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I'm beginning to think we're in a minority :laugh:

So was I! That is so deceptive :wow: But unless it has been swung around recently, that oil could be a sign that the rear axle has gradually filled right up with water, thereby pushing the floating oil out from the top. Not good.....

Thanks re. Y section. The frame is that of a standard No.7 Set - chain pulley block on track. It was common practice to box the rear in just like this one to turn the body into a weatherproof workshop.

What was Y Service, Tony? The thing about this GMC is appears to have a standard wooden body but with higher sides. There wasn't an office body for GMCs - only ST5/6 workshop bodies and a few unusual radio/dentistry and other specialist group bodies, all of which were steel.

Here is a photo of two wooden bodied GMCs at a USAAF base in England. Now check out the height of the body sides of the rear GMC with No.7 Set - not seen that before, a local mod or factory?

It could have been worse - Found this on the same youtube page as your video!!

That looks very worryingly like a sequence of stills from a Quentin Tarantino movie....:wow:

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That's respectable - couldn't say mine was that much different. You've done all the right things. The starter solenoid contacts and plate must however be spotless for best performance. On some bigger starters I've cleaned them up as best I could but a new set has improved the situation. If the battery isn't 100% it will have a dramatic effect on starter performance. That said if everything else is ok it will still start. We had an old CMP Chev at work - if it just went Woouuggh...(1 second delay)....Woouuggh (and it never turned over any faster) it would burst into life (well on 4 of 6 anyway :cool2:). When you put the meter on, don't be surprised to measure only 3 or 4 volts at the coil when cranking - the starter grabs everything else.

Are you saying you don't think it is right for GMC Olive green?

It took me the best part of two hours to get him to remove his wellies! Interestingly the ticket machine I use is a classic Gibson, ex Southdown, although I do believe it was originally used by London Transport. What is the best oil to use on the reel drive? Would a GL-5 spec do any long-term harm?

Why not download Google Chrome? I got totally fed up with IE and all the associated problems as described above, and it wasn't just on this forum. I use Chrome all the time now.

What an amazing place! Nice that it has not yet been trashed. Sad reflection on our values over here.

Here you go, Jack - they won't get past this sign.....

Thanks for that. Sorry can't add anything useful on GMC colour. Seems engines were all shades - I believe International had a greener green than the GMC olive (see Tony Corbin's International resto thread), Ward laFrance (Continental engine) were red. If anyone can give colours for Autocar and Federal (both Hercules engine) that would be another mystery solved. Just out of interest, what colour were Jeep (Willys and Ford), Dodge and Canadian Chevrolet (assume American Chev were same olive green as GMC?)? And what abut British WW2 vehicles?

Makes a change from grey :-) I've not researched engine paint at all, so a very brief summary from you would be much appreciated - and would it go something like "at least some new build GMCs had wet olive engines, and some later ones had grey engines"?

Welcome Chris. Nice Jeep. Unfortunately the parking area at the Clubhouse allocated to Jeeps has become overcrowded, so Jack has removed all Jeep parking allocation and instead instigated a Valet Parking scheme for the Jeeps. Having said that, it seems to work pretty well (except for when TonyB is on forklift duty :shocked: )

Hi, Hu, Someone on here beat you to it!! :-) http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?27812-Nice-WW2-video&highlight=honington Gets you to the same film, but well done for posting it, had it been a new link that would have been another hour of my morning blown!!

City slicker driving his flash Merc in the Norfolk lanes, comes upon a ford and an old boy sitting on the fence nearby. Winds his window down and shouts rudely "I say, YOU - is that river shallow enough for me to get across?" To which the old boy replies lazily "Well I should ha' thought so, Sir". So slicker drives full pelt into the river and the water flows in through his open window. "You idiot", he shouted - "I thought you said it was shallow enough?" The old boy scratched his brow and replied "Well tha's a rumm'n - the water only come half way up the Master's ducks".....

The full NSN number is 2910007378898. :coffee: Oh, and the carb apparently is set up for fording, but not inverted flight - so be warned :-D

It all started during the war, Andy

Almost as scarce as the strange people who collect them. :banana:

My thought is that it would be worth about what it would cost you to get it home. But don't let that stop you having fun - or contacting me!! I thought at first it was a strange thing to have in a bar, but I see now it is an Eaton transmission dealer's counter - I hope the poor driver hasn't been waiting all these years for the store man to fetch his parts! :cool2:

It is a Mercury tug circa 1940- and I'm sure I've got room for it....:banana:

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