L/R 110 4x4 Regional Force Surveilance Vehicle (RFSV)

[Carzee]

I might add I sat in the rear facing seat, the one with a harness belt in the central cargo bin area.
I am 6.0 neat and the top of my head had about 2 fingers of clearance only. If I more than 6ft and a lot of grunts are, and if I was wearing my helmet, wouldn't the overhead barwork be banging my helmet on every corrugation or minor bump?

[aussiegregmac]

Air outlet for the Tyre Hose from the Air compressor.   Orange hose under bonnet on top of firewall.

[Welby]

are you referring to the map light.  bit longer than a couple of inches, but flexible stalk attached to lower dash .
If i read it that you are inside the cab, sitting in the passenger seat.

ill find a pic

[Welby]

http://www.remlr.com/photos/pics6/td5INTERIOR1.jpg

[Carzee]

Ah, an air hose would be it. I was getting a pic of the scupper vent and looking lower down than the maplight stalk. The vents are gggggood.

[Barefoot dave]

x2 for air outlet.
As for the rear seating. RFSVs ar Oz use only. In Oz we are not required to wear helmets.
When I was in, the only time I put one on was at the greanade range

but yer, not much room for the big'ns

[Carzee]

Here is a pic of the vent (and the Air outlet) inside:
Bigger version - https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-8zBCc9iC13Y/VBa4aoIK7vI/AAAAAAAAGps/QkBjLtdoGyg/w599-h898-no/inside-a.jpg


Here is a pic of the vent outside:
Bigger version - https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-B7A_YOPFXr4/VBa4bE-oB1I/AAAAAAAAGp0/COb7Vp9P79o/w599-h898-no/outside-a.jpg


Here is a pic of the vent outside:
Bigger version - https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gUN25kXvvF4/VBa4b1IQIEI/AAAAAAAAGp4/nf2XOnHNTpc/w1080-h720-no/outside-b.jpg

[Welby]

As for the rear seating. RFSVs ar Oz use only. In Oz we are not required to wear helmets.
When I was in, the only time I put one on was at the greanade range

Same same, although protect helmets were being trialled in some circumstances, they never got the nod.

[Barefoot dave]

Welby, was that the vehicle that caused you to push for the redesign of ROPS?

[Welby]

The redesign paper was born after a new CO wanted our SOP's changed to operate with partial canopy and spares inside.
It was a call that got some of the snr guys heated, we were well used to operating no roof, the spares on the door frame and packs in the back. We could dig the rovers in and the cam footprint was under two metres.
The SOP change over was not well handled and it all festered over leaving the forward canopy tubes in place.
This crash was then the third in a short space of time and we used it as the opportunity to get a paper in front of OC. He was generous enough to suggest a few minor changes before he kicked it up the chain.
But no, reality was the paper was driven out of a practical need from boots on the ground.

Speaking of helmets, while we were all getting heated over the new SOP's, i caught my head on one of the tabs on the forward canopy tubes and nigh on sliced my scone to the bone. i'll post a pic of the tab.

[Welby]

This was the canopy setup in that new set of SOP's.

check out the two tabs , one midway up the tube, plus the big one at the top.


this next pic was our home made 'bikini canopy' on the SOP's of the day. Much cleaner entry / exit when kitted up.

[Barefoot dave]

cheers, mate. Thanks for the retell.
Chuckles. Yep, we tried that first option for about ten minutes, too.
We had a pair of brace tubes made up to support the screen top back to the tops bar.
No banged heads and the screen didn't rattle like crazy over corros.
We also went to bikini tops and trialled a 1/2 version that covered the ptlman. That got too hot though due to being too close to him and limiting airflow.

[Welby]

although the sun was an obvious issue, the big one for us was dust. With a half canopy on the rear it created this low pressure area and the dust used to accumulate there.
good times.

one of our lads was handy with a sewing machine and he made some really nice bikini tops and cam covers for the jerries, lights and other bits, even had some nice cam skirts for a short time.

i have some odd pics of different ARN's for the register if ADMIN will tell me where they want them posted.


and for those that wonder why we paint them pink

[THE BOOGER]

Post them up here we will move them if need to some may make onto the web site as well if that's ok with you

[Carzee]

 
If the pictures are big or a pain to post, please mail them here: carzee@gmail.com
That salt lake crust ... Icky. Was there a mothership winch to helpout?