The piece of ■■■ packet used to stop the rod on the reverse gear trigger rattling on the Foden S21/36/39 etc, you wedged it between the rod and gearlever.
Pete.
Hey, Was it common to break drive shafts on UK marques.
We had lots of drive shafts who broke especially on Daf’s ( before the 2800 hub reduction time) and Scania’s. Scania drive shafts were weak and the hub reduction was no solution because of bad quality. A problem Scania never solved till the beginning of the '80’s.
A fault about it was often to use a too fast drive ratio because you needed speed on the big roads and had only a few speeds.
And how did you that in the UK with the high speeding (60-70mph) and only 6 or 9 speeds. like Volvo (8 speedbox) with it’s standard 4.9 ratio and Scania with the 4.71 standard ratio, did you have faster ratios in the UK for them.
The real highlights were the arriving of the ZF 12 speed box volvo’s 16 speeds and last but not least the Fuller RTO 9513. Two speed axles were for max weight trucks never a real solution,most to weak only Daf had the best and lasted,and the overlap (with a five speed box which gave 10 speeds you only had about 7 different speeds.
Cheers Eric,
I had a Bedford TK tipper that I drove for C W Griffiths which I had two half shafts break at different time,also a propshaft another time. The reason was that it was running at 14 ton gross with only a four speed gearbox and no two speed axle and I was reversing up ramps to tip lime in fields.I wasn’t the only one to break half shafts on this vehicle,it got through a few.
Cheers Dave.
it didn’t matter how you tightened them up , the halfshaft studs would come loose , same with the bmc models . i suppose it was down to running them well above their design weight . the bedford 2 speed axle was also a waste of time , air operated , they changed down quick enough , but had a job to go back into high . cheers , dave
hej eric ,you are not a real scania (v8) man whitout adriveschaft broke ,it,s a pass ticket to the club 
cheers benkku
Hi, R.o.F. &Norfolk
My cruise control was one size fits all (somehow) but I always carried a wooden wedge for the Gardner engined Foden S80’s that we had. I got a fitter on the night shift to drill two holes in each one’s throttle pedal and I put two screws into a wedge to suit , end of Gardner engine ankle ache.
Norfolk , I 've experienced hearing the dreaded click as the handbrake releases itself, KV ERF’s was a regular for it , so much so that the company supplied wheelchocks at our depots and standing instructions to use them. I can recall it happening on an early LV in a quarry ,the truck won the race to a slurry pit,driver came second. when it was recovered it took a few laps of the lorry wash before it was orange again!
Bassman
bma.finland:
hej eric ,you are not a real scania (v8) man whitout adriveschaft broke ,it,s a pass ticket to the club
Hey, Scania’s never broke,the drivers broke them ,I always heard that answer over and over again from the dealers 
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Look at it like women who say it is white and you show that it is black,she will reply with, it is anthracite 
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bye Eric,
hey, in the Daf DO models with the handbrakehandle on your left side,nice to jump in and out. But very loved here because of it’s futuristic look in it’s time.
What nice to drive it to Italy with the bed in your neck,but british drivers will know everything about that don’t they.
Would be happy to see a young driver doing that today .
Bye Eric,
Drove an Albion Clydesdale in the 70’s and broke a half shaft, rang the office to report the fault. Said to the boss “this motors broken a half shaft” his immediate reply was “no ■■■■, motors don’t break half shafts, drivers break half shafts”. Just gave him my location and put the phone down. Got hell on my return to the yard, and the fitter laughed so hard I thought he’d wet himself. It was only my second day on the job. 
Spending a night out in the old man’s ■■■■ pride and joy , a TK with a 330 petrol and trying to sleep on an oversized shelf above/ behind the seat. With my feet wedged into a tin box that he had made that pertruded out where the small window was…My feet were [zb]ing frozen in the morning and I had badly bruised ankles as i Fell off the shelf in my sleeping bag and headbutted the steering wheel !!!, BUT my feet were still wedged in the tin box and the sharp edged inflicted more pain than headbutting the wheel.
Designed for drivers who were midgets !
When I sold the ■■■■ thing years later as a wreck thing the Old Man was nearly crying…Why ?
Whose idea was it to bolt the spare wheel carrier underneath the middle of the chassis on a Neville trailer with no winch to raise it?
After a couple of wheel changes sweating & cursing I hit on the idea of tying the wheel to the chassis with a length of rope, then sending the tipper up a couple of feet, blocking the wheel and letting the body back down again.
I returned to the depot and boasted of my ingenuity in solving the problem when Young George informed me, “Didn’t anybody tell you that’s the correct way to do it?”
Exit one red-faced driver!
tiptop495:
Hey, Was it common to break drive shafts on UK marques.We had lots of drive shafts who broke especially on Daf’s ( before the 2800 hub reduction time) and Scania’s. Scania drive shafts were weak and the hub reduction was no solution because of bad quality. A problem Scania never solved till the beginning of the '80’s.
A fault about it was often to use a too fast drive ratio because you needed speed on the big roads and had only a few speeds.
And how did you that in the UK with the high speeding (60-70mph) and only 6 or 9 speeds. like Volvo (8 speedbox) with it’s standard 4.9 ratio and Scania with the 4.71 standard ratio, did you have faster ratios in the UK for them.
The real highlights were the arriving of the ZF 12 speed box volvo’s 16 speeds and last but not least the Fuller RTO 9513. Two speed axles were for max weight trucks never a real solution,most to weak only Daf had the best and lasted,and the overlap (with a five speed box which gave 10 speeds you only had about 7 different speeds.Cheers Eric,
I once did a half shaft on a double drive, reduction hubs, Albion Reiver. God knows how I managed it, I was only easing forward gently on the weighbridge at Ripon Gasworks. 1961 IIRC.