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Looking for info and telling a story (so I don't forget) about a 5 ton Bridge truck, so I hope this is the correct forum / section.
Decided I should try, yet again, to get Oso's Bridge truck running and parade ready in time for this years Veterans Day Parade, since I have failed miserably since purchasing her.
Way, way back in 2011 Srodocker, his brother & I made a long trip up to Oso, WA after a full day at a car show in Issaquah to look at a bridge truck in the Steel Soldiers classifieds.
XXX on the WET side this past weekend.
Same community that experienced America's deadliest land slide in 2014.
M328 heading to new home
I feel shame for not having done so yet, after all of the great work he already put in the truck.
(After she arived and where she sits now)
(Some day I will start taking time to crop pictures, but that day surely isn't today. Sorry MODS & bandwidth.)
And getting her ready must have been meant to be, even divinely pre-determined, because lo and behold Dr. Evil Porkchop was listing the elusive to me Zenith Carburetors.
My much wanted & needed R6602 upgrade. So I snatched up his last one to be sent on its 2700+ mile trip across these Great United States.
Again, feeling a bit of shame, because along with the truck Oso provided a cab and crate of new & spare parts that he just was never able to get around to putting on the truck, including carb stuff.
Whilst I wait for the carb, me thought the first thing to tackle should be the fuel system. Wia newish carb and a truck that has been sitting for 10+ years with only a few inches of gas in an 80 gallon tank, time to start draining and cleaning.
In R+Ring the fuel filter I dropped the filter bowl and found rusty gas. Boy that smell brings you back to working on your favorite riggs.
I had not seen it's type of filter element before. a stack of copper shims. It was caked, but not in the modern parlance, rather as being crusty. The voids filled with muck.
So into the ultrasonic in a jar of brake cleaner / acetone, and then with vinegar, and then with water and baking soda.
She & her spring cleaned up quite nice. Had to pry the strainer out of the tank. Banking it on the concrete knocked chunks off
After some prep and paint on the bowl I thought she was ready to reinstall. I figured there would be two rubber oring gaskets stuck to the mounting plate.
But alas that twas not the case. I believe they were in fact cork. And with umpteen years of old gas varnish they had become a permanent part of the housing.
So I removed the base plate from the truck and scraped the old cork material off. Gave it a wisky wheel grinding. then a bath in the utrasonic to get ready for paint and prep.
Mating surface looks good, bit I think the top deserves some sand blasting before paint.
Thus leading to the title of this post.
I am looking for replacement (cork I believe) gaskets.
Since Ms. Oso is such a strange bird, having a R6602 gasser, proper parts & info are a bit more elusive. I haven't searched the number on the last picture yet.
In a pinch I think I can do round buna or viton orings, or x-acto my own cork gaskets (wish I had my cricut from the lab, but not ready to drop the $ on one of my own yet).
Just thought I would do a Steel Soldiers search first.
If no luck here I'll have to start on the big guys like White Owl, Memphis, Erik's or Eastern.
Also I am trying to find a digital copy of the R6602 TM. TM 9-2805-203-34P
It is not in the 5 Ton TM section, but I did find a thread from a year or so back that made it look like someone was working on getting it there.
What other R6602 truck might I add to the search, that use this gas bowl type filter.
Whilst I am involved in those searches I went and found some 3/8-24 hard line.
I can use it to flush the fuel system with acetone and possible make a 5 gallon gas tank for setup and trouble shooting with.
Also I dropped and drained the gas tank. I drained just under 10 gallons of rusty fuel out.
Removed the the gas guage and outlet & vent assemblies.
Searching one of my old alma maters, YU (Utube University) or Why you,, I have landed on the following path to tank cleanliness.
1.) 'Slosh and sit' 5 gallons of fresh gas with a gallon of acetone to get the big tar/varnish clumps off of the bottom of the tank.
Tractor with forks & a 2x4 will be nice to help slosh and set the tank at various angles. Maybe add a chain. Drain & rinse with water.
2.) 'Sit and slosh' 10 gallons of white vinegar - to attack the rust.
4.) Rinse with water & baking soda to neutralize and then rinse again with water.
Are there any secret recipes for a cheap anti-flash rust preventative, or just fill it with gas. I don't know if I am ready to buy 80 gallons on non-ethanol just yet.
What about rolling a couple gallons of diesel then draining? Used motor oil?
And as I sit here, working on this post, my UPS driver has pulled up and brought me my Zenith, safe & sound.
More as things develop...
