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i just spent most of the morning digging thru albums and cannot locate a pic :( i took @1975 or 76 of a town FD's M37-type that was set up as a tanker/brush fire fighter w/hose reels and side-mounted backpack tanks for 8 or 10 men .. It did not have the typical M37 box, rather, the bed was...

I nominate this "Aberdeen" survivor .. The sticky sprag was being tested .. This 1970 XM818 workhorse has regular jobs , box trailer and stepdeck

About your truck :: you almost have a unicorn During my long tenure I was around the last few inventoried M37's and M715's briefly, then the M880's, and lastly the chevys ... Not to mention all of the big stuff wheeled and tracked .. As a young lad MV's always caught my eye.. During the...

Welcome to the MV disease .. I thought i was cured and wanted no more to do with MV's by the time i was discharged the 3rd time around.. But apparently not .. In less than two years I had a hankering for my early days and fell off the wagon.. The inevitable marriage counseling and divorce did...

that's an easy 1 , 2, 3 ! 1: Close that hood and take a sunny-day picture among the "foliage" without any civilization in the background 2: Take said picture and submit it in the "Welcome to the February 2024 MV of the Month Nomination Thread!" 3: Ask Migginsbros if the grand prize is...

quite indicative of an inop in-tank fuel pump if truck sat a long time.. you should hear the pump run at the tank with acc switch on and hear the return fuel spilling back in .... there is a fuse on top of the tank underneath the square cover .. if fuse (and power there) is good and still no...

besides a cable(s) that is hanging up, another thing i have run into with GM products are rubber brake lines swelling on the inside .. They may visually look perfect on the outside but the internal restriction will not let the affected brake(s) release right away , it takes a few minutes for...

done that many times ... but sometimes it is the big ugly military truck holding them up , thus I have never had any qualms whatsoever about using the breakdown, errr i mean "slowpoke lane" :LOL: to let others by when it's me.. Even back whenever we were in convoy long ago we would give the...

Brushhogs sure guarantee immediate results !! Any brushhogging I do is late-fall and winter, snow permitting.. A properly-adjusted and sharp sicklebar mows faster in grasses and weeds thus it at least gives you a chance of getting away unscathed if you spot them right when it happens, or if...

your story sounds like something i could've done with a certain pack of kids, given the opportunity (and insect netting) .. ;) With the track record of one of the packs I hung with, we ALL woulda been stung to bits the very first time :ROFLMAO: The XM211 I had years ago ran out of gas in the...

none of mine have that plate however i have seen the plate on other late-70's-80's chrysler products

you never met my younger sisters and their friends ,, nor my GF ... All farm girls, all tomboys, and all into any kind of fun havoc and multiple mayhems including everything on your list.. (do firecrackers, M80's, and quarter-sticks (dynamite) suffice in leiu of pipe bombs?) :ROFLMAO: .. But...

o_O never ever seen one on a US Army vehicle anywhere at any time in the last 50+ years, let alone any upon G749's

Also had a penchant for getting into potential "exploratory trouble" , but never to harm anything or anyone .. It's easy for the combined IQ of a group of teenagers to reach negative digits, more-so when some alcohol is involved :LOL: other dumb moves I have a mixed feeling between regret and...

i did pump and control contract work (among other things) for a long time at the quarries up and down the entire valley.. Many of these quarries for a couple reasons (ignorance and/or cost) jury-rigged portable NEMA-1 (indoor type, not raintite) fused disconnects on little stands made of...

thanks .. during the years prior landing an M52 and the M818's, I was looking into obtaining the pieces to switch my M51 back and forth, it's easier to convert an M51 to M52 than the other way around... Procrastination (or just being too busy) works well when something better-suited eventually...

see ! trucks can get the hives whenever they feel lonely !! some are allergic to long-term inactivity :LOL: my least-busy M818 had last moved a trailer in may and now it was september.. i peeked under the front fenders for yellow-jacket nests (none) and then battled some expected wasps...

Appears to be a 540rpm shaft .. are these capable of snowblower duty?

I used to carry a 1953-dated british offset overlock (embossed "W up-arrow D") on my jeep CJ5 in the mid-late 1980's all the time.. One day a senior NCO from HHC S2 accused me of stealing that can from the unit, as he was newly in charge of security and said a lot of cans were missing.. I...

his 1st week with the 588th , uniform/boots clean , given a new set after R&R in between unit transfer.. At some point i was to re-letter the M51 contestant in 588th "colors" and have him drive it in an upcoming memorial day parade with other local viet truck vets, using a few of mine & others'...