Lynx I MkIII purchase

[Alastair Thomas]

I have just bought a Lynx I MkIII from Mike Ebeling. He restored this from a complete wreck many years ago but has not driven it for many years either.
It has the sort of faults that you would expect from long term storage but, other than that, it is in superb condition with many of the ancillaries including the No19 set.
I am new to armour (in fact up until recently, when my brother and I bought a Cab13 LAAT to restore for Normandy75, I had no experience of military vehicles at all) so am at the bottom of a steep learning curve.
I may be able to lay my hands on a parts book and a repro maintenance manual but if anyone out there has a maintenance manual for sale I would be interested.
Standby for a number of naïve questions on this forum.
Alastair
F60S
Lynx I MkIII

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Hello Alastair

Was good meeting you in Normandy, albeit quickly and I enjoyed seeing your newly restored LAAT. And now you’ve bought a Lynx - you have a serous case of The Green Fever. Congrats!

Hanno

[Peter Duggan]

Alastair,
Welcome to the Lynx owners circle. Will be great to see another Lynx come back to life. I would recommend Brian Asbury for your maintenance manual. He provided me with a copy for my Lynx 11. Worth every penny. Do you know the hull number of your Lynx ?
Peter

[maple_leaf_eh]

Welcome (again), and you have my condolences on your recent outbreak of The Green Disease. There is no known cure, except maybe death or divorce.

[Alastair Thomas]

I was in error when I said that the vehicle is a Lynx I MkIII. This was based on the erroneous belief that the 6 stud axle made it so. In fact I have now seen the identification plate on the inside of the driver's escape hatch and it says that it is a Lynx I MkIII* with the number 1920. The number is confirmed in two places: both are on the horizontal armour in front of the crew, one on the left corner and one on the right. The left corner one is preceded by 5-43 making it a May 1943 vehicle (the hyphen is a '1' on its side). The one on the right side is followed by what looks like SSS. Confusingly, below this on the sloping front of the vehicle is 1977 in the same script as the rest of the stampings. I have been unable to find any International Harvester markings. Where would be a good place to look?
The process of getting it back on the road started yesterday. We removed the two fuel tanks and emptied them of stale petrol. Doesn't the smell hang around! There are no drain cocks in these tanks. One of them has signs of rust inside and I am considering un-soldering the outlet pipe so that I can soak the tank in molasses (the molasses process attacks brass).
Unlike one of the posts I have seen, the petrol pump is the usual AC mechanical one seen on all of these flathead engines I have examined to date.
Other points I have noted are:
- the engine cover (not hinged) is incredibly heavy, at least for us grey haired ones
- it has the correct single fan belt arrangement
- I cannot yet see how I take the crab top off the distributor to check the points
- the hatch to the rear of the tub has two hinges unlike the one I have seen on this forum, which has three.
I do not have a wiring diagram yet. Was the vehicle fitted with a single 12v battery with some sort of voltage dropping system for the 6v bits, or did it have two 6v batteries?
Alastair
F60S
Lynx I MkIII*

[Alastair Thomas]

Somehow a sentence or two got chopped out of the above post.

The number on the right side is also 1920 but this time followed by SSS.
On the sloping plate below this is 1977. It is in the same script but I do not know what it means.
I have not seen any International Harvester stamps. Where should I look?

Alastair
F60S
Lynx I MkIII*

[lynx42]

Originally Posted by Alastair Thomas

I have been unable to find any International Harvester markings. Where would be a good place to look?

Alastair
F60S
Lynx I MkIII*

Welcome to the Lynx owners Club, Alistair. There is a good write up about your scoutcar and a lot of photos here.

http://www.mapleleafup.net/vehicles/cmparmour/lynx.html

The IHC stamp should be just forward of the windscreen armour on the flat plate near the right hand edge. It is small, about 12mm. in size.

Lynx Start to Finish 024a.JPG

Cheers Rick.