Restoration of Hull 731- Carrier, MG (Aust) Mortar Carrying

[Darrin Wright]

This weekend a few things came together and get done.
Ran the engine, with the gearbox on, and tested all gears. The engine, with the little bit of load from the box, quietened down and ran smoothly, also there was no noise from the gear box. Happy with that, which means it should not have to come off in the near future.

I cut the clutch linkage rods to size, and a friend of mine placed the 7/16 UNF threads onto the ends, then I undercoated them. Also picked up 12 clevis pins to suit the yokes, just have to cut them to length and drill the split pin hole.

I stripped down the Duplex coupling and cleaned it out, then re-greased it, fitted new grease nipples and fitted it to the output yoke on the gearbox.

During the week will look at the oil cooler lines and the fittings and look at reproducing them.