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We've made quite a bit of progress over the last month.8-)

We made some more progress this week. Got one cab corner welded in and also welded another rust hole in the cab. We also got the engine bay and a bunch of stuff that goes under the hood painted. I also got some more parts, shock bushings, map light socket, tow shackles, and a temp sender. The...

:mrgreen: Even the white lettering on the goodyear has been done before.:)

And then Evil Dr. Porkchop did some detail painting. The goodyear is the spare.

Today we shot some gillespie 24087 on the wheels.:mrgreen:

Finally got the tires mounted. :) Hopefully we'll get them painted tomorrow. Here's some pictures.

Sandblasted and primed the wheels today, hopefully I'll be able to mount the tires soon, need some tubes first.

Thats a Dodge M37

I got the gaskets for the engine today, so hopefully I'll be able to paint the cab and chassis and engine when it warms back up outside. :-) I think I'm going to hang on to the superlugs until I get this thing on the road, I'm tempted to put them on the truck but I don't think I'm gonna use...

No not yet

Over the past couple days we pulled the radiator and fan, the generator, oil canister, and all the hard lines around the engine. We also removed the manifolds and carb as one piece. Hopefully we'll be able to paint the engine this weekend. Then I have to change the fuel pump and paint a few...

Mine was folded and stuck at the brace between the frame and the rear crossmember that the bumperette bolts to on the drivers side.

Didn't get too much done today, just a lot of sanding on the cab and degreasing the engine. We have to weld in cab corners and a few holes that were drilled, then it will be painted back to OD green after the body work is done.

Well, at least one is leaking, and only two of the shoes are moving, and I found a huge empty bottle of Dot 3 under the seat... Here's a pic of the lightswitch and instrument cluster with two temp gauges;-)

Today we dismounted all the tires from the wheels. The tires are all dated from the early 1950s and were retreads so they are being replaced with some used NDTs I bought. We also got all of the wiring pulled and started sanding the paint and cutting out rust. All the brake drums are now off...

Heres a couple more pics of it from today, and a scan of a build card I found on the frame.

I bought a 52 m37 back in December and have been working on tearing it apart since then. Now that the weather is nicer I figured i'd start on thread on the restoration. Not going for a factory look, it will have some "custom" touches like silver gauges and controls in the cab, pin stripes on...

Vinyl covers were around in the 1970's. Before there were 3 color camo cab tops and 1 piece cargo covers with super rope there were regular green vinyl cab covers and 3 piece cargo covers that used regular rope like the canvas ones. Heres a thread to check out...

A few more :D

Here are some pictures, pretty cramped work area, but at least there's no snow in there.