Thread: The Ultimate FC

Received some parts today.
These are new rubber boots for the torsion bars

Next is three seals.
The large one is the tracta joint ball seal
The medium one is a hub seal for the hub reductions.( I think it is ??????)
The small one is a seal that goes in the drive shaft between inner and out tracta joints to stop oil transfer across the Two.

These are shock/rebound bushes ?????
and special pinbolts that lock the wishbone shafts to stop them rotating with suspension movement(they tend to break or shear if the suspension is dry.)

New cork inner tracta joint seals

Removing and fitting new seal between tracta joints.

Fitted new inner tracta ball seal, rubber boot and cork seal.

This is the ball of the outer tracta joint with boot removed.
I am waiting on seals( the same seal for the inner tracta joint ball)
It is a slightly different set up to the inner tracta as the ball must move in Four directions rather than Two.
I will have to do some reading up before I pull it apart.

Parts supplied are for a Saracen as their is no stalwart parts in Australia.
Some parts are different.
I have these boots that don't fit on the stalwart

The type and arrangement of the sealing of the wish bone pins appear to be different.with the stalwart items being a recessed design to hold the O rings and the Saracen using a simpler washer design with a bevel.


All the parts are marked being packed between 1982 and 1985.
The good news is everything I needed that matters is advailable in Australia by ordering Saracen parts which generally 80% of the time fits.
I am running out of money again as I need to buy paint and stuff.
X mas coming up too, so I expect things to slow up again especially with the weather now getting hot.

Ron

If you have parts for Saracen/Saladin that don't fit the Stalwart, let me know. As you are aware our club has 2 Saracen and a Saladin in the Sydney basin, so better to pass the parts on. Can refund your costs if you like.

BTW: I'm down for my neice's wedding on the weekend.

Diana

If this thing was a Saracen APC sealing of all the suspension and tracta joints etc ,wouldnt be a big deal providing the parts don't leak oil.
Being a Stalwart...ie swimming all this is going to be important to keep water out of the expensive turning bits.
If all the seals are working correctly water shouldn't enter the tractas and hubs, but if it does it means all the oils will need to be changed after swimming........there is a lot of oil involved if you include the central lube tank.
The problem is to do all Six wheel stations with new seals, clean, chip everything and repaint etc will take a lot of my limited time.
The Five others are not leaking much at all, if any..........leaving me with a gamble of do I or don't I.
I am getting in time parts to reseal all Six wheel stations.
Still no wear found in any part, just old aged rubber parts.
The wheel station I have been working has been apart before( they were not too kind) and resealed and why it is leaking , because they cut that inner tracta housing cork seal too short.
I am guessing it was part of timed regular army maintance.
Pity they stored them out in the weather to rust away.
The hulling patching to keep the vehicle water tight appears to been done over along period of time with early patches stick welded(army) and later ones MIG welded( Civie owners ????).

If you want to know what water does to the turning bits of these vehicles look at this site.
Restoration Ozzie Saladin - Page 6
That Saladin was used by a previous owner as a paddock basher on a farm and we know what farmers are like with high tech machinery and greasing things.
That Saladin most likely has only been driven though mud holes ....they cannot swim.

PS .........note the brakes on the Saladin
They are a one off design by the British army design board and are a very early type of disc brake sort of.
They are called a ring brake with a ring fitted to the inside of a drum arrangement......they where a design dead end as they cannot dissapate heat any better that a drum brake.
The stalwarts disc brakes where the first modern disc brake system ever fitted to a production truck( Hydraulic/4 pot caliper design)