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For what it's worth this is my starting procedure. Shutdown knob out , min power on, Crank for 8 to 10 seconds. Shutdown knob in, Main power on peadal to floor, Crank til engine catches and back out of throttle to keep RPM's at 1000 or below.(Usually fires right up) After engine stabilizes set...

Ok, This might be a stupid question, But why tap for the pyrometers before the turbo? On the over the road trucks I drove the pyrometer was installed just after the turbo. Admittedly only one of them was an old mecanically fueld engine, The rest were the newere electronic engines.

I hear you there, Thats how i'm going about restoring the deuce. Sorta the way one eats an elephant, One bite at a time.

Welcome aboard! Really nice truck!

Welcome from the land of OG terratek. Going to ask my lead at work tomorrow if he's seen anything like that before. ( I work in GSE at the former Chase field in Beeville) He's worked in GSE for at least 30 years, Mostly navy stuff. Might get REALLY lucky and have a manual or a TM somewhere.

Yup, Forgot to mention that. Usually anythng with the word "sulfide" in it's name doesn't play nice with metals.

Non stock alt maybe? Stock alternator has a two groove pulley.

Thanks guys, I sure appretiate it! :D Looks like I'll be doing a bit more reading,,,,,,,

Thank you Fasttruck, Still not sure what exactly I am going to do and in which order. Thinking about just putting the numbers I want in black on white to get it legal and then doing it correctly when I start the bodywork. Wanting to get it mecanically sound first then start making her look nice...

Drove it about 50 miles and pulled a big hackberry stump for a neighbor.

I was just wondering if anyone would know the correct bumper number format for the 169'th engineers batallion for 1969/70 That was when My dad was in Vietam and Okanawa and I was wanting to put the correct numbers on the Deuce before I registered it. He told me that the jeep he drove had 169...

FWIW I try to run mine no faster that 2200 Rpm, Sometimes bump right around 2500 shifting, 45-50 is plenty fast for a 40+ year old truck weighing 6 1/2 tons. Really happiest at about 1700-1800 RPM wich gets me about 40 MPH or so.

If I remember right the stuff in the gauges is Radium, Pretty much harmless unless taken internally, So despite the severe temptation don't lick the glowing gauge,,,:mrgreen: Some interesting reading on Radium poisoning,,,Radium Girls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Now THAT is a really cool machine! Congratulations on getting it that far.:-D

Growing older,,Mandatory,,Growing up,,,Not so much.:lol:

Congratulations! You will have a blast with that truck.:D

Wish the shipping dept where I work took that kind of pride in their job.

Hyrogen sulfide, Nasty stuff. Smells like rotten eggs and is DEADLY! A H2S monitor will let you know when there is too much of it in the air. Some wells down here have them on site, I think it's also called sour gas.

For what it's worth I ran mine about 10 miles toay and it hardly smoked. It's a "D" turbo. A little white smoke at startup and a not much under acceleration. Old diesel in it too.

Tried to fix an air leak, Going to have to trim a fitting. Checked out my fuel system for flow right before it goes into the IP. Checked out good.