XXX Corps event: Liberation Task Force | 13-22 September 2014, Holland

[tankbarrell]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

Adrian, what is the ignition set up on your tank like? Maybe it's a coil or condenser breaking down when hot? I suppose the multibank (Is that the one you're talking about?)has 5 or 6 of each?

Yes, five distributors so unlikely to be an ignition issue as getting five to break down at the same time and all repair themselves would be a heck of a coincidence!

I was interested in the 'additive' that our fuel had but nobody seemed to be able to say what it was......

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by tankbarrell

I was interested in the 'additive' that our fuel had but nobody seemed to be able to say what it was......

One soldier told me it was "kerosine", and it did have that smell about it.

Just looked up military fuels on the NATO site (http://www.nato.int/docu/logi-en/1997/lo-15a.htm); I reckon it was F-57, a "low leaded gasoline (...) interchangeable with commercial gasoline automotive (98 RON)".

H.

[tankbarrell]

It certainly didn't smell like petrol, it was very yellow too. I was told it had an additive just for the tour. To be fair, most people seemed to have no problems.

[Hendrik van Oorspronk]

Originally Posted by tankbarrell

It certainly didn't smell like petrol, it was very yellow too. I was told it had an additive just for the tour. To be fair, most people seemed to have no problems.

The smell I can't explain, but the yellow color is "euromarker", has something to do with taxes, in earlier days it was red colored, so you could see there were no taxes paid.

Groetn

Hendrik

[Hanno Spoelstra]

These maps shows the route of XXX Corps in 1944, the event followed this route as far as practicable. It will help identifying where the various pictures and movies were shot.

market-garden-map2.jpg marketgarden_nederlands.jpg

I will be posting links to Youtube movies as I come across them.

H.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

70 Jaar Market Garden Herdenking Valkenswaard
http://youtu.be/mQ1WESL3hMU

Spot my CMP @ 0:54 min

H.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

I will be posting links to Youtube movies as I come across them.

I have made a "Market Garden 2014" playlist here, comprising of both my own and other's videos:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...Wm65KSROgJWFmY

H.

[svdwal]

Luckily the Tilly i drove had no problems with the fuel, and did the tour succesfully. Really enjoyed the week.

To clearify the fuel, it was regular army fuel with a additive to lower the influences of the 10 percent bio ethanol. This additive has some influence on the ignition so this may be altered a bit, especially motorbikes have this issue.

Nice to meet some forum members and to finally have some faces with names :-)

Rgds,

Sjoerd

[Hendrik van Oorspronk]

I was interested in the 'additive' that our fuel had but nobody seemed to be able to say what it was......

It is possible it was "winter" fuel, its vapor point is lower than "summer" fuel, so vapor lock could well be possible, or vacuum in the tank, after a while idling there is again enough air in the tank and it will move again, had that with an Austin Ambulance were the breather pipe of 1 feultank was stuck with paint idling was no problem, but driving was a problem, you can test it by driving some distance and then open de fuel cap, when it opens with a "plop" you found the problem.

Groetn

Hendrik