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Rob W THANKS for sharing those pics with us. Very Interesting. My update is that everything is all apart. Saved 1 track pad for show and tell. Have 6 more buckets of rubber to throw away and about 5 - 1/2 buckets of steel links to recycle and a large pile of plates for another day. Of course, they need sand blasting and the reparking if I go to reuse them. They are on back burner as I'm getting things cleaned out for another Weasel that starts to travel South next week. French Track links - I'm thinking that maybe I should have taken the Weasel home and left the French track links..... LOL too late for that. Stay Safe Later 42rocker

Update 56 x 2 = 112 plates with 12 nuts per plate ==>> so far I've stripped off 72 plates and only have 40 more to strip off. Onward.... I think.... Can't wait to finish taking the track apart and get back to working on Rusty the Weasel. Stay Safe everyone. Later 42rocker

Meanwhile back at the ranch, wait, backyard, I'm still taking nuts and washers off "French" style plates. Hard work but getting some done everyday. I'm guessing that I have about 1/2 of the plates stripped. Remember 12 nuts per plate 56 plates per side so total of 1,344 nuts and washers to remove. Throwing lots and lots of rubber scrap away. Going to recycle the double chain after it's all stripped/ripped off. The washers might be reused as flat washers on other projects as they are shot. Going to throw the nuts into the brass cleaner, if I reuse them. Such fun. Rob W -- Still dropping on and off the MG42.us board. Just got another TIG welder and thinking that welding up a MG42 might be a good starting project. While of course thinking on rewelding my Weasels. Also THANKS for the info sharing. Stay Safe Everyone Later 42rocker

If you get HF then add the few extra dollars and get the 20 ton press. Later 42rocker

I've used my HF press for a long time. Helped me with many a project. Good Luck on your water pump. Stay Safe Everyone. Later 42rocker

Looks like they rebuilt it in Sept 1966. Did Norway do a lot of rebuilding in that 1966 area? Enjoy the Weasel. Stay Safe Everyone. Later 42rocker

Lots of stuff to take off. But at least you are starting with some good stuff. Like a floor that does not have lots of major rust. Tracks that seem like they will go around and stay on and not break apart. Good Luck with everything and Thanks for sharing the pics. Try to enjoy the trip of rebuilding. Stay Safe Everyone. Later 42rocker

Thank You Dan -- M29 and Patrick for your input. 1st ----- I JUMPED right in with both feet on what I "thought" was an interesting Weasel deal. Well, I'm in it. Sometimes guessing that the other name for Weasel is boat. Boat in our area is a hole in the water that you throw money into.... If the seller states it's raining outside, before I get rain gear I'm going outside to check first.... Simple fixup my???? 2nd I'm in the Tampa Bay, Fla area.... Don't really have a lot of Weasels or Weasel parts in this area. So finding Tracks or info is limited. Thank You for this forum Patrick. 3rd Getting a 2nd Weasel, Thank You Again Patrick. It has running tracks from what I was told. Just waiting for the shipping company to pick it up and ship it here. 4th Patrick your pile of French tracks at least seem to be in less than the total number of piles that mine ended up being. They broke apart at every turn. Many many piles of pieces. Well, after I finish setting up and doing the gun-show this weekend I'll get back to taking apart the tracks. Going to throw the motorcycle link pieces in the recycle bucket to cash in towards Weasel parts. The big rubber pieces will go in the trash. The metal grousers will be saved and maybe reused. Unless I can find another track or two or a new track system or think about putting tires on it.... We shall see. Stay Safe Everyone Later 42rocker

Dan -- M29 ALL of my French style track rubber is cracked and the chain is rusted to the max. If the links bend then they break apart. Out of the 56 links on the one side I would say that only 56 will break apart if bent enough to go around the power sprocket. Same for the other side. So re-banding French style tracks does not work?? Due to the grousers being to narrow. Wow, this might be a major set back. From what I've seen a set of new tracks cost around $15,000.. Now I understand several folks talking about making do it yourself re-banding kits trying to get the cost down in my case I would need to find 112 new / old grousers to add to that cost. Now I guess I need to think about what I'm going to do with my Weasel named "Rusty". Other ideas or thoughts or plans???? Patrick -- Can't wait to see what you are doing with those French Tracks. Stay Safe Everyone. Later 42rocker

