The New Clubmobile

mick.wilson · Post by **mick.wilson** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:39 am

Well Cara's future Clubmobile has finally arrived, The poor old truck made it from Newcastle docks to just out side Peterborough (200 miles) under its own power but then I got a phone call off the driver (at 3:00am) that he had run out of petrol and could not get it started again, he had called out the AA but the AA guy said "the fuel pump had packed up and the truck was to big for recovery". So I hired a car to get me and a new fuel pump the 120 miles from Farnborough up to Peterborough (I left at 4:30 on the Friday afternoon, it took tell 8:30 to get there with all the traffic on the M25), finally I got the bonnet up to find out it was not the fuel pump but the camshaft was not turning and the problem with the engine was allot bigger than I could fix at the side of the A1, so it was back in the car for the drive home (arrived back at Farnborough 11.00pm). At 1:30am in the morning we set off AGAIN with the 6x6 Dodge and solid tow bar, the drive took 4 hours in freezing conditions but by 5:30 in the morning we had hooked up the GMC to the Dodge and was ready to try and tow her home, the Dodge was slow at first but with a 15 minuet build up we where steaming along at 25 mph. We finally got home at 10:30am in the morning with no problems on the way. It took 44 hours to get the truck 320 miles home..!.

Here are some photos before we start any work to give you an idea of what has to be done.

and this is what it will (hopefully) look like in the end

dr deuce · Post by **dr deuce** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:50 am

Great recovery work!

Last year we had a guy with a CCKW here in the states loose camshaft drive too. Maybe yours got wind of it and thought it would join in....

mick.wilson · Post by **mick.wilson** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:06 am

It looks like the camshaft timing gear possibly has one of the old bakerlite timing cogs that is broken, the engine is turning over but the camshaft isn't moving.

joel gopan · Post by **joel gopan** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:53 am

Sometimes the fibre timing gear is the culprit, they have been known to decompose, but it is rare. Many times the camshaft breaks, or the screws holding the thrust plate to the block come loose with devastating results. Best way to repair a camshaft problem is to remove the engine and overhaul it. The process for replacing the camshaft requires enough work to warrant an overhaul just to be safe. There are a lot of parts to remove before the Camshaft is ready to come out. The Aluminum Timing gear is my choice, and they are plentiful.

armydriver · Post by **armydriver** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:01 am

She is still a fine looking project truck and will really be nice to see in the future.

Minnie · Post by **Minnie** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 2:25 pm

Seems like an Ex Norwegian Army shop truck to me..
Correct??

My first long trip with my truck, planned a year ahead (10 day roundtrip in Norway). Came to a stop day 2 with a broken cameshaft timing gear
The bakelite came off the centreboss.

While we were at it when we got the truck back home - we made at total engine overhaul.

Modern aluminium timing gear was my choise to..

Good luck

Sturla