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Thread: Rooikat: Engine
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28-02-2022, 08:55 #21
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Re: Rooikat: Engine
Thx, interesting. I saw that G5 in our transport park, actually had pics of it, before it was eventually flown out of Rundu back to Waterkloof. I can recall going to the Bittersoet training area for something just as 4SAI were about to depart for Angola.
Later for some reason I was completely fascinated with those round propaganda leaflets you lot "delivered" to FAPLA. Weird how some memories stick and others completely lost.
I was watching an interview with a 32BN major,Hannes Nortman, yesterday that just published.
It's really a lifetime ago, and may just as well be from another planet as the world has completely changed.A buddy was based up in Rundu for a while during UNTAG time it was different already.
I hope we get the chance to have a beer one day!
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28-02-2022, 10:01 #22
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I'm not aware of any ADE 236 engines put into Landcruisers, but they were used for the (quite rare) Land-Rover Series 3S Diesels. The Series 3S was better known by the Petrol engine variant's name (a stretched Austin Marina engine) the R6.
Toyota would not have needed the Perkins as they got the engine design Land-Rover was too dim to pick up, the old Chev 4.1... which they still use to this day.
The rest of your post is fascinating and stuff I have no knowledge of whatsoever.Last edited by Paul; 28-02-2022 at 10:06.
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28-02-2022, 12:18 #23
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Re: Rooikat: Engine
There were ADE engines in some of the early 70 series LC bakkies and possibly others. I think they were Perkins derived. A couple of people I knew from the LandCruiser club had copies one of which had been an Eskom vehicle bought on auction. The one I drove made the Toyota 2H motor equipped copies feel like the had an engine which was quite a feat.
*Edit* if memory serves, which it probably doesn't, the motors were used to increase the local content by value of the vehicles in line with one of the MIDP type regulations.
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28-02-2022, 12:23 #24
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Re: Rooikat: Engine
Maybe...
The ADE 236 was a stump-puller... and the vehicle moved at a glacial pace. BUT, it would pull away in 4th. I once saw one parked against a large jackalberry tree, in gear, in 1st gear, engine running, slowly digging a trench with one wheel... driver had got out and wandered off for a pee."Always remember to pillage before you burn"
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28-02-2022, 12:31 #25
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Re: Rooikat: Engine
Checked in with a cruiser nerd mate of mine. He reckons the engine was the ADE 236 it was fitted to 75 Series bakkies in '86 and '87 and maybe other models. He sold his with over half a million km on it and the motor had never been opened. He said that it 'wasn't ideally suited to highway travel'.
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28-02-2022, 21:44 #26
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Re: Rooikat: Engine
The ADE 236 was the local version of the Perkins AD4.236 tractor engine, as was used in the Massey Ferguson 265 and other models. So yes, the Cruiser would have pulled like a tractor, slow and steady...
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