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Yep, I have mine on Panel Bright with the rheostat turned all the way up, still very dim like it's backlit with a candle. Not a big deal, but it's good to know they should be brighter. I'll take apart the panel one day... maybe the bulbs are darkened over on the inside, or something is dirty.

Stronger brackets are great, but I think that is trying to treat the symptoms not the root cause. Without solving the underlying issue, if you eventually build a bracket strong enough not to break all you will likely do is push the failure to the next weakest part in the chain. I doubt it's...

Interesting. It could just be your picture, but my gauges are not nearly that bright, even on full brightness. They are barely visible, even it very dark conditions. I guess I'll have to look into that.

My opinion is that the lion's share of the problems with the trucks are not the design or quality of the trucks themselves. It's that they were beat on by military privates for a couple decades, then repaired by who didn't do a whole lot better job that the other guys that beat them up. Combine...

My guess is that the empty truck is fully capable of the 60°, maybe even more, but that the 30° has something to do with the flexibility of the hitch. Either the hitch can't bend that far, or one of the trailers this is designed to carry would hit something at that angle. You have to remember...

I've been a little skeptical of that site. They have a lot of specifications on there that I have not been able to find from any other source. The specs are better than what the manuals and other sources say (that I can find), so I've wanted to confirm some of it before believing it. For...

It's way better to know it came from another forum member. Many of these trucks seem to be owned by yahoos that only make me wonder how they manage to keep them running, or people buy them at auction and manage to just barely get them running again to sell (which means it's not much better than...

No, I didn't replace mine. They seemed ok, so I just reused them.

What is all that stuff in there?

Is it? I just swapped my engine, and it mounts in the front to rubber isolators, and in the back (along with the transmission) to a pair of metal teeter-totter plates (which I think are mounted with rubber isolators too, because that teeter-totter is able to move and you move the...

Good catch. I think this statement is the heart of the matter. The definition of "forum" is a place to meet and discuss, and "knowledge base" is a curated location for information. Not really the same thing. That's why I started writing the "Common Problems and Fixes" document for myself...

What I do is any time I need a bolt (and can wait to get it) I order a whole box from McMaster. I usually wait until I have a few different bolts to order, to save shipping. I keep them organized by diameter in a plastic parts organizer (e.g. M4, M6, M8, etc.). I only have a couple lengths of...

If you're going to get a bunch, I would order from McMaster or Fastenal. Ace is great when you need a few, but they only have them stored in little divided plastic organizers so they only have a few of each type/size.

If the rear driver's spring brakes don't apply either, it seems like it's not an air problem. There is likely something mechanically keeping the brake from moving. The search on this site is pretty terrible, and if you don't know the exact/correct wording of what you want it's often easy to...

I find that Home Depot is hit or miss for the metric hardware for these trucks, but Ace Hardware seems to have a much larger selection (stainless, 10.9/12.9 class fasteners, flanged head, various lengths, etc.).

Does anyone know if the defroster air defusers from the A1 trucks, which have the clear windows in them instead of being solid, are direct fits on the A0 trucks too?

It can only be measured while the shaft is out of the truck, and installed in a lathe (or other precision rotating machine). That's why I mentioned it, because there is no way to check or know. If you start to have an issue, and it could be vibration related (e.g. water pump bolts coming...

I don't have a link, sorry. I've seen them on eBay. I'm not sure if I posted about it, but my front shaft wasn't just put back together "out of phase" (twisted), but also had excessive runout and balance problems after being reassembled correctly. Tolerance is 0.005" for runout, and mine was...

I wish I had your luck. It seems like when mine breaks it does so spectacularly, and it can't get running until I find some obscure military-only parts, have parts custom made, rebuild something, etc. I've yet to have an issue that I could even get the truck somewhere without parts. I even...

That's like a $3000 list of parts to bring. At that point, you might as well just pay $3000 to have it shipped. I don't know if you can realistically "predict" any parts to bring. Tools sure, but parts-wise you never know what is going to break, and there really aren't any "these things happen...