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    After many frustrating months, the final drive is back together. Just needs a coat of OD. Before anyone says it is supposed to be painted grey, my final drive was painted OD with no hint of grey underneath.
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    @Patrick Tipton <<<There is a strange little brass bolt on the lower edge of the dash. It looks like a wire is supposed to pass through there. I don't think it is correct for the T24 - anyone recognize the part? >>>> Patrick, as a guess, it looks to be the remains of the outer part of the M29C Capstan winch engagement cable?????? Does it have a hex nut underneath? BTW keep up the inspiring work. You are raising the restoration bar even higher with this T24 restorationđź‘Ť
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    @Patrick Tipton Patrick, I do believe that its well worth the effort to at least open the final drive to do an internal inspection. The last thing I expected to find was a giant rats nest inside! Still waiting for the gasket paper to arrive to finally box it up.
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    Very quiet on the weasel restoration. I am still waiting for my hull to come back from the Sandblaster. Today I assembled the crown wheel and planetary gears into the final drive. Cleaning the Rat detritus from the final drive has been a real challenge. My advice to other weasel owners, don’t pull apart your final drive unless you really really have to. Happy snaps attached.
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    I had plans to further assemble the final drive. Unfortunately I have misplaced/lost three of the woodruff keys that secure the planetary gears. Another delay. I did manage to finish the rear engine divider panel.
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    Loaded up the hull and took it into the sandblasters this morning. Have to wait a month to get it back. Joys of living in a small town!
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    The inner engine bay panel has had the felt retaining staples removed and multiple holes were drilled to secure the felt with fasteners. This modification was done long before I got the panel. Rather than try to weld up the multiple holes I decided to just fabricate some retaining strips and retaining rings to better hold the felt and rubber extrusion. Not original but will do the job.
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    @Patrick Tipton Interesting comment about floor skinning. Do you think it was a Military repair? One of the T24 hulls that I worked on was reskinned. The job was very professional. Unfortunately the skin accelerated the corrosion. BZ on the sheet metal workđź‘Ť
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    The painting roadshow goes on. The following photos are just a snapshot of what has been painted.
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    Again it is good to use @Rob W Rob Walsh's excellent repo female plug sockets. In this photo they are installed with the wiper/fuel tank sender wiring harness.
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    The dashboard is starting to come together nicely. A few more items of Jewellery need to be added to finish it off. Again I used a rubber extrusion to seal the engine cover in lieu of the original canvas. The female socket plugs are from @Rob W Rob Walsh. Rob kindly forwarded the sockets to Vintage Wiring of Maine ( I believe that the business has been sold on to these fellows; https://vintagewiring.com/) where they incorporated the sockets into a new wiring harness. There is a rectangular cut out in the dash panel that is used for the modified accelerator linkage.
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    Another big weekend of work on the weasel. The engine cover is finished. The stencils came from https://www.axholmesigns.co.uk/ All of the data and ORD plates were missing on my weasel so I had new plates made back in 2000. My plates are not the Polish repos seen on Ebay. I substituted a rubber extrusion for the engine cover seal in lieu of the original canvas seal. I did have a NOS seal but when I tried to unroll it, it just cracked into pieces rendering it totally useless. The Rubber seal is not original but it is very practical.
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    @Patrick Tipton Damn that's a lot of sheet metal removal work you have done there. Keep up the good work. đź‘Ťđź‘Ť
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    Another weekend report. Saturday, I assembled the High/Low range gearing in the final drive. Just waiting now on a bearing before I can assembled the crown wheel, planetary gears and brake bands. Today I assembled the orther idler wheel. I would recommend that you make a seal press tool to asembled both the seal and inner bearing. See photo. It makes the job so easy. Also you can't go past the Gary's Bunker Thrust Washer kit: https://www.garysbunker.com/shop/m29-parts/thrust-lock-dust-shield-kit/
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    Thanks for the BZ Fredđź‘Ť I am uploading my weasel restoration blog to this forum for that very reason. Other like minded weasel enthusiasts can use this forum then as a reference tool. I like the FB forum to keep in contact socially with other weasel owners but FB can be difficult to search for information.
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    Ouch!. Just picked up my weasel final drive pinion replacement bearing this arvo. Cost me $160Aud. I asked if it came gold plated. I would have preferred a high quality Japanese Koyo brand bearing but I will make do with a Timken as it is the only bearing available at short notice.
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    I had planned to partially assemble the final drive this weekend but I was unhappy with the deep pitting in the larger pinion bearing cup. I have decided to replace both the pinion cup and cone. Getting the cone off the pinion shaft was a time consuming adventure. My angle grinder proved to be just the tool I needed to get the cone off. I then assembled one of the front idler wheels. I have purposely left the outer rim off the assembly until I fit the tracks. Regrettably the time has come to retire my favourite weasel fest ball caps. They gave sterling service 🙂
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    Inspiration work. Well doneđź‘Ťđź‘Ť The standard of restoration workmanship that weasel owners aspire to nowadays is truly astounding. Keep the updates coming.
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    Moving forward. The first photo shows the leading casing of the final drive resplendent in a coat of etch primer after steam cleaning and spot blasting. Now I can start to assemble the final drive. The second photo shows before and after photos of the fuel filter that I had to revisit. I wrongly plumbed up the fuel filter for an electric in tank fuel pump, not the mechanical pump that I have fitted to my weasel. The fuel filter will be ready to go when the orange epoxy dries.
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    The show goes on. Today's instalment is the high low range selector from the final drive. Disassembled, cleaned, bead blasted, etch primed, assembled and a new gasket cut. I noted when cleaning it that the initial coat of paint was grey, then OD covered in a liberal coated of cosmoline preservative.
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    Its the small jobs that take time to complete. Here is the final drive speedometer drive and housing. Cleaned, bead blasted, etch primed, new gasket cut (same thickness as original) gasket and mud wasp nests evicted from the speedometer drive shaft.
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    Didn’t get a lot of weasel work done on the weekend as I did a 1200km down and back round trip to Sydney on Saturday. Today I took all of the remaining weasel sheet metal, brackets, bows etc into the Sandblaster. Should have the gear back in two weeks. I also fitted and bent the fuel tank and fuel filter drain lines. I have taken them off now so that I can bead blast and etch prime them.
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    More felt strips and facsimile staples added to the steering cross shaft cover panel. Another tick in the box.
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    Hot off the production line are the two small air deflectors that are never seen. I have beadblasted and painted the metal angle pieces, cut out new felt strips and then attached them to the angle pieces using facsimile staples with a bit of help from some silicon. Another tick in the box.
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    On the weekend I managed to get some more small parts painting done which in turn allowed me to assemble the clutch and accelerator pedal assembly. I also got the final drive fully disassembled to clean out the Rat detritus. The leaves and grunge in the photos are just a fraction of what I found inside when I split the final drive casings.
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