). I can at last see some daylight at the end of the sherman rebuilding tunnel. Amities Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpu121265 Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 It's been a long time since we posted anything about the Sherman, but we are staggering on with it. 0 time engine has arrived, NOS gearbox, most of the turret traverse set up, pedals, dash board, prop shaft and some other smaller parts (thanks in part some fellow HMVFers who ahve gone out of their way to assist). Still looking for a turret basket, all fuel tanks, fuel tap block/taps/connectors, clutch release bearing mounting bracket.... Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Will it be ready for A&E 2012? Good luck with the resto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Will it be ready for A&E 2012? Good luck with the resto. COME ON KEN!! Get that engine in and that other grey thing - paint it green and get it to A&E 2012! I am wanting to get as many Shermans together in one place! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpu121265 Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 COME ON KEN!! If only restorations were voice activated... If it is ready i'll bring it, should know more by the end of the year. The D2 Cat is about to poke it's head out of the workshop any time soon, and will going with the Studebaker in the rough to Ponderosa for their maiden UK outings, the D2 having come from the US and the Studebaker from Australia. Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddy8men Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 well done mate, i don't know how you found a new R975 but that's a fair chunk of the restoration in itself all the best rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happydayz123 Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 I'll lend you mi hammer again Ken if it helps in the resto:-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supertrack Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Ken it's look's like Chrismas ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpu121265 Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 More sherman news, the front seats have arrived courtesy of my favourite (and only) aunt, who lives in Florence, Italy. We're staggering on with her (the sherman that is). Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Barrell Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Nice seats Ken! They are the final pattern, D78351, so not really right for yours but much better than nothing, good find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpu121265 Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 It is the best i have come across so far Adrian, but the search goes on. If anyone wants to swap for the correct pattern, in serviceable condition, let me know, these will not be being fitted for a few months yet. As an aside, your TW bolts are packed up with the Cletrac compressor for Paul. He said i could ship it all to him and he would sort out collection with you for the bolts, is that OK? I am sorry it has taken so long, and i still have not unpacked everything yet, so the release bearings you said were there have not surfaced yet - but if they are there they will..... Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcspool Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 More sherman news, the front seats have arrived Ken, Nice seats indeed. Was discussing the differences the other day when I dropped off this LVT4 seat at a Sherman restorer. I contributed it to be used on one of his Sherman restorations. Regards, Hanno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpu121265 Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Thanks Hanno. My primary interest in these was that they are A. Serman, and B. In good condition. All the others i had seen were in terrible condition. At least this way, i can install these and wait until i trip over the correct ones in due course. More pressing now is the clutch release bearing mount and the turret basket. Every step is getting us a step closer now though..... Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Barrell Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Ken, that's fine thanks. Paul has a couple of engines here so no doubt a big swap will happen soon! I'm still very happy to make you a basket, I had another in the other day to be refurbished so have five here in various states at the moment...... I can make you the parts for you to assemble or sub-assemblies if you'd rather. Can take payment other than monies too.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdmcm Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 What ever became of this restoration project? Seemed like it was well on the way and then the thread went dead.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happydayz123 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Hi, my friend Ken sold his Sherman onto another British collector. I've know idea, where it is now ! regards stu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RattlesnakeBob Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 a grand project and one I somehow missed completey in the past years ........ A really cracking looking Sherman too . ..I'd love to think I could attempt such a project...... but the cold reality of the dedication required... plus the size and manner of the workshop facilities required.... then there's the kit and gear needed to undertake such work .. ...... then there's the not too small a matter of just how fat a wallet you'd need to buy her in the first place never mind how much you'd need to set about the renovation and also of finding all the bits makes me go all a quiver! Brings me to a random thought though ........I can appreciate from this thread and others like it that an enormous amount of work goes on behind the scenes to source all the bits needed...... regards the engines which I presume must be getting rarer and more expensives as each year goes by ????? I know some folk out there have taken this route when it comes to the whacking great big petrol engines fitted to most WW2 trucks so........(only asking not meaning to stir any feathers regarding 'authenticity' etc) Wouldn't it be easier to use something modern such as big Volvo or Scania truck engine or maybe a big agricultural tractor engine in place of an original Sherman lump ? I'd have thought it would be easy enough to connect up with the 'remote' gearbox in a Sherman just so long as you could get the 'lump' of the beast into the engine bay ? Fuel economy would be better with a big modern diesel (?)..... ..plus way more power maybe ??? ...........and a modern engine would be easier to maintain too??? So.. ... Tell me......is it just because of the 'authenticity' that not many folk seem to have gone down this route ? and once again ..a really seriously gorgeous Sherman absolutely loving the double 'duck bills' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toner Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Personally, if it kept the vehicle running, I'd go for it, better to have a modern engine and a mobile vehicle kept in good order than a stationary landmark that would deteriorate over time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharky Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Your very limited on what engine will fit in a sherman engine bay. The original radial is tight enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Barrell Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Tight? You should try a multibank! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david052 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 You could always try this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdmcm Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 This fellow in France used an air cooled Duetz diesel... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Herbert Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Does anyone know how many horse power that Deutz engine makes ? Anything much less than 400 gross in a Sherman makes it really rather hard work, plus the gearing is more or less 1000 RPM = 10 MPH in top gear so you need quite a high revving engine to equal the 24mph standard top speed. I'm talking about RPM at max HP, not max possible RPM. Also it seems odd that the Sherman with the Deutz was originally fitted with a Detroit twin set, which are still comparitively available and sound great. As Adrian Scott proved you can also hot rod them with modern rocker covers and 500 HP if you want. I must admit that I find the M18 with the truck engine rather endearing but again I expect it is rather down on power and speed. Anyone know where it is? I have driven a British Centaur with a V6 Detroit non turbo engine (a 6V92 I think) which was making a lot less than the original 375HP (600 in a Cromwell with identical gearing) and it was almost undrivable, there was simply not enough power to accelerate once you had changed up from 2nd. David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longydagun Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 David, Do you have any more info on the Detroit V6? Was it really that bad to drive with? Would love to hear more from you on that if i could? Drop me a PM please! Many thanks Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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