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Did a bit more work on the UH1 today. The goal was to try and find out why the main rotor wouldn't turn. First thing to do was to get access to things. The cowls needed to open. A couple of the latches are corroded beyond belief! They are literally just blooming aluminum. I got both of the cowls...

Check stuff in the overhead before you condemning it to overhaul. Valve seats liked to go away. They are also a flat tappet engine. The head of the tappet and cam lobe likes to go away causing the valve to not open. Or, you COULD have a tight valve

Just remember the engine in yours has a thin deck block and even in stock configuration in a high cyclic Duty application, trash trucks, the blocks liked to crack.

I am no HMMWV expert, but, there is no air on one, AFAIK. Most likely something for fording, so water doesn't get into the diffs, axles, trans, t-case, etc. Probably goes into the intake snorkel somewhere. Just a guess

A couple pictures of the "shop" area of the truck.

These next images are not for the faint of heart! I have to say, I do not know how this EVER ran and drove! This is by far, the nastiest carburetor I have ever seen, even more so than the Stromberg NAR9G that I did for the M7 Priest radial engine! Things were difficult to remove, STILL can't...

As I stated before, I thought I started this a short time ago, but time flies! After reading the log, it was a year and I noted some issues. Brakes....go figure... Hard to start, no spark, but then it fixed itself, and idled ok but no accelerator pump action. I drug tools, remote fuel, battery...

Onto the "not Really a CCKW. If you notice, it the above picture, there is a giant hole in the area in front of the ambulances. That is where this sat. I haven't found the s/n yet, but going by the OEM number in the carburetor ID tag, this seems to be a 1939-1941 GMC, AFKX 352 Light Ordinance...

After the WC9 came back from The Regan Library, we decided to do some work to it that it has needed for a bit. The radiator had a leak, the water pump bearing was shot and, since it was apart, replacement of the water distribution tube was in order. We got all that done and when it was attempted...

A couple of pics from today. One of the volunteers started on the paint prep for the Huey. He sanded and got one primed with an aluminum self etching primer. He worked on the Synchronized Stabilizers only. The right one is heavily corroded, looks to have been hit at some point in it's life due...

Today, just a bit more love to her. In the past week, some of the volunteer kids gave the rear crew compartment a good cleaning as well as the instrument panels and gave the floor a nice coat of paint. It looks VERY nice! I decided to install the seat frames that have been laying on the floor...

You can tighten the exhaust rocker so there is negative lash, turn the engine over until all of the goop is gone from the cylinders, re adjust the exhaust and hopefully it will fire.

This was a CA ANG unit at the last phase of it's life. When the Huey was flown to it's final resting place, the pilot decided to "procure" a piece of his chopper. Years later, he visited the Museum, saw this beast, REALIZED that it was his bird, came back and gave us this, among other items! I...

More....If you notice in the first pic, the channels are stuff here in So. Cal. This was stationed at Los Alamitos, Ca.

Some images of the 40MM mount and controls

Just to give you an idea how BIG the main rotors are....I had no idea they were this big. From the ground, they don't look this big!

Again, this will never fly again. Airframe is timed out. This saw combat in Viet Nam, came home, was a trainer and a mess of other stuff. I understand it received some damage while in VN. There are patches all over the place. The rocket pod mounts are covered up, sometime in the future, we will...

First post in the aircraft forum! Whoda thunk I would be tinkering on something that flew! This has zero airframe hours on it. It was once a Gate Guard at Ft. Ord? This was put in place in place around 1993 ish. Has not been shown much love. I always knew something was missing and today, I...

I took a few pictures, but that's about it. We have an early 50's, Willys, DJ3A dispatch at the Museum. It is a runner, runs well. 2 wheel drive, 3 on the tree, 4 lug wheels, Go-Devil 4 cylinder. Geared to the moon! We gave it a bit of love, some fresh paint, new wiper blades, fresh stenciling...

For the M135/211? https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/more-m135-tms.106483/ https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/m135-m211-tms.119880/