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51 R18 Rebuild
Cranman:
1951 metals are pretty rare. I've never seen one but talked to Ted and he has. The lights back near the windshield were different as were the front skiis. Ted says the front king pins had needle bearings and sure enough they are in the parts list for Serial with prefix 3A. Mine is an early 1953 (January) Serial prefix 2D. It has the shocks added, wooden doors and aluminum sprockets. All later 1953's were 3B's I think. I see some upgrades on this machine I think. Metal doors and and new style sprockets weren't around in 1951 to my knowlege. If there are shocks, they were added too. Is the maufacturers plate still readable in the engine bay.
I'd like to know if anyone has a 1953 with serial above 2D4175.??
dpaulson:
This weekend I welded the new floor pan in with a removable access plate for the engine compartment (thanks to Swamp Dawg for the idea) :) It should come in handy when changing oil, any starter problems etc. I built a new fuel tank (just like the original). I robbed the filler spout and cap from the old tank. Put a new sender in it. I also installed the exhaust. I used a couple of cherry bomb turbo mufflers with the exhaust out the back.
Cranman,
The serial plate is readable.
Model R18
Chassis 1C3519
Motor 22120C, but it now has a 318
Command? 17653
Date Fabricated 22 12 51
bluetoque:
Cut an access panel in the nose about the same size and configeration as your roof hatch while your doing your mods....you will find it makes working on things up front a lot easier down the way.
Cranman:
Since there appears to be so few metals in 1951 and yours was made right at the end of the year, it may be the first metal. I suppose the bombardier museum has all the details.
dpaulson:
Cranman, just for the heck of it I sent an email to the bombardier museum requesting some information on the first manufactured metals. It would be interesting to see how close that it is to the first metal. Another small difference on mine is that I have only one hole for the defrost, whereas Swamp Dawg's 52 has two. I think that I will install another one to 'update' it.
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