Chrysler Forward control amphibious

[Bob Carriere]

....do you have a picture???? I may have one, double barrel..... that I am not using. Came off a crate engine..... same yard.

[rob love]

I'll take one as soon as I get out to the shop. It looks very similar to the old M135 deuce carb.

[Colin Alford]

Rob,

Here are some images from the distributor section of a 1964 M113 parts list. I hope they may be of assistance.

Colin

[Paul Singleton]

I did some searching for the distributor cap on the parts sheet and found this:

https://www.veritableaerospace.com/n...15359/8722526/

[rob love]

Problem is Paul, those companies list every NSN available. Stock very often does not exist. I will keep an eye on ebay, as well as ask on the G503 when the time comes. Right now I am busy getting stuff stowed away before the snow flies.

Thanks for the photos from the parts manual Colin. They will be a great help. I do have to remember that the 361 in those photos, and the 318 are different engines. I researched the spark plugs shown in that manual, but they do not appear to be the correct shielded plug for the 318. Unfortunately, I do not have the parts manual for the RAM, but as I read through the maintenance manual and the failure reports, I'm sure the info will show up.

Attached is a photo of the carb for Bob.

I checked on some 16.00 - 20 tires today and they are 52" in height. I measured quickly and they are 10" larger than the existing 14.00-20 tires, and I do not think they will fit in the wheel wells. I guess the search for an appropriate tire will continue. I can also assemble a set of the 9.00x20 tires and save myself a high climb.

[Bob Carriere]

Hi Rob

Will be in the barn tomorrow but it does look very similar...stay tuned.... I know it came from a crate engine....stacked 6 high.... complete drop in 6 cyl. bell housing to water pump...... yard was in what is now down town Gatineau.... the yard was enclosed by old Ottawa street cars used as fences and storage area for parts........we just punched our fist through rotten bottom crate thin plywood walls and undid the carb nuts... we were into M37 at the time......

Hope it is the same.......

[rob love]

Sounds like good times, and something that is almost impossible to do these days. We still get a little of that with our one remaining mil scrapyard out here, but we know that nothing is forever.
Looking forward to seeing what you have.

[Bob Carriere]

.....in my cell phone and the cable to download to my puter are in my truck at the Ford dealer.... tomorrow......hang in there.......

[Bob Carriere]

Still having a hard time downloading from the new Pixel 7 camera to the PC......

The more I look at it and another parts in the same milk crate the more I think its from an early deuce 6 cyl.

Any questions fire away..... will be posted in two separate threads.....

[Bob Carriere]

....here they come...
It is my assumption that all the various waterproof dizzy of the 50s were all made by the same contractor....some for 4 or 6 or 8 cyl engines....Chrysler or GM.....only the driving shaft would match the various blocks...never seen them on Ford...... wish I had saved a few for small block GM..... of for the small Hemi used in air compressor circa 52/55

I have a very dusty dizzy and possibly wiper motors.......

Currently Surplus to my requirements....

[rob love]

The g749 in the part number is the dead giveaway the it is for the GMC deuce family. Add to that the governor and the flange pattern. Thanks for looking though.

[rob love]

There are two basic patterns of distributors that I have seem on the m-series of the 50s. There was the distributor like on the jeeps, the m37, and (new to my knowledge base) the 8 cylinder variation. Then there is the Delco version used on the 6 cylinder engines like the deuce, and the gas 5 tons.

[Grant Bowker]

885FFG is also correct for the M135 family. I assume the FFG part of the part number is "fitted for governor", because it was...