How many civilian Forward Controls are there.

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Originally Posted by dandlandyman

New issue, but I wasn't sure it was extensive enough for a new thread.
I heard a little while ago that the ABC's Dr Karl (no, I'm not going to try to spell his surname from memory) either test drove or owned a Series 2 Forward Control some decades ago.
And this made me remember seeing either a photo or some footage of an FC on expedition in the desert.
Maybe a good new thread would be some archival stuff of these. Anyone?

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Great idea for some more archival material!

Dr Karl
I don't remember Dr Karl Kruszelnicki having a FC but he certainly had a Volvo C304 for many years, set up as a motorhome and toured in that.
If you want to read some very interesting stuff on the modifications he carried out you can look here:
Karl Trek ® Archive
Heaps of reading - click on the subjects for heaps of information -and he knows what he is talking about!

If you are unfamiliar with the Volvo Fcs look here:
Volvo C303 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Volvo C303 4x4's. From Vince Sweeney of Real 4x4's LLC.
Links und Adressen für den Volvo C303

Bob

A FC did a trip about 30 years ago from western QLD to Alice Springs via the Plenty HWY when it was a real adventure to do so.
The story was written up in Overlander magazine......was that Dr Karl?

It may have been. Anyone got a spare copy? Even photocopy the specific pages just so I can read them and put them in my FC file?
Also, the copy of the FC parts manual I borrowed from my friend in Katherine was damaged in the '98 floods. Most of the first half dozen or so pages were terminally damaged, and therefore it's missing a lot of the chassis, engine, trans, axle prefix number info. I think it was a 1966edition (again the information lost) but the info in the 1972 edition would apply. Could anyone help?

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Originally Posted by dandlandyman

It may have been. Anyone got a spare copy? Even photocopy the specific pages just so I can read them and put them in my FC file?
Also, the copy of the FC parts manual I borrowed from my friend in Katherine was damaged in the '98 floods. Most of the first half dozen or so pages were terminally damaged, and therefore it's missing a lot of the chassis, engine, trans, axle prefix number info. I think it was a 1966edition (again the information lost) but the info in the 1972 edition would apply. Could anyone help?

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Dan

I have both the 1972 (looseleaf) and the 1966 bound copy of the Forward Control Parts Manuals.

I keep finding lots of differences between both books, particularly with parts numbers.

Tell me what is the first page you have that is good and I can copy the ones before it.

PM me with your address email or physical and I can snail mail them or can send JPEG's which may be quite large.

Diana

FC's at Cooma 98. Sorry about the poor pic as its a scan. Look at the two bottom FCs.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...008/06/553.jpg

Very nice. The white 2a looks similar to the Glover Webb and Liversidge camper. According to LRE July 2002, it's currently in Australia somewhere...
For me, though, the dual cab 2b looks the best.

Both look the same to me, what are the diferences between 2A and 2B?

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Originally Posted by easo

Both look the same to me, what are the diferences between 2A and 2B?

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Easo

The S2a have a chassis virtually identically to the 2a Australian military chassis (in fact it is probably the other way around) and use standard axle assemblies, then later standard width with ENV diffs. They also have a complicated gear shift mechanism.

The S2b are 3/4" longer wheelbase (called 110 instead of 109) the axle assemblies are 4" wider (virtually the same as the Defender/County width) and the rear axle assembly is under-slung instead of the regular overslung style. There is a sway bar on the front axle and the spring mounts are set wider on the rear axle, so much so that they had to modify the rims by outsetting about 3/4" to allow for wheel chains to clear the springs. They have a simple replicator system on the gear change mechanism running above the engine.

The easiest way to tell the difference is that the S2a has the headlamps between the blinker and side lamps, where the S2b has the headlamps below the line of the blinkers and side lamps.

Does that clarify it for you?

Addit: Great pics by the way, and I also like the dual cab over that camper style. My plans for the project vehicle, are something in between, but probably with the wheelbase coming out to 130".

Diana

How much work went into that hard top 101!

Someone loves their Landy!

Saw a lovely one on Ernest Street Crows Nest today. No camera, so it didn't happen.

Cheers
Simon