From: F. Brian Mead (brian@hardscrabblefarm.com)
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 08:00:21 PDT
There are photos of the restoration on my
site. www.hardscrabblefarm.com Just follow the antique car link on the
home page. I'll post final photos next week.
Thanks,
Brian Mead
At 07:53 AM 8/15/2002 -0400, Glen Bedel wrote:
>What about pictures?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: F. Brian Mead [mailto:brian@hardscrabblefarm.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 7:35 PM
>To: mil-veh@mil-veh.org
>Subject: [MV] THANK YOU TO THE LIST!!!!!!
>
>
>First! A REALLY big THANK YOU to my wife for putting up with her very
>grumpy, single minded, sometimes whiny husband! I guess she could compare
>this to a bad baseball or football season for most other wives!
>
>A Big THANK YOU to everyone who offered help & advice on my 1944 MB
>project! The jeep has got the new tub on, and even though it was raining,
>I drove it around the barnyard!!!!!! WAHOOO!!!!!
>
>Now that it's safely back in the garage, I'll fill everyone in on the last
>stretch. You may remember I tried to get it running about 2 weeks
>ago. After checking the battery and all the grounds, I took the starter
>off & had it rebuilt. Apparently the bendix had failed, along with some
>other parts that needed replacing. Not bad for $50.00! I knew it was in
>good hands when I walked into the shop, and from across the room, the owner
>started chirping "jeep, jeep, jeep, jeep, jeep!" I was right in assuming he
>had done a few in his time.
>
>Last Sunday afternoon, I got the old starter bushing out of the bell
>housing (that's a LONG story in frustration!), and put the new bushing &
>starter in. All seemed to go well. I pulled the plugs so I wouldn't have
>to fight the compression and proceeded to crank the engine over a few times
>to fill up the fuel lines that I had replaced. (I didn't replace all of
>them, some were already fairly new when I got the jeep) I put in new spark
>plugs (and the cool little umbrellas too =^) and hooked everything up.
>
>I put the battery in, and fired her up. All seemed to go well for about
>5-10 seconds, until I saw the smoke coming from the engine!!!!! I stared
>in disbelief, with visions of rebuilding the engine floating thru my
>brain. As the smoke & oil settled down, it seemed the long oil line going
>from the block to the oil filter had failed at the bottom fitting. That
>fan did a WONDERFUL job of coating my engine compartment with oil...at
>least now I don't have to worry about the engine compartment
>rusting. =^) So, I spent a while cleaning up the engine compartment, and
>headed back to the house for a drink. Mmmm, nice to see you Captain Morgan!
>
>Monday I stopped by Richard Grace's house to pick up some new oil lines. I
>put them in about 1 hour ago, topped off the oil, and started her up. I
>swear she runs better than she ever has! The idle is smoother and
>quieter. I still need to deal with the accelerator return spring because
>it doesn't really want to return that quickly, but that's easy!
>
>Thanks again to everyone for the great help & advice.
>
>BTW, I'm going to name the jeep "Sadie", after my horse. I rode Sadie the
>horse in CW reenacting, and now I'll drive Sadie the jeep in WW2!
>
>Now on to get Robin's CJV-35/U running! =^)
>
>Later,
>Brian (grinning like an idiot!) Mead
>
>
>
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