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CARNAC, It was a pleasure meeting and talking with you at the GA Rally, My 1st but hopefully not last one. Landed up spending way more time than I thought I would at Benning with multiple surgeries to repair the damage to my legs .. all in all it turned into a great experience as I had the...

Am finally getting some time to work on my M16A2 Preservation Project the African Queen. Had my nephew from CO here this week so we decided to start working on my beast in addition to working on my Maxson Turret. Had two stripped head bolts when I recovered her and got my baby running and...

Well the motor and drives work like a dream with the turret in the front-lean and rest position :beer: hooked up jumper cables to a battery and the cable ends on the Maxson and ran her thru her paces using the gunners Cadillac .. runs like a dream forward and reverse and the elevation gear box...

Bud of mine called Saturday to ask me if I could come over to his place and ID a jeep that he is doing some work on .. he figured it was a WWII era jeep .. Nice original CJ5 rig with a pump and tank unit for fighting brush fires .. determined that it's a 1957 model from the serial #'s ...and...

Don, no joy with VW .. those connectors are hard to find .. TY PB .. as always, I strive to "represent" as a member of CAMO :beer: Thought I'd share some before pics of my project as recovered .. lots of rust and broken pieces.

Have some update pics on the Turret Preservation. Almost done with the motor/transmission section. All linkage rebuilt and operational to include new drive-belts. gunners Cadillac and switch box installed and wired up, power switch box is rehabbed and ready to install as is the power...

All about supporting events like Touch A truck etc for the kids .. but man-o-man .. some of those young people have a tendency to want to climb in and break off every knob and switch in the cab .. brought both the M37 and my M818 to the event this year and it was like herding cats to keep my...

As requested, here are some pics of my turbo setup .. opted to fabricate a crossover tube to run across the top of the engine instead of routing pipes around the back :beer: .. these pics are of my 1st attempt at the crossover tube.. redesigned the crossover tube to an oval shape (Lower...

Here are a couple of pics of my M818 Project.. added a turbo and new tires this year. 1 BEFORE pic attached .. still have to fabricate my spare tire mount.

Some pics of my completed M37 project to include a "Sleigh Ride" Last week. Restoration took just about 1 year from start to finish.. found vehicle and trailer in Jun 2011 in AL and GA.. finished restoration in Jul 2012 in WI. Did an 1800 mile break-in trip in Aug 2012 from WI to OH and return...

Have the wire harness figured out now as I have the correct M45F wire schematic! Went thru the 4 interrupter switches (cleaned up with new wire tags) and dismantled my generator power switch box as it needs to be repaired, it is very rusted and damaged on one side (Will sandblast it and I'll...

Thank You NDT .. Fortunately I have the generator wires .. What I am somewhat anxious about is building my harness .. The wire schematic is less than detailed .. I have some of the old harness left .. but all of the wires were cut or missing .. has anyone on this forum made their own harness...

Had an early Christmas for my children as Julie and I will be in CO for the holidays .. We took the M37 into town to do some caroling, and stopped at a couple of places for a little winter cheer .. even the pups made the run. Lots of honks and waves from the locals and even though it was a...

ALCON: Am making good progress on the Maxon turret preservation project for the half-track and am posting some pics of the lower turret drive motor and gear box assemblies ... Electric motor, drive units and main power cables (With the exception of one cable in pics) have been...

Effective Range is 1800 Meters (Tracer Burnout) so that you can visually track your. fire. Max Range is 2000 Meters

Jason, there were hundreds of M16's shipped to Korea, but you never know!! My M16A2 was #315 of 419 rebuilt and converted from M16 or M16A1's to M16A2's by BM and shipped in 1952 to be used to defend against the Human Wave attacks being thrown against UN Forces by the Chinese. It would be great...

Thanks Mike, was trying to find a couple of pics of gun trucks with Maxon's in my files ..

PAD-CDR .. Like your M818 .. Just got mine finished and in progress of finishing up a lowboy so that I can pull my Half-Track and WWII M10 Ammo Trailer to events in style .. added a turbo and singled out my M818 .. lots more juice and speed with the upgrades .. Increased the WOW factor with the...

DANGER-RANGER, the Maxson mounts in the rear of my half-track .. Many Maxson turrets were mounted on Deuce and 5 ton trucks during the Viet Nam war and used as gun trucks to provide security on convoys. Don, good to hear from you .. have not been on the :G" in quite a while .. Finally retired...

M45F Maxson Turret Work Begins After many years (5+) I am finally starting preservation work on the Maxson M45F Turret for my half-track. Stripped her down and removed my trunnions so that I could flip the drive section over and free up the turret ring which was frozen from sitting for more...