T16 restoration starts in earnest

[carrierbarry]

Well done !!

Go around the stalls and buy a Bren Carrier Drivers badge to put on your jacket.
You have earned it.

Barry

[hrpearce]

Andrew Great work.
A simple test to see if the pump is underpreforming is to hang a bottle of fuel about 3 ft. above the carby and take a run, if preformance improves it's the pump if not you have to look further. A drench backpack makes the ideal container. Hope this is of help.

[andrew honychurch]

thanks for the thoughts and advice guys. I think I am going to leave working this out until after W and P as I am loading it home and I can fiddle around with it to my hearts content once back here. I reckon it is the head on the pump being too much. I read the instructions again for the Facet cylinder pump and it reckons that the pump needs to be within 12 inches of the tank and as the push rather better than pull I am sure I am asking it to do the impossible. I may yet be coupling up the original spec mechanical AC! I am also wondering about the unions I made for the fuel tank tops. The pick up is a long pipe with just one hole at the bottom. Therefore if there is much in the pipe you will have problems, plus the top of this pick up is an inverted nipple. I had to make union for this by using a straight nipple and braising onto another one as it has to come out at 90 degrees to clear the tool box bracket above. All in all, its back to the drawing board, but I am sure I can fix it. Meanwhile I am off to look for that badge to sew on my jacket!

[stephen crowhurst]

Well done Andrew

Sorry I missed you yesterday at the show.
Even though I had done a lot of under 5 mile runs over the years, I found that the first long run I did in my carrier, the tracked streched. I think this was due to all the crap that had built up over the years coming out and hope not to wearing out as after re-ajusting it has been ok.
Have a good show.

Stephen

[andrew honychurch]

thanks Stephen. Actually the tracks did loosen up quite a bit over that mileage even though I had tighened them up just before. The whole exercise was most enjoyable and when she was running correctly it was evident that it is well sorted and designed machine. JUst off back up to the rally field now.

[eddy8men]

saw the carrier and thought it looked great, a real credit to you. shame we couldn't meet up and have a chat about t16's but there's always next year.

rick

[andrew honychurch]

thanks Rick, yes sorry we did not meet as well. There is always so much to do at W and P that to stay close by the vehicle all the time is to miss seeing things.

T16 is looking decidedly second hand now, so I need to tidy a few things up again. Lots to do after my 20 mile run. It seems that the oil cooler for the rear axle is not allowing the oil to flow through. The bottom pipe and lower part of the cooler is hot but the top is cold. There is a thermostat at the top which allows the oil to flow through but perhaps it is stuck closed, or maybe the oil cooler is far more efficient than it would seem.

Oil leak somewhere in the engine bay, quite a lot as it happens so my nice clean floor is covered, at least it wont rust again. And of course I need to sort out the fuel starvation problems.

Anyway, when I can bear to I will get stuck into all that and hopefully she will be properly sorted by Headcorn Combined Ops.

as an aside, thats a nice show if anyone feels like a trip to Kent again!