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Welcome to the sickness and nice truck! Sounds like you are well on the way to making it a reliable, very useful vehicle.
Might I humbly suggest not planning to use it to pull your backhoe any real distance? The truck is very heavy to begin with. Most of the power plant swaps that are easily...
The rims used by the wagon type trailer (walkerhunter's command camper wagon he got from Papabear) has the correct dually rims with the old m37/m101 bolt pattern.
I always wanted to find 4 and make a dually m37...
Or... a plug cut from any M series vehicle harness for the turn signal flasher fits as well.
It is nice to know they still make the plugs and that the average joe can buy them.
I had the same problem once. Took the pump out, all looked good. Still overheated. Did everything else still had problems. Took pump out again and discovered the impeller had sheared from the shaft... but would stay on it and look fine and turn with the pulley. Only when you held one then tried...
I think we should start a multimedia thread and have a moderator move some stuff so it is all in one place.
Oh, and I ran a train at a rally. Can we get a railroad forum now? Next year I was told I could fire up and operate the EX-NAVY steam locomotive there... so it will even be an MV train...
I am curious to the reason for the intank pump on off switch, to be switched off while driving. The injection pump booster pump was designed with a limited head that it will draw from. I have killed the power switch on mine while running down the road and it becomes a dog without that intank...
Sounds like the small line is the tank breather, should run up to the firewall near the air cleaner if I remember. If you tightened it up and now have a vacuum problem, my guess is the line is plugged up. I never touched anything on the tank so it must have been that way for awhile. I would take...
I have to get to a real computer to properly go back through the pictures of my truck saved in the Steel Soldiers picture loader.
I promise to post more then!
She is a 1984 CUCV that was used at Ft Stewart, GA. At some point in the mid 1990s the Army bought a set of hydraulic kperated rail...
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