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And here I thought I was paranoid for always loading the tow bar when I venture farther than maybe 50km from home!! You certainly showed some dogged perserverance on that trip. Lesser men would have set the truck on fire and walked away.

Yes, I have seen the bubbles in one of our fire trucks. Fill rad up so that you can see the surface of the coolant. Depending on how bad the leak is and how badly the rad shakes to start with, there will be more or less visible bubbling. A more accurate way can be had when you know someone with...

Serves me right for taking a phone call before hitting the "send" button! :sad:

The five tons have glad hands in the front and can be connected to the towing vehicle's service air circuit, activiating the towed vehicles brakes just like the driver would, by stepping on the brake pedal and activating the air support. For the deuce, you CAN activate the brakes in a similar...

Parking with the engine off does wonders for the decibel level in the cab. If you park in a heated garage, it is also nice and toasty in the cab. Sorry. Other than that, I got nothing.

You, sir, are a hard-core planner! I bet you have at least two of most things, just in case! :-)

Would you mind posting a couple of pictures of this setup? Taller tarp would be good for my back!

Thumbs up for your progress. After getting her roadworthy in a muddy field, any subsequent repair work on a flat (yawwn) concrete pad (yaaaawwwn) under a roof (Zzzzzzzzzzz) will sound tremendously boring!

I can offer this repair thread. I have fixed several motors that still work fine. http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?56882-Plastic-air-wiper-motors-repair-how-to

I read this as either pulling trees down or pulling cut tree trunks from A to B. The stock winch on the M35A2 is driven via drive shaft (as opposed to hydraulic on the A3) with an aluminum shear pin as the only safety feature. I like this winch and I think it is great for its intended use as a...

I believe in the right of everybody to do with their stuff what they want. I also believe that I should be an educated decision. I fully second clinto's suggestion. If you buy this truck for the price you mentioned (or better), clean it up and re-sell it, you might make some money off it. Get a...

Looked it up on Google Maps. That is some serious terrain around a snow covered volcano. The demeanour of the driver and his compadres suggests that this is not their first rodeo. I wonder what the live span between serious services/repairs is for a Deuce under these road and load conditions...

If you have access to a manual three lever switch, you might consider swapping that one in to check whether or not this gives you your lights back. I understand that the electronic switch must have its own grounding wire that you attach and connect to a good ground before you even put power to...

How, one might ask, do the other hundreds of different truck variants in the civy world manage this risk? No RH/LH threads there.

Some people junk all their left hand thread struds and replace with RH thread throughout. Just an uncalled for five cent piece of trivia :-)

I have had them for only over a year and zero issues. No hard offroading, though.

Guy told me once " Just the fact you have to ask should tell you to replace it". Seriously, though. No, the shoes do not look horrible. On the other hand, they are not really good, either. The edge damage is not normal wear. You have everything apart and a new shoe is, what, $25? If it were my...

I have JT's spin on oil filters and eventually installed Westfolk's primary and secondary fuel filter setup. Why? The primary spin on is so much easier to get to and service/change. Every time you toss the spin on filters, you also get a new o ring/gasket, reducing the leak issue. The double...

Lenny, try the "old deuce" forum. In here, the threads are on the newer models.

Talk about reviving a cold, frozen thread!