New Hampshire CMP Barn 2011- 2012 HUP Overhaul

[Phil Waterman]

Hi All

Well with tomorrow marking the 1 year anniversary of my Overhaul of my HUP BEAST figured it was time to get back into the habit of posting work progress and interesting findings. So here goes over the last few days I have started posting progress in sections. Monthly or bimonthly not all the pages are populated with data yet but I’m working on it and will be filling in the missing pages and adding photos and narrative to all the pages.

Dec 2010 to March 2011 http://www.canadianmilitarypattern.c...AUL%202011.htm
Continued http://www.canadianmilitarypattern.c...20Page%202.htm
April 2011 http://www.canadianmilitarypattern.c...ril%20Work.htm
May 2011 http://www.canadianmilitarypattern.c...May%20Work.htm
June 2011 http://www.canadianmilitarypattern.c...0June%20Wo.htm
July 2011 http://www.canadianmilitarypattern.c...uly%20Work.htm
August September 2011 http://www.canadianmilitarypattern.c...ber%20Work.htm
October November 2011 http://www.canadianmilitarypattern.c...vemberWork.htm
December 2011 the engine runs again http://www.canadianmilitarypattern.c...20Page%209.htm


Part of the cause for the long delay was I had collected to many photos and the hard drive became overfull to the extent that I could not really sort or edit the pictures that problem has been solved with a three Terabyte hard drive.

Hope to be better about catching up and keeping current on progress. To all of you who I have promised photo details on wiring harness and cable routing I have not forgotten and will take those photos when I bring the chassis back into the main shop. The chassis is currently parked in garage bay my regular car should be parked.


April Work - Page 3 was centered around the Transmission, Spring Shackles, Cleaning and Painting of the bottom of the body, Engine Testing then disassembly.
May Work - Page 4 included finding a replacement cylinder head, finding and installing spring shackle bushings and pins. Cleaning and painting the frame,
June Work - Page 5 painting and body work begins and trying to match the original color of the HUP, brake work, reassembly of the axle assembly. July Work - Page 6 handling painting and body how do you pick up and turn a HUP body on its side by yourself. Machining the hardened steel spring shackles. Pictures of the wooden blocks used as frame inserts at the attachment locations. Brake line installation
August & September Work - Page 7 engine comes back from the machine shop almost ready for reassembly before the problems start. Body lowered on to the body for fitting and further body work, which included replacing some rusted damaged areas. Updated 12/10/11
October & November Work - Page 8 body work continues, repairing the fatigue cracks in the front door where the hinges attach, a common CMP problem, installation of chassis parts like shocks. Problems with assembly of the engine but in the end everything is fitted in place. Updated 12/10/11
December Work - Page 9 engine assembly completed and run in started on the test stand. Hidden design surprises in the CMP adaptation of the Stovebolt 6. Work on the chassis nearing completion with only a little painting and the installation of the wiring harness to be done. Body is ready to be primed and painted. Updated 12/10/11 Not all of these pages have been loaded yet