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    Aussie Centurion 169091

    Hi ,

    I have been restoring my Cent for the last 2 years...... still along way to go...

    To much to re list here so here are a couple of links to my restoration past...

    Military Vehicle Collectors Australia Incorporated View topic - Centurion 169091 Restoration Start...

    Restoration Australian Centurion 169091

    Couple of pics from last weekend...









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    That is a beauty! The ones we ( Canadians) ran in Germanyicon in the 1970s had rubber pads on the tracks. When I left in 1973, our MRTs were still doing a good job keeping them running. Spark plug change ( 24) took three guys all day. Drop a wrench in the engine compartment-consider it gone until engine pulled next time. 2-3 pin for transmission linkage was carried by each MRT. About 1972, we got some engines that had been rebuilt by Scott Aviation. They were painted yellow. They performed awesomely for about two days then blew up. The tank crews keep asking , " you got any more of those yellow engines?" Anyway, congratulations on a nice piece of work.

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    I trained on those in Canadaicon in 1974 during my basic. I was infantry. We rode on the back in two rows, behind the turret overhang. When it was time to dismount, the driver just pounded the brakes and we rolled off. Just watch the mufflers, they're as big as a barracks box and red hot...
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    Absolutely beautiful! I'm not towing that behind my Dodge Dakota!
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    Only one word: BEAUTIFUL!

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    And another word............ MAGNIFICENT. What gentle giants and I'd suggest that only perhaps now are they out classed into obsolescence.

    I'd like to see the tracks loosened a tad so that there's a little bit more slack between the front guide down to the first wheel station

    They say that you can tell the men from the boys by the size of their toys. Welcome to a mans world Scotty.

    Zero two Alpha - zero two Alpha, this is ZERO. Radio check over........... Ho, ho......., been there, done that a few times except our recovery vehicles were usually 38-Alpha as I recall

    How I hate seeing these things relegated to giving rides and swamp driving for people. I t's like seeing lions performing in a circus. They're just too old and dignified to be performing stunts......

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    Centurian Mufflers Shot Flame

    An occasional stunt, surely not in the manuals, was to kill the ignition on the overrun down a hill, then to switch it back on after a pause- impressive sheets of flame out the mufflers! If the driver got the beast out of gear on the downhill run, and could not find a gear to engage, I understand the procedure was to bail out. I road in the gunner's seat for a couple days during an exercise in Germanyicon. Crews that had been previously trained on one crew station were being cross-trained. A driver that was a driver could slide the tank around a tight 90 degree turn, while someone cross training as a driver would come to a stop and reverse to get around. I understand driving was a real art with inside of your elbows wrapped around the tiller bars and both hands on the gear shift. If you cannot double clutch at the same time, don't apply.

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    Some pics of the RPG penetration of the turret that occurred in SVN 1969 .

    This pic shows the penetration the morning after the battle of Bin Bah...





    This is current.....



    This is the RPG damage i uncovered when i started stripping the hull, you can see the PRG entry and the spalling on the lower hull.








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    That's a good idea of what I go on and on about with these fiends who want all matching numbers and makers marks, varnished, painted, wall queens. Or do you want a battle scarred been there, done that, good, solid, hard working rifle (or in this case, a tank.....) that has truly earned its keep in life?

    Incidentally, when I was there I made friends with some Britishicon Army tankies who were looking at the performance of the Cents or tanks in general in the thick bush or jungle that typified Malaya and SVN. The Poms had some (I think it was 12 or so.....) in deep storeage in Singapore 'just in case.....'. The tankies said that they were updating the tactical doctrine of this sort of tank warfare. The first thing to go were the track-guards as they were ripped off in minutes. One of the tankies, a S/Sgt wrote to my mum when he got back and said that he'd seen me and I was safe and well. She knew that really but it's the thought that counts!

    Like alpaca's thread where he's restoring a half track, you really ought to write all the restoration story down in a paperback for and have, say a few hundred, printed. Then every time someone asks you a question, you just tell them that the answer - and more - is all there to be read and keep. Another book sold!

    Just my 2c's worth

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    The whole affair could be noted from start to finish with pics. Details and drawings could be included, and quite a book could come out of it.
    Regards, Jim

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