R Cubed

Thanks one and all for the warm welcome to this active forum, so nice to see people willing to help each other, just what a forum is all about, here here to the setter upperer !!!! I hope to put usefull information to how to do things on my truck ( CCKW352 ) so it may help others. R Cubed

I know where there is one and its up for sale ;-) Thought of exactly the same thing, what about turning up on a Normandy beach only to drop off trucks and tanks...................... R Cubed

Here is another section of the overhaul, the steering box, king pin bearings. The steering box is a real pain to get out, you need to remove the steering drag link between the two front wheels and also the winch propshaft so you can get the exhaust down pipe off, once this is all done the steering wheel has to be removed, mine came off with a clout from a club hammer and a piece of wood, after undoing the centre nut ( watch out for the key way falling out ) then the cross shaft drop arm, this is splined and tapered, undo nut a bit then using a hub puller force the drop arm off, I needed to apply some heat for this. Then there are the four bolts holding the box to the chassis rail, these have nuts and lock nuts on the outside of the chassis rail, so you need to hold the bolt and undo the nuts. Then with a wiggle and a bit of force get the box out.. This pic is after it has been cleaned up ready for stripping down, stay tuned. Moving on from this, to the replacement of the steering king pin bearings of which there are four, one each side at the top and one each side at the bottom of the swivel housings on the front axle, a handy note here is these bearings are the same for the Banjo and split axles, Bearing numbers are: outer 41286, inner 41125. Strip down hubs by splitting the two halves and remove top and bottom bearing caps, watch out for shims under these as you will need them again. After I inspected mine it seems that the bottom bearings need replacing as these get all the pounding and carry all the front end weight of the truck, the top bearing just keeps it all upright. This is a complete bearing. Here you can see the wear marks generally in the straight ahead position as this is where the bearing sits most of the time so getting most of the shock. More to come as I work through it all.

As you can see the original tank is in a sorry state, it looks as though there has been a build up of mud and leaves ect between the tank and the frame which it clamps in side, so people who have 352's with the tank accross the truck beware of rust setting in between these two parts. There should be some canvas type pads fitted in the frame 4 on the bottom, one each end and one above each frame rail. There should also be 2 verticaly on front side of tank frame so when the two straps are done up it forces the tank on to the canvas pads and not on to the inside of the frame, this means that there is a gap so dust and rain cant collect on the tank, ( my pads were missing so 352 owners beware ) The tank will lose as the frame is much thicker :-) as I set about the process of building a stainless one I will keep you all informed. R Cubed

Passenger side of fuel tank just below filler neck

Drivers side of tank

Drivers side view

Thought you all might like to see why I had a fuel leak when I put about £40 in it, I think the pics give it away......

For everyone's information I am starting a Blog type thing of my truck.. R Cubed

I might be ;-) ;-)

I will do some pics of the truck tomorrow as I need to move it about a bit to be able to start the king pin bearings and steering box. The exhaust probably took about a month from planning to finished, I had it bent to a pattern and then tig welded up its all stainless 304 and 1.5 mm thick with a 12mm manifold flange, this is actually a spare one as I had two made. :-) I suppose this should go on up to the general discusion from now on !! Just a tease, just to show what you can drive over :-o :-o R Cubed

Good afternoon to one and all, I have come across this and have now joined, thanks Jack for a warm welcome. I have been involved in M.V.'s for 10 years or so when I bought a CCKW 352 B1, as with all theses things its an on going battle to maintain, the latest items to need attention are front steering and replacement of fuel tank with a stainless steel one which I hope to make myself, as I did with the exhaust.. Pic of exhaust bellow. R Cubed

Ah you know something then ;-)

Shame this is not a soft cab but at least the 352 I have is a soft cab, just need the 105mm Howitzer to go with it. R Cubed

Thought this might be a good one to put up. R Cubed

Hello all out there, just found this forum and glad to see so much activity. I have had a CCKW352 for about 10 years and I am steadily working through bits which are in need of attention, next on the agenda is the steering box, can anyone offer advice on stripping it down and overhauling it ? R Cubed