Minikegs Château - 'Agro'

[Minikeg]

Diana, manky means completely cruddy and filthy - I mean proper plumber-filthy, soaked in sewerage and mud then dried out by hard work etc. Similar to the under side of some Landys.

Oops, now we'll have to define cruddy! 

Crud, noun; A vile substance built up on the undercarriage of Land Rovers, a compressed mixture of cow pats, grease and the tears of environmentalists

Cruddy, adjective; Akin to crud, likened to manky, sometimes interchangeable with the definition of the Australian government

[Carzee]

This is a picture from Dennis' shed which demonstrates a portion of definitive Cruddiness, adj., latin: sand-blastus crudus particulus.

[Carzee]

...come to think of it, after a periodic of scientific peer reviews, etc, etc, Dennis is looking pretty manky there LOL.

[Diana Alan]

Diana, manky means completely cruddy and filthy - I mean proper plumber-filthy, soaked in sewerage and mud then dried out by hard work etc. Similar to the under side of some Landys.

Oops, now we'll have to define cruddy! 

Crud, noun; A vile substance built up on the undercarriage of Land Rovers, a compressed mixture of cow pats, grease and the tears of environmentalists

Cruddy, adjective; Akin to crud, likened to manky, sometimes interchangeable with the definition of the Australian government

Not to be confused with krudd, previously head of the Australian Government considered by some redheads to be a vile substance to be put up on the back benches of parliament. see: manky.

[Minikeg]

Looking inside the vehicle I came across this small item, is this one of the mystery items that held the jerry can in place???

3rd pic here
http://www.remlr.com/lrprpics.html

[Minikeg]

Agro Update

Rust: So far, little rust has been observed; Radiator support, Bonnet/door/tailgate frames - fantastic. Firewall - two extremely localised holes, easily fixable. Chassis, some in the front right dumbiron, rest good so far.

Quirks:
Spare wheel bracket - OEM bracket has survived 10 years of army service, then a further 44 years of civilian farmery and not been lost. (see pic above post)
Front brushguard - Fitted during service but not original kit
Scone Cutters - Fitted during service, but no NATO socket cutout (see pic)
2A 2.25 engine - Fitted at unknown time (during or after service)
Exhaust manifold - Exhaust exits through the guard
Gearbox - Fitted at unknown time (during or after service) missing dipstick
Speedo - replaced by civilian model with no tripmeter
Doortops - Entirely aluminium, unsure what brand they are (see pic)
Doors - Inside skin lined/filled with insulation of some kind
Stepped bracket - On drivers side on rear of tub (see pic)
Passenger seatbox toolbox - Access swingout panel on front to access under seat (see pic)

Pics of Agros condition as received;

[Phoenix]

Some interesting modifications there!

[Diana Alan]

The side exit exhaust is the standard for early 2.25 litre SII.  My SIIa Emmett (112-723) had one when I received him but swapped it with Dave (Incisor) from AULRO for his SII command recon.

[Minikeg]

The side exit exhaust is the standard for early 2.25 litre SII.  My SIIa Emmett (112-723) had one when I received him but swapped it with Dave (Incisor) from AULRO for his SII command recon.

While thats true, it has not got the original early S2 engine, its a 2A engine.

[Diana Alan]

The side exit exhaust is the standard for early 2.25 litre SII.  My SIIa Emmett (112-723) had one when I received him but swapped it with Dave (Incisor) from AULRO for his SII command recon.

While thats true, it has not got the original early S2 engine, its a 2A engine.

None of the Army 88" had the 2 litre engine, they were only fitted to 1958 88" and the first 88" command recon were 1959 model 88" which were fitted with the 2 1/4 engines.  So while they were not identical in every aspect both the SII and SIIa 2 1/4 litre engines are functionally interchangeable.  The SIIa engine may well have been an inservice exchange.

Diana

[DennisM]

Your 'Scone Cutters' are both RHS, you must have misunderstood me when we were talking engines, all the S2 C/R's had the early 2 1/4lt engine, yours has been fitted with a S2A 4cyl engine and G/box, thats why it (G/box) doesn't have the dipstick.
I knew of the existence of the reference image showing that little bracket fitted up with the wheel clamp, but whay I would dearly like to know is what the heck was it for LOL, anyway good to see you n Dad yesterday, cheers Dennis

[Carzee]

If you are into spiders, stop reading now.
Sadly, Scott used a whole large can of Insecticide and evicted all the little spiders -they appeared from all sorts of places. It was sort of a eight legged stagger and stampede for the exits.

Agro is in fantastic nick for its age. Like it had been accidentally parked on a street in Brigadoon. What a lucky result -it was a roll of the dice and it turned out to be well worth the wait.

[Minikeg]

 

Due to a stroke of good/bad luck, Im going to be paving under the rover sometime soon..

[Phoenix]

Heavy load there 

[Minikeg]

Heavy load there 

Hiluxs, built toyota tough ;-)