Thread: The Ultimate FC

Originally Posted by Sitec

Neat.. Did he ever complete his challenge?

I understand he made it 3/4s of the way around.
That stalwart with a Extended cabin I think is now in Canada.
The same person with another stalwart recently has planned exactly the same trip around the island ............I have not heard of the out come.
Planning of it takes abit of work.............it is a busy shipping lane in some areas and if the trip doesn't go well you need a escape plan ...........English channel weather, permission from various departments, currents, sandbanks etc.
The Stalwart would be very hard for ships to see and it wouldn't be able to move out of the way quickly for high speed ferries...........radio would be needed etc.
A reliable story is a unhappy soldier in the British army stationed in Germany stole a Stalwart and did a trip home by driving though France.
At the channel he swum the stalwart heading for Britian.
During the voyage the stalwart was low on fuel or had a mechanical
problem and he had to make for one of the channel islands.
Whisle on the island word got out and the soldier was arrested.
No stalwart has yet crossed the channel completely, but it has been done many times by DUKWs and that trip takes about 6 to 7 hours.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK5vjUB732c]DUKWs Cross English Channel - YouTube[/ame]

A pic of the Stalwart which tried the Isle of wight in 1994.........it didn't make the intended trip completely due to a blocked fuel line and had to pull up at a beach.

I have run out of paint and it will be about 2 weeks before I can rise some money for more paint and refit the wheel station.

Hello ron brillant job your doing on the stolly!
Like to get in contact with you.
Me and my father have two stollys back in ireland mrk1 and mrk2. There on you tube.
Find one under alvis stalwart drive by.
Im interest in importing one into australia.

Originally Posted by windhoist

Hello ron brillant job your doing on the stolly!
Like to get in contact with you.
Me and my father have two stollys back in ireland mrk1 and mrk2. There on you tube.
Find one under alvis stalwart drive by.
Im interest in importing one into australia.

One Stolly here is most likely still for sale (a MK2 with crane, with swim gear)and would be much cheaper than importing one which I understand to be much harder now.
Getting any stolly legal on the Australian road system is a grey area and depends on where you live in this country and how you handle the government departments.
If you want to talk to me use the PM service on this site.
My progress is .........currently I finished painting where I want to paint, but very hot weather(the vehicle is located out doors)and more health problems is holding me up.
My current problem is getting the tracta joint home in its housing.......I could be missing a step or trick in reassembly.
I have also done and worked out a modification for the front shock absorber pins for better lubrication as standard they are a bit lacking.
Ron

Well I am not happy.......I have stuffed up somehow.
Trying to refit the wheel station I found the hull tracta joint is 90 degrees out of wack to the wheel station side of the tracta
To top it off I decided to try and separate the splined coupling and pins whisle everything was hanging on the side of the truck and damaged a pin retaining wire clip.
Gettting a new wire clip will take some time as will pulling everything part on the bench and finding the problem........all 200 kg of it.
I cannot think how it is possible to be 90 degrees out of alignment with the set up especially as everything was marked and centre popped.
Back to the grind stone.......humble and still learning army truck nut.

Originally Posted by 101 Ron

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No stalwart has yet crossed the channel completely, but it has been done many times by DUKWs and that trip takes about 6 to 7 hours.
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Is that saying something about the ability of Stollys or the DUKWs?

Or just that there were far more DUKW to start with?

No Stolly has ever motored from Callala Bay to Murray's Beach Boat ramp, perhaps that could be your first challenge! If you have problems you could come ashore at any number of beaches, from Huskisson to HMAS Creswell.

This is one of our stollies thought you might be interested. Have you got the drawings of the hubs ? Been a year or two since we had our drives split.

Yes I have everything I need except for first hand experience of doing one of these things.
I am waiting on some of the special small O rings and new wire retaining clips and splined coller knock in pins.
I don't want to reuse them a third time.
For the life of me I cannot understand how I could get the tracta dogs 90 degrees out of phase, I could have refitted the thing , but the hub oil plugs would have been out of line.
The splined coller must be timed to the pin holes that holds the shafts.
It must be the outer tracta joint, but it shouldn't fit up at all if 90 degrees out on the drive dogs, just like the inner one on the hull wouldn't.
The hub reduction gears were not touched.
I will find out soon I guess when I strip it down again.
The joys of working on old over engineered trucks.

The tracta forks faces should be inline as per the above picture but mine are not.
The splines on the short coller between the inner and outer tracta can only go 180 degrees out of phase which doesn't matter at all because of pins going though them not shown well in picture.