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Wooden Bombardiers / Re: OT'S 47-51 ??? Rebuild ??
« on: November 05, 2009, 07:08:34 am »
OT, I see you have a clutch fan. After you take the clutch off it won't bolt to the water pump pulley. You can make an adapter plate, so it fits the fan and the pulley

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Wooden Bombardiers / Re: ORIN'S 50 REBUILD !!!!
« on: November 05, 2009, 06:39:45 am »
O.T.  My fan bolts right to the water pump, 4 bolts. Where does your fan bolt to? I have a 195 therm, so it runs around that. Going to switch to a 180 though and hope its a little better. It still heats up out in the open (on the lake) when going fare wind. When it does i just turn into the wind and let it cool off. Sometime I tie the motor doors open or drop the end gate right down, that helps but if there is a lot of loose snow everything fills up. The way some of the fellas on here have the electric fan on the motor door looks like a good idea, i'm going to do that. I don't know how it would work on the outside of the rad, lots of snow gets sucked in there.

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Wooden Bombardiers / Re: Grfishmaker's '47 rebuild
« on: November 03, 2009, 05:49:58 pm »
Do you still have the front peace of plywood off? I was looking at mine today and thought it sure is easy to change the bolts on the top of the springs/shocks like this. They sure are a pain to change any other time. Just a thought.

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Wooden Bombardiers / Re: ORIN'S 50 REBUILD !!!!
« on: November 03, 2009, 12:37:50 am »
If its not raining its snowing. So i moved the old girl to the shed to work inside.http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae141/orinleecarlson/005.jpg Its been kind of slow going, working on the front right now.http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae141/orinleecarlson/018.jpg

http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae141/orinleecarlson/020.jpg I made the fenders out of 5/8s treated plywood and doubled all the 1" strips under them, hoping to make it a little more solid.http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae141/orinleecarlson/022.jpg

http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae141/orinleecarlson/024.jpg I put the front doors in to make sure they fit right while i'm doing the framing around them. Have to go to Swan or Thepas tomorrow for some more bolts and screws then back at it.

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Wooden Bombardiers / Re: ORIN'S 50 REBUILD !!!!
« on: November 02, 2009, 09:01:17 am »
Yep, learn something new all the time.

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Wooden Bombardiers / Re: Grfishmaker's '47 rebuild
« on: November 01, 2009, 11:42:07 pm »
Thats a good heater, you got there. The pops has the same one in his bomber and it blows alot of heat. You may want to make a flap to open and close on the open side or you could have a hot right leg! Oh and we fishermen, besides having the motor running and the tracks turning, usually try to keep most of the snow out. Sometimes an old mit or burlap bag stuffed in the crack or hole works. ;D :D
Oh yeah, don't forget the piece of plywood nailed over the broken side windows!!

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Wooden Bombardiers / Re: ORIN'S 50 REBUILD !!!!
« on: November 01, 2009, 11:31:36 pm »
I don't mind the shifting, i guess i'm used to it. It would be nice though to have something to at least mark where the gears are so when someone else uses it they have an idea.
GR. a bell crank ( i looked up the meaning cause i had no idea what that was) will fix your shifter, i would put it on the pipe that goes across right behind the diff. I had to make one for the throttle and that's where i put it. (imagine my suprize when i found out the little thing i made out of a bolt and piece of flat iron has a name!)
I should have most of my hard wood frame done tomorrow, I HOPE! Can't find the camera to take pics, i'll look for it again first thing in the morning... :o

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Wooden Bombardiers / Re: OT'S 47-51 ??? Rebuild ??
« on: October 23, 2009, 07:10:45 pm »
O.T.
After seeing all the nice painted motors one here and you cleaning your getting it ready to paint, i'm kind of embarrassed with my dirty old ford, may have to clean it too.  lol

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Wooden Bombardiers / Re: ORIN'S 50 REBUILD !!!!
« on: October 23, 2009, 06:58:21 pm »
I have it hooked up to the old shifter, it shifts the right way but it is touchy. I notice all the woodies with fords shift the right way, but the steel ones here all shift backwards with fords or dodges.

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Wooden Bombardiers / Re: ORIN'S 50 REBUILD !!!!
« on: October 22, 2009, 09:48:06 am »
O.T.
no muffler, just a piece of flex pipe curled around and coming out the back. I measured the rad for you and its 20"s wide, 25.5"s high and 3"s thick. Also took a pic of the way the vacuum hose is pointing on the distributor. For my motor mounts I used 2, 3" wide channel irons that are 57"s long. I made the motor mount part of it myself and the tranny part I just used the cross member that was in the van I took the motor and trans out of. I mounted the motor and trans on the channels out side, slid the whole thing in, lined it up where I wanted it and bolted it down. http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae141/orinleecarlson/009.jpg

http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae141/orinleecarlson/007.jpg

http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae141/orinleecarlson/008.jpg

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Wooden Bombardiers / Re: ORIN'S 50 REBUILD !!!!
« on: October 21, 2009, 08:12:29 pm »
Well I hope he's kind enough to point it out to me!   ;D

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Wooden Bombardiers / Re: ANOTHER " WOODY " REBUILD ON THE GO ??
« on: October 20, 2009, 08:36:49 pm »
http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae141/orinleecarlson/012.jpg

http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae141/orinleecarlson/016.jpg

http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae141/orinleecarlson/003.jpg

http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae141/orinleecarlson/004.jpg

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Wooden Bombardiers / Re: ANOTHER " WOODY " REBUILD ON THE GO ??
« on: October 20, 2009, 08:04:28 pm »
Well I spent the better part of the day tracing out the two top 1x8s, what a day! Its been rebuilt before and 1x6s were used instead of 1x8s so there was a lot of head scratching. ??? Still tearing it down, slowly, trying to keep the patterns. Had it for 17 years now but never used it the last 2. Have a set of complete tracks and 8 shiny brass bushings ordered up, so it go for a few more years when i'm finished. ;)

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General Discussion / Re: ATTENTION ALL MEMBERS Please sign in.
« on: October 19, 2009, 10:01:42 pm »
hi all,
Orin Carlson, Dawsonbay, mb
have a 1950 narrow gauge woodie, rebuilding it right now. put a 300 ford and auto tranny in about 5 years ago.

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