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Being Camp Pendleton Marines, we were used to being refused service in California restaurants ("We don't serve your kind here", "We don't serve baby killers") in the late 70s-early 80s. Back then, Marines were easily recognizable, we were the only ones running around with very short hair, the...

It's a running joke with he and I. :) Cheers

It's a complex piece of equipment, I'll get you a book on how they work. Its mostly pictures, no big words. :p Cheers

As Cucvrus said, chalk shows through the paint. I have had good luck making small pencil marks at key points of the pattern, don't have any problem with them showing through. I've never tried outlining the whole pattern in pencil, I may have to experiment with that. A friend did the same...

Kendelrio, IF you get a CH-53 to haul your truck, make sure you pull the circuit breaker for the sling hooks after loading! If you don't, the electrical gremlin that runs around those birds might just go down there and pop your hooks open and drop your load unintentionally. You do NOT want...

Looks like it has (had?) a civilian sliding 5th wheel (Fontaine?) I put one of those on one of my M931s, lowered the trailer nose height by almost 9", and allowed for towing some of the shorter necked trailers. Enjoy your project! :) Cheers

Lovely truck. Where in Norway? I was stationed there with the Marines back in 1980, we were based on the airfield at Vaernes, outside Trondheim. Back then the Norwegian army were still operating large numbers of WWII-vintage jeeps, WCs, and CCKWs as front line trucks. They were beautifully...

Not a Humvee, but results should be similar - I sprayed my M1028A2 cab with Lizard Skin from the bottom of the dash on the firewall to bottom of rear window level. Before, when parked after a run at 50+ mph, my floor and transmission hump would measure around 85*+, and your accelerator foot...

I was watching your build of the truck for quite a while, then lost the link when my computer decided I didn't need my bookmark list anymore, never could find your thread again. Nice to see it finished to this point! I wouldn't have any problem if you showed up at one of our club events in...

SETOYOTA, your machine sounds very cool. Beats my method of drawing the lettering out on manilla folders, then cutting with an Xacto knife! :D I'm with Mogman on possibly overstressing the little grey cells, but I may have to look into one of these newer machines and see if old dogs can learn...

The under-the-floor brake reservoirs are a total pain to get to, open and close, and the risk of knocking crud into it when open is high. You can buy a vented car reservoir (I used one from an Infiniti, I think) and mount it somewhere convenient and run a line down to the fitting on top of the...

I measured the lettering on the actual Marine vehicles, that's where the 2" tall with 1/4" stroke (line width) came from. Overall width on "full" characters (M, O etc) is 1 3/8". I don't recall off the top of my head the spacing between letters, which is why I didn't quote it, I'll have to dig...

Larsen does not do modern USMC stencils. Few M37 stencils are relevent to Humvees. Cheers

I have not found any of the commercial MV stencil makers to produce accurate 'modern' USMC sets (by 'modern' I mean markings for roughly the last 30 years). However a local print shop can probably produce what you need. I don't know if you have original markings on your vehicle to reproduce...

I trust John's memory and knowledge way more than mine! :) Cheers

How does that song go? "He's not wrong, he's just different..." :) That is one of the early prototypes, #2 if I recall correctly (I'll have to check my notes). Lots of differences from later machines and production vehicles, but that's what prototypes are for - make one, let folks try it and...

Yes. There are two connections, one is Emergency that connects to the red hose on the trailer, one is Service that connects to the blue hose on the trailer. Emergency is usually the one on the right rear, service left rear. Do test them, I have seen trucks (and trailers) plumbed opposite. The...

Semper Fi, brother! Looking forward to seeing this one done. A couple of my trucks have 'US Army' stenciled on the dash, I added my own above it that says "Liberated from the". :) Cheers

Short answer - yes, but not easily. Several on here have done it over the years, and I think Barrman's M1007 build details how he did it on a Suburban. Cheers

Well, if you go by the manual, a single point of the hood star should point 'forward', as in toward the front of the vehicle rather than at the windshield like yours. That said, the proper-per-the-manual way always just looked wrong to me, and if you go by photographs, a lot of soldiers thought...