Jack

Out for first road test on Monday........look at the speed!! On top of Ballburrow hill Passengers.. Co driver... Up through the village

Hi Tim. Sounds like a good deal! Not sure but try Rex Ward, he is a member on here or perhaps Dallas Auto Parts (see events section).............

where abouts are you in the country?

Tim. Have a look here http://www.hmvf.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=71 and scroll down to the bottom and click on images to expand............... :wink:

yeah me again :wink: Since putting the carb back onto the manifold, I am having no smooth tickover and having to keep blipping the throttle to her going. No I didn't repalce the carb gaskets :roll: and I reckon she is running weak and is struggling at low revs to pull enough petrol through. Could somone confirm........ Cheers Jack.

Thanks guys. I filled up the MC and watched the air bubble out. I then went to the back axle and bled the far right and had a hard peddel right away. I have road tested it over the last 2 nights up and down hill, high and low speed and also under hard pressure when a car decided to try and stuff itself into the front of the truck :shock: breaking so far hasn't shown any side effects..... .........is this to good to be true?

Hi Jeroen. Thanks for that mate, but where is the bleed screw on the Hydrovac as Joel was saying that you have to bleed this first?

I don't mean bleeding as in *&&^%$@!? brakes but actually meaning to get the air out of them. Ok here it is the situation, manifold done! UJ done! Brush Guard bolted back on! Lets go for a road run I say to Jess (Jack Junior) fire the beast up, pull out of the drive......can't stop, no brakes :evil: :shock: So what has happened there? I have replaced the brake switch as the last one was worn out and when I undone the switch a small amount of brake fluid ran out. Is this the problem? Is this the sump plug to the Master Cylinder and the little bit of oil that did run out was the last drops left? The breaks up to this point where fine and well balanced. Can someone please HELP. Cheers. Jack.

Cheers Jeroen. That is great info and the jigsw is coming together. I can get the chassis number! I will get it sorted and get back to you. Many thanks. Jack

Welcome Tim. Make yourself at home, there is a great bunch of people on here. .........now, your jeep, we need to know more Cheers jack.

Hi Kirsten. I was speaking to one of our members of the Dorset MVT at the weekend and he is actually looking at buying a Reo as we speak. I will give him the heads ups tonight. Best wishes, and welcome aboard. Jack.

Hi Paul. And welcome to HMVF. This site yours as much as it is everyone else's so please do make yourself at home I must that is a damd fine picture there and I must say that is a wonderful turn out, to me that is what it is all about. You have a four wheeled musuem as everything on you and your vehicles has a story to tell, great work. With regards to reducing your picture all you have to do is to go bucket to photobucket ( if that is what you use) and you have the options of reducing your picture by 75%-50% or 25%. Have play around with it and see which one works for you, I would use the 50% option for a picture like this or 25% if you are posting a series of pictures! Best wishes and again make yourself at home. Jack.

Ross. That is a cracking idea! I will be there and I will let the members of the Dorset branch of the MVT know as well. This is great to see this sort of infomation as this is exactly what this site is all about, please everyone keep up the good work!

Hi all. Thought it may be wise to write a few words on how to post pictures up on the forum. Knowing how to do this puzzled me for sometime but it didn't need to as it is a very painless process. First of all you need to use a site that allows you to upload your own pictures to it. I use http://www.photobucket.com'>http://www.photobucket.com'>http://www.photobucket.com so here is what you need to do; 1.Go to http://www.photobucket.com and fill out the necessary 2. Once you have registered and you have had a look around the site you need to find the ' add pictures' button. 3. Click on browse button this should pop up a 'choose file' window, Desktop, My Documents for example 4. Locate the folder/file that has the pictures in the you want to upload ( it may be easier to place a shortcut of the image on your desktop to begin with as it is easier to find). 5. Click the image that you want to upload, you may see something like P7110008.JPG which is a picture of my GMC or if you have renamed it you will see that name of the image. 6. Click 'submit' on the Photobucket site 7. You should now see your picture up on Photobucket.....well done that is a result! Now to get image from there to HMVF follow the following steps. 1. Underneath your picture on Photobucket you will see three boxes 1st Url, 2nd Tag and the 3rd box is Img 2. Highlight the 3rd box ..........the Img box 3. Right click of the mouse and copy 4. Then paste it in to your message HMVF That is pretty much it! It may seem a bit long winded but once you have done it once or twice you soon get the hang of it but if anyone else has a better/quicker then please do let us know. Hope that helps...........now get posting.

Hi Karoshi. Right it is basically a free for all, anyone is welcome to turn up for the day or for all of the weekend if they want to. I have PM'd over John phone number. Cheers Jack.

Nice one Steve. You guys seem to have a good time up there and what a stunning picture of Tynemouth Castle.

Right, you are in your vehicle, you have turned up at a show to exhibit your pride and joy. So the question is, what do you wear whilst you are showing your vehicle..............? Period dress Overalls Anything in olive drab Or just your everyday clothes And why? Best wishes. Jack.

Hi all. Have a member in a our Dorset branch of the MVT and there are three of us who own GMC's. Now one of these GMC's seems to be very rare, it is a; Air portable, hard cab tipper The question is, is this rare and where can I find some further info? Cheers. Jack. _________________

Hi Karoshi Hope all is well and as promised here is an update for the Bovington weekend. Basically it is open to any member of the MVT, it is the 'end of season show'. You can bring your tent or kip in your vehicle If you would like to come then I can give you Johns number as he is organising it. See if you can make and we can chew the cud over the weekend! Best wishes. Jack.

