1952 Dodge M37 - Transmission Rebuild/Install + First Drive In 10+ Years!
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- čas přidán 14. 10. 2024
- Finally! After two months, I rebuild the transmission for the M37, get it back into the truck, and see if the ol' girl will drive around.
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Keep things rusty, except your tools!
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Mint work bud!
👌👌👌
Thank ya!
"Give her some love with the Grease Gun" could be a Spinal Tap Song. Nice work.
The marvelous old-style Dodge Power Wagon-- capable of surmounting any obstacle other than a gas station. :-)
Good job B.A. When you pulled the M-37 out of your shop, my eyes were drawn to your horse shoe hanging on the wall. I'd like to offer a suggestion, turn it over so that the "open" end is up so all the luck don't keep spilling out. You're on a great roll with your stable of nag's and I wouldn't want to something adverse befall your location.
Its funny you say that, over here, the Big controversy is, one half says, oppening up makes it “the devils swing”, and if you flip it over, then the luck drains out.
So what to do do, what to do.
I drove one of these in the Canadian Army... decades ago. Haha. Brings back memories. I enjoy your channel. Thank you.
Keep it under 80, lol! Love your sense of humor. Nice work.
It's good to know there's another freak just like us...😁
We got to keep this old stuff goin....
Nice stable...
Im normally different. So normal. Rusty tetanus play ground..
i think i have add 50 yrs new life to mine it was reg in ga, in 2007 i bought it 2011 needd dist over haul to run again i replaced every thing that needed replacing from the ground up 5 new tires new wheel cylinders rebuilt master cylinder new brake lines new barke shoes list keeps growing on the neg new seat turn sig. new tail lights all new wiring compleat new tail lights they were toast added altrnator gt rid the generator voltage reg was toast all new glass add a heater i have a stack of recpts. over an inch high fixing to rebuild carb . also new seats with seat belts converted to civilan plugs and plug wires i dont give up i justgive out im 87 yrs old i was in korean war when these truck were new
Guess I like simple life with no Home owners association having to worry about, freedom is wonderful.
Great Job on M37 Trans Rebuild!
I was in 4th med Bn, 4th Inf Div, (1965 - 1967), with a whole fleet of M37B1 Ambulances and a couple dozen M37B1 trucks. At Ft Lewis the trick was to keep drivers from messing with the governors and throwing a rod -- Later in Vietnam they performed pretty well, dry or soaking wet!
In 1974 I was core drilling at Purkeypile in the Alaska Range and rebuilt the brakes on Dave's WWII M37. M&O Machine in Fairbanks introduced me to silicone copper lube to coat pitted (unavailable) brake cylinders (all of them), it worked great! We had brakes on the old truck that season!
Look up Purkeypile, the claims dated from 1921 (Jiles and Knutson). Dave "Cat-Trained" the truck into the property from Nenana in the spring of 1958 behind a Dew Line surplus "8A Serial" D8 tractor, (on a sled carrying the truck and a surplus ? Core Drill Rig (like the one at the Silver Fox Mine near Fox) and a wannigan for sleeping).
Fix up the truck a little more and it will carry you into the Nabesna Mine with your camping gear!
Regards...
Good job! Those old Dodge trucks based on the Power Wagon won't die!
Fun playing with old trucks!!! 👍👍👍
Oooooooooohhhh ya.
It was me. Missed it. Found it.
Thanks
i see the dodge getting a rebuild, there nice little trucks
This is my new favorite channel
Gday mate ,just joined having a look through your earlier stuff ,very talented guy mate really enjoying your channel very cool ,keep up the great work mate thanks for sharing 👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺
Best seats youve had in a rig yet, I think, thx for video
Wish there were more '41 WC's in my area, I have two that I am working on but need a cab and hood, and other hard to get stuff! Glad to see you have a nice herd going of the 'ol girls, they need to be preserved!
Very interesting guy who is a real good shade tree mechanic.
Sweet to see her running, I have a 52 as well, needs a transmission, no 3rd
Great job on this one. I love to see the "old iron" brought back to life. Tough work on the transmission rebuild. But the end result was certainly worth it. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to the next video.
You're a great mechanic
Who would give this man a thumbs down 👎🏻 how dare you !!!
