Carrier Assembly; Helpful hints, tricks and traps

[Lynn Eades]

Hi. I thought I'd start a thread that covers some of the BASICS of assembling a carrier of British or Canadian origin. Some things are seemingly obvious, but not everyone has access to the same info. For example I have some books that cover both British and Canadian carriers. I would not expect the Canadians here to have British manuals. There are many differences between the seemingly similar. The little "*" or the lack of it, in the carriers nomenclature, covers a raft of differences.
The various manuals and parts books with different print dates have not each time covered all the info. An army mechanic would have been familiarised with the carrier via courses and training. Often, we manage to round up most of the components and have to figure out how to put them together or make what's missing.
Ultimately this is hopefully a resource for that hard to find stuff about the basic running gear of these machines.

I'd suggest that if some wants to do the same for an Australian / New Zealand LP2/2a, then that should be a separate thread for the sake of simplicity.

[Lynn Eades]

CROSS TUBE SPACERS.
The first thing that brought me to this thread was the spacers that fit on the cross tube on the inside and out side of the double bogie frames.
I looked in 5 books to find this.
There are two plain washers and two dust excluders.
There is a thick washer(TL1624) and a thick dust excluder these go on the shaft before the bogie frame next to the leather gaiter.
There are a thin dust excluder(TL1625) and a thin washer(TL 1623) These two thin ones go on the outside before the clip (clamp)

[Lynn Eades]

SEAL TRACKS.

The outer seal tracks in the front (adjustable) bogie, are wider than those in all the other wheels.
So, each carrier requires 2 of the wide TL119. One for the outer seal of each front wheel.
(the other six wheels us two each of the narrower TL22. Total 12 required)

[kevin powles]

Lynn, here's a basic one, if making a set of carrier front fenders, if you make one side and drill the fixing holes, don't drill the other side the same, they won't fit!, mounting holes are different!.

[Lynn Eades]

FITTING A SPROCKET.
I'm not sure of the detail, but there is a right location and a wrong one when bolting a sprocket onto the hub. It is so that a gap is open for the cut out for fitting the back plate screws to the hull. I read it in a manual.

[Lynn Eades]

TOP ROLLER SEAL TRACKS,
are the same as the wider seal tracks found in the outside seal of the adjustable bogie wheel (TL119) All the other seal tracks are narrower.
I bought some double lipped standard automotive seals for mine.
The size 2.000 I.D.,x 2.625 O.D., x .375 (imperial)
If your carrier has had cork or felt seals the seal carrier might be worn bigger.