G749 preservation

[marchplumber]

Female Red tailed hawk......................

 

[Another Ahab]

Female Red tailed hawk......................

Your nickname from now on, marchplumber, it's "Audubon"!!

 

[marchplumber]

Now, back to "Goose"? =)

 

[m1010plowboy]

Female Red tailed hawk......................

It is certainly not like other females. At one point it bowed it's head, stuck up it's tale...and I thought it was posing for the photo. It took a crap. That's a rare sight I presume.



Were the original frames painted upside-down? How did the paint on Piglet run up? We only paint prepped where the engine is going then just a quick clean outside the engine bay. I had paint left over after the engine bay so hit a few areas that were easy to reach. We didn't see it when scraping or washing. It was just another cool find on ole' 0685 Piglet.



For the record, the Canola crop is cut.



The only Piglet progress was premier paint prep on this plumbing pipe.

 

[marchplumber]

It is certainly not like other females. At one point it bowed it's head, stuck up it's tale...and I thought it was posing for the photo. It took a crap. That's a rare sight I presume.

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Were the original frames painted upside-down? How did the paint on Piglet run up? We only paint prepped where the engine is going then just a quick clean outside the engine bay. I had paint left over after the engine bay so hit a few areas that were easy to reach. We didn't see it when scraping or washing. It was just another cool find on ole' 0685 Piglet.

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For the record, the Canola crop is cut.

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The only Piglet progress was premier paint prep on this plumbing pipe.

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Females come in MANY varieties and emotional conditions.....

 

[Another Ahab]

For the record, the Canola crop is cut.

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Great progress on the paint job, plowboy, but all these sidebars are so distracting:

- Birds of prey

- Agricultural product

You plain got a lot going on!

 

[m1010plowboy]

Great progress on the paint job, plowboy, but all these sidebars are so distracting:

- Birds of prey

- Agricultural product

You plain got a lot going on!

Got to keep busy somehow. We don't have helicopters or many MV's to spot so need to build our own.

Today an architect buddy wanted to pour a dinosaur bone and I picked some carrots. One never knows what's going to happen at the G749 farm.



While archi mixed 500 lbs of concrete by hand, I finished the finest top water line and got two taps away from being ready for an install. One tap to get the broken pipe out of the block and one tap to go back in because that's where a tap goes. Decided to pull the after-market, circulating water heater and put things back looking closer to the book. That's the reason for the shiny new top water line. The PO or rebuilder used those two back holes on the top of the head for additional hot water plumbing. They now look like the book.



Put a little kopper kote on the spinny part and thread thread tape after licking the threads clean. Not sure it's needed after cleaning the fitting faces and seeing some smooth mating surfaces. Talk is cheap, time will see if it leaks.



Keeping some of the PO's parts lookin' like they looked when his Grandpa had the M135, the starter went back on with only a cleaning. We'll never replace that patina so it stays like that until it stops making a noise.



They 'New' Grey color is not the same Grey as many of the rebuilt engines.....as pointed out by a Mattech. It is close to the same color as Piglets original valve cover and that's what we went with. Many of the rebuilds are a liter color Grey so it's entirely possible a light colored tribute fan will go on. We have 2 darker Grey take-outs so we're chasing info engine rebuild paint codes. ........."paint it grey"...."what color grey?"



One odd piece on the Fort Mac engine is this fitting on the compressor oil line. Looks like a quick coupler. Is that some type of fitting to hook up a pressure tester? I left it for now. The preservation / re-creation continues, except for that piece.

 

[rustystud]

Yep, that is a late style pressure test port, usually used in hydraulics. Also it can be used as a quick disconnect for an auxiliary line.

 

[Another Ahab]

They 'New' Grey color is not the same Grey as many of the rebuilt engines.....as pointed out by a Mattech. We have 2 darker Grey take-outs so we're chasing info engine rebuild paint codes. ........."paint it grey"...."what color grey?"

Some ice hockey buddies and me started a housepainting company our summer out of high school;

- The most confounding clients were those that said they wanted their siding "painted white"

- You wouldn't believe how MANY shades of white that there are out there, in the paint world....

 

[LMRmopar]

Just went through a lot of the thread finally, good to see the progress on everything.

As for the Hydraulic fitting on the compressor oil line that was infact an oil pressure tester fitting, I had used it when I first got the truck because my oil pressure gauge never worked but I was not the one who originally installed it so it most likely came from the Rebuilders.

All the additional cooling hoses, tees, and recirculating heater were also added before my grandfather had gotten the truck originally and to be honest i'm still impressed that it was operational until the day I pulled it.

If you haven't done so already I also strongly recommend pulling the oil pan and resealing it with Grey/Threebond RTV as it would leak quite a bit. I'm not 100% on all the leaks but I know there was a decent amount of them.

 

[Another Ahab]

If you haven't done so already I also strongly recommend pulling the oil pan and resealing it with Grey/Threebond RTV as it would leak quite a bit. I'm not 100% on all the leaks but I know there was a decent amount of them.

Sounds like a Frank Lloyd Wright house!