Staghound Update

[Wayne Henderson]

After 3 years of collecting parts and information I have finally started the strip down and restoration of my Staghound.
The first thing was to strip “Snowball II” of all salvageable parts. Originally it was saved for the turret and ball mount but I have since removed everything that unbolts. If it does not unbolt the gas axe is used.

Wayne

[motto]

Good golly Wayne. What are all those holes? They look very recent. Have you been trying something out?

David

[Robin Craig]

Was it called Snowball because someone said "there aint a snowball in hells chance anyone will restore that"!

Good luck, watching with interest

R

[David Dunlop]

Compared to some I have seen out this way, Wayne, yours looks almost drivable! Does it still have the engine covers?

David

[Luke R]

Hi Wayne,
Looking forward to seeing more of your project.
All the best with it.

Luke

[Wayne Henderson]

Hi David, this is one of the Firing Range Wrecks I recovered a while ago. It got a quick paint job for use as a backdrop for a photo shoot.
It copped a fair bit of stick from CG 84s and small arms fire for 40 years.
Here is the down range side and the reason it is getting chopped.

Wayne

[daninnm]

I have TO axles complete to the hubs along with shocks and tons of engine and transmission NOS stuff.....making a list over next 30-45 days
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[Wayne Henderson]

Hi Mike,
Have heard the same stories from XLH members from that time. Problems with veering to the right under hard braking, poor judgement in cornering, getting bogged if it even sees sand and blowing reduction hubs.

Not a case of worn out but a spares problem 25 years on. Most of the Staghounds over here would have done very few miles.

One gentleman told me they would turn back to base after 5 miles stating engine troubles so they could drive off in a new Landrover.
They ended up with one remaining operational Staghound and robbed bits off decom vehicles to keep it running until about 1970.

[Stew Robertson]

The biggest problem with the Staghound was that the engines were not tuned together so one was working against the other and therefore a heating problem and no power
The one that I restored way back when would go over 70 Miles per
on original run flats and would stop straight as an arrow
it is all in the way you do your repairs
I thought that it was one of the neatest machine I ever restored
way ahead of it's time
Electric power steering
Great power brakes
great power and automatic
and steered like a dream
I have kicked my ass many times for selling the other two before they were restored