Thread: The Ultimate FC

just a up date.
I am finding plenty of work just painting stuff I have stripped off the back of the thing.
There are about 40 alloy plates like this which take about an hour to sand blast the larger ones due to the shape and amount of paint on them.


The main engine cover has come back today with new folded gal steel strips in place and a alloy bottom plate and stiffeners in place of the badly corroded steel ones it had.

A new bilge pump has arrived and hydraulic accellerator unit to which the pedal fits to.

The bilge pump is supprizingly American made and I will need to make a strainer for it.
The folding troop/gunner seat frames have been painted and strenghten as they were bent and tend to be used as a jump down landing point when going from the cabin to the cargo area.
new cushion bases have been made and are getting covered.


The passenger cabin seats are all finished.

The large plate which holds the jerry cans and is the floor plate over the radiator is corroded underneath on its stiffiners, so it has been sent off to get some new steel folded.

Nice work there Ron.

So when do you expect to have it in usable road condition.

Garry

This thing is going to take me years to do it right.
It is driving and historic plates now.........but is not reliable and not to a standard I am happy to drive it around anywhere.
Time and then money are the main problems.
Working for myself and a young family makes it hard.
I also want to fit a Jolly Engineering electronic ignition conversion kit to it as the standard twin points set up is a nightmare and needs to be set up with the dist on the bench and special tools used to set it up correctly.
The size and scale of the vehicle makes it hard.
I have nearly used 8 litres of paint so far and I couldnt tell you where it went.
If I remember correctly the last time I painted a landrover 4 litres did the job.
If I was retired things would move much quicker.
Ron
PS
I have a jeep ,101 landy, B40 BSA,US6 studebaker to maintain and some other toys of my mums in the the big picture of things.

A few old pics



A REME version with a tank power Pak in it, a Atlas crane with safety valving to install the power pak and various tools.
Note the different rear canopy and the carrier bolted to the rear tail gate just above the water line.


Fuel/water resupply was a major roll of the Stolly


Even the fact my Stolly is set up as a gun limber/tractor they were never used in that roll.

So you going to call it the "Titanic".