I liked the video. But the only issue I can see is that he repeats a lot of stuff multiple times. But all I all a great video.
Know what my youngh friend?.... I really enjoyed the 2 vids you made of this old truck. It really warms my heart that there are guys like you who care so much for a proud old war vet of a truck. For one... you know what you're doing as far as I could see from your footage. The truck on my avatar (88' Isuzu p'up 4x4) I completely built out of 4 trucks (3years of patience). Now I thoroughly enjoy it as my daily driver That is why I enjoyed your vids so much. In my country, you just dont get trucks like that, and if you do, you got to be a millionare to just buy the old "scrap" for fixing. Keep it up, best wishes for the new year ahead from the Western Cape South Africa.
Fun work and keeps building mechanical skills, all he needs now is a sandblasting building , painting place , welding/ fabrication area and restoration get real fun.
She's alive! Well done, great to see her going down the road
Really nice job rebuilding that transmission and then using that low profile jack to get it in place. Great attitude don't go out and spend a lot of money for something useful you can build yourself. Great job getting the old Dodge running and shifting and driving.
Thanks so much! I appreciate it
Looks like old school Permatex, jolly good show.
Thanks for the video, you are doing things I wish I had the money to do
Seeing those old trucks makes you want to go out and how far would I wish I could do that I really like your program it's really cool
Awesome work knew you'd geter done!
Nice to see you saving these old trucks
That's a good feeling huh ?
First drive !
Good job!!!! Most young men these days wouldn't have a clue how to rebuild a transmission.
Buddy was turned on to your show by another chanel. Love your show. You are a skilled mechanic. Brother. Well done.
Thanks so much!
nice to see these old girls kept alive.
Very impressive, that has to be a great sense of accomplishment!!
Awesome video. You Got Talent young man to keep them old trucks going . and thank you for making videos on them old vehicles. 😁👍👍
Thanks! I appreciate it!
@@BackyardAlaskan.. your welcome
Ol Cleatus McFarland and the Freedom Factory can’t touch this coolness.
Awesome job.
Thanks I aprpeciate it!
Just started watching your channel today. Enjoying the work on old trucks. I like your baby deere. I have a 2018 1025R. Like you said not big enough for everything but will go into some tight spaces. It lifts more than I can and I love it.
Right on! Thanks for watching.
This is quality entertainment right here, all the car/truck build shows these days suck. Amazing how well built and well engineered these old trucks are yet still can be worked on by a back yard mechanic, great video.
New cars and trucks suck in my opinion. The good points aren't enough to outweigh the bad ones.
That’s awesome! Well done
She’s a beauty! I got to drive one of those years ago when I was wearing OD green.
Beautiful rig
Now that was fun thanks 👍👍👍👍👍😊
Enjoying the m37 video's, use to work on them in nam. As always be safe. Peace
Glad you like the content. Thank you for your service and thank you for watching!
Well done young man. Can't wait to see what you're going to do with the PTO and the winch!?!
I drove a 1952 M37 for twenty years.. I used it to hoist steel when I built my shop.. I built a 22 foot boom for the front bumper and used the pto winch to do the hoisting......Swapped the truck off in 2010 but still have a dodge m37 transmission on a drill press I use in my shop.. Great stuff. Cheers Mike in Louisiana
I was waiting forever but it was well worth it!
Nice old truck!
Thank you so much for this vid, love the m37s, glad she’s up and running
Great job!! Its great to see the old girl running and driving again!! What a treat!!
Thank you for your channel
Good to see the old girl running and moving
These are my dream truck. Love that you got it working.
Seeing that M37 move is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen man you are truly a good mechanic
Nice love it ol iron, good Day. Thanks y’all BigAl California
Great job. the sound of that old truck takes me back to riding with my uncle in his old trucks. they would lug but never stalled out just kept on going.. thanks for the Memory reminder. and keep up the reviving the old iron.
Young man you do great work !! Thank you for sharing your journey with us !! Fix the exhaust so you don't get sick or worse ! Please be safe and God bless you and yours !!!! Eddy
You are one handy dude! Alaskan MacGyver.
Nice job on the trans rebuild. You have another work horse.
Thanks for sharing.
I really like that custom camo paint job on that rig!
Had one years ago, loved it. Did a complete , frame up rebuild or it.
