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According to my formerly Marine Motor T son (now schooling to be a mortar FO), the term they use is just PM. Same back in my day. Cheers

Check the simple things too. I had a problem with one of the 931s a couple of weeks ago. I took it to a show, and noticed the accelerator was feeling a bit stiff. On the way home, it was sticking pretty badly when I let off on it, getting progressively worse. For the last few miles I had...

Except Marines. No stars on their vehicles. ;) Cheers

So far, I have towed three M832 sets without the shelter attached. Two of them pulled smooth and straight and I was able to do highway speeds comfortably (well, 55mph. That's highway speed to me with an MV). I tried recovering the third one from Ft Worth. It towed great up to around 25mph...

Add a write up of the recovery and some photos when you get it. We'll wish a brief "all went well, no excitement" report for you! Cheers

Very nice truck! I also like the Bedford TK in the recovery photo. As a child, those Bedfords in their various incarnations were absolutely my favourite trucks. Cheers

I don't think my USMC experience with them would fit the bill of "high rate failure". It was an occasional problem spread across a fleet of trucks, so it became a well known one rather than a widespread one, so extras were carried close to hand. They tended to be very reliable. I don't know...

Okay, that is something that needs more details to be shared! Cheers

For a quick ID of in-service trucks - M939 (often referred to on here as M939A0 for clarity)- NHC250 engine, 11.00s M939A1 - NHC250 and 14.00s M939A2 - 6CTA 8.3 engine, 14.00s, CTIS Post service, many owners have put 14.00s on A0s, and 11.00s on A1/2s, to suit their personal needs/desire, so...

As mentioned previously, a while back my local Marine Reserve unit allowed me to do a side-by-side comparison of my M813 and one of their MTVR's. They even helped me try out an MTVR tarp on my truck to see if it would fit. It didn't. Anyway, I ran across the diagram I did of the measurements...

I only got stuck a couple or three times, always while exceeding my own skills and/or knowledge on how to drive in sand. Had to learn somehow! Back in the mid-70's, the beach was a lonely place south of Malaquite, and you could go down there and not see anyone else for the whole trip. We...

Is "addiction" a better word to use, perhaps? I was once a sensible lad who just liked MV's. Then an evil relative pointed out all the lovely Unimogs for sale cheap in Switzerland, and how relatively inexpensively a really nice one could be imported in a container. So I did. After that...

I drove those a lot in the Marines, way back when. Good trucks, in my opinion, other than the items mentioned above. We could have done with better tires, though. The stock ones tended to unnecessarily reduce off-road performance. In Norway, we had locally sourced mudgrip tires that greatly...

I, too, shall watch carefully, as I'm thinking of putting my now-spare military 5th wheel on my M200 (I put a Fontaine slider on one of my M931A2s to reduce trailer height, and to allow it to tow my "shorter necked" trailers like the M146). Cheers

I'm very familiar with that beach, as I lived in Corpus in my teen years, and went down toward the Mansfield cut regularly. Still go fishing down there sometimes. A deuce and aired down 395's, as previously suggested, driven with common sense will get you in/out. Back in the day, I carried a...

I'll second the "..or not", kinda like having Mark around. He doesn't fuss too much when you pick really small back roads in N Carolina to haul a Goat down. ;) (In my defense, it looked like a big line on the map!) Cheers

I tried that once. They ate for five minutes, then puked... Cheers

There wasn't an E option - "All of the above, plus helo turbine exhaust" ;) Cheers PS - a slightly related story, in that it entails air fresheners and the military. My son was returning aboard Camp Pendleton in his POV and got stopped at the gate and given an "Obscured Windshield" ticket...

Loads of nice vehicles. Y'all have a lot of Pinzies! Cheers

Be careful opening the tailgate if your tarp dips and fills up with water. ;) I am reminded of the Temple air show some years ago when a buddy, who's own truck was down, used my Unimog as his vehicle for the weekend. We had one of the usual frog-strangler rains overnight, and though the Mog...