My wife hasn't seen it yet

Ledsel · #1 18-12-08, 03:03

It's possible that it is the original as it has the cast iron intake. There is a engine no. on the top left rear of the engine. It's between the intake and the head, there is a flat surface there, right beside the feul pump base, and being a MKII it should start with a "T"

Ledsel · #2 18-12-08, 03:14

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Originally Posted by Ledsel

It's possible that it is the original as it has the cast iron intake. There is a engine no. on the top left rear of the engine. It's between the intake and the head, there is a flat surface there, right beside the feul pump base, and being a MKII it should start with a "T"

Do the water pumps still have double pulleys ?

RichardT10829 · #3 18-12-08, 09:25

a good way of telling what the engine is, is by counting the head studs as they are different per BHP i cant think off the top of my head what each is, i will grab my service books and let you know.

The Mk2's are slightly more common but nevetheless any working Bren these days are getting harder and harder to come by.

Richard

RichardT10829 · #4 18-12-08, 10:31

right i have had a read and reminded myself. the 85bhp commonly associated with the carrier No.2 (mk1 and 2) and the 95bhp associated with Carrier No.3 Mk 2 have 24 head studs and 14mm spark plugs. the older Mk1's only had 65Bhp engines in (if they were British) that said all the engines were interchangeable so it is not uncommon to find an old carrier with a 95Bhp lump in

it is however important that you make note of what you have in the carrier as the components of the 85/95 bhp engines are totally different to the others.

speak to Kevin Powles who can provide you with a service manual at a good price ! if he cant or has none left come back to me and i will sort you one fella.

cheers

Richard

Phill · #5 19-12-08, 01:10

My son did a search on 'Central Command' and we dreamed about where that carrier might have been.

We didn't take the tarps off today to find the engine # but now I know where to look. An elderly acquaintance of mine came by today, so I showed him the snow covered shape. By gosh he knew what it was, I couldn't believe it, then he said "Is that the 85 hp engine?"

Knowing where the hull # was really helped. We think the # is 27418.

Attached a picture of the water pump pulleys. I have never seen a distributor up front like that, except on the Ford tractors. I don't think they were very popular for maintenance work. Phil

Ledsel · #6 19-12-08, 02:35

Buy the looks of your hull no. It was probably built around late April or May 1944. And for the dist. they were fairly easily taken off to be worked on. Just pull the caps and three bolts They cannot be put back on the wrong way as they will only fit one way. There is a slot that it fits in and it's set to one side. Your carrier is a little bit newer than mine as my hull no. is 24742. Your engine no. should be some where around TL 29-----F ?. Serial no. maybe 28----? just a wild guess but perhaps close. Buy the way there are two hull no.s but your upper no. is long gone. Buy the looks of that engine I would say there is a fairly good chance that it is still the original, as I doubt if it was ever over seas.

Ledsel · #7 19-12-08, 02:52

One way to know if it's a carrier engine is it should have two large oil lines at the rear left of the engine just behind the place where the engine no. is. They may have been pluged off if the oil cooler is diconnected. I can't tell from the picture as it is on the left rear. If it has just small plugs then it is an automobile engine. I see that the engine has a few modern upgrades like the starter is the automatic bendix instead of the mechanical one, a remote coil, a car carburator, and an alternater.