Nathans F15A Resto

[Keith Webb]

Great to see you're getting stuck into your project.

I notice on one of your interior images a couple of curved angle iron pieces on the passenger side of the cab. I'm fairly sure these were only used on the later 3-ton Australian CMPs. Their purpose was to anchor a bracket on the back of the cab into which the spare wheel carrier arm engaged to stop it banging on the cab over rough ground.

The other observation is that all the late F15A trucks I have seen here retained their steel doors; they were not modified to take the lift off canvas doors.

So I think there's a possibility yours was rebuilt at some stage with a cab from a 3-ton truck. That may also be where the 20" wheels came from.

It's worth checking the diff ratios (stamped on the front of the diff housing) to see if they're the high ratio for 16" wheels or the lower ratio for 20" wheels.