"Rough Night" M3a1 Restoration

[coreyelliott]

Hey Brad,

Try replacing your quotation marks with open and closed brackets like these [ ]. place img or /img between the brackets.  img for the first one on each line and /img for the last one on each line.  In other words, exactly like you have it now, but with brackets instead of quotes.

[big44maghunter]

Hey Brad,

Try replacing your quotation marks with open and closed brackets like these [ ]. place img or /img between the brackets.  img for the first one on each line and /img for the last one on each line.  In other words, exactly like you have it now, but with brackets instead of quotes.

Thanks for the help but it still didn't work. I replaced the quote marks with brackets and saved.  When I post it nothing showes up, not even the link!  It's still there when I go back to edit but does not show up when posted!

Brad

[big44maghunter]

Test

http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/showphoto.php?photo=252828&title=20180406-220256&cat=500 

[steve1973]

Hi Brad,
once you have your photos up loaded to the G503 albums site here is what you do to put photos in your posts.

Open photo of choice then go to the medium image link and copy link.



Once link is copied then you can past in in your post.



To check to see if it works all you have to do is Preview your post. If you see the photo instead on the link then it worked.

Hope this helps.

Steve A.

[big44maghunter]

Need some input on best way to remove these bogie arms.  I used the heat and beat method on the one on the right and it took and hour, but it's off!  Thanks for any pointers you may have!

Big44maghunter - Brad

[beerman]

 Mine all seemed to come apart fairly easy. One or two needed some heat. I also used some small chisels or wedges to spread them apart, I inserted the chisels where the axles are for the bogie clusters. Put two on each a a side and slowly spread them apart. Where the arms fit into the  main casting, used some smaller ones and slowly worked them  apart as well. Iead somewhere where, someone, jacked up the rear , and rotated the bogie wheel out of the way and used a small bottle Jack and or a porta power and pushed the arms apart, while using some heat and a hammer.

[Darth_Kitten]

It's a tapered fit. I used chisels as well. There was some beating and cursing...

[8683jb]

I tried the chisels, but I wasn’t getting anywhere so I machined a steel cap to slide over threads to protect the end of the shaft and used a large two-jaw gear puller. A couple of them just popped off with the puller but on the others, after I tightened the wazoo out of the puller, a few smacks with a large hammer did the trick without having to use any heat. Or as mfrance suggested, a porta-power would be a handy tool for this. Once the tapered shafts are free, the rest is pretty easy.

[big44maghunter]

Well in the end the chisel and heat method worked pretty good.  had 2 or 3 that took a lot of work but the rest came out without too much trouble.  Got all the rest of the bogie parts off the frame, including the cast housing.  couple small things to take off tonight then it should be off to the sandblaster.

Brad

[steve1973]

LOOKS GREAT!! Before you go any further I recommend you take lots of photos of the frame for fuel, brake line and wiring routing and mounting locations.

Steve A.

[big44maghunter]

I've not posted in a while, but I have continued to make progress a little at a time!  I have the frame sandblasted and primed, sent 20 bogies out to be redone and have started to collect some bolts and bearings to put the crab and bogie clusters back together. 

Speaking of bearings I started with new replacements at Motion (SKF 6405), they were around $90ea on their website!  sure didn't plan on that much in my budget so I have been working back from that.  I have a friend that manages a Motion industries store that can get me the SKF for about $45 which is pretty damn good considering where they started, but I wanted cheaper than that.  So far I have picked up 6 NOS New Departure 3405's for about 22ea and continue to look for reasonably priced replacements.  Anyone know of a source in that price range or have most been paying up for them? 

Thanks,

Brad

[Outsider]

Run as far as you can from Motion. They are one of the most expensive places to get bearings. Do a goggle search for the part number and go from there. Should end up with much better results.

Steve

[8683jb]

Brad - colhalftrack/Kevin Lockwood has the bearings and seals. Your frame looks great!

Jon

[prestone]

Wouah

great job

[Monkeypirate]

I picked up my bearings from http://www.locateballbearings.com. they give you a list of bearings from different manufacturers.  I picked up American made SKF for less then Chinese made bearings.