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Yes indeed, Wally - something that Unimog is not doing…….

How about this one? The second picture (a vehicle currently on Milweb Medium Vehicles) is a very big clue :whistle:

You mean the tanker chassis is ready to pick up? :rotfl:

Millmarsh - in case you were not yet aware (it wasn't clear from his post), Chrisg is a bearing supplier - I can highly recommend him :thumbsup:

I'm sure a Weasel will now be just as weasy to tax.

Well what do you know? Maybe I have a few marbles left….. http://www.zen171398.zen.co.uk/Pinewood/Charlie%20Staffel/Hell%20Drivers/Hell%20Drivers-Peggy%20Cummins%20background%20left.jpg

Hell Drivers? There was a jeep in that in a few scenes.

Seems a good time to bump the thread below - some useful information hidden away on on HMVF! http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?399-Fire-extinguishers

R3 - possibly, but that is a WW2 vintage extinguisher, and I'm looking for a couple more (or a similar new type) as part of a MV restoration, not for use. The refurbished DT sized ones (not WW2 but relatively recent manufacture, maybe 10+ years old - CO2 units now seem to be smaller diameter and wrong shape) are intended as cosmetic accessories - being a very close approximation to the original style, but happen to have the advantage of being capable of use. Sam - the brackets are very scarce and I've only come across one original extinguisher for sale, and that was in USA (hence these look-alikes).

Here is an amazing local find at a recent Suffolk car boot sale - a USAAF marked extinguisher. I never knew they had their own extinguishers. Found by Roy Baker of White 666 fame:

Finally I have found some old style CO2 extinguishers approximating to the U.S. WW2 pattern - these are 6" diameter which are a perfect fit for the Diamond T 969 etc running board brackets. Overall height over top of lever is 27 1/2". The added advantage of these 5kg refurbished units is that they are useable. What I am looking for now is a couple of the larger size - 6 3/4" diameter (see 3rd pic) - if anyone can help please let me know! Larger type - can anyone help?

Right I see where you are coming from now, Vulture. The nuts setscrews do indeed thread through the flange of the upper sump, and yes I would do just as you suggest, to make sure the thread does not let any oil past. The last one I did had a faint smearing of blue Hylomar gasket goo on both faces 'just to be sure', but it is by no means essential. On applications like the upper pan to sump joint, this is a good way of holding the gasket in place on an item that is very difficult to get into position without the gasket sliding out of line.

Always best to use a new cork seal. You could find a leak occurring anywhere on the face of the cork seal, not just around the holes. Having said that, then if - and only if- you are happy that the old seal is well attached to the upper part of the sump pan, then I would be inclined to take the lower pan off and smear a fine coat of sealant over the whole face of the cork. The seal between cork and lower pan has been disturbed and you cannot be sure it will re-seal effectively as the cork has been squashed and gone hard. If you hadn't asked the question you'd not have had any trouble - but having brought it up you just know what will happen!!

But what is it registered as? If suited to your purpose why would you want to re-register it? If you need to re-register it because its current registration does not permit you to use it as you wish, I'd have thought you would you be in the same position as if you were trying to register an unregistered example. Goal posts for use of some vehicle types on the public highway have been moved since the first examples were registered, thus preventing further examples from being registered. This should not affect those already registered - unless maybe the registration was achieved by some devious method e.g. misrepresentation of vehicle details, which might then backfire on you the new owner if anything untoward were to happen? p.s. The bit in italics is my own view and may not be correct :coffee:

Steve - if I supply the Jeeps, can you build two of those, one for each of us?

Plenty of photographic evidence of plain star and invasion star formats on USAAF vehicles in UK, so guess you can chose your preferred look - only if you plan to prtray mid-1943 you don't really have a choice. And whatever you do, don't go sticking hard tops on, or apply huge nose art, or generally bugger about with a standard Jeep 'cos you know it never happened…….

What a neat idea!!! :thumbsup:

Looks like the bolt holes match in a vernier scale sense - the stock and jaw are drilled at slightly different spacing, so that for any position of the jaw there is a hole pair which correspond. So you simply close the jaw around the hex component and select the hole which allows the bolt through.

Just thought I'd get this in quick to keep Jack on his toes http://petapixel.com/2015/01/16/31-rolls-undeveloped-film-soldier-wwii-discovered-processed/ Nice view of a convoy of Autocars and 10T stake trailers.

Brilliant improvisation Pete! Must make the finals of the 2015 HMVF Ingenuity Award!

There's also the added value of knowing you are keeping a couple of life-long companions together. Sorry was that too much?

WHAT? Go back and get that trailer - RIGHT NOW! How cool would it be to truck one of your large wreckers to a show on the back of that?

For making us lot so envious, that's what!!!! Enjoy her.

I suppose if she were mine I'd be showing her off too, so you're forgiven this time John. Are they 14.00 x 20s on the rear? I always find it difficult to judge tyre sizes on these early low-cab Americans. Tony

Richard - that was my first experience of M20 channel congestion. Reckon when we hit it at 10.30am the other Tuesday it had built up unexpectedly (due to tunnel closure) and maybe had caught the police off-guard. They were certainly in control at J10 which was clear. At each junction on the way down all lanes became slow so you think 'ok this is all blocked ahead' (especially with the radio giving out dire warnings of delays), but then the inside finally came to a halt while the other lanes cleared. Once finally at each junction the inside lanes cleared with no indication of problem for another mile or so. But who knows, maybe we were in the middle of a rolling police road block and another was being set up behind us. Certainly on our return up the M20 around 20.00 it looked well in control with what appeared to be a combination of stacking and retaining some degree of traffic flow. Take plenty of water - for both driver and radiator!