Two T16s to restore

[horsa]

It’s all good therapy and will help keep you young

Rod Shaver in Arizona made a run of fuel tanks and he bought a bunch of the lockers that go above them when we did that production run. Might be worth seeing if he still has any since it would save you having to reinvent the wheel on at least one part of the project.

Look forward to seeing pics and following your progress.

[eddy8men]

as a fellow t16 restorer i look forward to watching your project take shape. good luck with it

rick

[EricF]

These are the original photos of our two T16s. The one without tracks is the one we are currently restoring.

[horsa]

Yep, both hulls show evidence of having done Swiss service. That will account for the lack of internal lockers and fuel tanks since they ripped everything out when they converted the vehicles into APCs.

You'll have to jump through most of the same hoops I did while putting my carrier back into British configuration if that's the ultimate goal.

[andrew honychurch]

hi there Eric and welcome to the wonderful world of T16 restorations. I have nearly finished with mine, which is about 2 years working pretty hard, most of the time has gone in getting the details right, and fabricating all of the rotted out of missing items. I have been greatly helped by David who has chronicled every aspect of his restoration and has been able to guide me in many ways. I will be happy to help you guys with any items you need advice on and if I can help with parts, I have found sources for some items here in the UK. Like carburettors, overhaul kits, fan belts, fuel pumps and kits, new sender units. I wish you good fortune with the restorations and knowing what a fun vehicle they are at the end it will be well worth your efforts.

As well as Rod Shaver, check out Brian Asbury in Canada. He has some specialist T16 parts as well.

Now, you reminded me. I need to update my post!!

[EricF]

The rear end was mounted on the 4th of July, but doing it removed any desire to celebrate the day. We did not use the method we saw in your pictures Andrew. We used the PTO on a tractor to lift the rear end onto a pallet, and then lined it up with the access hole at the rear of the T16. Everything looked good, but we deluded ourselves into thinking this would be a half hour job. It turned into several hours of sweating, swearing and sweltering in 100 degree heat. We finally gave up when we were starting to see mermaids, and thought we would let it sit until Saturday. I got a call from Glen a couple of hours later and he told me that he found advice from an expert (only Glen could find a German who fought in France during the war, and used T16s for a taxi behind his lines) that knew exactly how to mount a rearend. Glen has to tell me the full story on Saturday, but it had to do with a come along and a martial spirit. Needless to say, I was pretty surprised that he got it finished by himself, but at least I was sitting in my airconditioned house while we took on the final work by himself. I will be posting some pictures later this weekend, and hope to have even more completed by the end of the weekend. I am waiting for parts lists from Rod and Brian, and I'll be trying to remember to bring the parts technical manual home with me after we finish work on Saturday. I'm not exactly certain how many track links we have, but I think it's some where around 700. We have two full sets with lots of sag that were removed from one track, and another set with approximately 160 linked together. There is also a stack of unlinked tracks that numbers around 160. Pins might be a problem, because I'm pretty certain we don't have enough for the unlinked tracks. We'll worry about that when we get to it though. We are getting more excited every week, and once the engine is back we'll make getting it mounted our next priority. More to come this weekend.

[EricF]

Just to inform everyone that has been viewing this thread and hasn't seen any activity, we're going through a drought right now, and the temperatures have been over 100 degrees (F) for several weeks. It's just too damn hot to be working with metal right now. We hope to be getting back to work soon.