Week 5 through 12. Yep we worked through the holidays without missing a beat. This takes us up to January 26th.
Looking back, here we were December 9 ahead of the holidays and a new year.
The Panzer II Luchs has a relatively wide stance for the width of the hull. The final drives stick out a bit.
These hunks of steel push our m113 final drives to the correct track to track width spacing.
Here's Dave metal glueing them in place.
Eddie hooking up the new torsion bar hubs with new bushings and seals.
New hubs, new bushings, new seals
New torsion bars.
First fitting of the motor in Omega.
Tad fashioning a temp bracket to hold the engine assembly where it should be.
Mike is sidetracked pushing our Panzer IV main gun elevation gearbox restoration forward.
Panzerfabrik design swing arm hub assembly. It combines M113 parts with custom made parts to make a better Luchs. Swing arms will press and pin onto this assembly. You can see the end of a torsion bar stuck into the hub. Those plate extensions will be welded up later once tacked exactly where they need to be.
One by one the hubs, plates and anchors are massaged to provide for a smooth torsion bar fit. If they don't line up, the torsion bars won't peacefully slide into place... Everything has to be in a straight line for it to work.
Now the welding of the extensions.... NO!!! STOP. If I could only go back in time we could prevent the upcoming disaster.
