Border raid .... Morris

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Great booty Mike!

So the M-C tally now stands at what number? Seems you have enough bits for a complete one?

H.

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Great booty Mike!

So the M-C tally now stands at what number? Seems you have enough bits for a complete one?

H.

Hanno, when are you going to see the light and buy a MCC product for yourself ? They seem to turn up for sale fairly often on MILWEB . And, usually in much better condition than you would find over here . There is also a certain Texan who is into MCC stuff ... We haven't heard from him for a while ? Mike

PS as we were unloading the Morris , the ex Wermacht veteran from down the road drove past in his Tojo ute .. a strange thing . A coming together of history , in an odd way .

[Philliphastings]

Congratulations Mike - looks like an excellent project !

[Mike K]

Have done a few checks... I inspected the gearbox just in time ..it was full of water ... water trickles down the gear stick . I've seen this problem before on open cab vehicles and I always check it out . I have washed it out with deisel fuel ... looks OK , shiny gears with no obvious damage . It turns over freely and gear shifting is easy .

The engine pulley turns a tad , the pistons are not stuck . The slack in the timing chain is taken up, then it jams, indicating stuck valves . These engines have the valve lifters in bolt on little blocks which are removeable . Somewhat like many vintage cars of the 1920's .

The unusual rubber cushioned uni joints look a bit sick . Perished .

Steering box was full of water as well . The drag link has sheared off, broken at the point where it threads into the ball joint end on the steering arm, at the wheel . Nasty .The drag link is hollow and it's rather thin at the threading , deep threads have left little meat there Could be dangerous for other CS8 owners .......maybe a safety bulletin should be spread around ...MIKE

[Mike K]

These pics illustrate the potentially lethal problem . What happened to good old British engineering MIKE

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Mike

Your photo "illustrate the potentially lethal problem" makes you stop and think. Good reason to carefully disassemble parts and inspect them.

Cheers Phil

[Dave Page]

Hi Mike,
well done! That looks to be very complete example; you will have her running soon, right?
You need to round out your early-war trucks with some other marques.
Cheers,
Dave