more axle questions

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

You could well be correct about the Perenties, I have never seen one on a Perentie myself, however about 2 year ago there was a complete Salisbury front end on Ebay (vendor in South Australia) advertised as being off a Perentie.

Perhaps it was off a pre-production Perentie or as you say one of the armoured 110s etc. What do the SAS LRPVs have?

At one stage Allspares in Sydney, had a Salisbury front housing and there have been a number of private imports, most noticably one of the Series III 1 Ton prototypes that arrived in Sydney during 1974. I last saw that vehicle in Alice Springs in 1981 (sadly missing it's Scottorn Bushmaster powered trailer but not the drive coupling for the trailer).

Diana

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Here is a 4x4 LRPV. It has a narrow version of the 6x6 (cast rover) axle:
http://www.remlr.com/picslrpv4x4/lrpv4x4_07.jpg

It looks a bit salisbury-like from the front - perhaps that is what you saw?

Here is a 6x6 - looks the same (definitely not a sals):
http://www.remlr.com/pics2/lrpv_afg8_big.jpg

http://www.remlr.com/pics2/lrpv_afg13_med.jpg
Compare how much closer to the ground a sals is

I enjoyed the pics! :)

The Rover diffs and cast housings were a bit difficult to see, although I get the idea. :BigThumb:

Diana

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

I enjoyed the pics! :)

The Rover diffs and cast housings were a bit difficult to see, although I get the idea. :BigThumb:

Diana

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Must need (new) glasses then :p;):wasntme: In the 1st pic I can see the cast housing and ribs radiating from the centre pan, and even the stencilled "grease filled hubs"

The REMLR regulars seem to be able to read ARNs from a tiny image of gray dots... !

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Originally Posted by isuzurover

Must need (new) glasses then :p;):wasntme: In the 1st pic I can see the cast housing and ribs radiating from the centre pan, and even the stencilled "grease filled hubs"

The REMLR regulars seem to be able to read ARNs from a tiny image of gray dots... !

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Or maybe they could buy me some bigger screens here at work!

I seem to remember using Photoshop to manipulate an image of a gun buggy in Vietnam to determine it's ARN, but yes, sometimes its attempting to read the profiles of the numbers rather than seeing the number itself.

Just on the pics, Afghanistan must be very hard on the troopers, they are so overworked all the features on their faces have disappeared! :wasntme:

On the ARN, in Afghanistan shouldn't they say Australian Expeditionary Forces or Australian Attack Forces? They are hardly in defence so far from Oz. :angel:

Diana

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Or maybe they could buy me some bigger screens here at work!

I seem to remember using Photoshop to manipulate an image of a gun buggy in Vietnam to determine it's ARN, but yes, sometimes its attempting to read the profiles of the numbers rather than seeing the number itself.

Just on the pics, Afghanistan must be very hard on the troopers, they are so overworked all the features on their faces have disappeared! :wasntme:

On the ARN, in Afghanistan shouldn't they say Australian Expeditionary Forces or Australian Attack Forces? They are hardly in defence so far from Oz. :angel:

Diana

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You really do need a bigger monitor... ;)...

The first pic is a new 4x4 LRPV "as supplied" (on the back of a truck being delivered in OZ) - it is the one with the defence force plate.

The remainder are "in-service" pics (may be iraq). They just have "army" plates by the looks...

And to get this somewhat back on topic:

Olive Drab - this is a salisbury in case you were unaware what they look like.
http://www.remlr.com/picslrpv4x4/lrpv4x4_18.jpg

The company i did my apprenticeship with had the contract making the l/r diff housings. It was a foundry in mascot Sydney. W e cast the housing, welded in the axle tubes and welded on the mounting hardware. I think the whole project was about changing the track width of the vehicles. This was 1987-1988 so the finer finer details have been lost to memory in the fog of time. it was fun building something from scratch the only downside was we didnt get to complete it the housings were supplied to the army empty. Hope this info helps someone if they come across something of an odd size. There wer4e a couple of hundred of these diff housings made. The first batch was experimental and i think they were scrapped because we had major dimension changes early in the contract.