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charley.loomis

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  1. Finished installing the tinwork and assembled the radiator today.
  2. A new air tank was frabricated, all air valving rebuilt, i have fabricated most of the panel work from scratch, repairing as much of the original as possible.
  3. It has been a few months since my last update, alot has hapoened and I am nearing completion. I have a deadline to work towards , it has to be finished by the 21st of November. In this photo you can see the engine side panel and steel floor I made
  4. And if I get tired of the old stuff, Im building a sport bike with 10" suspension travel.
  5. When I finish working on the truck every day, I go home and relax and work on this, my 1924 Dodge.
  6. Has anyone noticed what was lurking under the cover in the background?
  7. Today's update: I fabricated the new front panel work and control straps.
  8. That sounds right, they say he purchased the truck as a kit and drove it as is.
  9. I think they were exported with the cab removed for tax purposes,
  10. This is the newest photo of the truck, taken yesterday, thanks for all of the encouraging words everybody. Charley
  11. Had our machine shop make a new carbon gland for the water pump.
  12. Im in Port Macquarie, thanks for the information, I knew the cabs were made in Australia, but didn't know by whom. I'm not actually building a cab, I am building a replica of the truck that the company founder used in 1954 to haul timber up and down the mountain. He purchased the truck as imported, meaning no cab, just the inner fenders, engine cover and front, and that's how he drove it, year around hauling timber. I'm only using the original Matador cab parts, here is a photo of one of the parts trucks today after I removed the Matador parts from it:)
  13. This is the other parts truck, I found a lead engine plate on this truck dated 5-12-1944, I couldn't read the chassis number as it had rusted away after 0853, the yellow parts truck has chassis number 08535542, and the chassis of the truck I am building is 08535571. I used the king pins, secondary gearbox, steering calumn and gearbox, linkages and a few other bits and pieces from this truck. I rebuilt the secondary gearbox, but the box in this truck was the best of the lot and only required seals and one bearing and some studs and brackets from the other trucks.
  14. A photo of the steel tank I made inside the original top tank shell, and a photo of the finished radiator waiting to be installed. Charley
  15. Last post for the evening, this one is about the radiator. I took the top off of the radiator and corrosion had destroyed the top tank. After scratching my head for a few days I had the top tank milled out and I fabricated a steel tank to fit inside. I lost some capacity, but the truck will only run for short periods and it allowed me to keep the original look of the AEC radiator and I thought that was very important.
  16. Went through the Winch, steering gearbox, shifter box, and started to install some linkages. The project kinda stalled at this point as I was pulled off to do other jobs at work for a few months. I am the only person working on this truck so nothing happens quickly, there are a lot of little bits and pieces and a million bolts,lol
  17. I then rebuilt the transmission from parts of two transmissions. Only had one useable clutch and it is like new, a bit of luck there.
  18. Installed the engine, even though it was fully rebuilt twenty years ago it took a bit of work to get it back together, about ten years ago it accidentally got hooked up and drug through the shop, breaking the water pump, a water pipe, and the exhaust manifold.
  19. After five weeks of sandblasting, cutting, sledgehammering, grinding, welding, a bit of paint and some used tyres it started to look like something. It took parts from all of the trucks to get to this stage. All the bushes and shackle pins are like new, I sorted though all the pins and bushes from the parts trucks and many parts were also found on the shelf at work, at this stage everything but the diffs have been disassemble, cleaned, repaired and reassembled.
  20. Here is a photo of the two trucks used for parts. The Frames were complete garbage, having been broken, welded, modified, broken and welded again, and the cabs are all but completely rusted away, but there is a gold mine of parts there, and I have utilised every single piece I could.
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