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The screen you are talking about is the protective cage of a Stewart Warner "Southwind" 978M gas heater. They were a great heater (when they worked) and you could set them high enough to cook pizza if you wanted. They will bolt in similar locations as the hot water heater. But the hot water...

Looks like 5 ton heater kits to me. Very similar to the mlvw kits. The rubber connectors on the wiring would indicate at least the latter half of the 60s. Edited to add: I stand corrected. That stock code is listed in the Canadian Deuce parts manual.

The little loops on the hood are for the insulating cover. They were normally included with the perfection coolant heater and the inslated battery boxes. Towards the end, a lot of that stuff was removed and discarded.

Wires on the M-series do not have to be tightened right down. Simply tightening them by hand with an extra turn or two will seat the rubber on the wire to prevent water ingress. While it is not a big issue if the cap end is tight, you will find that if somone over-tightens the wires at the...

Anytime I have seen the spring off a seal, it was caused during the installation process while hammering it into place. That is why you put grease onto the spring area of the seal, so the spring doesn't pop out while driving it in. It is very easy the spring as a loose spring can remain somewhat...

Section8: I am not referring to your deuce or your planned markings. It is your truck so you can do as you wish. Putting your ranch markings on it seems fitting enough. M1010. I guess the best thing is to have preserved what markings were on the trucks when you found them. Otherwise, go hit up...

It won't cause any problems. The DND does not have any copyright or claim on a diamond. It could be different if you were putting tri-service decals on the doors. The markings on that truck are mostly fantasy, as are some of the modifications done to it.

Don't quote me, but usually a diamond indicates Headquarter Sqn of an Armoured unit. I went through a couple pages trying to find the photo you are talking about, but with this thread hitting 54 pages I had to give up. Can you tell me the post number? I also just noted your discussion about the...

No, that carrier belongs to the Edmonton 2VP. The Shilo one is the one that is in dog turd brown with markings indicating service in Italy.

Yep, three more. They are all for parts though as all of the hulls (except maybe one) have been fairly butchered. I have a complete one already, so for me these are just for sustainability of the present carrier.

Did you get any shots of the PPCLI bren gun carriers? One is from Shilo, and there should have been one from Edmonton. I did a little bit of work on the Shilo one.

Yes it will, although I think I read somewhere that you have to change the master cylinder to an M35 cylinder as well, due to a check valve that is on the M35 that is not on the M135. The local Base Maintenance replaced the master and airpack a couple years ago on the base museum's M133. They...

Had a chance to try and look it up. It also no longer exists in the data base, that number having been overwritten in the 90s.

Here is a shot of the Deuce I spoke of yesterday. It is captioned: "UN68291 Luluaburg (Congo). Sept 1960- Three members of the Cdn contingent of the UN force in the Congo check the motor of an army truck which they have converted into a mobile radio station" The truck's CFR is 55-53377. A...

The tracking did not go into further detail than that for units. Sometimes I can figure out a bit more by looking at the old work orders, but I do not have the unit codes for all the various (and in some cases now extinct) units. Any move to overseas commitments would be shown though, as those...

Originally, the CFR was on the doors, about 8 inches or so down from the window. If your truck has the usual multi layers of paint, you can carefully sand or chemically strip the paint until the numbers show. However, if the doors have ever been replaced, or swapped from another truck, or the...

Some CFR info on your trucks: 53313 belonged to CFB Penhold from 1955 until 1979. From there it was transferred to HQ and Sig Calgary until retirement in 1984. It's last recorded work order had the mileage at 72289 miles. 53714 Was in Wainwright from 1956 until 1980. It went to Edmonton for...

The upper rifle bracket is the item shown next to the passenger seat. The deuces had the FN brackets ( upper clips as shown and lower rubber cups) and usually an SMG bracket for the Canadian Sterling type C1 SMG also in the cab. In the photos shown, you can see most of the smg bracket mounted...

There were no total rebuilds of the deuces that I knew of.....the Cdn army always seemed to have a surplus of these trucks. We had a good number of them in war storage/long term preservation when I worked in Winnipeg in the early 80s. The add on sticker merely meant the speedometer was replaced...

I recently started my deuce engine that had not been run for 28 years, and had the valve cover off all that time. I had to remove the head to free up valves, and oiled the cylinders at that time. After cleaning out the oil pan and installing fresh oil, I did the drill thing with a screwdriver...