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It seems like it was a long day today. The shop was devoid of any other projects so Ghostdriver, Jollyroger and I attacked the M43 together. I think we just might stab the engine sometime tomorrow. Photos of todays efforts. ( I think Jollyroger may spend the evening pulling an M37 3rd member to...

Given our cold climate, we have been pondering about heaters for GD,s project. Years ago I picked up a NOS personnel heater, but I too have heard stories about that heater. Some more things to consider after we get it running.

Gammagoat1 is our hero. After days of searching He has saved the day (or helped the project get back on track.)

Around here, sheet metal parts are very spendy. Most of the metal looks straight. If not too rusty, the usual sources of bed parts would get $1000 out of all the bed metal. It looks like a complete high output generator system as well. Most folks ditch that, but a purist collector might...

Today work by Ghostdriver. Still looking for the right brass elbow. Finished the vent tube install. Installed the last two flywheel bolts and reassembled the clutch to mount the bell housing. Out of the 30 some clutch alignment tools we did not have one to fit the Dodge 230. Used the...

Got some photos of the fiberglass slats for M37 troop seats.

The serial number is the V.I.N. number. That would be the number with the "Y" which means it was manufactured in 1955. My own M220 is a Y truck. The number on the data plate should match the number stamped on the right front frame a little forward of the axle. I had to sand off quite a bit of...

Those are steel toed Crocks. And the rubbery material causes the hand tools to just bounce off an arch strike. You should have seen the parts truck balanced on a cinderblock when we started. Had to get out the big floor stands to support the frame rails before we crawlled under. I should have...

Today’s work was stripping a couple of flywheel bolts out of one of our parts trucks. We started to pull the pressure plate so we could get to the flywheel bolts and we discovered the engine was frozen and we could not rotate the flywheel/clutch assembly to reach the top bolts. Plan B erupted...

I don't count them anymore. Couldn't get to a couple to check the fill necks. Not all are parts trucks some of them actually run. I have owned an M37 since 1963 and I have been collecting parts since then. Both of my adult children have the same series trucks as well. AND I am still picking up...

Zout, Glad to take a look for you. It is nice to have our own parts yard. GD and I will be under one of our parts M37's dropping a flywheel pan to pull a couple of flywheel bolts this afternoon. It used to be I could buy things like that from the local nut and bolt wholesale houses, but...

These are the M37 fill neck photos

Zout, Following up our PM's regarding M43/M37 gas tank fill necks, here are some photos of both applications. Our ORD and TM manuals show the fill neck assembly to be the same for both units. What we did find was that there is an attachment bracket with two bolt holes that secures the fill...

I like those Power King tires. GD is getting a pair of near new ones off of one of our M101's. She is also getting a near new similiar tread off another of our M101's. We plan on switching the tires off her M43 to the trailers so they will still roll around the yard. Her old NDT's look much...

GD and I spent the bulk of the day chasing a few small parts. Finally found someone who could order us the 3/8" pipe by 1/2" flare elbow and we can have it by late today. But more than $11 kinda blows an old man away. The two crankshaft to flywheel bolts turned into another matter. We were at...

More photos -- Lots of time spent getting the PCV apart and then lots more repairing the bent guide pin. Dang thing works now!!! Missed getting photos of the portable bandsaw hacking off the flywheel bolts AND the transmission pilot bushing install because I was screwing around with the PCV.

Todays work photos

One of our MVCC brothers read this post and sent us "the Wolf of Wolf Creek Pass" from his files. I had to add pictures to make a movie so I could post the song. I found some shots of Moosetracks M37 and a boom I built for filler.