Thread: working scale model of series LR

Originally Posted by vnx205

0.625 is 5/8 expressed as a decimal.

At Cooma, I heard him say that he had not actually measured the capacity of the engine. Surely it would have taken only a few seconds to calculate from the bore and stroke.

The tyres at Cooma were bars treads that he had cut himself. It looked a lot better with them. Maybe he has driven it enough to wear out his bar treads.

The engine and driveline are not based on anything except a Series I Land Rover. He pulled a Series I apart and measured the components and made a 5/8 scale version of them. He made the engine from a solid billet of aluminium. I think he said he had three goes at casting the block and then gave up and made it from a solid bit. He made all the gears and bits in the gearbox and diffs.

Machining components like the crank, cam and ring and pinion need highly specialised gear. Either he owns one of the best equipped machine shops in AU, or he farmed that out (or used off the shelf bits).

Hi,
wheels are off a mini, the carby came off some other engine, I think he said the CVs came off a small tractor or some thing, coil and plugs came off a shelf, but most of the rest was made in the shed on a lathe and a couple of milling machines.
The radiator has 8 dents in the top, the original has 7, but that is being really harsh.
cheers

Originally Posted by isuzurover

Machining components like the crank, cam and ring and pinion need highly specialised gear. Either he owns one of the best equipped machine shops in AU, or he farmed that out (or used off the shelf bits).

Ben, he has a pretty impressive workshop, crownwheels and pinions were Honda Quad bike IIRC, but all other driveline and engine parts were cast, welded, formed and machined by himself. I saw the first Cast engine block over 8 years ago when I visited him, on the maiden voyage of my Isuzu converted RRC. He wasn't happy with the block and subsequent castings also, so reverted to a billet.

Richard is a very talented and capable engineer, apprenticed in the railways workshops and they ran their own engineering firm for many years. I worked for him and his Brother for a time, I learnt lots while I was there.

JC

Now this must have taken quite some effort to do....

even made the scale engine / gearbox etc

Struth!!



Maybe he should have spent the time on his 1:1 model first? Or did he give up on that??

Beautiful work.
Dave.

Not the first thread on this - perhaps moderators should combine them?

John

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Not the first thread on this - perhaps moderators should combine them?
John

Done

The guy at the Willmington toy museum made a scale replica of a series 1 with trailer to match, the rear PTO is a working scale too, he also made a scale WWII Jeep and trailer as well.

It's a great Museum to visit, well worth the entry fee.

Baz.