I decided to continue with the well tank chassis. Before I came to Brazil I had got some nice castings from Laurie Griffin, Springs, crossheads etc.

The kit has turned brass cylinders, which are very nice but need a lot of work to get LG's slides bars fitted. So I fabricated some using the turned ones for size.

Well that was just the start of my problems. The slidebars fitted nicely, but to get the piston rod lined up with the centre of the driving wheels everything sits too high. Site the assembly so the footplate fits the cylinders are too low. Also the centre of the front wheel is above the axle box, badly or very badly depending where the cylinders are.

My first thoughts are my cylinders are wrong, in which case I feel the front spring and slide bars by LG will be wrong (which I do not believe as I have never had problems from his range before), as they look right to the present cylinders. I have go a drawing but it is a copy of a copy and the scale bar only has feet and quarters on it. So only of use for reference.

At the moment I am having to give it some serious thought of how to progress.

First picture are the new cylinders.

The second show the cylinders sat down to fit the footplate.

The third the cylinders sat up so the centres line up. As you can see in these two the front axle bearing not behind the axle box.

The forth shows the cylinders in the correct place to the footplate but too low for the wheel centres.

Just to show the cylinders new against the kit one.

And an over view of the project so far.

If anyone has a good drawing of one of these I could beg borrow or buy I would be gratefull.

I feel I will be rebuilding the front end again. Just do not like doing things twice.