For want of a nail, the war was lost (Lynx story).

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Rob, sometimes it goes the other way. I got the Fox back from an outing last summer and put in the garage to remove the 50 cal. Browning (you may know the one). There, in the middle of the floor was a 1/2" diameter polished metal rod, about 3" long with a machined recess in the middle. Rust free, it recently fell out of somewhere. I think I know where every pin/hinge/clevis goes having put each one in personally. But where this one came from (or should go back to) I have no idea. So far everything is running OK and nothing has fallen off.

[charlie fitton]

(Ah - the fun you can ahve taking spare parts to a show...)

[Lynn Eades]

Good one Charlie, now...who don't I like?

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by charlie fitton

(Ah - the fun you can ahve taking spare parts to a show...)

Hmmmmm....come to think of it you WERE there....

Do you want you PIN, SECURING (CONFUSION) Mk.II back?

[rob love]

Didn't somebody do that at a sailing race one time? They tossed a loose pin into the other teams boat and they were so concerned trying to find where it came from they blew the race.


Next challenge on the lynx will be to stop the last of the leaks from the brake system. I thought I would give DOT5 silicone brake fluid a try, and am starting to regret it. I'll be replacing two or three lines on Monday, as I have overtightened them trying to stop them from leaking and likely split the flares. To top it off, I think one of my brand new cylinders is also leaking. Lucky that they pay me by the hour and not by production.

[Mike Cecil]

This thread reminds me of a visit I made to the Australian Army's Maintenance Engineering Agency in the early 1990s, when the new ASLAV was being introduced into service. I arranged for a photo shoot to illustrate the article I was writing, and my contact said to come back later in the week after he'd had a chance to put some bogus 'bumps' and aerials on the vehicle.

His comment was that modelling magazines were a low grade source of intelligence, so he was going to drive some foreign int officer mad trying to work out what the Australian Army were installing in their ASLAVs!!

Must take an assortment of nuts, bolts and clevis pins to the next MVPA convention ....

Mike C

[chris vickery]

At my local club we have one individual who is rather, how can I say, uptight. He relishes his car so much, carefully putting it into storage each winter, up on blocks, all polished, cleaned and triple tarped.
The fun one can have with one ounce of clean brake fluid applied inconspicously on the floor is amazing....

[rob love]

Reminds me of a story about the old duece and a halfs. They could leak anything and everything. On a convoy, one of the Mcpls driving a 5/4 ton relieved himself in the area of the fluid coupling on the old M135. A minute later the driver came back to his duece, and the MCpl tell him" Your truck is leaking something; you had better check it out. The MCpl then heads back to his 5/4 ton. The Cpl checked the mystery fluid for feel, then smell, but figured it out when he tried the taste test. All he could see of the 5/4 ton was a smiling face in the side mirror as it left the scene.

Don't ask me how he knew the taste!!

[Yeo.NT]

If DOT5 fluid is used in a braking system designed for DOT3 and DOT4 the seals will breakdown and degrade.

[rob love]

The entire brake system is new. Wheel cylinders, lines, flex lines, master cylinder. The companies making wheel cylinders are not using two kinds of rubber for their cylinders these days. The cylinders should be compatible with both. To add to that, there is actually an additive in the silicone fluid that is there to cause a slight swelling of the rubber.

I had the back wheels off on Friday afternoon (the new brake return springs came in) and I also have to pull the fronts on Monday. I'll see whats going on in that front left cylinder. With the tires off I should be able to get some good visual of whats going on at the fittings.

From what I can glean on the internet though, the copper washers at the banjo fittings are the big culprit on these systems. And of course, the lynx has copper washers at every wheel station, at the master cylinder, and at both frame to axle flexlines.

I am going to give it the old college try this week and see what happens. I have an unconventional plan that is crazy enough it might just work.

[rob love]

Also, on another related lynx topic, how many of these vehicles were actually made? I see the number "at least" 3255 made in a few sources. This lynx, though, has a hull serial number of 4542, with a build date of 1-1945. What other serial numbers are out there?