Gordon_M

Take care Howard. In this weather it might be time to restore anything you can get on the kitchen table, like a 270 ...:angel:

Grease or heavy oil.

I'm sure you know that when you pull it you have to re-time the distributor drive stuff if you disturb it?

Looks very like the standard jeep trailer socket, originally pre-WW2 Wagner electric brake socket.

Find someone with a WW2 US trailer and try the plug

Great to hear.

Howard - get back here - you're needed

He does have a small plug-in ariel for it, so you could hide the unit, but with a single wire going to somewhere that the satellite signal can get to.

Both of mine are inside conventional steel-box framed passenger cars and didn't need the ariel.

Young Russell at Carrotech will keep you right

Two things to note though;

1. His systems do work down to 6 volt input, I remember reading that in the technical bumf that came with mine.

2. You need to ask him to set it up for low power draw. They are really designed to keep track of vehicles that are used every day, when I went away for two weeks on holiday and came back, both of my vehicles had the battery drawn down to the point they wouldn't start - Russell has a solution for that now though.

If I was fitting his system to a jeep I'd just stick it inside a chassis rail somewhere, it is only the size of a cigarette packet - whatever that is, but I would leave the vehicle either on a mains battery maintainer like an Accumate or possibly a solar charger - just something to offset the draw down of the system.

When my wife starts her car I get a notification on my watch :cool2: and you can configure the systems with all sorts of alarms and trip notifications. On some setups you can even immobilise the vehicle remotely.

Good value for money, the system is yours when you buy it, but there is a ( small ) yearly charge for the use of the SIM card. Peanuts compared to the peace of mind tho'

Please add my best wishes and tell Howard to get well soon.

'tis a plain 7100 series Chevrolet, not a Pole Setter or Earth Augur

K-43 is absolutely original, still has the crossbar and rear jacks, but unfortunately it is missing the four-part pole derrick on the back

How about we dig it up, and drag it behind the garage with the Dennis and Thorney in so they can put it on the 'to do' list ?:angel:

Here's something else for you.

I've heard discussion about fitting 8 volt batteries to some of our units, allied with re-setting the voltage regulator / cutout to enable charging voltage to suit. Apparently there is noticeably better cranking performance with the extra couple of volts.

Anyone sell 8 volt units here in Europe ? price ? how much work do you have to do at the voltage regulator ?

I suppose the good point here is that all our trucks have old style adjustable regulators which should be amenable to the odd tweak, but of course you would really have to know what you were doing.

Lincon ( note the spelling ) They do a 6 volt dry charged and I think with a delivery option. I'm sure the Dodge one is the same as the j@@p one as regards capacity.

Have a look and then let us know on here. I'll be needing one soon too.:undecided:

Fittings are identical I think.

I seem to remember you can use the 6 x 6 cable on the 4 x 4 by using up all the extra length

Steve Rivers at Dallas Autos - although other friendly Dodge parts dealers are available :angel:

I don't know exactly where, but you are right, it does have to go on the output side of the transfer case, and with a longer cable too, of course.

The transfer case is 1:1 and around 1.5:1, so if you hooked to the ordinary fitting on the gearbox and put it in low range you would be around 50% out of true.

I see the sling plates on the axle ends, but why the ground anchor on the back - was that fitted to the RAF ones, or did they have a civilian user as well like for recovery stuff ?

It's a transmission PTO mounted pump of some sort, but I agree with the comment on the other three that it is hydraulic rather that air or water - both would have much bigger cylinders.

If I had to guess, PTO hydraulic pump from something like a Dodge D60S 3 ton tipper - just a guess though. :cool2:

I think the air pumps and hydraulic pumps used the same PTO and gear, they would interchange where that flange is. Wouldn't be surprised if the hydraulic pump section at least was salvageable.

I'd be severely tempted to take all of that home and throw a sheet over it till your restoration was complete. I predict there will be something you need to use on that, at least for a pattern, before you are done.

I've done this a few times with the screens for the Dodge hard cabs, which are even more £££ in good condition.

Roast with gas torch and wire brush a couple of times, till it is as clean as it is going to get, then just MIG the whole thing up solid, leaving as much of the glass slot as you can. An angle grinder can then be used to clean out the glass slot, after which you can mount new laminated glass in black panel sealant ( NOT windscreen sealant ) and you are done. Do not use the rubber sheet to mount the glass as originally done - that's what traps all the water and starts another rust cycle.

If think the only thing you'd have to watch on that screen would be not to put weld in the sharp corners that you can't get out again with an angle grinder - not a problem on the closed cab screen as it is nearly all curved or straight.

The K53 Signal Corps GMC back body is the outstanding item there

Travelling north to Gateshead yesterday from Staffordshire there were a number of convoys of military vehicles coming south. There must have been seven different convoys with anything from four to ten vehicles in each. The last lot were all coaches with Belgium flags on them so I can only presume they were the Belgium Army and had been on a training exercise somewhere up north. Anyone know anymore?

 

Here are a few (bad) pictures which I took from our coach whilst heading the other way.

they will have been at the ranges and camps near Otterburn, just up the A68 from Gateshead

i have learnt to live with it.:-D

 

I spot the first of the three wise men :angel:

If I just saw the image and not the number, I'd have guessed DUKW driveshaft gaiter.

Any FV series use a similar system?

Another interesting shot. Not the truck, but the X code in the serial number.

X codes were generally found on impressed or borrowed vehicles, rather than formal issue stock. No idea why that truck would have an X in the code though.

Years back, I would have agreed with Goran, but I have since seen the light.

US Army vehicles did have tire pressure stencilling during WW2 - I have seen numerous images to back this up. It seems to be quite common to have one TP stencil on the dash of the truck, my 1939 Dodge only had two coats of paint on top of the factory paint, and both had the TP marking on the dash.

Note that what you are seeing there seems to be the same two one-line stencils applied twice ( not quite parallel ), and that the 35 PER HR is cut into one original stencil, but the 35 before the LB is a different typeface to the rest. I'd guess all vehicles on that base were limited to 35 MPH but they had separate pressure value stencils that were daubed in as required. As a 1939 truck both those coats would have been before 1945, and that truck is unique in my experience because it had never had any other paint put on it - thrifty post war farmer owned it.

The TP stencil above each wheel was seen during WW2, but became much more common - almost standard practice - at the end of the war.

All that said, when vehicles were repainted during WW2 I'm not sure how much effort was put into TP markings, and I'd guess that the majority of jeeps had it stencilled once, on the dash, rather than above each wheel as a jeep surely only needs it once ....