Diana,
I am thinking that if you thought changing the engine was a struggle then you did not remove the right hand sidewall from the drivers position. I worked on these from the early 1980's onwards and the few minutes it takes to get the seat and sidewall out saves much more time and effort doing the job. The CVR(T) engine was one of the easiest engines to change in the Britsh Army fleet at the time. Try a CVR(W) Fox, now they are a trial.
Broken valves on these are caused by over revving and kissing the piston, another well known failure was a rod through the block.
regards, Richard
Hi Richard
Are you talking about the sidewall of the engine bay on the LHS of the driver?
That was almost the first thing we removed after the engine covers came off, the problem was that the engine was touching the lip on the partition between the engine bay and radiators and the rear wall of the engine bay at the same time. twisting the engine sideways or tilting it only seemed to make it worse so we had to lower it mm by mm.
We did some work on a Fox (Scorpion Turret) but not a lot. The biggest problem of that was the regulator box getting it to work, at least the regulator box in the Vixen (same as the Fox). We even swapped the box from the Fox to the Vixen and then both stopped working!
Have you ever worked on a Vixen? I believe this one is the only operational one in the World, AFAIK even the one at Bovington isn't working.
