Bottom half of an M151A2 windshield?

[maple_leaf_eh]

For those who have met me in person, one of my physical features is I am taller than average even for well fed Canadians.

As Dave works along on my M151A2, I remember the posture I must assume to see down the road. Sort of hunched at the shoulders to see under the visor and top of the windshield frame. It gets tiring at the end of a day out. The opportunity is available to construct a riser for the reinstalled windshield with the bottom section of a second frame.

Does anyone in Eastern Canada have a scrapped or not impossibly salvageable M151A2 windshield frame? I have other spares for trading.

[maple_leaf_eh]

Rob Love mentioned he has a few dozen in Manitoba. Is anyone doing an MLE run west to east this summer?

[Robin Craig]

There is a run starting in the next couple of days west to east that I am connected to. Are your ducks in a row ie is it ready to be collected?

[rob love]

Not ready at this end. They are sitting at a surplus yard near portagecla prairie.

[maple_leaf_eh]

Rob, I'll leave the picking and loading to you. Glass would be nice but I am more interested in the condition of the bottom portion where it mounts. BTW, I learned the shatterproof coating on the original glass gets pitted and discoloured if you have grinder sparks hitting it. That and don't sit on a folded windshield. All reasons why I had John Grainger (IltisDriver) cut me a replacement at his auto-glass shop.

My mind's eye sees a 4-6" lift with corresponding hinges and latches. Not a permanent modification, just something for top down driving or road moves. The need is to raise the top edge of the windshield so I am not slouching. That might be OK if I was wearing leathers, arched back, hanging onto the bars of a powerful Harley, but not in an upright M151A2.

[rob love]

You will also have to raise the rollcage. And sew extensions on the tarp.