ford gpa g504

Today I've got my GPA 4928 into the water again after all the work I had on her. I had the frame out and this frame is with at least 50 bolts & nuts bolted in the hull. Between most of the parts are rubber seals. In the GPA's bottum I welded new ribbed plates so all and all a lot of posibilities...

Hello to you all Nice to have friends who help you with (self made) parts to get your GPA complete. Here in Holland all GPA owners are willing to help eachother with information or small missing parts. Peter made me very happy with my missing shroud and Robert with my missing cooling plate. There wa...

Hello to you all

We have a new forum member on this forum.
Robert de Ruiter and he is the guy that makes the
perfect data plates for our mil. vehicles.
You can find his adres for his webside in this memberslist.
He made me very happy with my missing bilge plate!

Bob

Hello Dominique

Nice to see that your GPA is looking almost as beautiful
as your garden area!!
I see that we have a lot to talk about comming weekend!!
I see that you added special help (Jos

Today april the first I filled the brake system with silecone brake flued. In fact it is to late to do this at this point but when you are building up you are so exited that you that you postpone this important job. So I was a little bit afraid for leaks because all connections are hard to reach! Af...

Hello Tony Yes you are right!, one wiper motor is original. But when you are in a rainy country like here in Holland your passenger has soon enough from wiping by hand! I try to rebuilt my GPA as original as posible but I made some compromises. Like the extra electric bilge pump , extra wiper motor ...

Tony & others Here a picture of the early dash. My GPA 4928 went direct to South Africa and was never modified to later American standards. http://i.imgur.com/NACAB63l.jpg http://i.imgur.com/CDQHyRHl.jpg Note: Wooden bar between clutch pedal and steering coulomb, to keep clutch plate free. No &q...

Tony

I know Robert is working on the voltmeter and bilge plate.
He has perfect copies of the other ones.
The "early" and the "late" models.

Bob

Leo , check your files!! December 28 untouched GPA 4926. http://i.imgur.com/vHnnvw3l.jpg After Willys mb202023 end jan. '43 the key type changes into switch. This change was done in the Ford production abouth that same time but most of the times a little later. (John Farley & Lawrence Nabholtz) ...

Hello to you all This weekend I finished all electrical work on the GPA. All lights and instruments are working. I made a complete new wiring with the original canvas wire and added some extra wires for the 2 right (brake) lights. The wiring for the front deck has allso some modifications for the in...

Donovan & others Koer told me that he had about 8 leaks on weldingpoints. Compared with the lots of welding he had to do on this GPA this is not mutch! This saturday he is going for a second swim but now on its own engine power! We are waiting for the pictures. Greetings Bob (I'm going to try to get...

Hello donovan
I've taken a few pictures of my tank straps and the full length size is
72,5 cm.
I think you can modify Ford straps.


Greetings Bob

Hello here are a few pictures of Koer 's / Albert 's GPA 11397. Koer Wijker is better in restoring a GPA than placing messages on this forum. So after a long tel. conversation abouth both our GPA restaurations I agree with him to place his pictures. Koer ownes this GPA since 1995 and it was in a ter...

Yes please all information is welcome!

Thanks Bob

Glenn& Mitril I agree with those modifications and I've got copies of all 12 field service modification orders. Modification w.o. W1 has the date;7 januari 1943 and W12 2 june 1943. Fact is that mine GPA and the other untouched GPA 4926 both d.o.d. 12-28-1942 don't have inspection holes for lubr...