Canadian Lynx Armored Car

[Andrew Rowe]

Hi Harry, I am calling into a very clever local machinist this week, so might see if he can make a couple of these gears. This guy has made complete engines for WW1 aircraft from scratch , which includes making crankshafts from very expensive billets of special steel! Cheers Andrew.

[Andrew Rowe]

I was just playing around with a couple of these electrical components today.
At the top of the picture is a nice NOS master battery switch , made by Bepco Canada Ltd. , then we have the voltage divider that mounts on the inside of the engine compartment against the firewall, this splits 12volt to six volt for the gauges. The Lynx uses 2 x 6 volt batteries to make the 12volts. The last item is the Autolite regulator , model number VRH 4106B , this is 12 volt @ 50amps rated, Cheers from The Tank Factory.

[Harry Moon]

Originally Posted by Andrew Rowe

Hi Harry, I am calling into a very clever local machinist this week, so might see if he can make a couple of these gears. This guy has made complete engines for WW1 aircraft from scratch , which includes making crankshafts from very expensive billets of special steel! Cheers Andrew.

I'm in if it happens.

[Andrew Rowe]

Just updated post 13 , as we have discovered the gear cut angle goes to the right, and an F15 gear cut is opposite to this , so this rotational change must still be happening because of the rear mounted engine in the Lynx and CMP mounted ones at the front of the vehicle. One on the Left is correct for Lynx. Cheers Andrew

[Lynn Eades]

So Andrew, The driven gears in your photos appear to be the same? Does the Lynx output casting cater for this (sits at an angle?) to allow use of the same gear or is the correct driven gear not shown? Just asking.

[Andrew Rowe]

The two driven gears are MK 1 and MK 2 , being 15 teeth and 16 teeth. The cast casing cap sits at an angle, that takes these gears, and looking at the transfer case side where the speedo output shaft comes out, it sits roughly at a 45 degree angle and is on the right hand as you look at it. The speedo shaft ends up rotating anti-clockwise, which in turns makes the speedo dial face run the correct way, Cheers Andrew.

[David Herbert]

I think that Lynn's point was that the two driven gears in the photo in post # 18 look as if they have the same helix angle and direction. The drive gears have opposite helix angles so the driven gear would not mesh with the Lynx one if they were carried in the same casing as a truck. Is the Lynx casing different to the truck one ?

David

[Andrew Rowe]

Good point David , but as far as I can tell the casing that holds the truck driven gear exits from a similar position, in relation to the transfer case. Which looking at the case is on the R/H side, as this cast cap is up against the de-clutch unit of the transfer case and the only available space for the output of the speedo drive would be on the right , the angle cut to the driven gear on a truck is cut opposite to the two Lynx ones I show in post 18, Cheers Andrew.