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Master
AEC Reliance Bus
Definately not a Landy but just as much fun, I am converting a 1970 AEC Reliance bus into a motor home, this is not a full size bus but a 22 footer, common rural school bus year ago I went to school in one but it was a Bedford:
This bus was built on a 70 Austin Truck chassis, the engine is a 4.0L Austin thing, anyone got the gossip on these motors like what there like, reliability,. power etc if it turns out the motor is not worth entertaining ill slot a 265 Hemi Heavy from a Dodge Truck into it.
If anyone knows of something I need the AEC Badge for the ffront which is a wide winged set up with AEC on it, also need a horn button for the steering wheel and lastly I need an ignition switch Lucas type as used in S3 landys I have a new BMC key from this era marked FS932, if anyone has a switch with the barrel numbered FS932 would love to hear from you.
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Contact the Truck & Bus Museum at Lilyfield for the badge, they may have contacts or members willing to sell.
You won't find me on: faceplant; Scipe; Infragam; LumpedIn; ShapCnat or Twitting. I'm just not that interesting.
Swaggie
How is it an AEC if it has an Austin chassis and engine? Sounds like it was built on an Austin 3-45 or 4-60 chassis.
That Austin engine was notorious for overheating in commercial service.
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Master
The AEC was built by Athol hedges in Qld, its definately Austin running gear etc, has a 5spd box and a 2spd third member, the engine does run but I dont like it, its under powered and loaded with Lucas stuff, I had hoped it was built on a TK Bedford chassis but no such luck, I can stick a pic up if anyone wants to see it.
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This is a 1957 AEC Reliance and it has an AEC engine not Austin
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You won't find me on: faceplant; Scipe; Infragam; LumpedIn; ShapCnat or Twitting. I'm just not that interesting.
Swaggie
SubscriberI drove AEC buses when I was on Sydney Buses, 49 to 53 models from memory, pre-select and fluid flywheel, definetly no Austin bits in them, the rolling chassis was shipped over from the UK and fitted out by Sydney Pressed Metal.
Baz.
Cheers Baz.
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Spoke to the people from the truck and bus museum at Shannon's ECC yesterday and they unanimously suggested that it would either be an AEC engine in an AEC chassis or an Austin engine in an Austin truck chassis converted to be a bus.
Austin did not build engines as big as the AEC units.
You won't find me on: faceplant; Scipe; Infragam; LumpedIn; ShapCnat or Twitting. I'm just not that interesting.
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please!Originally Posted by graceysdad
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Swaggie
x2!
(and can I suggest an ISUZU 4BD1 or 6BD1 for the repower???)
Master
This is the engine, definately an Austin 4.0L
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