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To anybody who owns a Stalwart,Saladin or Saracen. When I
enquired with the Australian Army about the feasibility of
owning any of the above family of vehicles they warned me
off them,as follows.
They claimed that the accumulators were a pain, that the pump
and related system but especially the accumulators would not
hold pressure. That the longest they were able to get between
charging the system with Nitrogen was 3 months and on many
vehicles as little as a week. That it was almost impossible
to keep the final drives and bevel boxes oiled as it ran out even
on virtually new vehicles in as little as 2 days.
I am very interested in a Saladin but face the problem of
exorbitant UK postage rates to Australia for parts
(anybody have any knowledge of other ways/providers to
get gear out of the UK?)
and have been put off by the above advice.
Just how safe is it to be sitting alongside 3 accumulators
over 40 years old with a working pressure of 1500 psi?
Douglas Greville