I ran an M serties bed on my cckw until I imported the correct body from
Europe. If the truck does not have body on the back, you will pay hell to
find one in the US.
The ex-Norway trucks, if they have a gun mount are incorrect. They used the
short wheelbase truck mounts on the long wheelbase trucks.
If you go with brass lined wheel cylinders and new hoses, a new booster and
master, It will cost you about $1,000.
For canvas, I use M35 canvas tarps and end-flaps. You make the sides 4"
higher and put the canvas on backwards (they moved the tie-downs between
cckw and M-series). These canvas tarps even NOS ones are much less expensive
than a new cckw one from Beechwood etc. It makes it better to camp in too...
Steve AKA Dr Deuce
----- Original Message -----
From: Gordon.W.I. McMillan <gwim2@student.open.ac.uk>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 5:10 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Looking for a CCKW
> Those trucks are pretty much solid iron. The only advice I'd give is that
> there are so many (ex-Norway) good ones about don't buy anything that
> isn't relatively complete.
>
> I saw one on e-bay last week that had an M series bed on it, and wondered
> why anyone would even look. Allow for buying all new tyres and canvas,
> rebuilding the brakes, maybe some work on the transmission downstream of
> the gearbox (transfer case, pillow block, driveshafts) and it'll probably
> need a torque rod or two as well.
>
> Apart from that it'll probably still be running when we are all history
> unless somebody does anything really nasty to it.
>
> All together now;
>
> "they dont build them ...........
>
> Gordon
>
>
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