Alberta Land Rover Enthusiasts Club Forum
General => Technical Discussions => Topic started by: jybella on April 28, 2015, 07:15 AM
Now that our forum is active I am going update my Wolf project here. A little history, the Wolf was one of the 8 Wolfs that were sold out of BATUS. My understanding is that the Wolf 90" were determined to be too small for service and were declared surplus to the Armys requirements. The 110's are in rotation to be rebuilt and modified for service.
This Wolf appears to have gone thru a major rebuild sometime after 2009, it appears the frame was replaced and the engine with a rebuild unit. I had been watching the sales out of BATUS since 2013 when they first started selling off the regular 90's, 110's and the few Wolfs they had. So it appears that there was not a lot of time on the truck between the rebuild and when it was surplused off.
I bid on the truck and was successful, it was declared a non runner, I brought it home to Edmonton and after installing a couple of new batteries was able to start it right up. It runs great and had a few minor issues that have been taken care of. I had it inspected and registered and drove it around a little, it has the 300 TDI, 5 spd, power steering and a heater. It is easy to drive and keeps up with traffic with no problems.
Here are a couple of pictures as I picked it up from BATUS. My intention is too bring it back to as delivered condition.
Jim
sounds like a great start Jim! I believe this maybe the first (and only) wolf in the club...?!?!?
IIRC 90's were originally procured to replace the Series based Airportable (Lightweight) Land Rovers for the more mobile units such as the Paras and Royal Marines etc. as the LWT's had already superseded the regular full bodied 88"LR.
Main frontline and rear echelon units were supposed to get the 110's. But in the wonderful mix and match world of the British Armed Forces you will often see specialized vehicles with units that have little or no use for them. My own Regiment in Warminster (UK) had 110 truck cab with a V8 liberated from the RAF!
Nice project you have there. Keep posting progress.
I missed a couple of interesting stats, in the original contract there were 7925 vehicles produced at a reputed price of £50,000 each, of these 1411 were the short-wheelbase (TUL-HS) there have been no repeat orders for the British Military. I think the £50,000 would include all the typical military support contracts ie. training, spare parts, manuals etc etc to justify the eye brow raising cost.
Big thank-you to Bill for all the support and amazing access to the parts that he has procured for the project.
I decided to complete the project refit sooner than later so here is the progress to date.
What started as a quick respray turned into a little more detail. I wanted to return the exterior to pre BATUS paint job, so I ended up removing a lot of the exterior body work so i could get rid of the desert tan color.
Here is the rear body after the respray in olive drab.
On the trailer and headed for home
some more progres pictures
Zoom, zoom ;D
Great little project you have there Jim. Keep the updates coming!
50K Land Rover 90. Now I know why my UK taxes were so high.
Quote from: Matt H on April 28, 2015, 11:09 PM
50K Land Rover 90. Now I know why my UK taxes were so high.
You probably don't what to know what we were paying for the G-Wagon then LOL
Quote from: Matt H on April 28, 2015, 11:09 PM
50K Land Rover 90. Now I know why my UK taxes were so high.
I will guarantee that whatever is used to replace the Land Rover in the UK army will be over £100k. The Canadian GWagons run around $150000 for the basic versions.
More parts coming in!
Roll bar pieces and complete.
Nice set up....is that from Safety Devices?
Quote from: binch on May 03, 2015, 12:01 PM
Nice set up....is that from Safety Devices?
It is the standard Wolf soft top bars and, is, I believe made by Safety Devices.
More pieces, everything back from paint paint now
This is going to be a very tidy wolf when you're done ;)
Quote from: Red90 on May 03, 2015, 12:42 PM
Quote from: binch on May 03, 2015, 12:01 PM
Nice set up....is that from Safety Devices?
It is the standard Wolf soft top bars and, is, I believe made by Safety Devices.
Huh, Army has gone soft. Next thing you'll be telling me they have power steering and heaters fitted.
I once pointed out to my Troop Sergeant that the traditional Army "roll bar" as fitted to Land Rovers back in my day wasn't really up to the task of protecting the occupants. 'Never mind Lad' he said 'that's why we're all issued helmets as well'.
Awesome.
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LOL Now....who wants to march up and down the parade square with the sgt Major????
Update a few more pictures, progress is slow!
Slow but the work is very nice!!!
Finally progress.
Lots of time getting rid of the BATUS sand paint.
More Progress
Still More
So.....is it going to be ready for the All british field meet on June 13th? Will we get a chance to see what it might have looked like coming out of Solihul????? :P
Unfortunately not, would have loved to but was already committed to the Reynolds Museum show same day.
Here are few more pictures.
A few more evenings/days and it should be almost there. I think the interior will have to wait.
Jim
Bummer.... Maybe in two years again. The way the club tries to organize themselves is alternate between the Reynolds show and the all brit meet (which is every two years). Try to show up on force :) Have fun at Reynolds and let us know how many other rovers make it there?
I wonder why they run both shows on the same weekend?
Fathers day weekend.....Reynolds runs the weekend and all brit just for the day. It's the only day of the year father are shown a bit of sympathy and allowed to go play LOL ;D
Quote from: binch on May 27, 2015, 03:02 PM
Fathers day weekend.....Reynolds runs the weekend and all brit just for the day. It's the only day of the year father are shown a bit of sympathy and allowed to go play LOL ;D
Good theory except for the part that it is not Father's day weekend.
Finally done.
I think it turned out great, need to do the interior but that will have to wait till next year.
Wow that looks good.
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Jim, you've done a great job on that wolf! Maybe you should send a life size cardboard cut out of it down to Reynolds and come the all british field meet instead ;-)
Very nice work!
Looks very nice. Just in time to enjoy it for the summer.