Recent content by 425LRS

Planning on it- Whitmore lake Mich, need to get the truck cleaned up, licensed etc. running out of time....

Cleaned it up, bypassed a leaky heater core, added counter weights to balance front wheel, got it ready for today's parade.

Around 2005 they got a blanket exemption for tactical trucks due to the JP8 sulfur content, as long as they agreed to implement emissions systems when it became technically feasible. http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2005tacom/schihl.pdf

Actually the Army didn't lose- they have exemptions for their engines due to the fact they run JP8 predominantly. JP8 spec does not control the sulfur content - thus making it incompatible with the emissions control equipment currently available for the diesel engines. So selling vehicles that...

Took my daughter to her spring school concert- then for ice cream.

There is the Patton Museum at Ft. Knox Kentucky, and if you make it to the Detroit area- the Henry Ford Museum has a couple trains inside as well as no end of other stuff. Have a good Trip

I just got my first privately owned MV last week- an M35A3 from ProPower (excellent truck I might add) - and am really loving it ( hauled 2 pizzas, ice cream, and a General Tsao's chicken so far). Originally wanted to end up with a bobbed deuce (and still may someday) but this one is in such...

I used to do a lot of Distribution A drawings- that all kinda changed ( or at least was looked at more closely) after 9/11. Now it's often Distribution D- To release a distribution A document generally means it has to go through another department (G2 if I remember correctly) to ensure nothing...