1952 Dodge M37 - Transmission Rebuild/Install + First Drive In 10+ Years! 

Mint work bud!

"Give her some love with the Grease Gun" could be a Spinal Tap Song. Nice work.

I drove one of these in the Canadian Army... decades ago. Haha. Brings back memories. I enjoy your channel. Thank you.

Good job B.A. When you pulled the M-37 out of your shop, my eyes were drawn to your horse shoe hanging on the wall. I'd like to offer a suggestion, turn it over so that the "open" end is up so all the luck don't keep spilling out. You're on a great roll with your stable of nag's and I wouldn't want to something adverse befall your location.

The marvelous old-style Dodge Power Wagon-- capable of surmounting any obstacle other than a gas station. :-)

Good job!!!! Most young men these days wouldn't have a clue how to rebuild a transmission.

Keep it under 80, lol! Love your sense of humor. Nice work.

Guess I like simple life with no Home owners association having to worry about, freedom is wonderful.

Oooooooooohhhh ya. It was me. Missed it. Found it. Thanks

Good job! Those old Dodge trucks based on the Power Wagon won't die!

Fun playing with old trucks!!! 👍👍👍

It's good to know there's another freak just like us...😁 We got to keep this old stuff goin.... Nice stable...

Great Job on M37 Trans Rebuild! I was in 4th med Bn, 4th Inf Div, (1965 - 1967), with a whole fleet of M37B1 Ambulances and a couple dozen M37B1 trucks. At Ft Lewis the trick was to keep drivers from messing with the governors and throwing a rod -- Later in Vietnam they performed pretty well, dry or soaking wet! In 1974 I was core drilling at Purkeypile in the Alaska Range and rebuilt the brakes on Dave's WWII M37. M&O Machine in Fairbanks introduced me to silicone copper lube to coat pitted (unavailable) brake cylinders (all of them), it worked great! We had brakes on the old truck that season! Look up Purkeypile, the claims dated from 1921 (Jiles and Knutson). Dave "Cat-Trained" the truck into the property from Nenana in the spring of 1958 behind a Dew Line surplus "8A Serial" D8 tractor, (on a sled carrying the truck and a surplus ? Core Drill Rig (like the one at the Silver Fox Mine near Fox) and a wannigan for sleeping). Fix up the truck a little more and it will carry you into the Nabesna Mine with your camping gear! Regards...

Fun work and keeps building mechanical skills, all he needs now is a sandblasting building , painting place , welding/ fabrication area and restoration get real fun.

Wish there were more '41 WC's in my area, I have two that I am working on but need a cab and hood, and other hard to get stuff! Glad to see you have a nice herd going of the 'ol girls, they need to be preserved!

This is my new favorite channel

Gday mate ,just joined having a look through your earlier stuff ,very talented guy mate really enjoying your channel very cool ,keep up the great work mate thanks for sharing 👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺

Know what my youngh friend?.... I really enjoyed the 2 vids you made of this old truck. It really warms my heart that there are guys like you who care so much for a proud old war vet of a truck. For one... you know what you're doing as far as I could see from your footage. The truck on my avatar (88' Isuzu p'up 4x4) I completely built out of 4 trucks (3years of patience). Now I thoroughly enjoy it as my daily driver That is why I enjoyed your vids so much. In my country, you just dont get trucks like that, and if you do, you got to be a millionare to just buy the old "scrap" for fixing. Keep it up, best wishes for the new year ahead from the Western Cape South Africa.

Very interesting guy who is a real good shade tree mechanic.

Best seats youve had in a rig yet, I think, thx for video

i see the dodge getting a rebuild, there nice little trucks

Who would give this man a thumbs down 👎🏻 how dare you !!!

Really nice job rebuilding that transmission and then using that low profile jack to get it in place. Great attitude don't go out and spend a lot of money for something useful you can build yourself. Great job getting the old Dodge running and shifting and driving.

Looks like old school Permatex, jolly good show.

Sweet to see her running, I have a 52 as well, needs a transmission, no 3rd

You're a great mechanic

Seeing those old trucks makes you want to go out and how far would I wish I could do that I really like your program it's really cool

That's a good feeling huh ? First drive !

Great job on this one. I love to see the "old iron" brought back to life. Tough work on the transmission rebuild. But the end result was certainly worth it. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to the next video.

Buddy was turned on to your show by another chanel. Love your show. You are a skilled mechanic. Brother. Well done.

Awesome video. You Got Talent young man to keep them old trucks going . and thank you for making videos on them old vehicles. 😁👍👍

She's alive! Well done, great to see her going down the road

Just started watching your channel today. Enjoying the work on old trucks. I like your baby deere. I have a 2018 1025R. Like you said not big enough for everything but will go into some tight spaces. It lifts more than I can and I love it.

Thanks for the video, you are doing things I wish I had the money to do

You are one handy dude! Alaskan MacGyver.

Ooooooooo, an arctic kit hard top. I wish I had one of those...

Very impressive, that has to be a great sense of accomplishment!!

