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Just got my email that the Title for my truck is with fedex and will be here next week. I opted for a title instead of SF97 hope it was worth it we shall see

I am going to try a cable luber and see if that works

Any advise on freeing up the throttle peddle. I tilted the cab up and touched one of the springs and it broke, so i will replace that, but the peddle in the cab has to be pulled up

Slow progress but its progress, brake cage plugs came in so those are sealed up, caging bolts are put back in the storage position around the chambers and i tried to grease the truck. Its been a long time since this truck has seen a grease gun. about half took grease, ran out 2 tubes of grease...

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anyone seen a light like this in an LMTV or any other vehicle. does not seem to be in the TM part manual that i can find

The rain sure knows how to ruin progress, but yesterday i got the coolant system drained back down and all new coolant, knobs are now on the vent system so i can pull them out, hydraulic manifold is back apart due to a leaking o ring. more parts ordered for other projects. I am sure many have...

More progress today rear end is full of oil, changed out coolant sight glasses and radiator cap, turned the truck around in the drive in a snow storm. Wipers work, but that face full of dust was fun when i turned on the heater blower. Purchased a refurbished laptop on Walmart.com to dedicate...

Not much has been done the last few days. changed power steering filter, filled the front diff with oil, tightened all the drain plugs under the truck since they were all loose after the army drained the fluids out. The wife is not please with all the Fedex, UPS, USPS deliveries to the porch in...

15 years ago i painted a 16 foot car trailer with etching primer and imron paint. 1000 dollars for materials, but that paint was as good 10 years later as it was when we sprayed it

welcome another Ohio member, be very careful. last year a bought a 803 generator for the house, then 2 months later the mep 1040 because its the newest version, 2 weeks ago an m1078 and yesterday another mep 1040 generator. green and tan grow somehow

far left in the picture is there a hole all the way through on that one

Wrong pump the one on top of the truck

I will get a pic tommorrow as its dark and raining. I am getting better at the TM manuals 2 generators and now a truck its starting to make sense

78 PAFZZ 0PFG7 11048 .PLUG,PIPE.......................... 1 figure 251 item 78 in the TM I will figure out later how to upload a picture

So looking at the air over hydraulic pump 3 out of 4 mounting bolts are missing. I assume that was to drain the fluids. The protective cover is missing as well so will have to source one of those, but my question to the group is on the left side by the hose inputs is an allen screw the TM says...

So I got a few hours to work on the truck tonight, I followed Helicools youtube video and took the valve manifold apart and cleaned everything. cab goes up and down great now. got the transmission and power steering filled up, rear brakes uncaged and drove it about 4 truck links up the drive...

So made a lot of progress today. Diesel was the only fluid in the truck so far. so i put fluids in finally got the cab lifted, oil, coolant, batteries primed pump and it fired right now. cab is stuck 2/3rds of the way up fought for 2 1/2 hours just to get to that point, front rubber isolators...

and waste the 3/4 of a tank of Diesel that it came with. not a chance

My m1078 has arrived safely at my house in good condition, getting it unloaded from the step deck trailer went smoothly without a lot of sketchyness.