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Come see me at Cabell's tent - if I'm not there, ask Denise to find me for you. Regards, David

I can say that my friends at Memphis Equipment stopped buying from GL for many many months due to the SF97 debacle. This may have changed since. I know that is not the information that the conspiracy theorists wanted to hear......

With respect to the fuel density compensator. Go take a look at the original Multifuel, the LDS-427. There is no fuel density compensator installed anywhere on the engine - and they also smoke a lot when running diesel. That is because the BTU per gallon of diesel is higher than that of...

I don't have my paperwork in front of me at the moment - and even if I did there are a couple of cloudy issues. I've got some paperwork that indicates when the EPA basically banned the purchase of these engines by the DoD. HOWEVER, I've got no info from Hercules....and there is the very real...

Odds are better than average that I have interior and exterior photos of this type car when built. If these will help you drop me an email or PM and I'll try to dig them out. If I don't have them, I can tell you who does. Best wishes, David Doyle

The latest issue of Military Vehicles Magazine has an illustrated article on just this subject. If you are a subscriber, it'll be in your mailbox likely sometime this week. Major newstands also carry it...or you can contact the editor via email and he'll likely be willing to send you a sample...

Sticker residue comes right off with cigarette lighter fluid.

Re: RE: GL paint marker remover? My inclination would be to try Easy-Off. CARC is a very high quality paint - spray bombs tend to be very low quality paint (and preperation before spraying is hardly by the book). My hunch is that the highly caustic (I.E. don't get it in your eyes, mouth or...

Have you checked the frame, or only dash board? Perhaps even for a letter. As an alternate, do you know the army registration number? Best wishes, David Doyle

I understand that the guy that started this thread doesn't care about the accuracy of his title, or the fabbed up data plate - but others reading this thread in the future may want/need additional data. According to AM General, the bulk of the G-744 (M39, M54A2, M52A2, etc.) production for US...

RE: unknown Lets put it another way - but for two trucks bought from Memphis Equipment, and two from other collectors - ALL the trucks I've bought (which is several) were bought not knowing the running condition. Regards, David

Not Emmado, but for one the DoD Office of the Inspector General, who THOROUGHLY audited and examined GL (and LL, etc.) back in 03. You'll also note that the contract stayed in place. Best wishes, David Doyle

No, but since it is a M62 and considerably outweighs most of the other five tons, I'm not surprised by this. DD

Unless the truck is being fed fuel from an outside source (its own crankcase, for example), or unless there is a governor problem, it won't hurt itself going to full throttle in neutral. Carbureted engines are "governed" by the amount of air fed to them - they then draw an appropriate amount...

You must have left some adjective out of this statement (like a size range, or something). Between now and Aberdeen I'll be finishing a book up about John Deere products, and when I went through the John Deere plant a couple months ago, I can assure you the Tractor Works in Waterloo Iowa was...

Two or three points. First of all, if a deuce is made after 1968, it is inherently NOT DOT compliant - those made before this are. This is an area where the whole hobby is going to run into trouble soon. Either from someone doing something stupid in a surplus truck and getting folks killed...

RE: Re: Differential Gearing There is a tendency for people "visiting" our vehicles at car shows, etc. to move every lever on the truck. Hence, if I were contemplating chainging the rear end gearing, I'd also pull the front driveshaft. Then, if the front wheel drive were engaged, there would...

This is not a new problem relating to GL. Same thing was done when DRMO was selling direct - and it was handled the same way - if the bidder defaulted, the item was reoffered in a later sale. Regards, David Doyle

Way back in the old days, the depot level deuce work was covered in a series of manuals numbered TM9-8023-somethng (1 through 6, as I recall), with additional manuals for major compenents (engines, transmissions, winches, starters, power brake systems, etc.). Very thorough and complete...

I agree - it won't go over well - it seems there is a certain dealer in Maine that does business this way - and has gotten a sound threshing on SS for this practice! One other scenario - guy bigs big on GL WITHOUT inspection (despite their warning not to do this) - then learns there is a whole...