darth_kitten Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 Restoration thread for M29C-5752. First goal is to bring it back to life, and maybe make it a floater some day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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darth_kitten Posted November 15, 2023 Author Share Posted November 15, 2023 Tidied up the Transmission Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darth_kitten Posted November 15, 2023 Author Share Posted November 15, 2023 This was a bear to remove. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darth_kitten Posted November 15, 2023 Author Share Posted November 15, 2023 Luckily I was able to source a carb from Dave Yamula as the original was missing from my motor. Cleaned up pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darth_kitten Posted November 15, 2023 Author Share Posted November 15, 2023 Fuel pump was NOS and I rebuilt with new rubber. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darth_kitten Posted November 15, 2023 Author Share Posted November 15, 2023 Removing the engine wasn't too bad. Will still need to clean up the accories Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darth_kitten Posted November 15, 2023 Author Share Posted November 15, 2023 Other parts refurbished Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darth_kitten Posted November 15, 2023 Author Share Posted November 15, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darth_kitten Posted November 15, 2023 Author Share Posted November 15, 2023 Removing all the running gear. I fabricated a rotisserie to facilitate flipping the hull. With the skin removed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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OZM29C Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 @darth_kitten What a fabulous thread to follow. Well done and BZ to your efforts👍👍 I can honestly appreciate the amount of time consuming and tedious work that is involved in bringing a weasel back to life. Could I ask one question? Did you record how many shims were behind the bogey arms as shown in the attached photo? I need a reference point to adjust my bogey arm shims as mine are not quite right. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darth_kitten Posted November 16, 2023 Author Share Posted November 16, 2023 8 minutes ago, OZM29C said: @darth_kitten What a fabulous thread to follow. Well done and BZ to your efforts👍👍 I can honestly appreciate the amount of time consuming and tedious work that is involved in bringing a weasel back to life. Could I ask one question? Did you record how many shims were behind the bogey arms as shown in the attached photo? I need a reference point to adjust my bogey arm shims as mine are not quite right. Thanks! There was only one shim behind each arm. All the same thickness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Tipton Posted November 16, 2023 Share Posted November 16, 2023 Well done Mark! Thank you for sharing your journey. You do nice work my friend. @OZM29C I found a bunch of different thickness shims on mine....and some with almost none. Given manufacturing tolerances, I would think they should all be shimmed roughly the same to perpendicular....probably unloaded, but maybe not (need to check the manual and see if it has any info). I am going to be diving into this myself very shortly on the T24. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M29C3284 Posted November 16, 2023 Share Posted November 16, 2023 Great work so far. Will be following this thread with great interest. @OZM29C My weasel had one thin and one thick shim on each bogie. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darth_kitten Posted November 20, 2023 Author Share Posted November 20, 2023 Had to make some reinforcements for the front of the tub where it was split. Slowly coming along. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darth_kitten Posted November 25, 2023 Author Share Posted November 25, 2023 Replaced the cut out transmission support with one that was included with the hulk I bought from Patrick a year ago, and added most of another patch. Ran out of shielding gas, so hopefully the supply place is open tomorrow. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Tipton Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 Looking great Mark! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darth_kitten Posted December 13, 2023 Author Share Posted December 13, 2023 I had to work though a bit of an injury the past couple of weeks, but I'm solidly on the mend. Feeling accomplished as I can actually visualize some progress. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Tipton Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 Looking good Mark. Weasels are relatively small vehicles, but there is lots of stuff to repair. One little step at a time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darth_kitten Posted December 25, 2023 Author Share Posted December 25, 2023 Some holiday progress on the tub. If I were to do it again, I would skip the patches, and replace whole sections. Anyway, the bottom 8" is patched and I'm moving on to stripping the remainder of the rust. Looking forward to making some leaps and bounds. Need to find a shop in STL that can bend some hat channel for me. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Tipton Posted December 25, 2023 Share Posted December 25, 2023 Looks good Mark. That is exactly how I ended up replacing the entire side of my T24. It just got to be faster to replace than repair. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darth_kitten Posted December 27, 2023 Author Share Posted December 27, 2023 Port side ventilated. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darth_kitten Posted December 30, 2023 Author Share Posted December 30, 2023 Got my local shop to bend up the corner brace and the exterior panel (side/floor/side). I'm going to do one side at a time. Still need to remove quite a bit and prep, but I'm happy with my progress, and it will be looking pretty solid once I get fresh metal on the exterior. Will most likely add some bracing in the center since I'll be removing so much more material. I'm going to draw them up in CAD for my peace of mind. I'm hoping to pick up the new metal tomorrow, but it might have to wait until Tuesday. Before I started cutting, I managed to get most of the measurements on the port side of the hat channels and holes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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