M29 -- I thought that you could re-band the French grousers. Please tell me that you can. Due to rubber drying and cracks happening water got in and rusted out the motor cycle links any bending of the track causes it to break into sections. Patrick -- I'm looking forward to seeing what you do. Right now I'm trying to take everything apart and throwing a lot of rubber pieces away and putting a lot of rusted broken pieces of cycle links into a bucket to recycle. Stay Safe Everyone. Later 42rocker

Well, Rusty our Weasel has French style tracks that are rusted out and breaking apart. So starting to take them apart in hopes that sometime after I finish replacing metal and welding and painting etc etc, I can use the grousers on a new style track system. BUT right now my question is ---- other than the grouser plate is there anything else that should be saved?? I could save the nuts that I don't have to cut off but anything else. The lock washer could be used again but only as flat washers. The rubber is in pieces but anything that it could be used for. I'm going to recycle the motor cycle link pieces as rusty steel but anything else?? Open to ideas.. Any ideas?? Stay Safe Later 42rocker

Interesting, very interesting. Thanks for sharing the pics Patrick. Stay Safe Everyone. Later 42rocker

Love to see a pic of any of the compasses. Please post a pic someone. Stay Safe Later 42rocker

If you find yourself in the Weasel jam I found myself in because of missing data plates and you would like to have a better idea of what where when your Weasel could should be then check out this great thread. For those like myself these two threads made by good folks help us to try to figure out what could should be there. THANKS EVERYONE!!!! Later 42rocker

Great list.... Any more updates???? Stay Safe Everyone Later 42rocker

Any updates on this???? Said the new Weasel owner with French style tracks that are rusted and broken apart. Starting to take apart the broken track links. A little bit here and there and hope that someone has a plan for when I finally get ready for the tracks on project. Going to have a Large Pile of broken motorcycle links that rusted out and broke that I removed. My local recycling company is going to love it. LOL Stay Safe Everyone. Later 42rocker

Do you have a name for your Weasel???? Lots of folks name their Jeeps and Weasels. After working on the throttle cable and cleaning the Weasel body last night I sat down in the front room chair and finally answered the question that my Wife asked me several times over the last few weeks. What is going to be the name of our Weasel? Our 1948 CJ2A Jeep's name is "The Swiss Miss". Due to the fact she was 1 of 400 sold to the Swiss Military and 1 of the very few that made it back to the US of A. Well, due to the condition of our Weasel I named it "Rusty". My Wife approved.... So, I try to work on "Rusty" a little bit ever day. Pics will follow someday. My personal computer needs work and I'm not using my Wife's computer up to par yet. But I'm taking a few pics here and there and will start a Rebuild Thread someday. ********************** PLEASE ----- Post the Name of your Wesel and or other MV names. ----- PLEASE *************************************** Stay Safe Everyone Later 42rocker

Like your idea of using a backer bolt to support the area you are working on. Please keep us updated on where you get your rubber and adhesive from. Good Luck with it. Stay Safe Everyone. Later 42rocker

Thanks for sharing your build. Stay Safe Later 42rocker

Welcome! Good Luck with your rebuild. Later 42rocker

Outstanding Sharing.... Thanks Stay Safe Everyone Later 42rocker

Good Luck on the starter redo. Seen a lot of pics of this Weasel in books. Hope it's up and running soon. OZM29C Thanks for the sharing of that booklet. I know I've got wiring issues coming with my Weasel rebuild. Later 42rocker

Beepbeep Please let us know how the sprockets are from Accu-rite Machine works in California. Good Luck Later 42rocker

Sounds like you are off to a great start. Good Luck with the sockets. My Weasel tracks are in several piles, that's more than 4 piles of broken apart track sections. Thanks for your picture share. Stay Safe Everyone. Later 42rocker