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Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
Well, since you won't be needing the SUMB anymore after you finish the Fordson Sussex 6x4 Universal Carrier transporter, why not have the SUMB donate its engine to the good cause? 
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Have sold the Marmon, went to a good home, another Scottish MVT member. Have discovered an interesting point about some of these V8s though. Returning from our Clubs AGM one freezing January afternoon me truck (SUMB) spluttered to a stop driving home. So parking it off road I lifted the bonnet to find the problem. Nothing obvious. Then I noticed the tall carburetor was white, so I felt it and it was freezing. Could this be the problem? I held onto it for as long as I could (said the actress to the bishop!) and then went to start her up and after a couple of turns she fired and away we went. I recounted this problem to the new owner (honest seller!). A month later he phoned me and said that he had encountered the same problem whilst traversing the snow fields of Forfarshire but subsequently had spoken with a V8 expert hot rod extra-ordinaire good with injuns guy and he said.......wait for it........ the French Army had trouble with the V8s overheating in the hot climates they were operating in so they fitted a spacer in the carburetor to take it further away from the exhaust manifold so the fuel didn't evaporate and voila they solved the problemo! Only trouble was they didn't reckon on a Scot buying one and using it in sub orez tempses did they! But like all good inventions, the Scots solved the problem and moved the exhaust manifolds higher up so they were closer to the carburetor again! Just kidding...... we took the spacer out and now it is great in cold temperatures. So Canada you all know, Australia you do too, Holland, Belgium people so do you and the French well enough said! They started it!! So there's a quick fix recited in a long way.
Nigel