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Another common problem with those sockets is the contact strips corroding and breaking down at the bottom where you can't see it. I was chasing my tail on a similar electrical problem a couple of days ago on the 1028, sometimes the lights would work, sometimes they wouldn't, finally figured...

The "acceptable ramps" part generally means something like "don't bring a bunch of tatty 2x4s and cinder blocks to stack at the back of your trailer and call it a ramp". And don't show up with a trailer that looks like it came from a Mad Max movie. As stated above, most times the local reps...

Harvey is going to hurt the Texas coast, and quite a ways inland! Landfall is expected sometime overnight tonight. Corpus is predicted to have a storm surge of 6-12 feet. I'm about 160 miles from the coast, so all we are expecting is somewhere between 10" and 22" of rain and some high...

Many may run for years without problems, but having looked at many many trucks in the DRMO/GL/GP yards over the years at Ft Hood and Ft Sam, I have seen a bunch with burned up instrument panels with burned up push button switches, and a very few with burned instrument panels and 3-levers. I...

Thanks David. And more than likely, that is exactly why it was done that way. Along the lines of the M38 - M38A1. "Can we have a new jeep?" "No!" "Can we upgrade our M38s then?" "Okay, you can do that..." Cheers

As much detail information as practical on the PIP of the M54 et al series that lead to the M809 series. New build versus conversion numbers (roughly is fine). I gather my M813 was converted from an M54, rather than being an all-new truck. Looking forward to seeing this end product! Cheers

I'd say ANY manuals you have that are not preserved here, post them! [thumbzup] Cheers

Do you want 923 or 932? Title says one, text says the other! :) Back of cab to the end of the frame rail on an M932 is 141" Cheers

If you, or someone else who reads this thread, go the route of making an adapter, I've attached the pin information for you below. The adapter is easy to make, just get a truck end of a 4-way, and attach the wires as indicated. That way you can use it on any of your CUCVs (or other MVs, after...

Price depends on what contract the trucks were ordered under, and the value of that contract. With vehicles, aircraft, etc, the contract amount is divided up by the number of vehicles in that contract to get the "per item" cost, which may not even remotely reflect what the real price is. Say a...

Maybe I'm missing it, but I don't see a description! :shrugs: It's an Alvis Scorpion. Technically an armoured recon vehicle, rather than a tank, but that is for purists to worry about. :wink: Cool, vehicles, and quite zippy. The attached picture is one that used to belong to one of our...

Those are pretty cool. I guess if one of them was your "baby" then it would be worth spending that to have one. Though I did find myself looking around the ceiling pondering on where I could fit in a 5.5' long Hindenburg! :D Cheers

Here's another picture (I don't remember whose) of a stock M1009 after pulling a trailer, just in case you are not convinced yet. ;) The military restriction on M1009s to tow M416 trailers only was not based on the vehicle's towing capacity, but on the weak hitch mounting. Cheers

I do! I gave some to my buddy when his throttle cable broke on his 1009. He drove it home 70 miles "manual throttle", ie 550 chord tied to a Swiss army knife. :driver: Cheers

The Michelin guy I talked to many years ago told me the XL tires were not directional, per se, but were designed to give best performance the way they are mounted in post 1. ie "arrow" rolling to the front. I specifically asked about the military mounting all of them pointing the same way on...

I was on D's mostly, though we had a couple of A's still. We had the radar detectors in 1980/81 time frame. I may be wrong on the brand name, could have been Escort maybe? Regular old detectors for use in a car. The Mk1 eyeball was still the primary detection method. I like the right front...

We did the same thing, we always called them as Smokers eg "Smoker, 7 o'clock, three miles". This was in the days before we had any ECM/detection gear on CH-53s, so we bought Passport radar detectors and mounted them on the instrument cowling. They'd flash when you got painted, and light up...

M715 Zone takes a couple of days (or so) for them to "approve" you. Once they do, you'll be able to post. It's home run, so be patient. ;) Cheers

What you tend to miss while looking at the plane, is that there is an M42 duster parked a little behind it. Worth stopping in that little park for a few minutes to check both of them out. We used to see the F-111s transiting New Mexico at low(!) level back when they were active at Cannon AFB...

That thing was just flat out cool! Cheers