Restoration of Hull 731- Carrier, MG (Aust) Mortar Carrying

[Darrin Wright]

Finished cleaning up the gear box with the pressure cleaner and then wire buffed it and painted it in undercoat. Measures/inspected the casing/housing and it appears to be useable.
Also cleaned up the engine and removed the last piston in pieces (it was the most rusted in piston).
Pistons measured up to .030"oversize, crank main bearings are standard and the big end bearings have been ground .010".
The block and crank are now at the engine reconditioners to be cleaned and worked on.
Oil pump has been rebuilt.
Also measured and counted all the bolts required to screw into the mounting blocks welded into the hull, will order these soon so that they are in the hull prior to sand blasting.

[Darrin Wright]

Australia Day on saturday, traveled to Melbourne to drop parents off at the Airport, also visited the RACV motorshow in the park. VMVC members there with their Jeeps and some very nice cars. Little bit cool and not as many cars as I remember from the previous years.

Have stripped the started motor and generator and checked and cleaned up. Starter motor has a bent armature and bearings will need to be replaced, but otherwise everything else in it is good to use.

The 2 brush generator requires new bearings and it should be good, buffed it up and will undercoat it and give it a coat of gloss black. Will check in town tomorrow for the bearings.

[Darrin Wright]

New bearings for the genarator have been purchased and it is now rebuilt. Will have to test it later, possibly on the engine running.
The distributor has been stripped and rebuilt using another one. Now will have to read up on how to time it to the engine. The HT lead tubes have been cleaned up and painted.
Ordered a fuel pump kit and engine gasket set from Automotive Surplus. When rebuilding the fuel pump discovered that the shaft for the diaphram was the incorrect length so had to remove the new parts from the kit and place them onto my old shaft, otherwise the rest was simple. It has now been completed and painted.

[Ric Davies]

Good to see another carrier coming to life. Mine took three and a half years but now it's done over 100 miles and I still love it! If you've still got some broken studs or electrical conduit to get apart, while the parts are just glowing quench them with cold water. They will then come apart easily.

[Ric Davies]

Not that good at the photos yet so here is the after shot.

[Bob Moseley (RIP)]

Hi Ric - according to my database your Carrier #4354 is a 1943 South Australian manufacture built under Order No. MOS 170.

Bob

[Ric Davies]

Thanks for the info Bob