Got a Deuce! '62 M35A1

[Jeepsinker]

This isn't an argument about rivets being good or bad. We all know that rivets can loosen and fail. Even the frame rivets on our trucks are supposed to be inspected periodically. If you have any doubt about the wheel, just weld it.

 

[DavidWymore]

Stiff rubber axle tube scraper to get the crud out, works good. I had already reinstalled the seals and retainers when I took the pic. Custom reamed kingpin bushings.



Inverted the plates to get rid of the vertical slop. Tapped the 1/8" pipe threads from the other side so the grease fittings would go in the opposite side.

 

[DavidWymore]

Just worked a deal for a little welding labor in exchange for mounting my 11.00s. Score.

 

[DavidWymore]

The weather has gotten down under 100F, so I'm back to working on this one. Had to come refresh my memory on assembling the shoes to the backing plate.

 

[rustystud]

The weather has gotten down under 100F, so I'm back to working on this one. Had to come refresh my memory on assembling the shoes to the backing plate.

That "refreshing" your memory reminds me of a mechanic who tore down the brakes on a 60ft New Flyer bus. No one touched the job after he tore it down (he was a jerk !) since that is the easy part. Putting it back together is the hard part. Well he waited so long that he forgot how it went back together ! The shop wasn't busy so we got away with not having to put it back together, plus the foreman also didn't like this guy. So here he is trying to remember how to put it all together. For over a week he tried to do it. That was another reason no one wanted to help him since he had never put one back together. He always seemed to be able to get out of doing it. If you don't pull your own weight in a shop the mechanics will find a way to make you pay ! After a week he still had not figured out how to do it so the "supervisor" got involved . He was later reprimanded for poor performance and lack of job knowledge. He was supposed to be a journeyman mechanic after all.

 

[painter paul]

I try to take only one side of anything apart ,complete it then do the other side. It's so nice that our vehicles are 2 sided.

 

[Another Ahab]

I try to take only one side of anything apart ,complete it then do the other side. It's so nice that our vehicles are 2 sided.

That's a smart approach.

And if I was smart I'd use my camera phone more to document the "before/ existing" components of a project before taking it apart and then later trying to remember how it all went back together.

There's only one problem though with this idea:

- I'm not smart.

That's the part that messes me up, every time.

 

[DavidWymore]

I have tons of pics of my disassembly , but they weren't handy on my phone anymore, had to come back to the computer.

 

[rustystud]

I just realized something after rereading yesterday posts. I'm that old fart who always tells some stupid story how things where in his day ! Crap it sucks to grow old ! but I guess it beats the alternative !

 

[DavidWymore]

I just realized something after rereading yesterday posts. I'm that old fart who always tells some stupid story how things where in his day ! Crap it sucks to grow old ! but I guess it beats the alternative !

'S ok, I do it too, even though I'm quite a bit younger. I like old guy stories anyway.

 

[Another Ahab]

I just realized something after rereading yesterday posts. I'm that old fart who always tells some stupid story how things where in his day ! Crap it sucks to grow old ! but I guess it beats the alternative !

You're not alone, stud.

I've been catching myself in that "when-I-was-a-kid" mode also more and more lately, that's the bad news.

The good news though is at least we can still remember those stories (well SOME of them anyway), right?

 

[Tracer]

Remembering the stories is OK. As long as you don't keep telling them over and over and over. That's the bad news.

 

[Another Ahab]

Remembering the stories is OK. As long as you don't keep telling them over and over and over. That's the bad news.

Oh, yeah; really hoping I don't get to this stage TOO soon; Lord have Mercy!!

 

[DavidWymore]

Long day yesterday, got 'er back on her own six tires and out of the shop. Still only one 11.00 mounted, still have to rebuild the rest of the braking system, and almost everything else. It may get back burnered or back to a yard water truck if I get my hands on the '70 A2.

 

[DavidWymore]

More pics. My son is growing up fast. Moving a loader bucket, etc. out of the way so I could get the deuce out of the shop. Disassembly of a stuck lug nut.

 

[DavidWymore]

Moving this one around the yard this morning, got it a little crossed up on an uneven spot, and put the fan in the radiator. Grrr...

 

[Floridianson]

That is ingenious!


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Not. You have to get the bead of the tire down almost one inch to clear the lip of the split ring before the ring can be spread.

 

[DavidWymore]

Not. You have to get the bead of the tire down almost one inch to clear the lip of the split ring before the ring can be spread.

Yes...I noticed and discussed it earlier in the thread.

 

[Another Ahab]

Not. You have to get the bead of the tire down almost one inch to clear the lip of the split ring before the ring can be spread.

Well, it sure LOOKED like it might be a clever way to get it done.

But I guess looks can be deceiving.

 

[DavidWymore]

It would be fine after the tire was pushed down off the lock ring.