Robert Pearce Starts to restore

[hrpearce]

I had a free afternoon after a late lunch today so I painted the piece of cab timber Next I gathered samples of the seals and bolts I need to replace as we go to Wagga on Thursday. Last I tried out my new toy, a poor mans pressure cleaner, it works quite well. I sprayed the part with degreaser then turned it on it uses a lot of air but verry little water. Hopefully it will work even better when I can use the higher pressure water line from the creek, just one more tap to fit now the weaher is worm enough to play in water.

[John Stokes]

Hi Robert,
I notice in your photo the part of the gearbox is broken,i had one the same do you know why they break here? Maybe it is the tail shaft bolts comins loose?

[hrpearce]

Hi John both my gearboxes are the same it's caused by the studs holding this part on coming loose and being wacked by the flange. I think I can repair the stud holes with QuikSteel. I'll give it a go next week anyhow.

[hrpearce]

I had a CMP day today The spare cab came in fore stripping, I want the top of the cab the rst is a pile of spares. Once my blitz is running again visitors will be permited to brouse the leftovers. I also got the transfur case washed read for reseling. Bought seals last week will need to buy quick sleaves this week as all flanges are badly groved.

[hrpearce]

I get Tuesday and Wednesday to work on the blitz. Today I cleaned up ready for the sleaves and seals.

[Harry Moon]

Originally Posted by John Stokes

Hi Robert,
I notice in your photo the part of the gearbox is broken,i had one the same do you know why they break here? Maybe it is the tail shaft bolts comins loose?

It's because the ring gets left out. there is no part # or picture in the exploded view in the manual. 3 of 4 transmissions that I had broke that way. You must put a 3/8 wide steel ring which can just be a strip of bar steel welded together, you put it on the out put shaft before you put the out put flange on the back of the transmission. without it you won't be able to tighten the center bolt with out pulling it up to tight and interference between the bolts will shatter it again. I wrote an article in convoy magazine specifically about it. Can anyone scan the article and send you it?

[Harry Moon]

you must have this ring.

[Harry Moon]

This is the ring, you might find it if you look around but since your transmission was broken it is probably missing. Just bend a piece of 3/8 steel strap around the shaft and weld it together. thats all the original is anyways.

[hrpearce]

Hi Harry,
Thank you for the advice, I checked and I have the ring. I plan to make locking tabs to tie the bolt heads together.

[Harry Moon]

The original seal on the rear had a metal flange that covered all 4 bolts and held the seal. I'll try to get you a picture of it.