Went off down to the Bovington tank museum today it is only about 20 minutes away and we visit there at least once or twice a year. Today was 'tanks in action' day and as it says on the tin....its tanks in action :shock: They display and demonstrate a range of vehicles from different periods, loads of smoke and noise and wonderful and informative commentary. The guy was saying that the showground that we were standing in was the collection point for all of the tanks that came back from WW1......and then duly cut up for scrap :shock: Here some pictures of the display and something special happened to me today and those pictures and details are further down. This next picture is of Jess and his face says it all as we were flying around the track in a M548......an USA tracked vehicle. Now for the special bit :shock: the family and I were stood talking to a WW2 Tank Commander and he was telling us how he was part of the BEF and was taken of the beaches at Dunkirk, he was then sent to the Far East and then he fought in North Africa and then with his crew worked his way up through Italy and ended his war in Germany after being blown out of two tanks :shock: . He then took a lump of shrapnel out of his pocket and placed it in our hands and this was the piece that was removed from his chest, it was about the size of a tea spoon and about an inch thick! We always make a point of introducing ourselves to veterans and we always ensure that the kiddies talk to them as well and I always, without fail look into the eyes as I am shaking their hands and thank them for everything that they had done. Without doubt, they appreciate it even though it may make them a little uncomfortable. As we were stood there taking the old Commander, the Sherman driver came up to me and said 'follow me' :shock: so I followed him thinking 'what does he want with me'. He stood me in front of the Sherman and said 'see that top hatch up there, just jump up on the tank and get in............I am going to take you for a ride' :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: I tell you, I was stunned, what had I done to be so privileged. Ask anyone that knows me and they will tell you that I absolutely adore Sherman's, just to look at them is something special for me but for someone to offer me a chance of a ride, well that is something else. What a machine and what an experience! The driver is a man called Ian, thank you Ian, you are something special and that moment will stay with me!! Didn't need to be asked twice. This was the last picture as the camera was full :cry: Ron Huggins WW2 Tank Commander, 85 years old and as proud as he ever was. Strange how life goes sometimes. Best wishes. Jack.

Part 1 Well it’s a bit like this, I have wanted a GMC for as long as I can remember but never thought that I would have one at this stage of my life, as some of you will know having a children is very demanding in both time and money. Anyway, it pretty much all came together this year as everything was falling into place and I could see that it wouldn’t be too long before I could embark on the journey of tracking down a jimmy. I knew exactly what I wanted, it had to be a restoration project, I am not much interested in off the shelf vehicles. It was going to be my vehicle and it had to be my work. It is the same view as I hold about our ancient woodlands, as soon as you do anything with them you become part of the woodlands history – you are historically link forever, I like the profoundness of that. On the other hand I didn’t want a chassis up project either so it had to be just right. You take council from many people and everyone has there own scare stories but that is to be expected but I soon found a common under current of opinion i.e. look at the tyres, make sure it is a Norwegian truck, listen for rumblings in the engine, make sure that it isn’t rusted out around the bulk head, and the list goes on. So knew what I wanted a GMC 353 soft cab in need of restoration but also in perfect condition, well that is pretty straight forward then, isn’t it? Well of course it is…………not! I was buying MMI and CMV as it came off the press. All the vehicles that I saw in the magazines where ‘restored’ but I did enquire about one or two that we near completion and just needed ‘cosmetics’. It is like this, I may not of been around the world but I have certainly be around life once or twice, the vehicles were inexcusable, to me it looked like someone just bought the GMC’s to make a pound or two. You see this is most trades, people believe that if they can make the outside look attractive then it is immaterial as to what everything else looks like. For sure a case of buyer beware – you live and learn. So the chase went cold for many months until returning home from the Veterans Day held down here in Dorset at Weymouth and I flicked on the PC and there was this humble advert………… “GMC 353 1944 Soft cab, W/winch, runs well, nice original vehicle, drive home, £2700” That was it, no picture just a simple ad but a very effective one as it grabbed my attention. I tried not to get to excited but it was only posted that day…so I thought about it and put together a very well constructed email, it went like this…….. “ere mister still got yer jimmy”! I also left a message on his phone. That evening he called back and we had an excellent natter, sounded a very nice chap, very peaceful. He told me that it was coming from Norway and that it should in country in about a week “I will send some pictures over when it is here”. You wouldn’t believe bloomin a week could take so long. He called me to let me know that the truck was here and he would take some pictures over the weekend and would send them over on Sunday night. They arrived in my email, I nervously open the first of four pictures thinking is this going to be any good and all the rest of those thoughts that we have, so click the first one opened up and then number two then three and then four then that was it! I HAD FALLEN IN LOVE, that was the one that I had been looking and waiting for and I knew that truck was mine, no matter what and that it would soon be on its way down to Dorset. It is one of those moments. I called the family around the PC and they also fell in love with it. So job done, called the seller and he said that he would be happier if I came up to have a look at it just so that I would be assured, I didn’t fancy a 9 hour round trip and said that I would have it without seeing it. Now I know that I lot of people would say that was a completely dumb thing to do and a completely naive move and if I got it wrong could cost me thousands, well it is like this, the deal was done on trust, good will and my gut instincts. These three things are pretty much missing into days world and it is a sadder place because of. I am pretty much one for listening to my instincts and it paid off. The jimmy arrived and it simply was everything I wanted and then some. The seller was true to his word and wouldn’t hesitate buying cold from him again. …………….to be continued. Part 2. My plan of attack for the restoration, what I did as soon as I got it home, up close and personal and my thoughts on my life long want……… But for now here are some pictures. The pictures that were sent to me by the seller Being delivered

That is a good point Steve. The first thing I did was to photograph every single inch of the jimmy inside out and underneath. I will tell you my plans when I add my jimmy to this thread as it seems to change every week.

Blimey that is some great work Demon. Do you know how many hours you put into it so far? I am just work on my GMC and I will post up some images later.

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HI Ross. How did the weekend go? Cheers. Jack.