darth_kitten
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Had to make some reinforcements for the front of the tub where it was split. Slowly coming along.
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Removing all the running gear. I fabricated a rotisserie to facilitate flipping the hull. With the skin removed
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Moved the tub to my home garage so I could get started repairing all the rust on October 1st 2023. Now the work can begin in earnest. Someone "repaired" the hull by reskinning over the rust. All of that will need to be removed. This is the worst of it. The curved box end wrench made removing the differential pretty easy.
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Other parts refurbished
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Removing the engine wasn't too bad. Will still need to clean up the accories
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Fuel pump was NOS and I rebuilt with new rubber.
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Luckily I was able to source a carb from Dave Yamula as the original was missing from my motor. Cleaned up pretty good.
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This was a bear to remove.
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Tidied up the Transmission
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As Received
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Restoration thread for M29C-5752. First goal is to bring it back to life, and maybe make it a floater some day.
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Thanks Patrick, I just got out and measured and 3 7/8 is not as far off as I thought. Time to weld up some bracing, true things up, and start patching. It aint pretty. FYI, I've been thinking about creating a thread on here to duplicate my FB posts....
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Thanks Patrick, my problem is the that this area is completely split at this point. I have the upper holes lined up, but need to a lower reference as well. I can use the measurement from the first spring mount to the front axle if needed.
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Hoping someone might have this dimension handy or a hull they can measure. Thanks to 5280Beltfed for sharing the drawing on this site. Since the dimension isn't directly called out, I tried to extrapolate it using the other dimensions in the drawing and came up with 3.875", but that seems to large to me. Can someone confirm, or correct? Thanks! Mark Cook
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There aren't a ton of options for track repair. There are a few good threads on here with conveyor belt replacements.
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The OEM cam gear is a phenolic (or some other composite) that could disintegrate. The aluminum is an improvement of that.
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Don, I built a rotisserie. But you can tilt it and support the sides with wood blocks too. A hoist would be helpful in that case.
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Studebaker has the drawings available from the museum. They were a couple hundred dollars if I remember correctly.
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If you're passing through STL, you gotta stop~!
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Let me check out my spare control cluster to see if I have a viable lever, and also how easy it will be to remove...
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Awesome! Saw them pop up on eBay today! Great work !
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Way back in the day before I helped repaint BB. My Son loved spending his weekends running around the hangar and manning the guard shack.
