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I'll vouch that he's good to go. He worked with my wife to get ChevyC60's truck out of my front yard. I chained it to my M1028, she towed him to line up with the trailer, he unhooked the combo, let Lee take the cucv to safety. Then he hooked up his winch, taught Lee how to use it and steered...
3D, at this point, reserve me a nice chair!!! I'm not sure if I can skip drill and at this point, it's back on for July. I'm still going to come see everybody and Thank You for taking this event over. Atomic better come in and Thank You as well!!!
I agree with RTFM but I'll be a little nicer. With an 11/16" wrench in hand, you'll notice two bolt heads on either side of the line going into the wheel cylinder. Guess what they do? Ahh, I could tell you but that would go against the Mods' wishes so I'll also go back to the read the TM rant...
Very happy to see that 3D is stepping up and taking over this event. I may or may not be able to camp with ya'll but I definitely want maximum participation. Please keep all new news in this thread and I'll echo what 3D has earlier, If a Mod can combine the two threads related to this event...
If your Deuce is twitchy after switching to radials, please take the time to search for Gringletaube's answer in a thread started by MDMorgan when they put the 395's on a Deuce. If I were a "Search Genius" I would link it in my reply. Long and short of it, undo U-bolt's on 1 side of axle...
I appreciate it Joe Cool, Most of the older folks have been shuffled out in the past few years with the National Guards "SRP every 6 months to see if anything is medically wrong with you" policy. I've even had to get glasses to keep trucking. Before I could just refuse them but the standard...
I talked to my 1LT yesterday. I may be able to "split out" of drill so long as I go to work at the OMS shop for a few days servicing FMTV's and some older M939 series trucks. I'd like to keep the dates the same and I think all will work out just fine. If it doesn't, I will let all know, I'm...
JoeCool, It's scheduled for the weekend of the 20th. 3DAngus did some awesome research and I think it will be a great little get together. I'll only be able to spend a short amount of time with ya'll. On the previous "Drill Schedule", we didn't have "Drill" in July but the new one came out...
Derrick,
I drive an 1089 for the National Guard. It's better than the M936 (I've used A-0's, A1's and A2's) power wise but it pales in comparison to the M984. That Detroit would rather break the pins than slow down. Plus side, it's slightly quieter and runs about the same acceleration wise...
I'd question how good your replacement batteries are or if there is an excessive load placed on them. In the National Guard, we run into a lot of dead battery issues due to trucks sitting. I've taken a good truck, for this example a truck with good batteries and charging system, and slaved off...
I'm with the majority of this post. The LDS is a nice motor. I'm still with alot of people though, what makes the LDS superior to a LDT with a turned up pump. We've beat this to death in the Deuce Modification and Hotrodding section and I'm still without a concrete answer. I swapped a "C"...
Yes I have seen that happen. A buddy of mine got an RRAD truck straight from rebuild that spent some time sitting in a National Guard unit. Well, long an short, the outer bolts that hold the axle shaft to the hub were finger tight. He tightened them down to 80 foot lbs. and problem solved.
I hate the thread you linked to got closed down. I would have offered the guy from Philly a one way trip to talk nasty in October at Durhamtown. There's alot of places to trip out there. To keep it thread related, I saw an M929 on a stepdeck roll into the base the other day and it was on...
My Hercules is a new in 92' motor, not rebuilt and it idles around 25 when hot and runs about 55 psi running above 2,100. It'll hit 70 psi at idle when cold and about 100 psi under throttle when cold. For reference but a completely different motor, the C12 in a Brand New MTVR only has about 15...
M813rc,
Do you realize that "Conversion by MCLB Albany" on the dataplate means that truck was likely an M54 in it's earlier life? The Marines converted about 1,500 of them to M813's by installing the Cummins and doing a frame off rebuild of most everything else during the early 80's just...
I've got the same issue, albeit to a less extent. Mine weeps enough oil to stain the passenger side of the block and attract dust. I'm just going to run it as is as my truck will probably be 5.9 Cummins powered one day. The motor in it now takes 5 gallons of oil, it can drip a little and be...
On the more current stuff, the USMC number is not the serial number but the "Registration Number". It's stamped on the data plate. I'll go take a look at some M109's and some M939 series trucks in the morning to see if that applies to them as well as far as having the number stamped on the...
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