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Check out Wheels & Tracks, No 22, interesting artical on CCKW airborne trucks.

Can anyone out there identify this Delco Remy generator, well thats what I think it is, the red plaque has the following stamped no's Model 1177404. Serial 332. 24 Volts.

The generator appears to be new and never used, still has protective cardboard around shaft.

Thanks in advance.

Hope this helps Jack, if not please ask for more, regards David.

Just a note this is the later dash, with rotary light switch and no blackout lamp switch as this function is included in the rotary switch, the earlier dash with push pull light switch was a little different lay out.

Hope this helps.

Thanks Rob, and good luck with the restoration! If you come across any other peculiarities, please post here and I'll try to help.

 

And if you ever come across cab parts with Dutch stencilling, please let me know as I'd like to have one with the "price tag".

 

Regards,

Hanno

Hanno, no problem, if I find anything I will let you know.

Regards

Rob

Hi Rob, do you think the green cab would be for sale or trade (jimmy parts) ? Regards David.

David, not at this time, Rob

Hi Rob, how rough is the cab you are using as a doner ? Can it be saved ? Regards David.

David, the donor cab is not mine, it is restorable but needs a higher level of skill to repair then what I have, it will probaly be restored by the owner, one of the bad areas is the screen aperture, so much has corroded away.

As previous, the red cab, ex French was far better, much less corrosion but been modifed by the French hence I needed parts from the green cab, ex Dutch, now starting to repair the donor parts, dash panel seemed a good place to start!.

It states

 

DIT VOERTUIG

KOST FL 27000

 

which translates into

 

THIS VEHICLE

COSTS FL [DUTCH GUILDERS] 27000

 

In the 1950s the Dutch Army tried to increase awareness of the cost of its equipment among its conscripts by stencilling the acquisition cost on the equipment.

 

Not sure what 27,000 guilders of the 1950s with inflation are worth today, but since 2002 27,000 guilders convert into 12,252.06 Euros.

 

Are you going to restore it as a Dutch GMC? Even though we took good care of our MDAP equipment, GMCs in Dutch configuration are becoming quite rare as most are restored in American livery.

 

Regards,

Hanno

Thank you Hanno, over 12000 euros for a GMC in the 50's, wonder what the concripts thought?, I only have parts of this cab, I bought just a closed cab, and and stripped another cab, the Dutch one, of the internal parts needed to restore the other, which was ex French, Dutch cab was badly corroded and would have needed a lot more work, where as the French cab was a lot better condition but had been modified for the Fire Service, hence I needed internal parts, will upload a picture later.

There is a nice airportable CCKW for sale on Milweb, which is ex Dutch, and still in Dutch configuration, but at £8000!

Regards

Rob

Thanks for info on the dash lettering, have now found more on the drivers side above the instruments, there are 2 lines, the top on is faint, difficult to read but best guess is DIT ?OEPTOIN, the second line is KOST H 27000, which I think is all correct.

Thanks in advance

Probaly a question our Dutch friends could answer, anyone know the meaning of the lettering on this hard cab dash?, this truck was ex Dutch army, just like to know prior cleaninging off to restore the panel.

It reads 124 BOSDEPOT

Thanks in advance.

Following is a e-mail from the Haverhill History Group, requesting military vehicles on the Saturday, it is short notice, at present I think they have around 4 to 5 vehicles so far.

To mark the 90th anniversary of the unveiling of the town's war memorial, Haverhill are staging a Remembrance Festival at the Arts Centre (Town Hall) on Fri 29th and Sat 30th October. There will be a wide variety of displays and performances throughout the two days, all on a board theme of Remembrance, and we will of course be launching our Poppy Appeal..

We are also having a number of outside attractions including a small display of military vehicles on Haverhill Market Hill on Saturday 30th Oct. We have three vehicles promised so far but could accommodate perhaps up to ten if any of your members were willing to attend. The Market Square, in the centre of town next to the church, is available from 8.30am to 4pm and measures some 30m x 15m.

We appreciate this is very short notice, which is down to me and delays getting permission from the Council to use the area, but if you could circulate this to your members I'd be very grateful.

Hi

The stake post in the picture is welded to the body, but would not a U.S. manufacture been spot welded?

The crossmembers under the body, I understand U.S. WW2 were tapered from above the chassis to the outer sill where as european manufacture were straight?

Interesting topic.

It should be noted that most Air-portable GMC's were converted from standard production vehicles.

 

Several contractors were involved in this program including Ford Motor Co. at their Richmond, CA plant.

 

I have a series of GMC factory photos showing all the steps in the conversion of a production CCKW into an Air-portable vehicle.

 

I would have to check my copies of the Ordnance Production/Delivery records to determine if any were produced by GMC at the factory.

Any chance of posting the factory pictures of the CCKW conversion to airportables?

Regards

The '7' set in my CCKW has a pully block manufactured by Yale, would anybody know where I could obtain service/operating manuals from?

Have tried searching the net, but unable to find anything.

I know it's a pain in the backside doing all this work. I imported a Toyota Hilux from Japan (still own it) and within a year I had a cracked head - parts alone cost me £1,500 and I did all the work myself. I also had to replace the radiator at a cost of £480, front drive boot repair kit £350, rear hard/soft shocks £250, rear exhaust £280, new set of tyres £500, cambelt, tensioner and pulley £???. Since all this work has been done the trucks been fine.

