SturmTyger380
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I want to know where the stash of NOS transmissions are.
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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 purchase of the crate 302 in 2013, it was owned by an MVPA nut-ball that pulled the lid each year, removed the spark-plugs, squirted motor oil in the holes and rolled it over by hand.Those crate engines are normally all sealed up and preserved. What's required to get one up and running?
MVPA membership has its privileges! This isn't the last one but it's likely the last one that was turned almost every year since the 80's. I'll dig up some more history on its travels but it came from Eastern Canada. The new kids are going to go through a complete re-build on their block and pop it back in the box. Then they'll decide if it goes in an M211 CDN, a M207 or another M135. The preservation continues!Thats pretty neat, better yet where did you turn one of those crate engines up?
I know of a few but they're not going anywhere, yet. It wasn't long ago that I saw them listed at Alpha Heaven http://www.alfaheaven.com/MilitarySection/6x6 Trucks/M135.html#M135TopofPage, Memphis equipment http://www.memphisequipment.com/M135-M211-2-1-2-Ton-6x6-Truck/ and Sam Winer's http://www.samwinermotors.com/ down south but not any more. PM sent.I want to know where the stash of NOS transmissions are.
Very well said. I wish more people would understand this and get a little more reasonable on their asking prices. I am confident that I will never recoup the money I have in mine, but the enjoyment the truck gives me is worth it within reason.Several transmissions we've looked at have sat for 3 decades. I'm still working on encouraging a few local guru's to stop trying to make money and put some time into the legs of the G749. I am sure that if the 'market' grows then we'll get some more help. The real problem is that we can't make money with the trucks so all the effort of putting big doe into saving a G749 Steel Soldier is about heart, not logic. I stopped being logical.
That railroad forum hasn't materialized yet, plowboy, but here's the next best thing for you:Meanwhile I've been working in the mud around some wee and cheap toys at the Alberta Rail Museum. If you guys don't get a rail forum started, you should come up and check this place out.
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I have Bob Kettler's Tech Tips that talks about that. I will look it up when I get home and get back with you if you don't figure it out before then.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 little polarizing ritual on page 285 is needed.
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 but these guys are going all out to make this thing last.
thats awesome! Where did they have that done, and was it expensive? Looks like they came out really nice!
Mechanics must be one of the most patient species on the planet!
We are till we're not!
Hope to do a tear-down this week. I have a kit and it would be nice to have a spare on the shelf.I really like that paint job on Gizmo.
Was the check valve bad in the old airpak or was it something else?
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