Vladislav

Looks cool! Did you fit the mast to the chassis with those 4 bolts only? The bracket seems needing more structural strength, maybe a brace attached to the RH frame rail.

Congrats!

Even the bumper and fenders are similar. So looks like the point to me.

I'm too afraid you may be needing purchasing a big bag of normal 1/4" or so machine screws than drill each hole to the size and install them with self locking nuts at the inside and rubberized washers at the outer side. Those self-tapping srews could be Ok for attaching lining sheets or roof portions. But no go for putting the structure together.

That's darn cool pics and definitely a sad day for the owners. Good point on detailing Paul!

Good luck with your new job! Sometimes you have to loose some on your way to achive benefits. And the most usually you're able to come back to what you did previousely having good skills on that. In a case you ever want.

Best B-day wishes!

Yes, as mentioned above, many thanks! I just didn't have my mouth water much enough to drool over all those threasures!

The check walves are in the lift pump. One is at the left under that hexagonal plug covered with dirt. The other is at the right under the hand prime pump which also plays a role of a plag regarding the RH valve. The valves are just T-shaped "mushrooms" pre-loaded by small coil springs.

Paul, thanks for sharing. Always interesting to see what you never saw before.

Looks like there are two of them. One portion with inner splines resides on the end of steering column where it normally is. And the similar #2 attached to the steering gear U-joint. Possibly shortened to a certain desired length judging by a seam (?) near its middle. If all is that way it turns out the central portion of the shaft can travel front-back having splines at the both ends. No?

BTW wasn't this Superliner also painted by that guy? Or anybody else from his family? Or maybe just the same name? Yours turned out great.

Paul, those are good points you mentioned. Let's keep at least them.

I would come paint it for you for a fun of a couple of weeks spent in West Virginia. But American ambassy doesn't issue visas for Russian citizens starting from the time of the known events.

Actually you are Paul. As KT engeneer mentioned the effect takes place at a spot where pressure in the fluid drops lower than the evaporation (actually - boiling) point. Fluid boils at a certain tempertature but that temp depends on pressure conditions. On high mountains water boils at 90 or so Celsias not 100 for example. Same for every fluid. So if we have a certain avarage temp say 20C or 95C fluid doesn't boil. But imagine if the pressure drops locally, by sonic wave from combustion in a liner or by hard centrifugal force in a impeller. I mean some portion of fluid is forced moving and the sorrounding portion can't go same fast due to its mass or because of dynamic resistance in the suction channel. So that point evaporaits for short moment building a bubble, filled with the fluid wapor. In the next moment the bubble moves to another area where pressure is normal or that same area gets pressure change (sonic wave went further off) and the bubble gets pressed down very fast. It makes hydraulic hit like in a injection line and its now sonic wave hits surround. Attacking a liner or empeller wheel or whatever is on its way. Hundreds of thousands such hits applied to the same spot during prolonged time (hours or years) chip off the material making a cavit and than later a hole.