Identification of F15 2WD?

[Ganmain Tony]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

I see you have an extremely capable and experienced man on the job already.

And as you can imagine. We tried quite a number of tricks. None of which made a difference.

Wear on valve faces enough to convince us it needs a bit more work to make it a reliable runner.

[Ganmain Tony]

Getting some invaluable tutorials on panel beating and welding from a very capable neighbour (Who wishes to remain anonymous). Also, very generously he is letting me have access to his resources.

Two things you'll notice from the photo's - theres no way of knowing if I actually did the welding... although from the mountain of weld I had to grind off you probably would know I did it.

The second thing is.... this is not in Colin Jones league... but it is progress and a heck of a lot of fun.

So we filled a few holes and knocked out some dents.

[Ganmain Tony]

Very satisfying to see parts cleaned up looking like new again.

Roof is off an Australian Cab and is in pretty good nick but does need a bit of attention. The other bits were a basic sandblast and paint.

[Bob Carriere]

Where do the ailerons and tail section fit on a CMP...? must be a Ford

I envy your dry warm weather ...... we are still in snow and mud....frozen hard in the morning and sticky wet mud in late afternoon.

Bob C

[Ganmain Tony]

Perhaps the aircraft parts are for the truck because, when complete, it will... fly..?

Weather here is absolutely perfect at the moment. Very light breezes, if at all. Temperatures in the early twenties and dry.

More progress - tiny steps but great fun.

Bottom half of the cab is done all holes plugged, major dings removed without (heaven forbid) hiding spot welds or other standard, factory finish roughness.

Half the door striker was worn away. Quick weld and grind to clean it up

[Bob Carriere]

First semi nice day today and the boys are playing in the barn.......

......while I pump water out of the basement...... I have one of those house built by previous owner who believed that because we are on top of the hill and the ground is sandy that he did not need a sump pump.

Well we had torrential rain for two days and the ground is still frozen solid except for 5 inches of mud on top....... so run off has flowed between the foundtation walls and the frozen earth...... mean Winter means frost down to 5 feet......

Not enough water to use a real pump but my HD shop vac is doing hard work keeping up with the slow seepage.

Hope it dries up so I can play in the barn.

Bob

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Bob

Years ago had a similar problem and I got tired of having to carry the shop vac out to empty it. At got bright idea of using a small submersible pump to pump out the vac base with a long hose to dump water far away from the shop. Then got the bright idea of plumbing the pump through the side of the base to connect the hose, which allowed the vacuum to pick up water at the same time it is being pumped out of the building.

Last time used the rig was to pick up the water off the floor of the shop while washing the HUP in the dead off winter.

Ah the joys of living with frozen ground, been a long hard winter, but have heart mud season is yet to come.

Cheers Phil