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My attempts to rebuild my flaky wiper motor have failed, so I guess I'll purchase a replacement. These are plastic body wiper motors. As an experiment, I purchased a single mil-spec wiper arm and wiper blade. Absolutely terrible. Useless. The arm just can't produce enough spring tension to...

Well, the G272 tire sounds safer, no matter what you use the truck for.

Brrr... forget it! Stay inside! I'll measure my spare tire when I get home. I was going to rent a U-haul trailer and pull it with my Subaru Outback but a co-worker has offered to make the run in his full sized pickup with a trailer. We're just trying to work out an agreeable day. I'm not ready...

Gotcha. Visually, the front just looks "smaller" to me but I think that's a visual trick of the front being singles. New question: I want to transport 10, mounted, 11.00X20 NDTs. An 11.00X20 is 41" tall. How *wide* is a mounted, inflated 11.00X20 NDT? Also- How accurate is my weight guess...

I'm surprised that going from 11.00 to 12.00 on an 809 series makes much difference. Interesting. When you say 11's are too skinny on the front, how do you mean? You don't like the way it steers or...?

Weird, I tried to hit the "Thanks" button instead of wasting a post, but it's not visible in your post. So, 400# for that mounted tire. [thumbzup]

I'm more of a caretaker owner than a tweaker or modifier. I briefly entertained upgrading to 12.00X20 simply because they should fit and the M819 had them but decided that it was a lot of effort for zero gain. Mainly, I was just curious if everyone who jumps up to massive tires was aware of the...

TobyS- I have a question about the larger tires. I notice that many, many people upgrade to larger tires. Many people report a higher top speed, but that it takes longer to get there. Assuming a stock engine, isn't there also a power trade off? Don't you lose some power from trying to turn...

I guess I should be happy to be in positive numbers, no matter how low.

My tags arrived yesterday, so I'm road legal now. I advise drivers to avoid secondary roads in central and southern Maryland. ;)

Yeah, I saw your posts in the archives where you suffered multiple failures. I'm sure that was frustrating. Everyone keeps mentioning "upper" and "lower" but I'm confused. I'm only seeing a single pair of dog bones per side, under the trunnion bearings/leaf pack. 4 total, but the parts manual...

On the topic of dog bones, I did the pry test on mine yesterday and they did not tear, nor are any of them torn/broken yet. However, the rubber in the bushings certainly looks dry so I'll be watching them closely while I save up for replacements. I also greased up the trunnion bearings which...

All in jest.

With M-16's in the accessory gun rack in the cab.

LOL...oh man, nothing says "I'm a bad---" like needing a winch to deploy and retrieve your spare tire. :)

So...submitted my paperwork for tags and title. I should have my tags on Monday. Due to the VIN format, there will be a short delay, so I was unable to walk out with my tags. I made a cardboard blocker for the radiator now that temperatures are freezing or below. I found some info in the TM's...

I can understand the need for money. I'm from Cape Coral, originally. I drove right past you when I visited home for Xmas. I should have checked with you to see if you have any parts for sale that I could use.

Why the big purge?

Jeebus, when you have a blow out, you don't fool around. Is this truck extremely rare? I Googled it and couldn't even find any real images of that model, just civilian trucks and earlier military TMT's. It looks very interesting!

In the early days (2000), my unit had this MOC in a box. Originally, it was designed to be towed using artillery mobilizer wheels on each end. Unfortunately, it was too heavy and the mobilizer hydraulics often failed and in a very unsafe manner, so we put the MOC on a low boy and just kept it...