Rebuild Dodge WC 63

[foxtrot]

Hi,
First acquisition in 2022.
Save in extremis from destruction.
This is a 1943 Dodge WC 63.
I am planning a rebuild originally.


Engine number: T223 -3551
Fram number: 820 62 387
Cab N°: 4270 -2413
Hood N°: 2208885-S

 

[Mullaney]

Hi,
First acquisition in 2022.
Save in extremis from destruction.
This is a 1943 Dodge WC 63.
I am planning a rebuild originally.

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That project just might take a day or two to complete...
It sure looks neat though.

 

[foxtrot]

Too late to go back, I started.

 

[TroyWilcoxson]

I look forward to seeing your progress.

 

[foxtrot]

Un gros nettoyage à la tronçonneuse.

 

[foxtrot]

Immediate objective,
cleared and if possible start the engine on its chassis before sandblasting.
At this level, the essential Tool is the blowtorch.

 

[foxtrot]

I took down the identification numbers.

Engine number: T223 -3551
Fram number: 820 62 387
Cab N°: 4270 -2413
Hood N°: 2208885-S

 

[NDT]

Many years spent hauling vegetables from field to packing plant it would appear. Good luck!

 

[foxtrot]

Hi,
END.
I would have preferred, but instead of vegetables he made deliveries to a sawmill.
Reinforcement plates were welded to the frame.

 

[foxtrot]

I'm lucky because the star on the hood circled in yellow, well it's not common.

 

[NDT]

Wow good job with the archeology! The yellow paint was for gas detection I believe and was only applied at certain eras of the war.

 

[foxtrot]

Yes, a lot of patience for this result.
Correct, yellow is the gas detection color.
I think I can say that the dimension of the yellow circle is significantly larger than a WC52 and that there cannot be an outer white circle.

 

[rumplecat]

The parts are out there! It took fifteen years but I found the missing windshield for my Burma Jeep, driving 1300 miles Monday to pick it up!!!

 

[foxtrot]

I forgot to mention the blue gray color of the first marking applied at the factory 2 "against the second white marking repainted during the war 4".

 

[foxtrot]

Une bonne journée.

 

[NDT]

Does engine turn? Lots of openings pointed up with no cover ….

 

[foxtrot]

Does engine turn? Lots of openings pointed up with no cover ….

No, it does not turn, often the valves are the problems.
The truck stayed for years in a barn whose roof is collapsed. So it passed only a few years in the field.
Tomorrow, disassembly of the cylinder head.

 

[foxtrot]

it is the open valves that block the engine.
I'm lucky.

 

[NDT]

Is your lucky day, usually have 3 little swimming pools there.

 

[foxtrot]

Do you know the usefulness of this strapping on this early rim?
I am operational for the sandblasting.