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2 jeeps, the Command Car and 3 Deuces showed up for this show. Hanging around 40's and 50's vintage MV's means having tow-straps on board....Justin Case. Everything seems to go better when all the safety gear is on-board and all the MV's performed flawlessly. After the parade we convoyed...

1st official parade run of 2016. We hauled the WW11 Dodge out to a staging area 22km's, uphill from the Stony Plain Heritage Days parade route. We didn't have time to be on time...but we had time to stop for coffee. The Dodge hooked up with 3 Deuces and uphill we went. The parade route...

I still might get a chance to measure a u-joint today. Had a little parade distraction....then a Dodge broke down.....a Dodge, go figure.....so I ended up playing WW11 command car rescue schlump. Real happy I was in a position to get them over to you, you're welcome. The Tuk-tape was a bonus...

Hope to do a tear-down this week. I have a kit and it would be nice to have a spare on the shelf.

Dog Rump Pond, that's right Dog Rump. This was a first for me so after bleeding Gizmo to death, we headed into Stony Plain to the Wednesday night 'cruise night' at Dog Rump Pond, dog rump pond..dog rump. Gizmo and Goose certainly turn heads when they're in convoy...

That's it! I watched SuperDave go through my valves in less than 20 minutes. Watching is way faster than doing it so it may take me longer next time. SuperDave went up to Fort Mac to drive Nodwells for the firefighters so I'm missing his fat fingers on my 302. You loosen the keeper nut and turn...

Talk about Preservation!!!!! The kids building Goat, the 55 M135, sent me pictures of the new exhaust system they just got back. They decided that paint won't last 50 years so all the pipes and cover got a "Ceramic Coating" treatment. The can use enamel over the cover to match the 24087 color...

Transmission Seal Kits Finally got a few minutes to mush the huskies off to the post office and send off two seal kits. I'll PM the tracking number to you. They asked how much value we'd put on them for insurance purposes so I explained they may be the last of 10 on the planet and I'd like it...

New G749 302 crate engine start-up The boys kept trying to get the crate engine running today with no luck. After the typical trouble-shooting they found a coil issue so they called me up to see if we had a spare coil. They had one on the 'take-out' engine but it was already boxed up so we...

Just heard the boys went to look at a NOS generator with the ABC label still intact and did it as per the book. I'm wondering if the drill bit on the pulley nut would do the same thing because we're just telling the magnets who is Positive and who will be pessimistic. Bob K sure knew these...

Generator Polarizing Where are my Polarizing electrical gurus that have put a new generator on their MV? I'm offering support to the 55 M135 kids from afar so told them I'd post the question. The generator came with a 'crate' engine, re-built in the 80's. I just want to be sure that this...

We're all guessing a bit however it is most likely just one of the roads in the 1.6 million acre Cold Lake Air Weapons range. http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/cold_lake_primrose_lake_air_weapons_range_4_wing.html It's been used for all kinds of testing and training and is most famous for...

I'm just betting the big dog that it's not designed to 'vent', rather 'draw' air when fording. One of the clues was given to me last week when we were discussing the fuel caps. They have 2 positions, fording....locked in full position, and non-fording....one click open. Gaining a stockpile of...

Here's a fun ride over the Boreal forest, not far from Fort Mcmurray. It is Pilots Point of View PPOV in the F105, shot in the 80's by the looks of the quality. The good music starts after 5:00. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xNoMdL2Ch0

The 50's trucks are my favorite for some reason. Eco Friendly sandblasting boys spent 5 hours with glass, walnut and sand on mine. How long did you spend on the blaster? She looks good! Even after 5 years, when I open the front windows on the road, media still falls out of hidden places and...

We had lots of help with keeping this engine rolling. I got it opened up in my shop in 2013 and a pile of boys walked me through a pre-oil process. Catman and the MVPA were partly responsible for creating a pump type pesticide sprayer to push oil through the laughing galleries. Prior to my...

Thanks Rustystud, that description was similar to climbing in the master cylinder and jogging through the tubes all the way to the wheel cylinders. That is some serious pressure so I can appreciate how good the brakes work whenever the troops would haul a full load in the Early Deuce. I barely...

You're probably the guy that can answer this question for me then. The Early Deuces, G749 series of trucks seem to begin leaking at the wheel cylinders, premature of scheduled maintenance. Mine have been good for 5 years, except for one WC on the bottom left rear, but I'm real light on the...

G749 Crate engine/ transmission installation This poor boy thought he'd need to spend the next couple of weekSS tearing down an engine and transmiSSion. Instead he drove out of the G749 farm with a NOS engine and transmission today so I'm going to need a bit of help coming up with a caption for...

G749 Pervertnation One of the big goals for the G749 Preservation Farm was getting 3 trucks moving for a historical convoy. It's turning out that I no longer need to foot that bill myself. This ol' 55 belongs to a friend and was real close to joining Goose and Gizmo in an upcoming parade. The...