WORKSHOP WAYS
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AU right-hand drive Leyland Daf 17-tonners are manufactured at its Lancashire factory, from the lighter 50-Series to the more powerful FA1900s and 2300s which are well suited to drawbar duties.
The 1900 rigid featured in this Workshop Ways is essentially for general delivery work. Our vehicle belongs to protective footwear manufacturer Totectors of Rushden. It has the 156kW (209hp) Daf DNS 6.2 litre charge-cooled diesel engine, matched to the ZF S6-36 six-speed synchromesh gearbox and Daf 2255 singlereduction drive axle.
At more than 80,000km/year, Leyland Daf prescribes a service for the FA1900 at 20,000km intervals, interspersed with a safety inspection/road test (P).
With three grades of maintenance (A, B and C), a typical annual service pattern for the first year is P, A, P, A, P, A, P, B; a C-service replacing the B-type at the end of the second year.
It also standardises on service times, allowing six hours for an A service, 11 hours for a B service and 12,5 hours for the major C service. For the safety inspection/road test, Leyland Daf sets aside 2.95 hours.
We observed the swap-bodied 1900 undergoing a B service at the workshop of Peter Brown, the Leyland Daf dealership at Milton Malser, near Northampton.
Fitter Andy Wreford has worked at Peter Brown for more than four years, including his three-year apprenticeship and has begun a series of Leyland Daf product service courses.