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[URL=http://good-times.webshots.com/pho ... .jpg[/img][/url]refit1701 wrote:We borrowed a friends huge truck and trailer for the 35 plus mile trip to my buddy's house. We removed the tailgate and lifted it with a boom on his tractor. We eased it up the side of the hill and leveled it on those pallets.Carter wrote:
That's a good looking bed, you are fortunate to have found such a well preserved orig. one. How did you move it and get it on the pallets?
Originally, I wanted it on blocks, so I could get under it. But after we got it on those blocks, the bed swayed too much for it to be safe. So we had to go with the pallets it sat on during it's trip.
When I get ready to clean the underside, I guess we'll tip it onto the front panel and I'll be sanding standing up!
I was VERY lucky to get that bed. I heard about it last year at this time but could never find the guy. He's got five or six M37's behind his trucking company and a whole mess of NOS parts. It was a treasure hunt for sure.
I got an original air cleaner, a oil filler pipe with oil pressure sensor, and the "J" shaped pipe the aircleaner mounts on for $40 total.
Trouble is, some of these parts won't fit on my Plymouth Industrial civilian engine I have in the truck. So sometime next year, I'm going to have to get a military engine for rebuilding. This is AFTER I finish the rest of the truck.
Three strapping man, all of them stronger than me... naw, three of us, man-handled it into the back on the red ram.... it took five of us to get it out of my truck.
I mounted it on a garden cart that has a dump feature, move it around tip it up, getting ready to flip it over to do the underneath. (pictured)
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