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    Hey Ron I believe you have converted your b81 to electronic ignition what kit did you use and did you take photos and what oil do you use in the fluid fly wheel and is it hard to get?

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    Quote Originally Posted by THE BOOGER View Post
    Hey Ron I believe you have converted your b81 to electronic ignition what kit did you use and did you take photos and what oil do you use in the fluid fly wheel and is it hard to get?
    Check out page 20 of this thread.......the electronic kit cost about $350 dollars Aust when our dollar was good.
    I installed mine so it is completely hidden unless you remove the dist cap.
    It is the single most important and best improvement you can do to a B series Rolls.
    Most breakdowns on the B series Rolls is the ignition system.( as is the back fire, miss fire and plug fouling)
    Get rid of the suppressed plugs and fit civie plugs.........cheaper and another great improvement ( I now run 25 thou plug gap on protruded nose self cleaning plugs with fat blue spark , instead of 15 to 18 thou of the old system throwing a pale orange spark)
    Check page 41 of this thread.

    On page 19 of this thread check out a link to..... ignition matters.......It is a very good article about suppressed military ignition systems.
    The Jolley Engineering electronic ignition will still work perfectly with the 24 volt boost while cranking as it was designed with the B series Rolls in mind.
    The Stalwart doesn't use a preselector box or fluid flywheel......it uses a dual plate clutch and manual gearbox.

    I don't know the exact spec for the fluid fly wheel oil.
    I suspect ordinary ....thin viscosity hydraulic oil will work well.
    Check this out with the Saracen blokes.
    I do use in the Stalwarts brake, clutch, choke, steering and accelerator systems thin hydraulic oil.
    general hydraulic oil in forklifts, excatvators etc is normally AWS 68...the 68 being the viscosity, so I use AWS 10......10 to 15 being the viscosity needed.
    Any oil supplier can easily get or stock the thinner type hydraulic oils.
    The hydraulic oils we have today surpast the very old specs of the 1950s.

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    Times said:


    ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS CHANNEL

    Hohne, Nov 23-
    A Rhine Army trooper from Bristol who tried to cross the English Channel in an Army five-ton amphibious vehicle was sentenced to eight month’s detention here today. He was found Guilty of being absent without leave and three other charges.
    He entered the water from Belgium but had to land near Calais, where he was detained.
    A District Court Martial was told that Trooper Robin Wilfred Painter, 20 of the 11th Hussars, had planned to England after a 400-mile drive from his barracks at Hohne.
    He then planned to cross the Irish Sea from Liverpool to Ireland where he had planned to ditch the stolen vehicle.

    In a statement he was alleged to have made to the military police Painter said he took the vehicle on September 22 and set off to drive to Belgium. At the time he was under open arrest after a similar escapade in August when he drove a car to a Belgium base, where he surrendered after being absent for 24 days. Sentence is subject to confirmation.





    From the Times Nov 24th 1965.
    Got lost or it got too rough and wound back up on the French coast or island........reported in other papers too.....must be a true story.
    The stalwart was taken from a base in Germany ????

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    Driving a Stolly from Germany to Ireland with single MPG figures?

    It's a sound idea in principle, but even if you left camp with a full tank of fuel, how many stops would you need in the interim?
    I know fuel was cheaper back then, but even so...

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    Range on a tank full of fuel is about 500 kms.
    The weather this time of year is good and allows me to do a little bit after work on the stalwart .
    That will very soon change.
    Another alloy wheel getting the needle gun treatment.




    just all boring stuff going on at present.
    It is a slow process needle gunning the old flaking paint.

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    The needle gun is easy on the air compressor, gets the job done and is able to reach hard to get at spots.
    I remove the lower pins for the shocks/rebound to allow access behind them.
    I also drill out the centre of the lower shock pins right though and fabricate a stainless steel 3/8 UNF plug with a screw driver slot to screw into them.
    This allows better lubrication of the pins and wish bones if need be.
    I also replace a oil bleed out plug with a grease nipple so I can push lube which ever way I want to though the wish bones and shock pivots.

    I have found on every wheel station so far, either blocked lube passages, missing lube bleed out plugs ect.
    So it has been worth while to go though them and check things out.

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    I am also finding the shock pivot O ring seals have liquidified with old age as has a lot of other rubber stuff.
    The O rings in the shock pivots are replaced as would be not possible for it to hold lube.
    The standard lube was gear oil though the nipples and bleed out plugs.
    Some people use grease as it stays where is should be longer ,especially with old seals, but I suspect the grease is too thick to get to some of the wearing surfaces.
    I am having a two way bet by using steering box grease/semi fluid grease.

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    there is an access cover removed in a pic..is that where the mesh goes for the dowty intake?

    as for lube Russian trucks often specify gear oil and grease together (gaz66 for example)

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    Quote Originally Posted by amazing View Post
    there is an access cover removed in a pic..is that where the mesh goes for the dowty intake?

    as for lube Russian trucks often specify gear oil and grease together (gaz66 for example)
    That's correct..... the protection grill is painted waiting to go back on.

    I have new hydraulic brake hoses made ready for the rear wheel stations.
    The fronts were done before I got the vehicle, so now all the brake hoses will be renewed.
    I badly want get the other three wheel stations checked out and painted, get the oil from the central lube tank to the wheel stations and brake bleed so I can use and play with the vehicle.
    I still have a wheel alignment issue and clutch adjustment to sort out.
    I suspect the clutch needs the half life washers need to be removed.
    All takes time to sort out.

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    One interesting discovery.
    The Black oil dag( graphite ) stuff I added to the central lube tank worked its way though to every wheel station without being drained/bleed though.
    I have read somewhere this is because the set up though heating and cooling pants/ or breaths when the vehicles is in use .
    Think of it like over filling both diffs of your Landrover to the top via the small breather pipes and connecting the pipes together via tank.
    You would not think oil would travel from one diff to the other but it does.
    A side effect of this is when the vehicle is cold and the oil is thick and every gear housing totally filled with oil is great oil drag.........it takes many miles/KMs down the road before the vehicle frees up and warms the oil.

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