Is there a spell check tool? I didn't find one on the bar at the top of the composition window.
Decided I should try, yet again, to get Oso's Bridge truck running and parade ready in time for this years Veterans Day Parade, since I have failed miserably since purchasing her.
Way, way back in 2011 Srodocker, his brother & I made a long trip up to Oso, WA after a full day at a car show in Issaquah to look at a bridge truck in the Steel Soldiers classifieds.
XXX on the WET side this past weekend.
Same community that experienced America's deadliest land slide in 2014.
M328 heading to new home
I feel shame for not having done so yet, after all of the great work he already put in the truck.
(After she arived and where she sits now)
(Some day I will start taking time to crop pictures, but that day surely isn't today. Sorry MODS & bandwidth.)
And getting her ready must have been meant to be, even divinely pre-determined, because lo and behold Dr. Evil Porkchop was listing the elusive to me Zenith Carburetors.
My much wanted & needed R6602 upgrade. So I snatched up his last one to be sent on its 2700+ mile trip across these Great United States.
Again, feeling a bit of shame, because along with the truck Oso provided a cab and crate of new & spare parts that he just was never able to get around to putting on the truck, including carb stuff.
Whilst I wait for the carb, me thought the first thing to tackle should be the fuel system. Wia newish carb and a truck that has been sitting for 10+ years with only a few inches of gas in an 80 gallon tank, time to start draining and cleaning.
In R+Ring the fuel filter I dropped the filter bowl and found rusty gas. Boy that smell brings you back to working on your favorite riggs.
I had not seen it's type of filter element before. a stack of copper shims. It was caked, but not in the modern parlance, rather as being crusty. The voids filled with muck.
So into the ultrasonic in a jar of brake cleaner / acetone, and then with vinegar, and then with water and baking soda.
She & her spring cleaned up quite nice. Had to pry the strainer out of the tank. Banking it on the concrete knocked chunks off
After some prep and paint on the bowl I thought she was ready to reinstall. I figured there would be two rubber oring gaskets stuck to the mounting plate.
But alas that twas not the case. I believe they were in fact cork. And with umpteen years of old gas varnish they had become a permanent part of the housing.
So I removed the base plate from the truck and scraped the old cork material off. Gave it a wisky wheel grinding. then a bath in the utrasonic to get ready for paint and prep.
Mating surface looks good, bit I think the top deserves some sand blasting before paint.
Thus leading to the title of this post.
I am looking for replacement (cork I believe) gaskets.
Since Ms. Oso is such a strange bird, having a R6602 gasser, proper parts & info are a bit more elusive. I haven't searched the number on the last picture yet.
In a pinch I think I can do round buna or viton orings, or x-acto my own cork gaskets (wish I had my cricut from the lab, but not ready to drop the $ on one of my own yet).
Just thought I would do a Steel Soldiers search first.
If no luck here I'll have to start on the big guys like White Owl, Memphis, Erik's or Eastern.
Also I am trying to find a digital copy of the R6602 TM. TM 9-2805-203-34P
It is not in the 5 Ton TM section, but I did find a thread from a year or so back that made it look like someone was working on getting it there.
What other R6602 truck might I add to the search, that use this gas bowl type filter.
Whilst I am involved in those searches I went and found some 3/8-24 hard line.
I can use it to flush the fuel system with acetone and possible make a 5 gallon gas tank for setup and trouble shooting with.
Also I dropped and drained the gas tank. I drained just under 10 gallons of rusty fuel out.
Removed the the gas guage and outlet & vent assemblies.
Searching one of my old alma maters, YU (Utube University) or Why you,, I have landed on the following path to tank cleanliness.
1.) 'Slosh and sit' 5 gallons of fresh gas with a gallon of acetone to get the big tar/varnish clumps off of the bottom of the tank.
Tractor with forks & a 2x4 will be nice to help slosh and set the tank at various angles. Maybe add a chain. Drain & rinse with water.
2.) 'Sit and slosh' 10 gallons of white vinegar - to attack the rust.
4.) Rinse with water & baking soda to neutralize and then rinse again with water.
Are there any secret recipes for a cheap anti-flash rust preventative, or just fill it with gas. I don't know if I am ready to buy 80 gallons on non-ethanol just yet.
What about rolling a couple gallons of diesel then draining? Used motor oil?
And as I sit here, working on this post, my UPS driver has pulled up and brought me my Zenith, safe & sound.
More as things develop...
Is there a spell check tool? I didn't find one on the bar at the top of the composition window.
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