Recent content by lilreddodge

I have several used sets of M114 tracks, you can have them if you want. I'm in Loudonville Ohio.

82 AB markings on a Mule Little hard to read but here are a few pictures of the numbers on a original painted M274A1 that I have since restored.

More pictures Interior side of final drive and exterior pictures with tracks installed.

M4A3 Sherman Restoration Continues After a long break I was able to get some work done on the tank. I installed the final drive, cleaned up the tracks, and installed the tracks.

I agree your tank needs a lot of work, **** mine needs a lot of work. I'm kinda stuck right now since I have not been able to find engine parts for mine. You may want to check out this link of a guy in Texas who restored his with a Detroit diesel. http://www.shermanrestoration.com/ His work is...

I bought them locally from Canton Bandag in Canton Ohio 330-454-3025. I could not find any NOS ones. The tires are a forklift tire size, but it is a discontinued size. Supposedly when I bought the ones for mine there was only 16 of them left in the country. The company however can re-rubber the...

Today I got the driving controls installed. The first picture is of the original rusted mounting platform. I had a new platform cut out to replace the original. The last photo shows the clutch cross shaft and the clutch booster is on the right. I'm not confident that I have the linkage adjusted...

It is copied off of an original one. I had a sheet metal shop build it so I could concentrate on other things. I should have built it myself, not only did it take them over 2 months to build it was very expensive. Plus I have no intentions to ever put fuel in it, but wanted it to be functional...

It was finally warm enough around here to be able to put some of the parts I have been working on for the last couple of months into the hull. The first picture is the gas tank for the little joe auxiliary generator. The next picture is of the little joe that I cleaned upped and painted...

I made the lines like my originals, but I think that they were modified during one of its government rebuilds. The lines had ferrules on the ends and and had rubber hoses from the lines to the cooler and transmission. My lines looked questionable so that is why I made new ones. Unfortunately my...

Yeah, I have lost track of how much I used so far. It took 3000 pounds to do the hull and I probably have used as much as that on the individual parts so far.

Here are a couple pictures of the restoration. I'm kinda held up waiting on other people to finish some parts for me so I can proceed onward. The first 2 pictures are of a storage box that holds .30 cal ammo behind the driver. The next 2 are of a cover for the clutch booster that I had to...

Owning Tracked Vehicles Having owned several tracked vehicles including 4 M114's I can honestly say that tracked vehicles are money and time vacuums. You have to really enjoy them to make it worth owning in my opinion. Moving them is always a issue whether you own a truck and trailer or hire...

I little background on me for those who want to know. My avatar is a picture of me when I was less than 1 year old in my dad's M38. So you could say I was born in to military vehicles. I have restored more jeeps, mules, M37's and M880's than I count or remember. I started out by picking up bolts...

Here are some more pictures of a couple interior boxes and one of the shell holders.