"Rough Night" M3a1 Restoration

[supertrack]

The Canvas is very nice !

[airservice]

hello
great project  with good parts
olivier

[big44maghunter]

Well, it's been almost a year since my last project post.  Life got in the way again!  Had to travel several months for work and haven't done much with the Michigan cold.  I did have one huge step on my project, a new pole barn!  Should make the rest of the project a little easier than working in my gravel drive.  Finally got back on it yesterday and ended up removing the powertrain.   One step closer, I have a plan to get it all torn down by June 1st and start the other direction this summer.

Brad

[8683jb]

Looks great Brad. Looks like a nice pole barn - and a purty dang nice power train remover too! Good luck with it all and post lots of pictures.
Jon

[big44maghunter]

Looks great Brad. Looks like a nice pole barn - and a purty dang nice power train remover too!

Thanks!  I bought a 1 ton gantry then was offered the forklift for scrap value.  About $700 and some spray paint and it works great.  Twice the capacity also.

Brad

[big44maghunter]

Tear down continues! Making good progress.  Removed the rear drive axel and a pallet of other items.

[Tapper02]

Gettin’ there Brad...then the real fun begins!  I see the torp heater is going full blast...cold??

-Tom

[big44maghunter]

It was a little chilly last night, got down to 24deg.

[emptyhead]

Keep up the good work

[spec4don]

Bravo! It will be fun when you start back up hill!

Don G.

[yd328]

Nice work, it only gets better from here .

Gary

[emptyhead]

Very nice start on the restoration

[big44maghunter]

Felt like a few rounds with Tyson working on the track tonight!  Only got a few things off but progress is progress! 

Can't post pictures right now for some reason.

[big44maghunter]

Been trying to figure out how to post pictures again with not a lot of success.  I can no longer post them directly to the site like I used to be able to, so this will be my test on 3rd party hosting. 

Pretty much have everything off at this point except for the bogie assemblies.  I did have a couple questions for the group about the rear cast frame section, should I remove this?  looking for any reason why or why not to separate this from the frame.  Also the rear idle shaft, should I remove these or just cover and blast around them?  Just want to make sure there are no reasons why I should or should not take these items off.  I'm good either way but don't want to create more work if not needed.

Thanks,

Big44maghunter - Brad

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[big44maghunter]

Okay,  well some success.  Now I need someone to tell me how to get the picture to show and not the link!  What did I do wrong?

Thanks,
Brad