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It was time to take a look at the front end. Man talk about neglect, the pic's speak for themselve's. Had to disassemble the whole axle to clean it up properly. I will be replacing inner axle seal's, pinion seal, hub seal's as well as brake shoe's and wheel cylinder's.

Also hung my new exhaust. Kevin Lockwood does a really nice job on the repro. It fit very nicely. 8-)

Finally got the right side put together. :grin:

Yes, Clint came up my place a couple of week's ago and took my pedestal mount and a couple other piece's to use as pattern's. His fab guy I understand is having some health issue's, but is working on the piece's.

I did'nt plan on going this far also, but was glad I did when I found the two pivot point's on both side's were rusted solid. Also finding the broken spring's made it worth the effort.

Cleaned up the new track's today and installed the one side :grin:

Got the bogie's assembled, hope to get the one track on tomorrow. I can't do anything with the other side until my boss get's the other shaft out.

Thank you for the kind word's, they boost my motivation [thumbzup]

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Just a little more progress, got everything cleaned and painted, bearing's packed with grease (Synthetic) and installed, new shaft installed on the one side, my boss still working on freeing up the other one. I even polished up my Brass Nut's :wink:

I was told these were a real pain to get apart, how true. My boss helped out, we soaked and soaked with PB blaster and heated with torch and pushed with 100ton press but it would not move. So we set it up so we could swing a 20lb sledge hammer on it to shock it. It worked on this one but the...

Brake's, brakedrum's and drivesprockett's mounted today. I was able to clean and reuse the brakeshoe's they were in really good shape. I did replace the wheel cylinder's and inner wheel seal's. The front axle will get same attention when I get to it, so I should have no problem stopping.

Yep, happen's every time.

Got it primed, painted and back in it's spot. Waiting on spring's from Gary to replace the broken one's.

That is F'n cool Clint :cool::cool::cool::cool:

Then I rolled it out back and gave it a bath in OSPHO. I'll let it do it's thing for a couple of day's then I'll prime and paint.

Rolled it out front today and pressure washed all the loose rust off. Now I have a clean rusty frame. LOL

Thank's for the compliment Clint, it means alot to me coming from someone like yourself with such a vast knowledge in halftrack's. It's also what make's what we do all worth while :D

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