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I have a complete Banks Sidewinder 6.2 kit, used on my HMMWV last year, worked well, have just removed it as I finally found the last pieces I needed for my Whipple supercharger, PM me if you want are interested
Don't let all the negative crap stop you, if you want a slantback then build one, I did and I love it. Yes in driving rain it leaks but I am not made of sugar so I don't melt...same as you I did not have all the parts I needed so I built what I didn't have. Then when parts became available I...
I know right? Going to be pretty cool with my new ECV hood, by the way I will have the old turret for sale soon, silver bearing, old style weapons tray with folding hatch and arrowhead weapons mount with genuine gunners shield...will be selling as a package
Hey 86 I will take one, shipping to Ferndale WA 98248. Can you email me, I need a few other hatch parts I bet you have in spades...cause you have everything! jdmcm2005@shaw.ca
thanks
John
Very few M113's in private hands, if they were US military the State Dept keeps tabs on them, look at all those ones in Australia they were going to auction until Uncle Sam stepped in and they were all chopped up...FV432 way cheaper and way fewer headaches with red tape unless you can find one...
Not with a Museum Doug, just a private collection here in Canada. We do some restorations, build a bit for film projects and spend the rest of the time hunting for parts and vehicles. But with the slide of the Canadian dollar, will probably be keeping acquisitions to a minimum for the next...
Hi Doug
In our 113 the torsion bars were also wrapped, I assume to prevent damage like you have said. I believe, and I could definitely be wrong, that torsion bars in some German WW2 AFV like the panther were all the same as the suspension arms on the left hand side faced one way and the ones...
And I did not say that M113 torsion bars are interchangeable WITH M548 bars...just that M113 bars do not have to return to a specific position on the M113, save for right and left as you have pointed out, on ours they went back in in no specific order on each side and they have worked fine ever...
Sorry Doug, was not even thinking right to left swapping, yes absolutely correct on that count! But as for where they go in order on each side, they can go anywhere agreed?
John