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I like your paint booth setup. I've considered getting a tent shelter to do rim work and painting throughout the next few weeks since my shop is TINY!

I like this PDF a lot. I've been referring to it throughout my tire replacement project. The one thing I'd change is that a regular 5-gallon bucket won't cut it for removing the rim from the tire! I suggest using wood blocks or an engine hoist instead.

You're welcome! When I just searched the part number in the parts and special tools book, the neutral safety switch showed up on a page with other miscellaneous items without showing its location. When I searched the general support manual it came up in the transmission replacement workflow...

Ok, I stand corrected. The truck does have a neutral safety switch just like you found. I never tested it so I didn't know it existed, especially based on my reading of the operator's manual. But my memory can be a little fuzzy :p The safety switch is #8 on the diagram for both transmission...

I'm sorry to read about your bad luck! I don't think there's a neutral safety switch on the truck. IIRC the manual makes it very clear that the truck must be in neutral for startup and shutdown otherwise death or injury to personnel may result (their words!). Did you check the ignition switch...

The one with the super-extended cab can seat 9 people. That would be the way to cart my family to and from car shows!

These trucks seem like a no-brainer to procure - civilian comforts and military capabilities. I know the FMTV is more comfortable than the trucks before it, but I think I'd rather get one of the Internationals. I saw a video of a Navistar wrecker recovering a buried MRAP. Are the Navistar...

Is engine power the main advantage of the Navistar trucks? Last I knew they used 300+ HP commercial truck diesels, a little more oomph than the Cats in the FMTV.

I'm not too familiar with the International Navistar family of offroad trucks other than them being the basis of a few MRAPs. I just realized there are wrecker and cargo variants. Why are these a thing when the FMTV exists? How do they compare to the FMTV and older trucks the FMTV replaced?

I'm still running 15W-40 in mine, so that temperature difference makes sense.

So that's how they're supposed to look! None of the buses I've seen around here have the lug nut tag thingies (technical term :p) like that.

Sounds like either a bad gauge or bad electrical connections to the gauge. Your temperatures are probably fine based on your IR thermometer readings. Like others in this topic, left idling in neutral for awhile will build up temperature. I left it idling in neutral for two hours and then...

I feel like we could write a children's book :D

Attention M35A3 owners: The Cat dealer told me that the 3116 diesel can run off low-sulfur road diesel #2 without concern for additional injection pump lubrication.

This is like what happens when you give a mouse a cookie.

Thanks for the sanity check! @frank8003 I'll get some Kroil and a syringe and hit those nuts with it. I'll throw the wire brush on the Dremel and clean those threads more thoroughly!

I totally considered getting one of those. For those prices, I've found they didn't come with a warranty and didn't want to get a dud after trying to tighten twenty nuts with 40 more to go. I don't think that's as likely to happen with my torque meter anyway. I guess it depends on who's...

I've been having a tough time getting the nuts loose and off one of the rims on my M35A3. I don't think the rim was ever apart, and the nuts were possibly overtightened at the factory. I've been using a borrowed torque multiplier to get them loose, but even halfway up the stud, my torque meter...

I think it helps that the wheel and rim lug nuts have a range of torque that's acceptable, that way someone can use a torque multiplier to get close enough. I'm an engineer at heart and want as much accuracy as I can get, though. So I was able to find a torque wrench that I could afford and do...

I feel like I get more utility out of a torque wrench. I can use it for multiple torque values instead of just topping out at one with a torque stick. I recently bought a 3/4" drive Armstrong dial torque meter from a suspension shop for about $200, calibrated as of last year too. It goes up...