Repro 15cwt GS box cover

[Stewart Loy]

Originally Posted by Tony Smith

Yeah, yeah, yeah! Enough about the tarp, how was the Chicken?

Tony,

I hope that you are not of Syrian decent, and what I am about to say is in no way a slight to the noble people of that fine land.

The chicken was slow roasted in the cooker for an entire day, and filled the house with chicken goodness smells, so I was anticipating a delightful meal, then a super lunch the next day when Jordan Baker came over to get a new clutch disc put in his WW2 jeep.

The chicken spent the day swimming in a vat of Presidents Choice brand Memories of Damascus Tangy Pomegranate Sauce. I wish that I would have read the label first, as manly man food seldom goes with "A tangy, fruity barbecue sauce and glaze for lamb, chicken, ribs, ham and shrimp."

While the meat was very tender it was a bit ( and I hope I don't offend any of the forum with delicate sensibilities ) tangy and fruity. I cannot recommend this concoction.

More later.


Stewart

[Gordon Yeo]

Well lets not dwell on the chichen then. How did the clutch rebuild go?

[Stewart Loy]

Gordon,

Saturday was a fun day. I had Jordans jeep over for a clutch swap. I left him to fiddle with the disassembly while my new snowblower was delivered. Its a big one for my new tractor, so I suspect that it will not snow another flake in Woodstock - now that I am ready for it!

Not only did Jordan want a clutch and pressure plate swap, but he had a new throwout bearing and starter and input shaft bushings, and a steering shaft thing too! I guess once the patient is under you might as well fix it up all the way. Compared to the Carrier and CMP truck bits the tiny jeep parts seemed toylike.

I was not surprised how easliy everything came apart - but most of the new parts went in the way Jordans manual said that they should. Possible exclusion was the temperature sender bulb that was broken in the engine extraction process. I think that Jordan will not need a gauge to tell the tempetaure when he drives the open jeep home this coming weekend - it harkens back mempries of when I was younger and foolish.

Special thanks to a very helpful Charlie Fitton who showed up around supper time. Chicken carcass' pushed aside it was time for him to earn his roast beef dinner - and he certainly did. Whilst regailing us with soldier tales he motivated us and suggested time saving techniques that actually worked. I took special note of the roller bearimng press that he designed for us to press in the new steering parts - well done.

The jeep was driven out to the big garage at 8:30 PM to await Jordans return next Saturday, and we even had time for a beer while Charlie told us some more stories. All in all it was a very good day.

The next day was good also when Jim Rice came over and looked at the jeep. It is parked beside Jim's old CMP truck that we ( mostly you) restored last winter. He recalled that there was a big hole cut somewhere on the box - but he could not see where you had plied your majic to fix it! Not as good as the iltis, but a great job - thanks again. Walter Brandt and Albert Baines are due next Saturday also to look at the CMP tarp, so I will see if they can ferret out your cosmetic excellence - I bet that they won't be able to find it either.

I bet that your arms are tired from snow shovelling, so I will let you go.


Stewart

[Jordan Baker]

It was a fun, if long, day. However the company was great and a pile of work got accomplished in warm surroundings. It sure beat an unheated barn with dingy lighting. The food that Machine Gun Mary cooked up was great even if the sauce didn't make the cut with Stewart. I was happy to be fed two meals. That neat bearing pusher that Charlie made on the spot was great and I will definatley be using that idea again. It saved a large amount of disasembly. The best part of the night was when Stewart climbed into the engine compartment to work on the steering and I almost closed the hood. He actually fit in there as though it had a "1 Stewart Power plant"

As he says the Jeep stuff is very toy like compared to CMP and Carriers. The funniest part was step one in the manual for engine removal. "Pull on hood latches to release and open hood and lean against windshield" Just how dumb were the motorpool GI's

[Gordon Yeo]

Jordan
Don't knock the manuals that tell which side of the stamp to lick before you put it on the letter. The CMP and M-series manuals are a joy to use compared to the Iltis manual. Unlike the Iltis manual, the older manuals are laid out in a far easier format to follow and specs are very easy to find.

Stewart
I have had to shovel some snow but John Deere does my heavy work. Sounds like you guys had a fun weekend, Perry K. and my weekend outing got scuttled with the weather.

Gord

[Jordan Baker]

It was more of a comment to how blatantly obvious it was that "Yes the hood did need to be opened before the engine could come out" The nice thing with these old machines and their manuals is that you don't need a doctorate to work on them.

[CWO (ret) Gilles Aubé]

OK it look very good but how much?

What about the two window?

And is it available to us?

Gilles
UBIQUE

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Jordan Baker

It was more of a comment to how blatantly obvious it was that "Yes the hood did need to be opened before the engine could come out" The nice thing with these old machines and their manuals is that you don't need a doctorate to work on them.

Jordan, if you understand that these were written so the simplest farm hand could understand them, then you realise how ingenious their system was. It's kind of like the "cartoon" type military weapons manuals of the Viet Nam era - they recognised that the average educational aptitude of the average recruit wasn't all that high and rewrote everything accordingly. To us, it's somewhat amusing and a bit insulting, but for someone with no more than a Grade 8 education, they worked.

And believe me, the K.I.S.S. principle remains sacred, in any organised environment...