Ryan Gill (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} montieth) wrote,@ 2008-04-01 16:44:00 |
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Long weekend...
So last Monday Night I hopped on board the Crescent to head to Philly and then via Septa to my friend Jim's place to collect the dingo and a lot of gear for a WWII event in Camden, SC. Tuesday and Wednesday were spent pulling maintance and service on the truck and trailer and Jim, myself and a new guy left Lansdale, PA to head south.
As it turns out the trip was less than successful from a dingo getting there perspective because the transmission on the deuce decided to start making unpleasant noises in 5th gear. This happened on I-81 not far from Winchester. Luckily it didn't frag the transmission and rather just made it more rattly in 5th. So, I elected to lead the two vehicle convoy on a bit of a tour of Northern Virginia from I81 down 17 to 50 and then back to 17 around a detour where trucks cannot apparently pass on 17. What should have taken 30 or so minutes on I81/I66/SR 17 took over 2 hours. Given the noise, I had no desire to drive the deuce down to SC and have it die on the side of the road with a major transmission failure. So, My dingo was not going to the event.
Friday, very early we finished some of our loading and jumped in the now three vehicles with Norm's dingo in tow behind Randy's Pickup to take it down to Camden. Once there we setup Norm's 140lb British Army Tent and the rest of our campsite. The Saturday event was quite fun, and despite being pretty unorganized from a command and control aspect we showed our capabilities and skills. 15th Recce bagged the SdKfz 251 that we said we would with just small arms and a piat and our single dingo ran traces down several roads and got the Allied forces some critical intel on German Dispositions. We were able to make some progress towards our objectives, that up until then had us going nowhere. I was however missing my own scout car and really wished it'd been able to make the trip.
Saturday night was the usual quiet time discussing tactics, history, future plans, equipment and other less interesting topics around a campfire or under a rain fly next to our WWII cookers and compo ration boxes.
Sunday, we packed the camp back up and headed north again with what was apparently all the spring break crowd headed north to New York again. Traffic was bad, but Randy had a good idea to hop off I95 and take US 1 which was amazingly faster. We rolled into Culpeper, Va at 9pm and We had a late dinner and all crashed.
On Monday, I pulled the cover off and figured out exactly what the problem was.
There you can see from left to right:
the 1st gear, 2nd and 3rd gear fork selector synchro, and 5th and 4th's fork selector and synchro.
And here, plooking down close, you can see the two busted teeth on the gear attached to the 5th gear counter shaft. Interestingly it doesn't look as if the 5th Gear on the mainshaft is damaged at all.
Monday night I took the train back. At this rate I should be racking up miles on Amtrak, good enough for an upgrade here or there in the future.
So, now, I have another vehicle in need of repairs. In this case, it's a take out transmission from an M35 that I'll need. Trying to get it rebuilt would be more costly than a replacement. I could rebuild it myself as these are amazingly simple transmissions. Just a bit heavy. Hopefully I can find one for around $3-400.
So last Monday Night I hopped on board the Crescent to head to Philly and then via Septa to my friend Jim's place to collect the dingo and a lot of gear for a WWII event in Camden, SC. Tuesday and Wednesday were spent pulling maintance and service on the truck and trailer and Jim, myself and a new guy left Lansdale, PA to head south.
As it turns out the trip was less than successful from a dingo getting there perspective because the transmission on the deuce decided to start making unpleasant noises in 5th gear. This happened on I-81 not far from Winchester. Luckily it didn't frag the transmission and rather just made it more rattly in 5th. So, I elected to lead the two vehicle convoy on a bit of a tour of Northern Virginia from I81 down 17 to 50 and then back to 17 around a detour where trucks cannot apparently pass on 17. What should have taken 30 or so minutes on I81/I66/SR 17 took over 2 hours. Given the noise, I had no desire to drive the deuce down to SC and have it die on the side of the road with a major transmission failure. So, My dingo was not going to the event.
Friday, very early we finished some of our loading and jumped in the now three vehicles with Norm's dingo in tow behind Randy's Pickup to take it down to Camden. Once there we setup Norm's 140lb British Army Tent and the rest of our campsite. The Saturday event was quite fun, and despite being pretty unorganized from a command and control aspect we showed our capabilities and skills. 15th Recce bagged the SdKfz 251 that we said we would with just small arms and a piat and our single dingo ran traces down several roads and got the Allied forces some critical intel on German Dispositions. We were able to make some progress towards our objectives, that up until then had us going nowhere. I was however missing my own scout car and really wished it'd been able to make the trip.
Saturday night was the usual quiet time discussing tactics, history, future plans, equipment and other less interesting topics around a campfire or under a rain fly next to our WWII cookers and compo ration boxes.
Sunday, we packed the camp back up and headed north again with what was apparently all the spring break crowd headed north to New York again. Traffic was bad, but Randy had a good idea to hop off I95 and take US 1 which was amazingly faster. We rolled into Culpeper, Va at 9pm and We had a late dinner and all crashed.
On Monday, I pulled the cover off and figured out exactly what the problem was.
There you can see from left to right:
the 1st gear, 2nd and 3rd gear fork selector synchro, and 5th and 4th's fork selector and synchro.
And here, plooking down close, you can see the two busted teeth on the gear attached to the 5th gear counter shaft. Interestingly it doesn't look as if the 5th Gear on the mainshaft is damaged at all.
Monday night I took the train back. At this rate I should be racking up miles on Amtrak, good enough for an upgrade here or there in the future.
So, now, I have another vehicle in need of repairs. In this case, it's a take out transmission from an M35 that I'll need. Trying to get it rebuilt would be more costly than a replacement. I could rebuild it myself as these are amazingly simple transmissions. Just a bit heavy. Hopefully I can find one for around $3-400.
