How To: Ford CMP "Blitz" miscellany

[Jacques Reed]

Good Day,

Ticked off another loose end. Started fabricating the last fuel line a while back but got a bit sidetracked with the transmission rebuild.

So yesterday I finished off the fuel line from the left side fuel tank to the changeover valve. Again, the parts truck junk was invaluable as a pattern. The clip that holds it to the running board support adaptor was too wasted to reuse so another small fabrication job was required.

So that completed all my Bundy tube bending for the truck. fuel lines, brake lines and even the lines to and from the bypass oil filter. Must be quite a few metres all up not including the lines I redid after getting corrected information.

Time now for a Bundy and Coke! Bundaberg that is.

Cheers,

[Keith Webb]

A well deserved Bundy I think... don't forget the ice!

[Mike Cecil]

Well done, Jacques.

But I'm a bit green with envy ... one of the few Aussie items I cannot obtain in the USA is Bundy (and I don't mean the tubing!!)

Best regards

Mike

[Lynn Eades]

And not Ginger beer either. Right Mike?

[Jacques Reed]

Hi Mike,

That is surprising, thought they would be worldwide as they have greatly grown the business in the last few years.

Saw a good documentary on the company maybe 9 months ago on the TV. Can't remember what channel it was on. That doesn't do you much good however!!

Cheers,

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

Well done, Jacques.

But I'm a bit green with envy ... one of the few Aussie items I cannot obtain in the USA is Bundy (and I don't mean the tubing!!)

Best regards

Mike

To paraphrase Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson:
"You want answers?",
"I want a bottle of Bundy",
"You can't handle the Bundy!"
It's simply too much for the American palate, like Vegemite.

Anyway, sending you some Christmas Cheer and bottled Queensland Sunshine.

[Mike Cecil]

Thanks Tony, and a Merry Christmas to you and all my MLU associates, too! Three bottles on Bundy ....mmmmm!

Lynn, the Bundaberg Ginger Beer is available from a place called World Market (along with Vegemite, but only occasionally).

Jacques, the US governmental attitude to 'hard liquor' is odd to an Australian. It is treated differently than wine & beer.

Mike

[Jacques Reed]

Good Day All,

It is a cold, wet, self-isolation kinda day so I thought I would share some info I discovered recently. Perhaps many others know this but it may be of some help to someone else starting out.

I always thought the engine mounting bolts were the same size as the front cabin mounting bolts but I knew the rear cabin mounting bolt was a bit shorter.
I was doing a test fit on the right standard Ford engine mount and found the bolt was not long enough to allow the earth strap to attach to it and still engage the hole with the slotted nut (not castellated nut, they are different).
Pulling out a tin of salvaged mounting bolts I found four different versions of them as per attached photo. First two on left are engine bolts and last three are cab mounting bolts.

When all else fails read the Parts Manual. Sure enough, there are four different bolts used in these two locations. Three of them with the * unique to CMP vehicles in the list.

I have added the following notes and table I made up for my own reference:

Engine and cab mounting bolts:
Despite similar appearance there are 4 types of bolts. The rubber isolators however seem to be the same at all locations. See following:

Engine mounting bolt-right seems to be a standard Ford part. Engine- left is unique to CMP’s. Probably the extra length is to accommodate the engine earth strap under the nut. Believe Parts Manual got it wrong. Right side has the earth strap and needs a slightly longer bolt. The Drivers handbook also shows a longer bolt on the left side but has the strap on the right side! There is however a hole in the same relative location on the left engine crossmember for an earth strap so it could be placed there.
The shorter shoulder height is used on the engine as it goes through thinner gauge steel on the engine crossmember. The longer shoulder height on the cab mounting bolts is to accommodate the thicker cast steel support arms at the front and the doubler plate on the rear cab channel support bracket.

Hope this is of some interest.

[Jacques Reed]

Good Day,

I am presently trying to sort out my speedo cable on my F-15A equipped with a late war round speedo.

I bought a NOS cable years ago which is 119" long. I remember reading on MLU the cable length should be 84" so mine is extra long. I also have a F-15 cable which is 74" long, so 84" sounds the correct length allowing for the extra distance to the xfer case on a F-15A instead of the rear of the transmission.

Searched all my Ford publications and could find nothing about the routing other than perhaps the image attached which seems to show what looks like a speedo cable going behind the handbrake bracket at the transmission. When I tried the F-15 cable going that way there is a long run out in the open above the engine before it gets to the cowl opening. And that is leaving it 10" short of the speedo.

Another interesting thing I discovered is that Ford changed the design of the front idler bearing cap to re-orient the cable more nearly horizontal. Earlier caps had the cable entering vertically which resulted in a sharp bend at the xfer case crossmember. C01Q 19818 is the vertical one and C29Q 19818 is the horizontal one.

I am thinking maybe I should run the long cable through the same opening as the wiring to the rear chassis to use up some of the length. No publication show a speedo cable there however.

Also shown is the different ends at the speedometer. Round gauge at top and Ford type below. Not interchangeable.

Anyone have experience with the cable routing on a late war speedo?

Cheers,