C60 cwt Signals CZMk IV

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Gordon,

It looks stunning! Not many CMPs with Lindsay house type bodies are properly restored.

Why not ship it over to Holland and join The Final Push early next year? You can live in the back

Hanno

[Gordon Yeo]

Hanno

I have looked at The Final Push and thought what a great experience it would be. Having been to Holland in May 1995 and May 2010 I know how things get done there!! To take the C60 would be VERY expensive, 2000 Km trucking to Halifax Nova Scotia, RO-RO shipping to Holland, staging to the tour departure, then the tour and back home. It would be cheaper to buy a vehicle in Holland!
A more reasonable approach would be to convince one of your countryman they desperately need someone with them, who can play the bagpipes and help pay for the gas money.
Not many Lindsay bodied trucks are restored because they are great lumbering gas guzzlers, have been butchered or had the bodies removed. This one, as it turns out, is a very special one. The Design Records lists the number of Signals Van CZ MkIV bodies having been built as 14. The van body on this truck is #9, any one care to guess how many of the original 14 still exist? Its other great salvation was that it was never turned into civilian use. When I was going to buy it there had been no civilian road registration for the vehicle.

Walde

Thank you for the tip on balancing the front tires. I still don't have many miles on the truck yet but it does have a vibration around 32mph. Lots of tweaking to do yet before it gets ready for next summer. My RCEME V-teck is home on Christmas break next weekend and I'll put him to work, again. Right Neil.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Gordon Yeo

I have looked at The Final Push and thought what a great experience it would be. Having been to Holland in May 1995 and May 2010 I know how things get done there!! To take the C60 would be VERY expensive, 2000 Km trucking to Halifax Nova Scotia, RO-RO shipping to Holland, staging to the tour departure, then the tour and back home. It would be cheaper to buy a vehicle in Holland!
A more reasonable approach would be to convince one of your countryman they desperately need someone with them, who can play the bagpipes and help pay for the gas money.

Gordon, just kidding about bringing over the truck, though some guys with deep enough pockets actually have done this in the past.

But indeed, why not join The Final Push in person? Let's work on this idea, maybe we can convince more Canadian MLU members to come over.

PS: here's a picture of my truck carrying 6 members of a Dutch pipe & drum band last June in Normandy.

H.

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[Gordon Yeo]

Mike

Here are two pictures to give you an idea of what the underside the steel panels look like with the interior plywood removed.

[Marc Montgomery]

Beautiful work Gord! Such a rare vehicle...often wish I hadn't sold my own 60cwt.. it used to drive like a dream...although with the 900x20's it was happy at 85-90 kmp, 100 was pushing it. (and really happy at about 50-60kmh. and it too was a rare one, an REL contract and so had the big winch as fitted to FAT's
I only ever used the 4wd twice and on both occasions it was amazing..once when taking it out of storage in a barn across a soft field, I stopped for the gate and it slowly sank. trying to get out with RWD only succeeding in sinking it further up to the diffs...4wd pulled it right out...wow..

BTW- there was a junkyard in Quebec about 15 years ago with a few lindsay bodies (and a few cmps) they were using as storage for parts.. I mentioned it at the time, but dont think anyone else ever went there to save them.. The yard and TONS of parts all gone now...sigh.

anyway.... again beautiful work ! Congrats for saving the piece of Canadian history !! well done that man!!

[Gordon Yeo]

Previously in this thread I talked about the shifting mechanism for the FWD selector was gone. Seems that is the first thing to disappear off these trucks, never to be found again. Doing nice things for people can be made more rewarding when, in return, they do nice things for you. Here are pictures of a complete tranny with all the parts that I was missing on my truck. Now I'll have to get Bob Carriere to come and show me how to adjust it.

[Bob Carriere]

Time consuming yes.........

When you start fiddling with the linkage from the T case tower let me know. The rods going and out of the T case are adjusted by screwing the rods in or out....... however, to adjust you need to almost remove the T case.

One of the rods has a small piece....about 2 1/2 in. long.... with a pin sticking out from each side...... connects the shifter rods to the T case...... will need to dig into my photos to show yo what I mean...... I simplified the design by replacing the two pin part with a homemade version with the two pins on the same.....makes it easy to remove for adjustment without moving the T case.

You may also have to rebuild the holes in the many shifting rods if they have become oval with wear..... tight pin connections helps the adjustment process tremendously.

Hang in there.......