 

The point is once you have all the jobs done the truck will be sorted. At least if you sell it you will get your money back (in my case I wont and that's why I still own it).

 

Sounds like you need to have a look at everything to make sure everything is tight as it seems to have a lot of loose bolts etc?

 

Keep your chin up mate, every job done is a job less on the "to do" list.:-)

It is a pain, really bought the truck to use, its now turned into a mini restoration, hoping I can get my money if I do decide to sell, although having to do all this work probaly end keeping it and probaly fit a hard cab I have in restoration, yours also a sad story, guess its some you lose some you win.

That's interesting, Robert. The photo is obviously well known to you. The odd uniform colour could be put down to the variable nature of colour photography, but the diference between greens on the ambulances cannot be doubted.

Yes the photo is well known to me, Clive was the one talking about recreating this photo, would it be possible to find 2 WC54's to match those colours though?

If you drive the road from Ashen to Clare, a small back road, its easy to see that background, if I ever drive that way, it reminds me of this picture, in fact I have driven that road just for that purpose!!, sad or what.

Turning the 7 set Rob, now there's a thought but it would be easier to just use the machine you will need to lift the 7 set to lift the gearbox and transfer box:D A good way of changing the transfer box is to use a pallet on the forks on a bobcat, farm handler or even a JCB if you have access to one of these machines it makes the job very easy. The gearbox could be done the same way but the machine would need to have side shift. With a soft cab truck a gearbox change is quite easy with the use of a 360 mini digger or a JCB.

It was only a joke, turning around the 7 set, transmission jack is all I have, works quite well and its a concrete base, just need to ensure what you are lifting is secured well to jack.

Really need to move the truck outside now and steam clean in the chassis, much easier when gearbox and transfer box is removed.

All good fun, now when is Beltring................

Just a update, gearbox and clutch removed, found radial springs broken and disc material near to rivets and breaking up.

Release bearing carrier screws all finger tight, one had the head missing and another head came off whilst removing, this is probaly the source of a another oil leak.

Decided to remove transfer box, just as well as one mounting bolt was broken, yet to remove the broken part from case, and been broken for sometime judging by the rust around the mounting, another was loose. As I now have another box, which requires work to two of the mounting bolt threads and also have the new bearings to repair box just removed, will probaly do the latter.

Degsy, it would be easier to use overhead gantry, but I do not have that option, although truck has 7 set fitted, I could always unbolt and turn around, have gantry over cab, now thats a thought............

Picture was taken at Ridgewell, Essex, 381st Bomb Group.

This picture was going to be recreated, be nice to see that happen.

Cos' you couldn't resist a bargain! But think of the profit margin when you move it on.........

 

I'll tell Mike Davis you'll be taking it to Beltring for his inspection!

 

By the way, I saw your old hard cab CCKW the other day. It looks the works.

At this rate it will never make it out of the yard!!

Just a update, as the bearings failed to arrive for the transfer box, I decided to remove the pan below the clutch, as nice surprise here, broken radial springs from the clutch disc, must have made some noise as the pan is damaged where these broken springs become jammed between the pan and flywheel, gearbox now to be removed.

Then I thought I would look at the excess movement in P.S. trackrod pin, decided to remove wheel for better access only to find one stud turns in hub!, have started to cut off nut hope to try and save stud, as demountable drum fitted once wheel removed, can remove drum and hopefully rectifi with removing hub, when laying under there I thought those brake shoe anchor bolt nuts look look loose, sure enough they were finger tight! and the drivers side is the same.

Happy days, just why did I buy this 'Heep'?

Blimey, I hope this won't effect the warranty!

And what warranty may that be ?? and just as well I did not take notice of your ' go on drive it home ' message!!

Need to change the brakes on the Dodge , Steering wheel trembles a lot when hitting the pedal , probably the brake drums are oval , can try to rectify the drums on the lathe , does anybody knows what the maximum autorised diameter of the brake drum can be ?

I have used brake drums at £5.00 each, if they may be of use to you.

Decided to try and remove rear cover without removing transfer box, managed to do this after spending some 30 mins. cutting through the very top bolt with a not so sharp hacksaw blade!, as it fouled the crossmember, once the head was cut off I was able to remove the cover, gears and bearings I can see all look ok, so the plan is to replace those top bearings only and reassemble, although it may be tricky putting the cover back on, the bolt I cut off will be replaced with a shorter one.

Truck is on level ground, concrete, and I have a commercial transmission jack, just need to make a bracket to secure the box to the jack. I will strip down first, would like to think its just the output bearings that are the problem, we will see this Friday/Saturday.

Not a good picture, this is the failed seal, a piece is missing which can just be seen, from my transfer box, due to excess pinion movement from frigged bearings, hope to find a replacement box as the oil that remained had that silvery look, very likely gears and remaining bearings could be in a similar condition. Its a major job to remove the transfer case due to the weight and replacing those 2 bearings on the output shaft would need the box out and stripped.

Dont look like I will be attending Duxford next Sunday, not in this truck anyway.