Hey Brother! You have the happy and rugged old Mopar coming back to life and Ole 'Ethel' helping out with a smile on her face. She sounds good and solid now with the new/used Motorcraft gracing the top end of her! Loved how you showed us how the inside view of the shift pattern on the '52. So cool as usual!
Love what your doing! The Dodge got me to scope the channel. Always been a Mopar guy! A WWII person as well. Thanks keep em comin!!!
Love to see these great old Trucks being brought back. Liked. All my best.
Nice work on the power wagon shes up and running well good to see her moving around ....
Nice work!!
awsome truck and video and ime looking forward to seeing more work on her
Success! A classic truck back in service and cared for, too!
Hell yeah! Love that you put a carb on the beast!!
Hi from the UK 🇬🇧... Great Job getting her going again! Love your channel 👍
Great truck dude
That is a happy little engine it just hums
All right back on
Congratulations on getting the M37 self propelled again. I have really enjoyed your channel. Sharing it.
Thanks so much!
I see a lot awesome builds in your future I love the family fry vids and you are way younger than me and teaching me thanks brother
Nice. It is good to see you taking it to task. Your collection is mounting.
That old m37 is sure lucky you came along 👍
Excellent video young man.
That's a cool old truck. Good job brother. 👍
It is a cool old truck, amazing that you could find transmission in a junkyard. I live in the southeast part of Missouri if you go to a junk yard around here you will be lucky to find a part for a 1980s car or truck, the parts for 70s or earlier are super rare and a 1950 part will involved a few hundred miles of driving.
Well I always like seeing these old behemoths running they are a difinatly a trip to drive. I am glad that you got the transmission to come together as well as you did. First time knocking one of these back in running order is cool. Take care
Oh yeah! Let’s gooo! Another fantastic video.
Great Vidio
Don't need to be breathing in that exhaust fumes. Make you have a really bad headaches or worse and really don't need that. Need you stay around and keep them on the road. Awesome video 👍🤘👏
dont breathe exhaust fumes, just huff gas instead, more fun that way lol
you can just sleep it off.
Just make sure you don't use dot 3 or 4 brake fluid. The military uses dot 5 full silicone brake fluid, its not acidic based so it last for ever in the brake system. If mix the two i have heard it does bad things to the brake system.
I love watching you work on these old boys and girls, have a fleet of army trucks my self. 5 five tons, 1963 gasser to 1971 diesels. Your doing a great job, slow and steady brings them back to life.
Great job keeping the old iron running👍👍
Good job, an M37 with working brakes is amazing !
i rebuilt my m37 brakes compleat wheel cylinders (4) new brake shoes new brake lines put all new parts in master cylinder -blead to 1/2 pedal thereisa bolt bottom back side acts like a cam to move shoes apart for better shoe fit a good way to ckeck when your thru adj, brakes ??? get on a sandy or dirt rd get up a little speed stand on the brake get an look at slid marks to seeif they are close to even in length you adj that bolt on back to correct if needed i got mine in 2011 ifeel ive added another 50,000miles mine was running and reg in ga in 2007 the it went to junk yard all it took to crank it was a set of points 1 point was burned off this caused by wrong condenser should be 27 mfd -- they want pit with correct cond.i was in mtr pool in japan 1953 187 airborne mike co. army accepted my truck in dec 14 53 from chrysler i have allthe orig paper work down thru the yrs
Nice job , just in time for the snow . That's going to be fun in the snow 😁👍👍🇺🇸
Nice! I’ve found that Hammerite holds up very well to our AK abuse and weather
The wait was well worth it. Love seeing these old rigs get loved on.
Great job love to see it running good & i love also to watch your ww2 gmc cckw being revive 👌👍😊
Awesome video. Love to see the old iron working again.
Nice vid sir glad to see the old iron and living and being used
Ooooooooo, an arctic kit hard top. I wish I had one of those...
Thumbs Up ! Good Job !
Súper buen vídeo gracias te saluda reinado desde colonbia
I believe it is cool thanks 👍👍👍👍👍😊
You should try get the winch working pulling and Hauling stuff. You got it might as well make it useful
Excellent video and narration, good strip down and rebuild on the gearbox. The old side valve sounds terrific.
Thank you!