last weekends unreported efforts
Should have posted this up earlier, but anyway...
Since I do not have a crane to lift my hull up I resorted to having to lift it up with a bottle jack and blocking it as it went. I got it high enough (and safe enough) so that I could get in under it with the oxy to cut all the bolts that retain the exhaust pipes in place and heat up the exhaust elbows mounted in the floor.
Managed to removed the exhaust system from the hull intact, saved it so it will become a sample for what has to go back in later.
Aslo straightened some of the underside brackets while there.
I did find that heating up the portion of broken bolt that was protruding, letting it cool, gentle smack or whack with a hammer and then it would come out. I have one bolt left to remove that holds the seat brackets in in the front of the hull. Just trying to find the time as that one will have to be drilled. I might try and weld a small bolt to it and see if it will un-screw...
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1943 Ford GPW Jeep "Follow Me"
1943 MBT trailer
1943 Dodge WC-57 Command Car
1943 Chev C60L Army Cargo Truck
1941 LP2 VR 731 Bren Gun Carrier 3" Mortar Carrying
Under restoration:
1940 LP1 Bren Gun Carrier
194? 1 Ton Trl Ben Hur
1942 C15A with sunshine cabin
MVPA 31338
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