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@Johnbyrdgates - What is the status of this project? I'm realy interested to see how it's working out.

Tim Holloway of Distinctive Restoration finished the swap from a 230 engine to a freshly rebuilt 251, rebuilt transmission and transfer case, installed front disk brakes w/ power boost, added a Braden winch, and replaced the Chevy S10 steering column someone put in with a real M37 steering wheel...

If it's just a matter of needing to adjust the linkage, that is pretty simple. You can find detailed instructions in TM 9-8030, section 196 "Transfer Control Linkage Adjustment" (starts on page 304 of my copy). You might also check to make sure the linkage rod is not mangled. (If I recall...

When I'm in high range, I shift out of 1st gear at about 5 or 6 MPH. In Low range, thats about where I shift out of 2nd gear. (You can wind it up higher, but that's where it seems "comfortable", at least on more or less level ground

Have you checked your compression?

No, just thought about it a lot (I've always been interested in homebrew electric vehicles. Although I've never done one, I put a lot of research into it back when I was in high school). Also, I'm in the middle of a swap from a 230 to a 251 engine (Tim Holloway is doing th real work on this, but...

I'm guessing it would be easier to just find an electric motor of the appropriate size than tear apart an electric power steering unit for its motor (at any rate, if you HAD an electric power steering pump, you could just USE it, rather than tearing it apart to use the motor for your existing...

Maybe just a smaller electric motor to run your hydraulic pump? Might be simpler than arranging some sort of neutral detection, and then remembering to shift into neutral in order to steer when stopped.

Don't they make electric power steering units? Though maybe they are not appropriately sized for a vehicle this heavy?

a little rough. Let me know if you need different shots or close-ups

When I mentioned "drop", I was talking about how much the crossbar drops down from the frame of the truck, not the drop of the insert you were using. None of the other commercially sold hitches allow for a set up like yours, with the hitch crossbar tucked up by the trucks rear cross member. The...

Thanks, Drew. That shows it well.

A picture of what orientation he bolted the end plates on to the rest of the hitch assembly would help. I'm also wondering if he had to cut an unused part of the end plates off for clearance.

BTW, I like your work on the hard top @Drew65 . I have one on mine, but it's looking a little ragged. It's been great to have in the winter, but I do like the look of my friends canvas top in the summer time (and his ability to put the top down in nice weather). I wish I had your sheet metal...

BTW, if you are towing anything near the rated weight of that hitch, you'll want a break controller in the truck. Since my truck is 24V, and all of my trailers are set up for 12V, I had a problem. I did not want to run the trailer brakes & lights off of just one of the truck's batteries (not...

The hitch Drew65 used is a Reese Towpower 37042 (link is to Amazon, but you can find better deals). It's rated for 500# tongue weight and 5000# towing with a standard weight carrying hitch (it will do 600# tongue / 6000# tow with a weigh distribution hitch, but it's not very common to see that...

What model hitch is that? I could find nothing that had so little "drop" down from the frame, so ended up modifying a hitch. Can you post a side view, so I can see where the end of the receiver tube is in relation to the pintle hitch?

Th technical manual TM 9-8030 shows that wire 12 goes from the ignition switch to the center post on the distributor (see pg 180 - at least on my copy). My truck had been converted to a hybrid 12/24 v system. The ignition was 12v and did not have the military distributor. The ignition coil was...

THe M37 Registry forum has a few threads where people posted details of the snow plow mounts. Just search for "plow" from the main forum page.

Actually, it was quite common on the home-built electric cars of the 70's. THey generally only used 2 of the gears, however, since the torque band on an electric motor is far wider than on a gas engine.