[Bob Carriere]

.... to fitting parts back on the cab 11.

First I forgot the Waterman rule of re-assembly.

Which is...... Do not toghten any bolts until most components are allowed to jiggle loosely and fall in place.

Now that I have the frame straight.....We started assembly the rad support, rad and trial fit of the sheet metal..... Nothing lines up.... but the all the holes are originally oval and some have been stretched since..... so we are getting good at installing and removing, tightening and loosenign thisngs up again.

WE gave up last SUnday after finally getting the rad support "horse collar" in place..... and like a fool I refilled the radiator with coolant so I coudl go for a spin...... now will have to drain it again to properly re-adjust.

For some reason the filler neck fo the rad is in the way of the littel rain trough in the nose piece.

NOTE TO Grant..... remember how the original sheet metal had been troched by the previous owner.... that was properly to make things fit..... now that we have repaired the sheet metal that had been removed we have clearance problems..... I swear it's like a Chinese puzzle.

I just had to take it out for a run....... we spent so much time re-adjusting the shifting rods of the 2 speed T case..... had to find out if it worked .... and it did..... pictures attached....... T case now works fine and so does the winch. All that frame twisting on the wood chip pile did not mess up anything.

Going up is fine coming back down is scary. Being very light wheels spins in the wood chips as soon as you give it more gas...... and the chevron treads do throw out wood chips quite a bit.

In low range 1st gear truck will crawl up just at fast idle.

Coming down was another story....... blue smoke came out of the tail pipe like a smoke bomb...... oil rushes to the front of the pan and must get by the rings....... also notice some oil dripping from the fuel pump/engine block gasket area. More adjustments are needed...... one fuel line was also dripping and needed retightening..... but to reach it properly we had to remove the front floor panel....... it's like one step forward and 2 steps back.
sure know how the parts fit by now....

One day will get it all done..... and be bored to death !!!!

Bob