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glcaines

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About glcaines

  • Birthday 12/29/1949

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  • Location
    Blue Ridge Mountains Hiawassee, Georgia USA
  • Interests
    MVs, flying my Cessna 152 and shooting
  • Occupation
    Radiological Operations Program Manager
  1. This has got to be the best MV-related Christmas yard decoration I've ever seen. It's located near the Oak Creek Bridge on the St Michael's Road MD 33 (Maryland, USA) Ultimate MV Christmas Yard Decoration[1].pdf
  2. Actually, the CTIS is fairly dependable. The problem with losing air on the M35A3 is normally the rubber grommet between the valve stem and the wheel. It ages, cracks, and the nut gets loose. Also, occasionally the O-ring sealing the two halves of the two piece Michelin wheel will leak, but usually it's the grommet.
  3. While rebuilding one of the hubs on my M35A3, I discovered that one of my CTIS hub seal retainers was bent and battered. This was likely the cause of the seal failure. This is the retainer that holds the quad o-ring seal and each hub has two. It appears that someone in the military beat on the seal retainer in an effort to drive the outer roller bearing race out of the hub and either didn't succeed, or did succeed in removing it and then re-installed the damaged retainer ring. There was also a small amount of damage to the inner surface of the hub itself. Someone in the Army really did a number on it. I was able to grind the roughness on the inner surface of the hub and polish it with emery cloth.. I used Permatex Right Stuff to seal the hub seal rings to the hub and pressed the bearing races back in. According to the TM I needed to wait at least 12 hours prior to re-mounting the hub. I've attached some photos showing the damage to the hub seal retainer. I have now reassembled everything. Unfortunately, I had to leave to work in China for 1 week so I got behind schedule. I still haven’t hooked up the CTIS yet. I need to rebuild the CTIS wheel valve before re-installing it.
  4. Welcome to the forum. You'll find a lot of nice people here and a lot of knowledge.
  5. Sorry for the late reply. I've been sent to work in Asia for awhile - currently in China with very limited internet connection. You are correct, using the heel of the fork would have been better, but there was no clearance for the wheels. I haven't decided what to do about the top yet. Where I live, I can legally buy an M2 Browning .50 caliber gun, but they are very expensive and I would likely have to get a new wife. I do have the cradle that holds the M2 Browning.
  6. Well, I gave up and visited some Buddhist Temples today, and saw the Great Buddha of Kamarura. Had a great time until it started raining heavily and no umbrella. I leave to work in Seoul tomorrow morning so anything else will have to wait until I return.
  7. I don't have a problem visiting the Yasakuna Museum other than there is apparently almost nothing there except one Zero fighter and the railway engine you mentioned, although I'm taking the word of others. I had two uncles that suffered heavily during the war. One was a Bataan Death March survivor and the other was tortured in a POW camp and later served as slave labor in a mine in Japan. The PLA military museum in Beijing is very interesting with a very large amount of military vehicles, planes and firearms. There is also a lot of propaganda there. It was a little sickening because there was also American uniforms and gear on display from the Korean war that had obviously been removed from dead bodies with dried blood on them. They had purposely arranged the uniforms to show the names and dried blood.
  8. I finally got around to installing the 4820-01-490-1773 pressure safety relief valve on my M35A3 compressor. The installation is covered by MWO 9-2320-386-20-2. All M35A3s were required to have this kit installed prior to 30AUG05, but for some reason my truck did not have the kit installed. Catastrophic failure of the air pressure system can occur if the air pump continues to build pressure uncontrollably. I'm not sure what the weak link is that lets go under these conditions. It only took about 20 minutes to install the kit. According to MWO 9-2320-386-20-2, you are supposed to replace the compression nut and attached ferrule. I did not do this because to do this required cutting the copper tubing to shorten it and there is not enough room to use a tubing cutter without removing the section of copper tubing to grant more room. The existing nut and ferrule were in excellent condition and after assembly, there were no leaks. I did have a little trouble screwing the 'T' into the top of the compressor because the hose next to it was in the way. I was able to pull on the hose and gain just enough clearance to screw it in. According to photos in the MWO, the hose is mounted slightly to the side to gain more clearance. My truck was not like in the MWO photo.
  9. I've been working in Yokohama, Japan for a week now and have the weekend free. I decided to see if there were any museums in the Tokyo area that might have MVs. I've never had much free time during previous trips to Japan. Apparently, there is no such thing as an MV museum in Japan. The only military museum I could find was the Yushukan War Museum and I wanted no part of that. This is the museum that is attached to the Yushukan Jinja, a Shinto shrine that has all of the controversy because it defends Japan's actions during WWII and basically denies any atrocities against the Chinese, Koreans, et al. The Shinto shrine has memorialized Japan's war dead and has some certified war criminals buried there. I'll be in Seoul, Korea on Monday and Tuesday, but will have no time for MV museums. Then I go to China where there are a lot of military museums. I've already visited several and they are very interesting, but you have to filter out the PLA propaganda. I don't know if I'll have any time to search out any new ones.
  10. Welcome to the forum! And, welcome to the MV addiction!
  11. Have fun with the restoration! Keep photos coming.
  12. My first contact with an MV was with an M114A1E1 tracked personnel carrier while in the Army in 1970 during training. The first contact with a privately owned MV was with a 1953 M37 a friend of mine restored. Then I bought a 69 Kaiser Jeep M35A2.
  13. I finally finished mounting my M66 gun ring on my M35A3. I did it by myself which was very difficult and not advised. Also I ran into some difficulties. Installing a gun ring on an M35A3 is more difficult than an M35A2 because of the exhaust stack. Also, the cutouts in the cab reinforcement plate installed by AM General did not line up very well with the u-bolts which made tightening the nuts a real chore. I have a John Deere 5520 tractor with forks and that made the job much easier. I also used the forks on the tractor to press the right front leg into the receptacle.
  14. When I picked up the truck from the Army, I drove it home 1076 miles, so any fuel in the tank was burned up. After I got it home, and more driving, I ran the tank almost dry. Looking in the tank revealed that it was extremely clean. Every other military fuel tank I've looked in was loaded with crud and/or corrosion and had to be cleaned. I was lucky with this truck.
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