My first carrier: some assembly required

[rob love]

Super Dave: Yours is one of the two pictured on the first page. I believe it is the one closest to where Derk is bending over:at least I think it's Dirk...it's too skinny to be me. For those ones, it was just Dirk and I digging. The single one on the second page is now in the posession of Gord F.

Note that the single one on the second page (which we dug out a year later than the other two) actually is located underneath the big front end loader shown in the first page.

[super dave]

Well it has been some time since I picked up this carrier and I have officially started on its restoration. I have overhauled the transmission as second gear was half worn out in the gears (see picture) as I used a spare trany I had for the second gear as well as the lower cluster.

The engine I did a complete overhaul as it had water in it at one point in its life and I had to install a couple sleeves and all of the valve seats as well. I have assembled it as far as I can go at the moment as I need the following for completion if any one can help me with these parts:

GENERATOR
CARBURETOR
EXHAUST MANIFOLDS

I have the fan and fan extension and a regular generator but it will not line up with the fan extension (Is the carrier generator carrier specific or is there a civilian model that will work and what year?)

I was given some exhaust manifolds but I think they are the wrong ones (see picture) and does any one know what years they would have been from or if anyone has a spare set they would be willing to part with?

I am also looking for the correct carburetor as well as I can use one from a car/truck engine but I would like to find the correct one again if any one could help me with this as well.

Was the factory intake cast steel and is the adjustment for the generator a bolt into the intake as that is what it looks like from some of the pictures I have seen from other members carriers?? Is the aluminum intake from a civy the same or is the carrier intake carrier only as the aluminum one is all I have and it has a stud and want to know if it will be strong enough for the weight of the generator/fan extension??

The next item I will be tearing into is the differential to see its condition and replace all of the seals if I can find them and see the condition of the shoes as well.

Anyhow I will update this thread during the course of its resurrection during the following months.

Dave

[rob love]

The exhaust manifolds you want are off a 36 Ford if I recall correctly. I don't have access to a part manual these days, but the part number of the manifold will give you the dates of when the part was first introduced, as well as what vehicle (car/truck) it was designed for.

The ones in your photo are definitely not carrier.

[super dave]

Ok I will keep an eye out for that year of manufacture for the manifolds. Would you or anyone else know if the generator on the carrier would be of the 36 model year as well or is it carrier specific?

[Lynn Eades]

Here are a few pictures of your generator bracket which locates on one large peg, and two small ones. I show a lucas genny, and the Canadian Ford one as well as the part number on the later one. The stud in the manifold is std., but the nut (about 3" long is carrier specific, with a round washer, and a square one, which engages with the serations in the front of the fan extention.
The manifolds are the std ones, that have the outlet directly opposite the front port.

[super dave]

Thanks Lynn that is the info I needed. Just a couple questions, Is there a gap between the generator mount and fan extension like in your picture or do they mount flush with each other? Would you have any pictures of the nut and its dimensions as I will more than likely have to make one made up. Also how thick is the coupler that links the gen to the fan and what is it made of as I will also have to make one of those as well.

Dave

[Lynn Eades]

Will do photo of bolt in the next few days.
Coupling O.D.= 52.3mm
slot width=1/2"
coupling thickness= 1/2"
Bottom of slot to opposite side bottom of slot=35mm (1.375")
Hole in centre= 7/8" (has a shallow bevel out to 30mm, both sides.
Ask for anything I've missed.