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Been getting a little more done on the engine. She's going together slowly. Got in the exhaust rotating caps. The caps are 11/32 they will work great. You can see on the card where I got them from and their part number. These need to be added to the parts list. The military part number...
It has been a while since you were on. Sounds like you had and have a full plate. Good luck on getting the M135. Its good of you and yours helping out the WWll vet and his wife. Wish I was closer to lend you a hand.
Welcome from Salmon, Idaho, Yes I need parts. Need some pics of your truck and the shifter. The next step for you is to down load TM's which would answer a lot of your questions.
Need pictures.
Its all up to 1944mb and m1010plowboy and their schedule, I am retired and can meet anytime. Would love to meet you guys in Big Timber or wherever.
Down the road would like to get a passport and make a trip to Edmonton.
Spent all day working on the Deuce, and didn't accomplish anything. Broken parts or missing parts. Did get the pressure line on the compressor in and hooked up. One step forward and three back.
Using the bolts in the block made it way to easy to align the head. If you can't do it the hard way no sense in doing it at all. The red blades, that is why in aviation we always painted our prop blades.
Well got some done on the engine, fabricated an intake manifold pilot from a stainless...
The TM showed what looked to be huge wing nuts for lifting the head. Decided a piece of wood would do the trick. It made life much easier trying to position the head on the gasket. That head is heavy. Will keep you posted on the parts.
Got the head put on today, made a wood handle to help lift that heavy bugger. Was putting the rockers on and noticed I had to much travel on the exhaust rockers. Got the ole trusty TM out and I am missing the exhaust valve rotating caps 7520259. So Put that on hold and decided to put the...