Texasmark1
Well-known Member
I have seen pictures of them being used for a tractor, surely some of you have done that.........yea got the tractor word in there. Grin. The one I saw was a guy moldboard plowing his garden.
I have wanted one all my life and as a teen "lusted in my heart" (Jimmy Carter) for some military issue non-directional mud grip tires but none to be had. Never got the opportunity to get a jeep although a hunting buddy's dad had one.
Well last week I bought one brand new; right out of the box, literally. Another Grin.
I bought a plastic 1/35 scale model and just started to put it together. Can't plow, been raining almost daily for the last 10 days and more forecast for the rest of the week. That's the way it is down here, monsoon or drought, no inbeteens.
Anyhewwwww subject matter requested and the reason for the post:
The thing had leaf springs on all 4 wheels. The front differential (Dana I guess) was on the right (curb) side. The front spring on the driver's side was like the other 3 except it had a couple of helper leafs.
I had 2 trains of thought:
1. The guys that made the molds got the right and left springs mixed up and the helper spring needs to be on the side with the differential due to the added front end weight.
2. The spring is on the left to offset the weight of the driver.
What do you know/think?
I tell you, if you can't get outside to do what you need to do and are driving the misses nuts with your "Cabin Fever", take up building plastic models. I have really enjoyed it and have learned a great deal about how things are made. What's neat is that you can get on the www and look up what you are building and learn the history of it and all that. Really gets you into the thing.....like you are part of it.
Thanks.
Mark
I have wanted one all my life and as a teen "lusted in my heart" (Jimmy Carter) for some military issue non-directional mud grip tires but none to be had. Never got the opportunity to get a jeep although a hunting buddy's dad had one.
Well last week I bought one brand new; right out of the box, literally. Another Grin.
I bought a plastic 1/35 scale model and just started to put it together. Can't plow, been raining almost daily for the last 10 days and more forecast for the rest of the week. That's the way it is down here, monsoon or drought, no inbeteens.
Anyhewwwww subject matter requested and the reason for the post:
The thing had leaf springs on all 4 wheels. The front differential (Dana I guess) was on the right (curb) side. The front spring on the driver's side was like the other 3 except it had a couple of helper leafs.
I had 2 trains of thought:
1. The guys that made the molds got the right and left springs mixed up and the helper spring needs to be on the side with the differential due to the added front end weight.
2. The spring is on the left to offset the weight of the driver.
What do you know/think?
I tell you, if you can't get outside to do what you need to do and are driving the misses nuts with your "Cabin Fever", take up building plastic models. I have really enjoyed it and have learned a great deal about how things are made. What's neat is that you can get on the www and look up what you are building and learn the history of it and all that. Really gets you into the thing.....like you are part of it.
Thanks.
Mark