New Hampshire CMP Barn 2011- 2012 HUP Overhaul

[RHClarke]

Since you usually are the first to respond to the yearly Hammond Barn update, I thought it appropriate to respond in kind with your thread. I await further photos with eager anticipation.

[Bob Carriere]

....ain't the web a great tool for staying in touch...........

Bob
President
Local Hammond chapter
The Phil Waterman fan club....

[Nick Bullock]

Hi Phil

Happy memories, I am watching with great interest.

regards

Nick
Yorkshire

[RHClarke]

Phil,

Thanks for posting the gif and jpeg HUP images on your website (http://www.canadianmilitarypattern.com). It truly is "the place to be" for HUP info.

[Phil Waterman]

Hi All

Well as of Friday the body is basically stripped. All the fuel system including tanks and lines has been removed. The body is all ready to be lifted off down the road at my friendly heavy truck shop. When I checked before Christmas he had no work at all and the shop was empty, then we got 18" of snow now he is backed up with broken plow equipment. First heavy snow of the year finds everything that people had planned to fix last summer and forgot. So now I'm waiting for him to get caught up.

I've posted a whole bunch of photos of the process on my web site page is not on the index yet but here is the direct link http://www.canadianmilitarypattern.c...AUL%202011.htm it also includes a time lapse video of most of the work so far http://www.canadianmilitarypattern.c...d%20HQ%201.wmv

Cheers I'll post some photos directly to MLU have to downsizes them.

This week I start cleaning parts.

Cheers Phil

[RHClarke]

Originally Posted by Phil Waterman

Hi All ...The body is all ready to be lifted off down the road at my friendly heavy truck shop. Cheers Phil

Hi Phil, Just checking progress. Did you remove the floor plates in the cab and the rear fenders? I strongly recommend you do so to prevent damage. Also, did you find the two large bolts that hold the front of the cab frame to the truck frame? I found them the hard way...

Will you be supervising the lift? Some folk think army trucks are indestructable and treat them accordingly...At the barn we used chains and straps to lift the HUP body. The chains went under the body and thru the rear wheel wells and from the front cab frame to a central point above the main hatch. A strap held both chains together and then attached to Bob's bucket. It takes some time to find the right balance point, but it works.

Good luck with the lift!

[Bob Carriere]

....and a source of inspiration..... I was running out of breath watching you move around......

Remember is you need bits and pieces we are only as far as UPS....

Bob

[Phil Waterman]

Originally Posted by RHClarke

Hi Phil, Just checking progress. Did you remove the floor plates in the cab and the rear fenders? I strongly recommend you do so to prevent damage. Also, did you find the two large bolts that hold the front of the cab frame to the truck frame? .....

Good luck with the lift!

Hi Rob

Your point about hidden bolts is well taken, one of the reasons I take so many pictures, is so by looking at them in order I can see what the order is for reassembling. Strange you should mention the front bolts that actually is one of the areas which prompted a down to the frame overhaul, a fatigue crack at the left front bolt location. The picture below will show the location of these unique to HUP body mounting bolts on the bigger CMP cab bolts are really obvious.

Too check for other hidden attachments I've lifted the body up a couple of inches with hydraulic jack think I got everything, now I've put two of the big eye bolt clamps back on for the trip to the garage. Your information on lifting the body are help full. But with the truck finger lift down the road it should be a snap to lift the body straight up then drive my C60L with the drop side cargo bend under with wooden blocks to keep from crushing or bending the chock block boxes at the rear or any of the other little projections. Then it's fold up the drop sides, strap the body down and drive home.

Suspect that the hardest part will be getting the HUP into and out of my own shop. Which is the reason for the pintle hook attachment on the front of my C60L.

The 2nd photo shows the issue I have with the crack to be repaired should be easy once the body is off the truck. Plan too cut the crack lines open and drill a hole just beyond the end of the long crack should then be able to weld the crack cuts tight.

Cheers Phil