M151 front grill guard

[maple_leaf_eh]

Today I looked at a piece of expanded metal and realized it was the wrong size stretches for my M151A2 furnace grill. The picture looks like 1" spaces, but before getting started on the project, I need some measurements. Would someone with an M151A2 please take the length, width and spacing of their guard.

[Scott Bentley]

Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh

Today I looked at a piece of expanded metal and realized it was the wrong size stretches for my M151A2 furnace grill. The picture looks like 1" spaces, but before getting started on the project, I need some measurements. Would someone with an M151A2 please take the length, width and spacing of their guard.

Terry,

FWIW, the expanded metal grill was different sizes on all three of the 151's i've had. The Calgary and Petawawa Jeeps had a finer grid, while the Gagetown one looked like the sort of thing you'd weld to the treadway of metal stairs etc. The one at the Gagetown Museum is also the same.

As far as the dimensions, my 151 is in storage now, but the guard itself fit perfectly between the two headlight buckets with approx 2" (for the winter cover turn buttons) left between the top of the guard and the hood, and the same thing bottom.

Calgary (1 Svc Bn):


Petawawa (2 RCHA):


Gagetown (403 Sqn):


Mine currently:


Scotty

[maple_leaf_eh]

Scotty:

The variations never cease to amaze me. You'd think for something so controlled as a vehicle, that the specification would be rigid. There is a CFTO order, but examination of the end product proves that ingenuity and improvisation abounds. If these were airplanes, there would be a full binder of drawings and instructions telling smart guys how to do their jobs.

Rob Love will of course share with us the workplace atmosphere when this sort of job came in, who in the shop was likely to get the task and with whatever was available.

[rob love]

OK, here is my 2¢ on the subject.

The modification CFTO called for "screen, standard expanded mesh". The stock would have been locally procured at each base so in the end no two bases were necessarily identical. The overall dimensions were quite specific though so there should not have been a lot of variation to that.

There is a second grill guard mod that came later. It is clunky and ugly as hell....I do not recommend it.