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13ronin, An Air force deuce(87,88,89 years only) is the best truck to find. They are rare with a PTO winch, it could be added or add a stronger 18k electric. The poster above that has an LDS engine in his, has the ultimate deuce in my opinion. I would be interested to know what that would go...

I agree that in changing from one dot to another, trace amounts if not more, will remain in the system. The truck I have does have dual circuit brakes. Probably the question that is the most concern is how much of these trace amounts matter. Especially as brought up earlier about the old fluid...

If you do buy one from an auction site don't assume anything, especially that because it came from a fire dept or county it was well taken care of. They usually sell them because it costs too much to fix it. Sometimes it gets butchered, because they don't know what they are doing and won't spend...

The part about the seals absorbing the original fluid and the fact that getting 100% of the old out is the key point in my mind. I would like to hear from guys who had a failure afterward....I've read about many changing to dot 3, but have not read about the long term results. The seal failure...

Rustystud, are you saying that if you change from one fluid to the other, you should also change all your seals? I'm curious now what is going on with the seals? If you go from 5 to 3 is there a difference from 3 to 5? I can see that after a change from one Dot to the other there would always be...

I went out to the truck yesterday to check on everything after the windstorm we had. I brought a big scringe with me to see if I could pull any of the fluid out. It turns out that the fluid isn't thick. It is a greenish yellow. What I thought were suspended bubbles must have been there from...

I made a power bleeder out of a sprayer once and I'm sure I still have it, but I remember using it with a metal screw IN fill cap. This 1988 deuce has a plastic screw ON cap like a power steering reservoir cap. and it's kind of big. That's part of the problem with having the truck parked 60...

If I can determine that the Dot 3 didn't get far beyond the MC I'll keep it dot 5, but if I have to blow out the entire system I'm going to Dot 3. The problem I remember bleeding a truck in the past was I questioned whether I got all of the air out. Where the truck is now it's level. Here at...

Maybe this has been discussed already, but did GEP make both engines? and if they made the 6.2 were they in the CUCV too? How were the GEP engines better? Thanks

I didn't know that the red dash light was a warning light of a system failure. I thought it was only a warning that the parking brake was still left on. That red light on my truck is on with the engine running and with the parking brake off. This means one or both systems are in failure mode. I...

It might be difficult to pressurize the MC because it just has a plastic screw on cap. I was leaning toward using Dot 3, because if it needed flushing a few times I could afford it. I didn't know Acetone would be safe to use, I thought it would damage anything rubber. It acts like there is a lot...

I just got my new truck home last night. It is still on the trailer. Good truck except it has a brake problem. It is an air force deuce with the dual system. The brakes work if you pump them 3 times or more getting more pedal each pump. It will hold until you release the pedal and then you must...

From my way of thinking there would be only limited benefit from duals up front. They look like they would take the truck anywhere, but in reality I think they would steer the truck. You may move better but not in the direction you want, this being offroad. On road... looks cool... good for...

There would be less concern if I lived in Florida. Temps here were in the 30's and while the engine was running 4 or 5 minutes it still idled at 30lbs pressure because the oil was still cold. I don't know how high the oil pressure went, but I now have a leak under the oli filters dripping from...

I don't know what he was thinking or if he was thinking. I'm fairly certain it was a case of not thinking. I don't think people look to cause problems, it's just that they can because they really don't know what they are doing. The most dangerous ones are the guys that watch a few You Tube...

That's the way it's going to be here, from now on.

I was thinking other sellers might have experiences like mine and still others contemplating selling their deuce may want to take my advice as I have learned the hard way. Do not let anyone in the cab of your deuce by themselves, especially with the engine running. The next tire kickers that...

Yours Rusty is the most miles I've seen. I've followed a few at auction and none I saw were over 10k. I paid 3200 each for mine, which I thought at the time was at the high end for a non-winch truck. The other thing I learned or thought I knew was that they all had hard tops, and usually a...

Rusty, do you remember how many miles were on it when you got it? I bought 2 from Ft Lewis about 10 years ago. They had 5 and 8k miles on them when I got them. I still have one. It's been sitting under a tarp for a long time. Long enough that the tarp is falling off it in pieces. I gotta do...

I was wondering if some were made for other branches of the service, but I always thought they were an airforce exclusive contract. The airforce used their vehicles much less than the other branches and seemed to be in better condition by my experience. Lower miles were put on them. That would...