New Hampshire CMP Barn 2011- 2012 HUP Overhaul

[Phil Waterman]

Originally Posted by RHClarke

Hi Phil, Just checking progress. Did you remove the floor plates in the cab and the rear fenders? I strongly recommend you do so to prevent damage. Also, did you find the two large bolts that hold the front of the cab frame to the truck frame? .....

Good luck with the lift!

Hi Rob

Your point about hidden bolts is well taken, one of the reasons I take so many pictures, is so by looking at them in order I can see what the order is for reassembling. Strange you should mention the front bolts that actually is one of the areas which prompted a down to the frame overhaul, a fatigue crack at the left front bolt location. The picture below will show the location of these unique to HUP body mounting bolts on the bigger CMP cab bolts are really obvious.

Too check for other hidden attachments I've lifted the body up a couple of inches with hydraulic jack think I got everything, now I've put two of the big eye bolt clamps back on for the trip to the garage. Your information on lifting the body are help full. But with the truck finger lift down the road it should be a snap to lift the body straight up then drive my C60L with the drop side cargo bend under with wooden blocks to keep from crushing or bending the chock block boxes at the rear or any of the other little projections. Then it's fold up the drop sides, strap the body down and drive home.

Suspect that the hardest part will be getting the HUP into and out of my own shop. Which is the reason for the pintle hook attachment on the front of my C60L.

The 2nd photo shows the issue I have with the crack to be repaired should be easy once the body is off the truck. Plan too cut the crack lines open and drill a hole just beyond the end of the long crack should then be able to weld the crack cuts tight.

Cheers Phil

[RHClarke]

Originally Posted by Phil Waterman

Hi Rob...The 2nd photo shows the issue I have with the crack to be repaired should be easy once the body is off the truck. Plan too cut the crack lines open and drill a hole just beyond the end of the long crack should then be able to weld the crack cuts tight. Cheers Phil

Phil, My 45 had the same crack in the same location. I also found a number of cracks on the frame - see attached photo - that you may want to check out on your HUP. Keep in mind that my HUP was very much abused...

The white circle was to remind me of the cracked "sled" or runner on the pax side of the truck. The other points included the lower central windshield frame, the point where the upright post meets the wheel well and the door frame just above the guideway. My poor truck was wracked, bent, twisted, torqued and overstressed in so many areas. Thus, the cracks.

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Rob

Thanks for pointing out other problem crack locations, I'll be sure to document all the problem areas I find.

My HUP had a strange crack in the middle of the roof in the forward area I think caused by the heavy forward hatch ring bouncing up and down.

The center post of the my windshield is bolted not welded. Had to replace the bolt at one point because it worked loose and then broke when I tried to tighten it.

Redoing some of my early body work may be difficult as I brazed several sheet metal cracks on the fenders back in the 80s. Now either have to cut cracks and brass out and then re-weld or get the equipment to braze again.

My HUP has had a hard life too, of lots of off road use, and I'm glad to say I had all the fun of driving it over all that rough terrain. Other than cross slope there are very few places a MB, M38, M151 can go that a HUP can not follow, Jeeps charge hills and bounce over obstacles HUPs just slow down and crawl over them.

Cheers Phil

[RHClarke]

Originally Posted by Phil Waterman

...The center post of the my windshield is bolted not welded. Had to replace the bolt at one point because it worked loose and then broke when I tried to tighten it...Cheers Phil

My vertical/center post is bolted as well. The horizontal bar beneath the center post was split from a frontal impact. I can only imagine it was quite a hit...

[Phil Waterman]

Hi All

Progress has not been as dramatic now that everything that can be unbolted from the body has been removed. The body is already to come off but a recent series of snow storms has prevented hauling the truck down to the local heavy truck shop to lift the body off. Big storms means that they they have been busy fixing big highway plows. Hopefully before the next big storm hits I'll get it in and lift the body off.

So in the interim I've been working on things like replacing the dozen caged nuts that have broken. I've added more pictures and expanded the time lapse videos http://www.canadianmilitarypattern.c...AUL%202011.htm

Cheers Phil

[Bob Carriere]

Hi Phil

Seems every storm has split to either go North of Ottawa or South ..... then Cost gets it......

Send us a picture of your snow banks for ol' time sake..... we can't remember what they look like...... we barely have 12 inches on the ground.....

....but Winter is not over so will not make fun of you again this Winter.

Bob

[Phil Waterman]

Hi All

Bob you asked about a picture of the snow banks around the house well the first pictures shows the town plow truck coming in to clean the dooryard. Yup we get one nutty benefit in our town the town plows driveways. (one of the last left in the state that does) Catch is they will not plow nearer than 4' of a building so you still need a plow to clean up after the snow slides off the roof in front of the garage.

Next two pictures show what happened yesterday when I move one of the trucks out for and hour to work on one of the cars, a quick covering of inch plus of snow.

In the last 48 hours we have gotten 18 inches of snow, on top of the 20+ already on the ground.

Cheers Phil