Military Vehicles, January 1997,: Re: M151-series body drawings, dimensions etc.

Re: M151-series body drawings, dimensions etc.

Hanno Spoelstra (H.L.Spoelstra@wbmt.tudelft.nl)
Sun, 5 Jan 1997 23:03:28 +0100

At 11:09 PM 1/4/97 -0500, <Peste666@aol.com> wrote:
>If you take two sections of angle iron that are three feet long and
>slide them in a foot and a half into the front half of the exposed sub-frame
>(one on each side), tack-weld those in place, the rails act as guides when
>you slide the rear half on, you CAN'T get it wrong and the angle iron acts as
>support for the cut section when your finished.

This tip with the angle iron sounds like a good one. If the body has only
been cut (not bent), it should give a good guidance.

>get a
>corrosion kit that replaces most of the undercarrage from many mil parts
>suppliers

That's needed on almost every M151 I've seen in private hands over here!
I saw repro parts (such as fenders and a hood) from some Asian country at a
Dutch dealer a few years back.

Thanks for the input, will keep you posted.
Hanno Spoelstra <H.L.Spoelstra@WbMt.TUDelft.NL>
Bloemendaal, The Netherlands