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    I did indeed modify the bottom of the front tank to make life a lot easier. I fabricated the modified extention out of 1.5mm sheet in lieu of the OEM 1.0mm sheet. The new plate is more robust than before.
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    its a great feeling to be able to finally throw some OD at the project. Feels like I am getting close to the finish line now. This paint has a satin finish not matt/flat.
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    I found some more photos showing the oil drain access plate installed
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    @Patrick TiptonI restored an Amphibious Jeep many years ago. The hull on it was in a similar condition to your weasel hull as shown above.
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    @Jim GilmorePM sent
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    Patrick, I can see that I am not the only one in this crazy restoration world that would consider working on a project like your hull. What's the story with this hull?
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    I also fitted the Accelerator Modification. Here are photos showing a comparison between an unmodified and modified accelerator pedal.
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    The hull had some bubble rust blowouts between some of the overlapping sheet metal
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    A lot of other sub tasks were going on as well. I had the engine reconditioned by friends who are in the engine reconditioning business. Its easier to say what was not replaced in the engine. Only the original camshaft and flywheel remained. Everything else was new/replaced.
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    I took the opportunity to fit a removable plate under the final drive drain point.
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    When I was working on the front section I had the front cross tube in place to maintain correct alignment. My front cross tube is the originl one to this weasel and was repaired by Jacobsens Automotive Engineering.
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    Here are some more photos showing the work needed to bring the hull halves together
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    Remember the red weasel? Well I used donor hull parts from it to help repair the rear tow point.
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    Then the time finally came to rejoin the two halves of the hull back together. I used the rear float tank as a Jig to help align the rear of the hull and I made a jig to align the front of the hull. There were some large gaps to fill.
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    Then slowly pieces started to come together
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    More sheet metal being removed. Most of the hat sections, contour flanges etc had corroded from the inside. Although they look Ok from the outside the sheet metal was paper thin. One section of OEM hat sections I managed to save.
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    The rear of the hull was a mess that I will detail the repairs later. Same goes for the front of the hull where a towing eye was fitted and in turn pulled out the sheet metal.
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    Rather than writing I will let the photos tell the story
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    More time consuming repair photos
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    What metal I could save I treated with a Zinc Phosphate rich rust killer and then a single pack epoxy paint. I also started to bend up the patch panels.
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    I started to unpick the track skirt sheet metal etc to be able to repair what I found underneath. The photos below tell a common weasel story.
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    Before I knew it, 2010 was on me so it was time to get serious with getting my restoration back on track. I started with the hull. I moved the top half into my shed and to start the ball rolling I did some exploratory metal surgery to see how bad the corrosion was behind the sheet metal No surprises, it was bad.
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    Hi Jim, You might have this weasel in your records. Located here in Australia. ORD number 8812 Hull Number M29C-4338 USA 40186510 British Number P6180963 Supply Mech Number 6362 Here is some British weasel info kindly offered by Richard Farrant over on the HMVF forum; <<<All Weasels under Contract Supply Mech 6362 come in five batches of census numbers; X5853143 to 5853242 P5881878 to 5882381 P6160643 to 6160990 P6180709 to 6181208 P6225756 to 6226757 "P" is prefix for amphibs, why the first one is listed as "X" in the copy book of census numbers, I don't know, but it was a mistake somewhere in time as that letter denotes a Trailer. They are the numbers allocated for the contract, but quite often the actual numbers delivered may vary, especially if a ship sank onroute from the US. It does sound a large number. I am no expert on this particular vehicle, but if anything else comes to light I will pass it on to you. >>>
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    Again this is as far as I got as I was distracted by a number of projects etc over the next three years. I purchased the 'Red Weasel' for $4500 from a fellow in Duluth Michigan and shipped it to Oz at great expense. This weasel almost had all of the floater parts I needed to complete my restoration. On arrival in Oz a friend of mine took this Weasel (warts and all) to the National Studebaker Car meet on the Gold Coast. By amazing chance a fellow walked up to my friend and pointed at the surfshield and said that he knew where one was. I thought that he had mistaken it for a GPA surf guard but no, it was the real weasel deal as a later photo revealed. I organised a trip down to Jindabyne on the Australian snowfields and came away with a surfshield, three rudders, numerous panels, track water ejectors and 5 pairs of track aprons. In the 1950's, five weasel floaters were imported into Australia for use on the snow fields as ski tows. The amphibious gear was removed from the weasels and dumped only to be recovered almost 60 years later by moi. You can see the photos of these weasels on the snowfields here; http://australianalpinoversnow.blogspot.com/2011/09/m29-weasel.html Finding the track aprons completed my floater outfit. I decided to have a go and repair the Red weasel hull but after removing as much of the corroded sheet metal as I could, I decided that it was a lost cause. The red weasel hull was cannibalised and used to repair a T24 hull that I posted about on this forum awhile back. In my attempt to repair the red weasel hull I was offered a weasel hull to cut up and use for donor parts. I imported this weasel from Sweden and when it got here I just could not cut it up as it was too good. This weasel became the second floater project. Before I knew it, 2010 was on me and it was time to get back to reality and again work on my original weasel.
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    I started with the lower hull by removing the damaged sheet metal where the hull extension was made. I wanted to make an aesthetically pleasing to the eye hull join. In some of the photos below you can see the damage done to the upper hull in way of the extension join.
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