Now that was fun thanks 👍👍👍👍👍😊

Enjoying the m37 video's, use to work on them in nam. As always be safe. Peace

She’s a beauty! I got to drive one of those years ago when I was wearing OD green.

Nice old truck!

Nice to see you saving these old trucks

Awesome work knew you'd geter done!

I drove a 1952 M37 for twenty years.. I used it to hoist steel when I built my shop.. I built a 22 foot boom for the front bumper and used the pto winch to do the hoisting......Swapped the truck off in 2010 but still have a dodge m37 transmission on a drill press I use in my shop.. Great stuff. Cheers Mike in Louisiana

Beautiful rig

Now I wanna get a M37

This is quality entertainment right here, all the car/truck build shows these days suck. Amazing how well built and well engineered these old trucks are yet still can be worked on by a back yard mechanic, great video.

Thumbs Up ! Good Job !

Just make sure you don't use dot 3 or 4 brake fluid. The military uses dot 5 full silicone brake fluid, its not acidic based so it last for ever in the brake system. If mix the two i have heard it does bad things to the brake system. I love watching you work on these old boys and girls, have a fleet of army trucks my self. 5 five tons, 1963 gasser to 1971 diesels. Your doing a great job, slow and steady brings them back to life.

Thank you for your channel

Nice M37

Ol Cleatus McFarland and the Freedom Factory can’t touch this coolness. Awesome job.

Great Vidio

nice to see these old girls kept alive.

"Take some junk and make something useful out of it." Amen!

That’s awesome! Well done

Great job!! Its great to see the old girl running and driving again!! What a treat!!

Well done young man. Can't wait to see what you're going to do with the PTO and the winch!?!

Súper buen vídeo gracias te saluda reinado desde colonbia

Young man you do great work !! Thank you for sharing your journey with us !! Fix the exhaust so you don't get sick or worse ! Please be safe and God bless you and yours !!!! Eddy

You should try get the winch working pulling and Hauling stuff. You got it might as well make it useful

Great job. the sound of that old truck takes me back to riding with my uncle in his old trucks. they would lug but never stalled out just kept on going.. thanks for the Memory reminder. and keep up the reviving the old iron.

These are my dream truck. Love that you got it working.

Seeing that M37 move is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen man you are truly a good mechanic

Thank you so much for this vid, love the m37s, glad she’s up and running

I believe it is cool thanks 👍👍👍👍👍😊

Good to see the old girl running and moving

I was waiting forever but it was well worth it!

Had one years ago, loved it. Did a complete , frame up rebuild or it.

Great truck dude

Love what your doing! The Dodge got me to scope the channel. Always been a Mopar guy! A WWII person as well. Thanks keep em comin!!!

Don't need to be breathing in that exhaust fumes. Make you have a really bad headaches or worse and really don't need that. Need you stay around and keep them on the road. Awesome video 👍🤘👏

good job

Hey Brother! You have the happy and rugged old Mopar coming back to life and Ole 'Ethel' helping out with a smile on her face. She sounds good and solid now with the new/used Motorcraft gracing the top end of her! Loved how you showed us how the inside view of the shift pattern on the '52. So cool as usual!

Nice work!!

Nice love it ol iron, good Day. Thanks y’all BigAl California

Love to see these great old Trucks being brought back. Liked. All my best.

Nice job on the trans rebuild. You have another work horse. Thanks for sharing.

Nice work on the power wagon shes up and running well good to see her moving around ....

Hell yeah! Love that you put a carb on the beast!!

👍Cool. Like to see you get a Kaiser Jeep M715 for your collection

Success! A classic truck back in service and cared for, too!

That’s a daily goin to town unit there awsome

That old m37 is sure lucky you came along 👍

The wait was well worth it. Love seeing these old rigs get loved on.

Hi from the UK 🇬🇧... Great Job getting her going again! Love your channel 👍

I see a lot awesome builds in your future I love the family fry vids and you are way younger than me and teaching me thanks brother

I really like that custom camo paint job on that rig!

Well I always like seeing these old behemoths running they are a difinatly a trip to drive. I am glad that you got the transmission to come together as well as you did. First time knocking one of these back in running order is cool. Take care

It is a cool old truck, amazing that you could find transmission in a junkyard. I live in the southeast part of Missouri if you go to a junk yard around here you will be lucky to find a part for a 1980s car or truck, the parts for 70s or earlier are super rare and a 1950 part will involved a few hundred miles of driving.

nice job!

awsome truck and video and ime looking forward to seeing more work on her

That is a happy little engine it just hums

Good job, an M37 with working brakes is amazing !

Nice. It is good to see you taking it to task. Your collection is mounting.

Congratulations on getting the M37 self propelled again. I have really enjoyed your channel. Sharing it.

All right back on

Great job keeping the old iron running👍👍

Nice job , just in time for the snow . That's going to be fun in the snow 😁👍👍🇺🇸

- any WILD LIFE ever visit you there ? and am jealous of your place etcetc !!