Restored Iltis Cable Layer Unit

[super dave]

I just finished a frame off restoration on my iltis cable layer as I tackled this project last February thinking I would just get it running as the motor was melted from getting way too hot. I purchased it as a salvage iltis from the local base as it was suppose to have made its way to the auction until the motor blew up. As per usual once I started it just snowballed into a total rebuild and took time away from my carrier project. At least now I can focus on getting my MK1 carrier under way in its restoration and will keep you posted in the carrier forum.

Dave

[Pete Z]

All I can say is wow! Whan an absolutely great job with amazing attention to detail. Full marks to you sir for saving an unusual piece of Canadian military history from the scrap-yard.

[servicepub (RIP)]

88047 - Is that the original CFR number? With your permission I would like to include your photos on my online Iltis registry. www.ramtank.ca

[edstorey]

Certainly a first class restoration job! The vehicle looks as good as it did when it was delivered new to DND, you have set a very hight standard with that restoration. I also like that you have taken the time and money to preserve one of the lastest types of DND vehicles.

Here is one that I photographed in CFB Kingsotn in the mid-1990s.

ED

[edstorey]

Interstingly, I just had a look through my database and I see that I photographed the same vehicle nearly 10 years earlier in Wainwright, Alberta during an RV Exercise. Although the image posted earlier shows the Iltis still with the 1 Canadian Signals Regiment, the vehicle has had a total repaint, which leads me to believe that it may have been deployed on a UN mission, perhaps to Rwanda.

[super dave]

Originally Posted by servicepub

88047 - Is that the original CFR number? With your permission I would like to include your photos on my online Iltis registry. www.ramtank.ca

Yes that is the cfr # and yes you can use the picture/s for the registry

Dave

[super dave]

Originally Posted by edstorey

Certainly a first class restoration job! The vehicle looks as good as it did when it was delivered new to DND, you have set a very hight standard with that restoration. I also like that you have taken the time and money to preserve one of the lastest types of DND vehicles.

Here is one that I photographed in CFB Kingsotn in the mid-1990s.

ED

Thanks I put a lot of hours in restoring it. I think it is a unique variant of the iltis and working in the communication trade the last 15 years added a little something as well. I like the pictures you posted as there are very few pictures around of any kind of vehicles that were used in Canadian service and I like collecting them as when restoring them it gives a person some in site as to what they actually looked like and helps when restoring a vehicle back to original. If you have any other pictures of the cable layer or ambulance I would be interested for future restorations as I also have the Ambulance the regular model and also the one with tailgate as when they were selling them off I got one of each of the 4 styles that were available. I wonder how many of the cable laying varriant they made as all the ones so far that I have found have the CFR#s in the 88026-88066, so maybe there might have been 100?

[rob love]

Nice job, but the vehicle tech in me says you should install some reflector decals onto those rear bumperettes or you risk getting rear ended. Those older SMP taillamps are not SAE/DOT approved (although the newest ones are) and their reflectiveness is not the best.

The half cab of the line Iltis was a bonus in MB and SK, where the smaller resulting cab meant you were warm in the winter.

[Young_Law]

Originally Posted by super dave

I wonder how many of the cable laying varriant they made as all the ones so far that I have found have the CFR#s in the 88026-88066, so maybe there might have been 100?

I was just looking up some of the files on the Yahoo Iltis group and the PDF for the Linesman configuration, taken from the DND manual shows one with CFR 87793.

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/cGBcS4A...BER%201986.pdf

[Scott Bentley]

Hello,

Your attention to detail with this Iltis has become an inspiration as I try and beat my panels straight again.

Any chance you could divulge the details on your Paint; Brand, Color Numbers (Inside and Out), and where you bought it from?

Thanks

Scotty

[super dave]

It took a while to get the color what I think was the original color before they were repainted during there service life. I took a new body panel to Cloverdale paints in Edmonton and they mixed up some industrial Speed Enamel paint:

self prime S.G. S/E clear base
*-050 fa-8y,lb-2y32,pg-1y8,ro-8,tw-1y24,yo-10y40

[Scott Bentley]

Not sure if you had the info, but i'm on fire today:

CFR No 88047
CFR Year 1986
Serial No BI02-02-86-88047
Actual ECC 121508
Authorized ECC 121508
NSN 2320-21-895-3770
ERN 30111
Holding Unit 2481
DA Unit 2481
Date Acquired 24-Sep-86
Cost 26363
Alloc Code MB
Comm Suite
Current VMO DLE22453 - 19-Sep-05
HN Date 06-Sep-07
Pending? No
Disposed? Yes
Disposal Date 01-Feb-06
VMO Type Pending To ECC To AC To HUIC To DA UIC
DLE22453 - 19-Sep-05 REGULAR No 121508 MB 2481 2481 7 Canadian Forces Supply Depot
DLE28549 - 10-Nov-04 REGULAR No 121508 MD 2481 2481 7 Canadian Forces Supply Depot
DLE22507 - 24-Apr-96 REGUL No 121508 AX 2481 2481 7 Canadian Forces Supply Depot
DP353466 - 21-Jan-88 REGUL No 121508 FN 0103 5255 748 (Nanaimo) Communications Squadron
DP350982 - 06-Jul-87 AMEND No 121508 JX 0126 0126 CFB OTTAWA
DP356887 - 02-Oct-86 REGUL No 121519 JX 0126 0126 CFB OTTAWA
DP356628 - 12-Sep-86 INITI No 121519 JX 2040 2040 LAND ENGINEERING TEST ESTABLISHMENT

BC Iltis.... Thats why its so clean

[super dave]

Thanks that's great, No I did not have the info on it.

Dave