Hi Isaac, Yep, till I change the second diff over I was just going to remove drive shaft and go free wheeling ... can you imagine the outcome if someone did slip it into 4WD with two different ratios!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: I'll miss the 4WD for a while :( but money and time make it a "one d...

Hello, Firstly thanks for your offer MM but I had actually gone an ordered a set of new 4.88 ring and pinion gears from the US a while ago. Plus a repair kit, shims, and all new bearings......... Hence the overseas importation reference. Now this is going to sound odd but if someone can answer I'd b...

Good question Bob, At the moment I am in the middle of moving and unable to find all the receipts for work the previous owner had done on Old Rusty. Previous owner MAY have had the diff 'rebuilt', however when my mechanic took a look his immediate thoughts were that it had been set up wrongly. Amazi...

In a follow-up to our 1000km round trip back in march I neglected to mention a bit of a 'rumble' coming from the rear differential. Friends and fellow travelers were of course full of advice and of the opinion I was imagining it, what with all the noise of the truck anyway. I decided to drain the re...

The two other vehicles on the trip were a modern Landrover Defender and an ex-Australian Army 6x6 Landrover Mortar Carrier.

At this stage the only photos I have of the Dodge crossing any rivers were from my partners phone camera! So the quality is pretty terrible. We had two other vehicles with us and I'll check to see what photos they got over the next few days as we all recover from the trip. I had thrown on some new 4...

Hi M37'ers, My partner and I have just returned from an amazing journey of over 600 miles (that was just one-way) driving our 1942 Willys and 'Old Rusty', our '53 M37. The trip took us five days, we joined with two other vehicles and camped at some amazing bush campsites and undertook some fairly ex...

Hope its okay to post this about another website.... Some of you may have heard of the military vehicle gathering that is held every year in Corowa , Australia. Well I just published a new website for the club concerned (KVE), and I thought the g741 members would be pleased to know I put my M37 as t...

Thanks for the comments. It is the second of these more scenic adventures I have made with the Dodge to the show. In the past we just used to head down the 'highway' for two days to get there. My nerves are now somewhat shot from crazies on the main roads including one young driver who clipped the t...

HI MM, No Bruce took his new shiney vehicle to the show. I traveled with a Landrover Defender, an ex-army mortar carrier Landy and a 1927 Dodge. http://g741.org/photogallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13648&g2_serialNumber=1 http://g741.org/photogallery/main.php?g2_view=cor...

Ahoy there! It has been some time since I posted something here. Not to say that I haven't been using my M37 down here in dusty Australia. This year I took the Dodge for a 1200km round trip with some mates to a military show. We traveled via dirt roads for as much of the trip as possible, saw a grea...

Hello, Im going to TRY and post a picture of my M37 from last week here in Australia at an annual MV event. Hope you like! (if I can get it to work!) http://www.g741.org/photogallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=5063&g2_serialNumber=2 Nope, sorry, you'll have to click on the ...

Hello again, Yes we took care of Old Rusty from Gerry early last year. Forgot to mention that as a bit of a laugh we took the truck down to the local show (like a country fair) and entered it in the 'beaut ute' (pickup truck) competition alongside all these hotted up, big stereo, big wheel, tinted t...

Hello, It has been an age since I posted to this site - mainly cause I can't work out the picture posting thing - thats another matter altogether! Just wanted to say that with Spring here (Australia) it sure is great to be using Old Rusty some more! He made the front cover of the Power Wagon 24th An...

I thought it was quite a funny remark at the time when my partner showed me some new clothes she had bought.....

I thoughfully asked her
"where did you get those...the 1940's?"