Armour Dreams

[Jonathan Moore]

Morning all,

I now have 10 complete wheels ready to have their polyurethane tyres cast on, 10 oil seal housings and 10 end caps. I am currently machining the shafts that connect the radius arms to the wheels so hopefully by the end of the week I will have 10 finished radius arms as well.

[Jonathan Moore]

The last picture is for Robert, this is what a Banoffee pie looks like.


Jon

[ajmac]

Excellent work, a good thread to follow.
On the engine front, I would suggest keeping it as a petrol six cylinder (you could always run it on LPG if cost is a concern). How about a Jaguar XJ40 Engine and autobox, an entire car is dirt cheap from a scrap yard.
After all your hard work making the machine look as close to an original as you have it would be sad to drop in a four cylinder diesel...as enticing as I know that is.

[RichardT10829]

Just spotted this thread Jonathan, I am absolutely gobsmacked !

Between this thread and Colin's Vickers thread I am in overload for armour porn !


amazing, simply amazing !



Cheers


Richie

[Jonathan Moore]

Nice idea but I rather like old mechanical type engines and I assume that this would be an injection, so it would require an emu/emc and then would that need some other electrical's etc or re-programing. Those little black boxes exasperate me. However were it a simple engine then it like it a lot. Maybe someone out there knows more than I. As for the auto box, I have only experienced pain with them.

Jon

[Ryan]

Watching and reading in awe of your skill Johathan.
Terrific thread.

[ajmac]

The good thing about fuel injection, is that once you get it up and running, its reliable and doesn't need any fiddling, that is what always bugs me about carbs and points. Your other option could be an XK engine on carbs as used in the XJ6 until 1984, more costly though. There is also more unusual sixes such as the Rover 2600 from the SD1 or the 3Litre used in Rover P5s, both of those run on carbs. You need a larger capacity unit, that's why I was thinking Jaguar as they are generally around the 4 Litre mark.
Considering linkages for gear change and clutch, an auto just seamed a simpler solution. The Matilda 1 (Runner) at the Tank Museum has an SD1 3.5 Rover V8 and SD1 Autobox installed.

https://youtu.be/FQI2P1485fQ

[Jonathan Moore]

Believe me, if I could get some confidence in the jag engine I would get one here next week.

10 completed radius arms and one fitted just to see what it looks like. I will be visiting the tank museum in August to get some more dimensions, so I am going to have a break from the project and see how much I can achieve on my Morris.



Jon