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    More pics of RHS
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    As always Ron you are doing an amazing job. The Ultimate FC
    54 Series 1 86
    61 Series 2 109 - Club Rego
    76 2 Door Range Rover
    78 101 Forward Control - Club Rego
    88 Perentie FFR - Club Rego
    90 4 Door Range Rover - Club Rego
    93 Discovery 1 200 Tdi - Club Rego
    98 Freelander 1 - Full Rego
    22 Defedner 90 - Full rego

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    The good news is the LHS is no where near as bad, it has rust holes, but without patches over them which will be much easier.
    below just some stalwart general interest pics.
    The first is in Aden in about 1964.
    The second is what I hope to achieve trailer and truck wise to move the stalwart around without wearing out its drive line.
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    Some more more in service pics
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    Yep,...…. gone from a few holes and metal patches to this...…... today with the plasma cutter.
    Its going to keep me busy for a while...…..but keeps me out of the pub and other places I shouldn't go too.
    Ron
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    Days worth of work just doing one small area near the RHS water jet.
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    I work on this big lump as a hobby, so I tend to knock back a cleansing beer or two.
    Some times at the end of the day if I lost count of how many beers I had...…..rumour has it I could sit behind the steering wheel and make some pretend vvroom vvroom noises with a big splash noise...(.rumours only)
    This time it was different , I thought I heard a female voice ?????
    Not a super sexy seductive female voice, but a pommie boiler female voice...…..still seductive just the same.
    It said "RON"...…"Swim with me !" and then again "Ron swim with me"
    After about 7 or 8 years working on this thing I could be loosing it, or just may be I need to work harder for my march to the sea and quit drinking that dish water Queensland XXXX stuff and go to Tasmanian Boags.

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    Just a quick up date.
    I am still working on the big lump on the occasional Sunday when weather and time permits.
    Still cutting out rust and flush welding in new metal.
    I am finding more and more old patches over rust holes...…..welded over, not cut out and flush welded.
    Welding a patch over causes more long term rust problems and looks unsightly.
    ( water gets between the patch and the original plate and causes more rust between the plates)
    So every time I find a patch which has been done previously I have to cut it out.
    flush welding in new metal sheet has its own problems in that I need to weld both sides of the new patch where possible to ensure full penetration and its completely water tight.
    This also means grinding back the welds flush on both sides if possible and a lot of it is done with a tungsten carbide burrs hanging up side down etc, as is a lot of the welding is up side down...……...all stuff I hate doing.
    The carbide burrs are fantastic for the 2mm plate and hard to get areas with good control and finish, but throws thousands of razor sharp metal cuttings which find their way into your skin as well as being a slow process.
    I am slowly progressing and getting to the RHS centre wheel area working forwards from the rear of the vehicle.
    The Humber 1 ton truck is now out of the yard...the Humber is a distant relative of the Stalwart and uses a 6 cylinder version of the motor in the Stalwart.
    I have had a WW2 Jeep in at work as a paying job for a month or so …….the owner was having trouble finding someone who wants to work on a old Jeep.
    The Humber in the Yard at work has been replaced by a more permanent piece of gear.....being another Wiles steam cooker, this time a Junior model.
    In fact its a old friend, as the family owned it as a going concern for many years and we sold it on about 17 years ago.
    It has now come back home...………...but now is in pieces.
    It is complete, but is a much easier thing to get back into steam than the big Wiles Senior cooker I have.
    I also found some original wheels to fit it which it never had.
    When ….or if I get started on the wiles junior I will post the progress in the trailer thread section....wiles cooker.
    Ron
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    These pics show some small patches taken off and then whats beneath...….these are small and easy to reach ones.
    1/ pic wiles cooker wheel with a tyre supplied by lewy110 beside a spare stalwart wheel.
    2/ patches as found
    3/underneath the patches
    4/ last pic looking up at a rust hole, which has been cleaned out and found to have a large patch above it and Bog between the patch and the original plate.
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    These days we now have a Alvis Stalwart Face book site.
    I don't do Face book as I don't like the security.
    The site does have some fantastic pictures of the Stalwart in service and general bits and pieces in private ownership.
    check it out.
    Ron
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    [I had a long phone call to Graham the bloke who was in the Stalwart which got
    Clobbered in the bum.
    He still has along road ahead of him and is not walking.
    He will by the sounds of it will need a hip replacement and knee replacements in the longer term, has metal plates in his spine and many, many other things going on.
    He has hopes of getting another Stalwart into the country if that is possible these days , or importing enough parts to sort out his old machine.
    It is still not known if he wil ever be able to climb on to the roof and into a Stalwart cabin ever again.....or to walk with efficency .
    I hope one day he will be able too......he seems to be focused enough.
    Interesting he told me the last lot of mods he had done to his Stalwart with regards to keeping water out of the drive line .............he had done away with using compressed air to pressurize the transmission when swimming, but gone to a system of oil tanks high in the hull and over filling the transfercase ect and then restoring the oil levels to normal or road use.
    More stuff for me to think about.
    All this is still to go before the courts and therefore is here say or aledged until proven etc.
    It appears it is possible the truck driver who ran into the back of the Stalwart was not licenced.
    How that could be in this modern age of truck driver employment and truck checking stations and log books is interesting and there must be something very wrong with the system.
    All I know that Grahams life appears to be stuffed up big time,not only with his health, but his business and family.
    Another interesting trouble he has is working out the value of a Stalwart here in Australia with the insurance company and then replacement / repair costs.
    All very difficult stuff to work though.
    I hope he some how finds a way to get his life back on track.
    Ron

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