RENAULT FT AFGHAN

Thanks to them four for their work

The tank is filled with extremely compact dirt by location

A large part of this land is already cleared, all that remains is to extract the engine which is in a rather poor state

The picture speaks for itself ...

Here the base of the gear lever. Strangely all the aluminum parts are eaten away and leave in bluish powder.

A large part of the work was based on the cleaning of the tank. A few hundred pounds were taken from the little RENAULT.

The caterpillars will have given a lot of trouble to our volunteers who have worked hard to be able to extract it

The easiest of both but not badly anyway!

The left caterpillar was crushed against the gypsy. So we were forced to cut it.

In the foreground, the B1 Bis under repair after the break of the chain support of the neader during a shoot. Then the FT AFGHAN, followed by a second FT returned to nine. And to finish the Leonce VIELJEUX which is currently in the Resistance space of the museum. Behind is hidden the DODGE WC 56 command which is to this day restored.

Disassembly of suspension system.

The engine will have suffered much, especially the block which like most aluminum parts, leaves in blue dust.

The engine will be boned later to retrieve parts that can be used by other museum FTs.

The other parts will be stored as a replacement in case of breakage on other FTs.

The crankshaft is in perfect condition unfortunately the pistons are pierced and seized in the block ...