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Merry Christmas (or holiday of your choice) and Happy Holidays to you all. Here's a little card I cobbled together with some help from Photoshop.

I'm quite certain those openings are original. My 1954 has the same openings in the mounts, as you can see in the photo below. I can't recall if those mounts are castings or forgings (I'd have take another look at them to refresh my memory), but the openings appear to have been a feature of...

I finally got my electroplating setup working. I'm planning to zinc plate many of the original M37 fasteners, as well as a number of other parts. Here's a typical batch of rusted bolts. My preferred method of de-rusting fasteners is glass bead blasting, as it's gentler than many other blasting...

Glad I could give you an idea or two. :)

I'm still working on getting my electroplating setup put together and waiting for a couple of supply items. In the meantime, I'll keep working on various parts of the M37. My M37 was never equipped with backup lights, and I don't think I'd ever have occasion to use the small "blackout marker...

I can definitely relate to that. :)

I'm planning to electroplate a lot of small parts for my M37 restoration project, so I cobbled together a plating setup, including an adjustable power supply, a darkroom timer, a couple of heaters, a small circulation pump, various anodes, lead wires, connectors, etc. The bench was sitting...

This was the only brass plate. All of the other plates were aluminum.

I just made another reproduction data plate for my M37. The original brass plate showing transmission, transfer case, and road speed information was barely readable. The original was evidently etched, with slightly raised letters and a chemically blackened background, and I wanted to make the...

This is a repair that I did a while ago. The floor under the battery box often rusts out, since it's out of sight and tends to collect dirt and water (i.e., mud). Sorry, no 'before' picture. I cut out that section of the floor, made a template out of thin, stiff cardboard, and used the template...

Here's a specialized tool that I made for adjusting the carburetor governor. Made from a screwdriver, a couple of bronze bushings, and an old socket.

It's been so long, and there's so much stuff stashed away that I'll have to do a complete inventory to remember what I've worked on or replaced.

I started digging out some of my M37 components that have been in storage for years. Here's an ETW1 carburetor and governor that I overhauled years ago, complete with re-plated linkage, dichromate conversion coating, new passage plugs, safety lock wire, etc. And the fuel/vacuum pump that I...

Those small modified blackout lights look like they will do a good job for you.

Thanks Rory. I probably won't know exactly how well my modified lights will work until I try them in real-world conditions, but on the workbench, they seem to be very bright, with a major, attention-getting increase in brightness between the parking/tail light and the signal light. I tried...

To be honest, it's a rather tedious process, but as long as I'm learning something and getting a decent result, it's worth a bit of fuss. :)

The original ID data plate for my 1954 M37 was missing, so I used Adobe InDesign to create what I think is a pretty accurate facsimile of the original ID data plate design that is appropriate for my truck, as shown below: There were several steps involved in creating a new etched-aluminum...

After doing more searching, as well as looking at images that I've been sent, I think there were probably three different 'original' ID data plate designs used on M37 trucks (not including M37B1), and that any other ID plates, such as shown in the above post, were likely replacement plates to be...

One more photo of the accelerator return spring attachment hole for your viewing pleasure. If the flange with the hole is missing, you should be able to easily make a little bracket that can be attached in the same location. Before you try making a spring extension, see if you can find the...

This diagram from TM 9-2320-212-34P doesn't show the attach point for the spring, but perhaps it could be of some use. Items 11 and 12 are listed as: FSN 5360-536-2617, Spring, Helical Extension: accelerator pedal return 7001073 (19207) FSN 5340-832-7929, Extension, Return Spring: accelerator...