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Congrats buddy! The maintenance and work put in is half the fun, lol, but it'll be worth it when you start driving it around and feel good about what you have as well as being safe while doing so! Keep us posted, I'm looking forward to see how she turns up at the end.Thank you to Will Wagner and Craig at the American Military Museum in South ark Monte Ca for selling this to me.
It’s a 65 non winch, runs and drives but needs some typical maintenance. I just brought her home today from LA to Yuma. Shout out to FASTNOVA for transporting promptly and reliably.
Truck has civilian hitch welded And bolted on as well as a civi trailer plug spliced in. Kinda ugly, will be cutting this all off. 54000 miles which is likely very accurate. This truck was driven!
Converted to SPIN ON oil filters and did its first oil change, got 7.5 gallons of very fuel diluted oil out of it. It stumbles a bit on start up and when returning to idle so I’m betting the FDC is kaput.
I bought 25 feet of DOT line in both sizes to bypass the FDC and begin replacing all fuel and eventually air lines.
Overall I’ve got my work cut out for me but I bought it as a running project. Brakes come first.
Will Wagner was kind enough to throw in a lot of spare stuff including a nice refurbed radiator and extra spare tire.
Also remove the nuts and put on the never-seize put your nuts back on and adjust.Is there a trick to getting the bottom brake adjusters done? When torquing the lock nut the eccentric adjuster spins with it. I’ve tried compensating by turning the adjuster cam back then torquing the lock nut but they turn as a pair. It’s all been greased and cleaned.
I’m thinking an actual wrenchon the locknut so I can hold the inner adjuster where I want it. Been using a socket and that just ain’t working.
.Made a civilian turn signal flasher. Thanks to Clinto for the idea!
.The transfer case shifter seal has been leaking for a looooong time. A self tapper screw and a pry bar pops the old out real easy. Clean and looob your shaft and slide the new one in, a few circumferential taps with a little hammer seats her home. No more dripy puddles after a drive.
I thought I’d take a peek at the shift forks and gears while I had the tunnels off. Glad I did! Im no expert but I think I found why she shifts so terribly. Glad to know it ain’t all my perfect shifting skills at work……can anyone tell me how my forks look? They’re pretty groovy baby…..
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Spicer 3053a 2nd gear wobble
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.Any harm in running her with the wear shown? Or should I decommission until fixed? Should I rebuild this one or rebuild another used one with better forks?
I want to keep her driving so I’d love to find a spare trans and built it right, get the custom machined input cover with seal installed etc…
.DISASTER STRIKES! Kidding. Driving down the road today and I hear a loud WOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSHHHHHH and air pressure starts falling. Maintained 30 psi all the way home with no brake loss at all.
The culprit? The gasket for the AIR PAK inlet valve blew out. It appears the 4 little screws were not tight enough and allows weeepage of air and eventually blew her paper out.
Gotta drag the good cereal box gasket paper for this one…..
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