Excellent Stolly projects! I've always found their engineering lineage fascinating as the basic suspension and drive train concept is shared with the Saladin. There are few vehicles in NATO logistics history, that have been as useful and served so long. Owning and operating one of these for fun, makes a lot more sense that many other military vehicles.
Saladin , Saracen , Salamander and Stalwart all shared the same platform , Saladin being a recce turreted armoured car with the 76mm gun , Saracen an APC some with a machine gun turret, Salamander was the fire engine and of course Stalwart was the do it al amphibious logistics support truck
Couldn’t help but notice the Lynx helicopter in the background, I guess it won’t be long before you get that flying. You’re a clever guy, keep the videos coming.
Cheers. I know it’s a random mix of subjects and I should probably just stick to one thing but I just find it fun doing the military vehicles /mine exploring/diving combo all in one place 🤣
Cheers. I think putting diesels in them makes them fantastic vehicles but I know they are not original. It would be quite simple to re instal the Petrol engine if anyone ever wanted to.
Hi Ben lovely vehicles you have restored well done, I remember stollys from my army days, I thought they all had what they called swim boards on the front of them, and wondered where yours had gone, its only a piece of ply board but helps when they swim on entering the water and stops water from coming over the roof. Please keep up the great work your doing. Best wishes and kindest regards.
They did have swim boards but when the army decided they no longer needed them to swim in the later days they chopped off all the brackets where they fit on the cab! I have got one to fit on the mk1 which is now a full swimmer so I will get that on at some point 🙂
@@BenoCamI might be ring but I’m sure the military at the end tried a few or one with a diesel in it , it may even still be a Tewksbury storage. , great vid beno 👍👍
Cheers, I only make them for a bit of fun and I’m never really too sure what direction the channel is heading 🤣 I just do whatever I fancy and see how it goes 🙂
If I am remembering correctly the crane version were built for the Royal Artillery Regiment so they designed to lift 105mm & 155mm NATO shells in palate system
Im impressed by that crane, no stabilizers, and lifting a reasonable weight off the side, you should try that gun either over the front or over the rear where you best lifting points are.
I quite fancy making a few outriggers wouldn’t take much but can’t afford to go out much else it won’t lift as much. Been told acro props under the sides in between the wheels work well as it stops the suspension dipping !
Well done she looks and sounds good , never really came across a Stalwart in my time in the services but then I was RAF . Was mostly Harrier Force so saw plenty of the work that the REME did , they worked hard I must say not forgetting the Pioneers if they still exist . Not sure if there is a replacement for the Stalwart in modern times but it does remind me of a Mk-6 Crash truck , way before my time I only go as far back as a MK-9 , another beast . How ever the MK-6 was legendary , so might have been old and to modern standards clunky but it worked . I some times think that modern computerised vehicles are shall we say .....useless when it comes to field conditions . I am 52 so maybe just a bit bias , but these beasts work well . If you get a ECU failure well can you fix it in the field ?
There is a plate on the crane with the different weights it can lift and distances away, it should lift the abbot engine if I can get nice and close. We will soon see !
I have scrolled through this channel's recent restoration vehicles and my biggest question is how'd you start collecting all of these? I am 17 and would love to get into military vehicle restoration in the future, however, I am from Wales and worry it may be implausible for me. Any advice to help me?
Well I didn’t buy my first vehicle until I was well in my 30s … a total rusty wreck that I was warned I would never get going. Sometimes the only thing you can afford is a rust bucket but if your thinking long term it won’t matter. Just buy any project you can afford or find that’s interesting to you want work out how to do it along the way. It’s not easy for people starting out now as there is not so many cheap projects but you do find a few. Keep a look out on marketplace and milweb and word of mouth from others. The Facebook groups are really good also especially for finding parts. There’s a lot of groups now dedicated to each vehicle type and they are full of really helpful people. Also I’m down in deepest darkest Cornwall so wales can’t be any worse !
The Duck egg Blue, is not the right name for the army engine colour, prior to about 1950, they used Eau-de-Nil, which is shown as BS381216 and after 1950 and onwards they used Sky Blue which is BS381101. I believe these shades were to help spot fluid leaks and visibility working on the engines
I don’t think it will get in to the plate , from what I can see from the inspection hole in the top of the bell housing most of it has spun off in there. It did make sliding the engine into the gearbox nice and smooth so it did it’s job.
@@BenoCamthe part that “spun off” directly onto the centre plate you couldn’t see inside the pressure plate is the bit in question the fact that you saw the rest fly off says you used to much!
2:12 Why grease everywhere ? It whill just fly a round, and if it hit's your clutch plate, your going to be happy. The bearing has grease inside, only the shaft where it glides on has to have some grease.
I wiped most of it off it was just nice to have everything all lubed up as it was sitting out in the rain for a while and everything was starting to go a little orange !
