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25-02-20, 02:35
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R975
A beautiful sight for a Sherman enthusiast!
Last edited by Bob Phillips; 01-03-20 at 13:12. 
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26-02-20, 03:27
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A beautiful sight, indeed! The military packing used back in the day was incredibly good quality.
We had a couple of visitors come by the museum from BAIV, a military restoration company in the Netherlands. When they saw our wrecked Sexton R975 on display, they said the cylinders are going for around 2000 euros each now! So good find. Malcolm
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27-02-20, 03:06
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Malcolm, your appreciation is very much appreciated! Also a very unique smell as they were packed with thick heavy grease inside and outside.
I want to share a few pictures with you, reminiscent of those showing your beat up Sexton engine. This was a motor I tore apart, it looked great on the outside but not so great inside. You can see half a fractured link rod that was laying inside the motor, the piston was smashed to bits, I took out a couple of handfuls of aluminium chunks and look at the smashed up crankcase and the hole/slot cut right through the cylinder base as the rod came out! I suspect this was hydro static lock up induced, as it was a bottom cylinder right beside the oil sump. Must have been noisy for a few minutes as it disintegrated! B.P. smashed1.jpg smashed2.jpg smashed3.jpg Last edited by Bob Phillips; 27-02-20 at 03:25.
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28-02-20, 20:37
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That carnage looks horribly familiar!
Amazingly, our crankcase looked intact though dye penetrant may have shown some cracks. And that bell-mouthing of the lower liners as the rods thrash around makes it very difficult to pull the cylinders. Malcolm
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29-02-20, 03:37
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While this engine will provide a few spare parts, I see its future as a coffee table! Not much need to check cracks with this beauty, and, yes it is the worse and most smashed up radial I have ever encountered.
B.P.
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