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Today was a busy one involving the M62(A2) .. I badly miss it's long-gone R6602 whenever the truck hits the road , but it's far more economical on diesel when doing stationary work .. Today's job involved a tail-end deadlift of a D53-15 dozer (equivalent to Cat D6D) to slide timbers under the...

UPDATE : IT SOLD FOR $16,100.00 !!!!! o_Oo_Oo_O I bet the Town never saw that kind of price coming .. No doubt they obtained it for less than 2k .. Most of the time a state's OGS (office of general services) screens the federal surplus at regional facilities and the municipalities pay...

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why not? It has wheels and makes noise, right? :ROFLMAO:

good to know !! ,, whatever it was it sure smelled like sulphuric acid (and that's what we all thought at the plant) and it sure made a mess of engine oil and the internals

I concur about using WMO (and WVO) to spray-undercoat vehicles and treat wood on trailer decks , truck flatbeds, wagon beds etc .. Been doing it 50 years... HOWEVER,,, i learned long ago to avoid WMO coming from diesel engines, especially worn out ones, as back then the wood seemed to punk...

Although i know of places that dumped their WMO back into the bulk fuel tanks, especially in the days when B-model and R-model mack's were the usual trucks "eating" it, I wouldn't use it. Not only because of ash, but because of increased injector wear from microscopic metal in the WMO .. One...

all i can tell you is in the early 2000's a motorpool i drove past had a couple M35A2's that they singled out just by removing the outer duals and left the inners facing inward .. The trucks looked goofy as all hell :rolleyes: idk if this works but if there was an opportunity to grab a set of...

THANKS for the pics !!! Yes, they were fitted afterwards, without any doubt now ! .. Not just in AIT, but i ran into several "A0's" afterwards with other units as my time progressed, all with directionals , and all were in CONUS.. Probably one of those USDOT things, just like the...

amazing ! .. Years ago when i was regularly hauling loaded flatbeds and box trailers 120+ miles continuous with my M818 and the XM818 , the two trucks ran at different temps, especially on the climbs although the hotter one never got beyond 205 degrees .. I always took this to mean one...

common issue with the commercial gators as well , almost always screech only in reverse if e-brake is sticking .. Gator HPX 2005

"the first scratch hurts the deepest, baby i know .." :D

If the M151(A0's) did not have directionals, then yes it is plausible the first M416's were lamped like the M100's.. I do not know because in my experience beginning in the 1970's all the Mutts's, old and newer, had directionals. When i was in AIT for heavy motor transport, all three M151...

early-1960's with or after the introduction of the M151 but I do not know exactly when .. All M416's. I saw in the 1970's-up had twin taillights ... I have an M100 w/single stop/taillamp and am familiar with what you are referring to (y)

i had a Converto dump on a homemade trailer platform and later installed just the unti itslf w/2-stroke manual hyd pump in the bed of of M880 for awhile.. Was very handy