M2a1 progress

[yd328]

Waiting for some parts for the transmission, so here's a photo of the new fuel line installed. I went off of what I saw in the TMs, so I'm not sure how accurate it is. There was a filter with a glass bowl previously installed.



Gary

[67tank]

Gary
Thanks - Exactly what I needed to see.  I ditched the French fuel line/system and wasn't sure on how to do this.  I picked up a rebuilt carb and had all the pieces except for the 90 degree elbow.  Between your pictures and the photo in the TM, I have a pretty good idea on how to run the line now.

Pat

[supertrack]

very nice job 

[vj]

Gary, you done a great job,  wow   love the picture,s

[yd328]

I made some more progress on the transmission today with the arrival of some new parts.

A couple more problems with the old parts. The countershaft bearing surface is pitted. The bearing washer that bubba put in is wrong.


Here's the pretty much new countershaft gear set.
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Gary

[yd328]

Here's the new cases prepped for assembly.


Gary

[prestone]

Wouaw  two news cases 

good reassembly


Prestone

[yd328]

In between working on the transmission/transfer case I am working on a couple of other parts also.
 I got tired of looking for someone to repair the cylinder in the original hydrovac. The best answer I got on it was "if you just use it in parades moving slow it should be ok". That wasn't an answer I wanted to hear so I roughed in a modern one.


Gary

[emptyhead]

Nice.where did you pick up the booster and how much. I have a new Hydrovac in the box that sat for 40 plus years so I'm assuming all the seals are bad so until I get it rebuilt I need a sudsitute.

[yd328]

I bought mine at a local carquest. I used the numbers from a post here. I can dig up the one i bought, there are 2 different ones. This one is the larger of the two. I would have bought the other one, only for ease of mounting due to the smaller size. I have also seen this one used on a couple of halftracks succesfully. The cost was $160. Its tight and hangs below the step about an inch.


Gary

[prestone]

in the post "M3 in France" of Supertrack

that is the assembly regularly on our side of the world;-)
it is a French army modification kit

http://i18.servimg.com/u/f18/15/60/01/01/20150710.jpg

[spec4don]

Very nice! 

Don G

[emptyhead]

Thanks guys

[yd328]

The transmission is finally done.

These were the big hold up, most are close. The original is in the lower left corner, it was bouncing around on the shaft. A friend finally matched one up at a Peterbuilt dealer. The snap ring would fit the shaft, but I wanted to stay with the constant section snap ring.  It holds 3rd gear in place.


Now onto the transfer case, here's the internals.

[yd328]

The transfer case is almost done. I have to get some shims in order to set up the end play on the shafts to  finish it up. Here's a couple of pics.
The intermediate shaft gear and needle bearings.

The gears placed in the case.

Setting the shaft end play on the intermediate shaft. I ran into a potential problem doing this, I will make a post in the transmission/transfer case section.


Gary