FV 432 repairs

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Gunner
Hello to our stalwart (pun fully intended) FV experts in the UK:

By the way; does anyone know why the turn signals and brake lights do not work when the gear shift is in neutral? That one drove us near around the twist when we were doing a first parade with the engine running and the FV 432 in neutral all the lights stopped working... put it in gear and everything was OK.

hi Mike,

To answer your question on the lack of brake lights when in neutral. From distant memory, I think this is the reason. There is only one braking system on 432, so when in Neutral, the carrier should also have parking brake applied, ie both tillers pulled back and locked. If the brake lights were live in this situation they would be on all the time parking brakes were applied. Cannot answer about the turn lights, but it may be because they recieve their power from same source as brake lights.

It is some while since working on 432 for the army, we had dedicated Sparkies who delved in this sort of thing, I was involved with the mechanical side of things.

Richard