OZM29C

The photos below unfortunately do not convey the time and expense needed to assemble these parts.

@Jesse Browning Would you like a drawing?

@Patrick Tipton Hydraulic press

Last but not least I made the end stops for the rudder cable where the cable terminates inside the Steerer. In the first photo (I think this photo belongs to Jeep Tom??) you can see that the cable is terminated with permanent crimped stops. I opted to use an adjustable crimp. I will add more to this thread when I install the rudders.

I first machined the blanks and then make a simple press tool up to emulate the OEM style crimps. In the end a couple of crimps were a bit wonky but I am happy with them.

Next came the rudder cables. I had a length of surplus GPA rudder cable left over from a past restoration but I had to fit the unique ends to them. You can see them in the photo below. Thanks Brock J for the photo.

One of the many jobs to be done was to refurbish my Steerer and make up a pair of rudder cables. Here is the Steerer. Just needed a couple of bronze bushings made to take out the sloppiness.

Finally, for some reason, the short wiper linkage arm is always missing from weasels. Gary S. years ago did a small production run of these linkage arms and also made an exact copy of the wiper pivot retaining nuts. I will add more to this post when I assemble my windscreen.

These wiper pivots are made of unobtanium.

All in all I was more than happy with the end result. Two wiper motors ready for painting.

A friend of mine had a small computer controller paper cutting machine that came in handy to cut the necessary gaskets needed to reassemble the wiper motor.

To glass bead blast and etch prime the external surfaces of the wiper assembly, I made a series of simple covers etc to protect various surfaces and parts from the grit and paint.

The mounting studs had all but corroded away. I machined from standard bolts, two replacement studs and then silver soldered them in position.

Here are a number of reference photos showing my NOS wiper motor. Although it was brand new inside, the exterior surface looked as if it was touched up with a paintbrush at some point of time in storage???

Here is a small blog showing how I stripped, cleaned and reassembled my windscreen wiper motor. I only had the one wiper motor but I purchased a second NOS Wiper motor back in 1999. Photo below shows the wiper motor before restoration.

@Patrick Tipton The last photo Patrick already shows a change for the better in your Hull👍👍

I finally resolved a frustrating weasel restoration crisis today. For weeks I have been searching for the bogey wheel shafts and for the life of me I just could not find them. I had visions of having to either import another set of 16 shafts from the USA or have them made locally. Anyway Eureka!, I finally found them today. Quite awhile back our office cleaner had hid them away in an old administration drawer as part of a cleanup for a VIP visit. The photos below show how well hidden the shafts were. And to think I am only sitting a Metre away from this desk ???##@@&&**

Patrick, Keep at it. 👍👍👍 At times it appears that there is a never ending conga line of rust just waiting to be repaired. Believe me, there will come a time when all of a sudden, your done.

Here you can see the new electrical insulators I have had to make for my Amp gauge. The old cardboard insulation just crumbled away. I have a good contact out here who can supply the old Imperial fasteners used on the Amp gauge. The aluminium cap/cover you can see is a tool I made up to allow the Instrument bezels to be bead blasted and etch primed without damaging the glass.

While the interesting work goes on I am also beavering away at some not so interesting but essential restoration work none the less. I have been bead blasting and etch priming my 32 NOS bogey wheels. I have just finished #28

Hi Jim, The only record I have of M29C weasels coming to Australia was post war. It is believed that 5 M29C floaters were brought into the country and were sent to the snowfields. They were stripped of their superfluous Amphibious Float gear with exception of the front and rear float tanks and were pressed into service. I came up with the figure of five weasels as I found 5 sets of track aprons and other discarded amphibious equipment. Would you be able to share that photo of an M29C in Australian service? If no, does your photo have an ARN visible on the weasel hull? More photos of the M29C on the snowfields can be seen here http://australianalpinoversnow.blogspot.com/2011/09/m29-weasel.html Cheers John

In the snowfields after disposal from the Military

As found photos

@Jim Gilmore I thought that I would put this information up for you in a new topic for all to enjoy. Attached are photos of the two Aussi T24's and their user trials report. Also a couple of photos.

Jim, I have posted this info before in another post but will repost here so the info can be easily found for reference. UST-24-949 ORD 1002 (Last Hull deignated as a T24 before switing to the M29 designation) USA 40122704 ARN (Australian Army Regeistration 145623 This weasel was one of two T24's shipped to Australia in August 1945 for user trials. The vehicles were deemed totally unsuitable for Jungle Warfare (report available for anyone interested) and were quickly disposed of. They were used on the Australian ski fields as ski tows before the final indignaty of being converted into a tracked garbage truck.