Another C60L Restoration

[Tony Mathers]

Does anyone have any information or the mechanical vehicle field specifications for any of the following:

Truck, 3-ton, Battery Charging (Aust) M 6370 – MVFS 1367
Truck, 3-ton, Battery Storage (Aust) M 6372 – MVFS 1368
Truck, 3-ton, Workshop (Aust) “T” Loading M 6137 – MVFS 1363
Truck, 3-ton, Garage (Aust) M 6136 – MVFS 1366
Truck, 3-ton, Machinery (Aust) “D” Loading M 6137 – MVFS 1360
Truck, 3-ton, Machinery (Aust) Armourers' Loading M 6137 – MVFS 1360
Truck, 3-ton, Workshop (Aust) “ZL” Loading M 6137 – MVFS 1360

My tray appears to be a Garage truck, but I need more information to verify this alas.


After 2 bushfires came unfortunately close the other day I have spent the time since doing extra work cleaning up around the sheds... It was very scary watching the fires approach and being buzzed by jet bombers (water) and even Elvis (a Erickson S-64 Air-Crane - N179AC) made an appearance.

[Keith Webb]

Look who's got a DMV book (on disk!)

Originally Posted by Tony Mathers

Does anyone have any information or the mechanical vehicle field specifications for any of the following:

Truck, 3-ton, Battery Charging (Aust) M 6370 – MVFS 1367
Truck, 3-ton, Battery Storage (Aust) M 6372 – MVFS 1368
Truck, 3-ton, Workshop (Aust) “T” Loading M 6137 – MVFS 1363
Truck, 3-ton, Garage (Aust) M 6136 – MVFS 1366
Truck, 3-ton, Machinery (Aust) “D” Loading M 6137 – MVFS 1360
Truck, 3-ton, Machinery (Aust) Armourers' Loading M 6137 – MVFS 1360
Truck, 3-ton, Workshop (Aust) “ZL” Loading M 6137 – MVFS 1360

My tray appears to be a Garage truck, but I need more information to verify this alas.


After 2 bushfires came unfortunately close the other day I have spent the time since doing extra work cleaning up around the sheds... It was very scary watching the fires approach and being buzzed by jet bombers (water) and even Elvis (a Erickson S-64 Air-Crane - N179AC) made an appearance.

[Mike Cecil]

Tony,

I don't remember if you ever posted the trucks chassis number? Maybe that will provide the key to a positive identification, as there were not that many C60L Garage trucks to look through to find it.

Post it (the chassis number) and I'll have a look.

Mike

[Tony Mathers]

oh BTW - Thanks Keith for the DMV... :P


Mike: My Tray came from Bill's and the chassis from Ryan....

The tray however has the ladder attachment bolt holes on the left hand side above the rear wheel, instead of at the rear, like the machinery/workshop trucks.

[Tony Mathers]

Over the last couple of days I had been cleaning up some of the chassis pieces that needed to be reattached. After grinding off the shattered pieces around them, I was able to de-rust them a little:
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and put on my first bit of paint....
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I have also been working on a portable gantry.
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[Tony Mathers]

I have been doing lots of little stuff recently and seem to be finding it difficult to really focus on some of the bigger jobs that need to be done to get this restoration happening.

I had the head rebuilt which was a little inspiring.
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But I got a bit distracted by buying another blitz... But that is a different story..

Anyway I went to Corowa and that helped focus the brain a little. Lots of people commented about this thread and I saw hundreds of finished restorations (or nearly finished) which got me very envious.. So now I need to get my own truck (trucks) going!

[Tony Mathers]

Here is one of those big jobs I had been avoiding.
Farmer modifications
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Removed
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Started sanding back the chassis... (My small sandblaster needs a bigger compressor, so its mainly with a wire brush in a angle grinder)
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The rear end nearly ready for re-attachment.
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other bits of the rear end that have been sanded and awaiting undercoat.
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Hoping to have all this undercoated at least, by the end of tomorrow,