C60 cwt Signals CZMk IV

[Gordon Yeo]

I have run out of things to do on the truck, for a while. My canvas bits are going to be made soon and then I can finish off the nose piece. I need some warm weather to do more painting on the van body and from the weather forecast that won't be any time soon. So, on to more practical jobs and getting ready for spring work.

Here are a few pictures before the truck went into storage. I looked up the delivery bill and it arrived March 27 last year.

[Gordon Yeo]

Another part of the interior restoration of the signals van was the screen doors. In the original configuration the doors had been hung on hinges, when the truck came the doors were mounted on rollers running on a track. The bottom of the doors had a channel cut into it and slide on an angle iron bolted to the floor. A piece of angle iron bolted to the floor just inside a door way! That's an accident waiting to happen!

Here are a few before and after pictures of the doors with all the extras stripped off and ready to mount.

[Gordon Yeo]

I have been busy at other things this summer and haven't been working at the truck till recently. A few pictures of the van body being mounted. Between the log skidder, some pipe for rollers and loader tractor I managed to get the van body repositioned with good results.

[Alex van de Wetering]

Excellent work Gordon. Great to see this truck one step closer to the rebirth.

Alex

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Grodon

Always find it interesting the different ways people handle odd projects like putting a body on a chassis.

Rolling the body off the wagon on to the chassis on rollers is quite good, but how did you get the body on to the wagon?

As I look back on some of the ways I have done things like this in hind sight they look look like a How Not To Do It book. Got to find the pictures of how I put the radio box onto my truck, included a pair of 12 foot "I" beams as incline plane and a pair of comealongs.

Your approach looks like a slow and easy approach of just being sure to keep every thing lined up and level, well done.

Cheers Phil

[Gordon Yeo]

Phil

See page two, post #33 too see the van body coming off, log skidder and rollers. The wagon that the van body was on was slightly higher than the truck chassis, at one point the weight and balance was so good I could push the van body along without the skitter helping. The van body certainly went back onto the chassis with far less drama than I thought there would be. Having a 90HP loader tractor certainly makes a big difference on the last few inches of alignment and removing the rollers.

Gord

[Gordon Yeo]

I have most things back on the truck and only a few small details to complete. Here are a few pictures as of today. The mirror is for the cab interior rear view mirror of large John deere tracts. It is larger and wider than the original CMP mirror but is convex and does a very good job on the CMP truck. Any one interested in better pictures?