My wife hasn't seen it yet

[Phill]

My son did a search on 'Central Command' and we dreamed about where that carrier might have been.

We didn't take the tarps off today to find the engine # but now I know where to look. An elderly acquaintance of mine came by today, so I showed him the snow covered shape. By gosh he knew what it was, I couldn't believe it, then he said "Is that the 85 hp engine?"

Knowing where the hull # was really helped. We think the # is 27418.

Attached a picture of the water pump pulleys. I have never seen a distributor up front like that, except on the Ford tractors. I don't think they were very popular for maintenance work. Phil

[Ledsel]

Buy the looks of your hull no. It was probably built around late April or May 1944. And for the dist. they were fairly easily taken off to be worked on. Just pull the caps and three bolts They cannot be put back on the wrong way as they will only fit one way. There is a slot that it fits in and it's set to one side. Your carrier is a little bit newer than mine as my hull no. is 24742. Your engine no. should be some where around TL 29-----F ?. Serial no. maybe 28----? just a wild guess but perhaps close. Buy the way there are two hull no.s but your upper no. is long gone. Buy the looks of that engine I would say there is a fairly good chance that it is still the original, as I doubt if it was ever over seas.

[Ledsel]

One way to know if it's a carrier engine is it should have two large oil lines at the rear left of the engine just behind the place where the engine no. is. They may have been pluged off if the oil cooler is diconnected. I can't tell from the picture as it is on the left rear. If it has just small plugs then it is an automobile engine. I see that the engine has a few modern upgrades like the starter is the automatic bendix instead of the mechanical one, a remote coil, a car carburator, and an alternater.

[Phill]

I was going to take the tarps off today to get another look at the engine, but the weather changed that plan. Close to 0 F today after the storm.

Attaching a pic of the engine left side but it's a little fussy. Good to know I need to be looking for some original engine components. I want to clean up the hull # and make sure it's correct.

Is the air breather original?

Is the Mark 2 armor the same as the Mark 1? The reason I ask is that the Legion in Belleville has a restored carrier and I was thinking of asking to see if I could get dimensions of it's armor over the winter. Phil

[Ledsel]

I can't see it very clearly but I think that mite be a automobile engine. Th plugs look small. But that's not anything to worry about as it's the same anyway. And, those oil holes can be redone if you were to go with a carrier oil cooler. The air filter is not original. The oil breather is.

[Lynn Eades]

The block looks OK in that I see the other hole in the bell housing for the oil cooler. The fan is original, The exhaust manifold looks correct.
What is the block of wood for, to the left of the clutch pedal?

[Jordan Baker]

Lynn, that block of wood is for the Bren barrel. There was a bracket attached to the "Oh S*%T" handle that held the back of the Bren. Basically the gun would fit in on a downward angle.

[Ledsel]

I was looking at that also. It almost looks like it's original but I've never seen anything like it . A guy would have to clean up the metal bracket on it and see if there is a part no. on it.