Canadian M151A2 Restoration

[donjunior]

Hi Scotty,
How much work do you have on the power pack? Total rebuild or just gaskets/seals? What about the suspension? I know that the bushings on the rear suspensionn is a weak area. Is your steering box good?
Questions, questions, Darcy

[Scott Bentley]

Originally Posted by donjunior

Hi Scotty,
How much work do you have on the power pack? Total rebuild or just gaskets/seals? What about the suspension? I know that the bushings on the rear suspensionn is a weak area. Is your steering box good?
Questions, questions, Darcy

I've got the "Good" Power Pack completely tore down. I had bought a complete Overhaul Seal Kit for it to fix the leaks, but once I pulled it apart to change the Seals, I noticed that the Main Bearings had some wear. Nothing dramatic, but enough to warrant replacing them. My plan is to have the Block and Head dipped, Crank and Cam polished, Hone the Cylinders, replace the Bearings and Seals, and Lap all of the Valves.... Then a nice fresh coat of paint. I am going to pick up a low KM T/O Tranny from a local fella later on this fall to clean up and use with it. Thats my winter project

In the mean time, if the weather is still cooperating when everything else is done, i'm going to use the Powerpack in the scrap Jeep. Yes it runs
Transmission/T-Case is a different story. I currently have 4 trannies, and I don't think even one of them is very decent. That being said, I will most likely frankenstein one of them together to put behind the scrap Jeep Power Pack.

As for the Suspension etc, i'm going to tackle that once the Frame Up portion is completely finished, including the final coat of paint. I'll bring it home and put it back up on jackstands and do one end at a time. I have a complete set of new Control Arm Hangers, Bushings, Shocks, Bearings & Seals, Brakes and Wheel Cylinders. This will be installed once i've sandblasted and repainted all of the Control Arms and lower components. My Rear Bushings actually didn't look too too bad, as well as the mounting holes in the hangers which tend to elongate.

Steering Box.... Hmm, now that you mention it. It seems OK. It was fine last summer when I was driving it and it doesn't appear to be leaking. I'll probably just clean it up, change the oil and reinstall it. Through all of my researching and nosing around, I rarely see or hear any complaints about them. Brand new ones from TRW are available on Ebay for around $100 USD, so its another option if it went belly up.

[Scott Bentley]

Update:

Well, after alot of humming and hawing, I chose to rehash the Heater Kit rather than just buying a new kit. I did buy a new Heater Motor for the huge sum of $10, but just sandblasted and repainted all of the other kit parts. All in all they turned out nice:





I am going to cheat a little bit when I re-install it. I always hated those fabric duct hoses that are part of the kit. They are a bitch to install and attract dust. I'm going to just buy some plastic duct/hose from Home Depot. You would have to bend yourself into a human pretzel in order to even see that i've changed them anyway as they are completely buried behind the dash panel.