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Posts 20 and 25 describe a frequent problem many are not aware of. One terminal post (the negative I believe) is slightly ;larger thgan the other. You can pound the small one onto the larger terminal but put the big one on the small posts and it will arc as you cannot tighten it properly.

Success in the military requires: read the reading. The Army has a TM for everything now most likely on a CD. Any piece of equipment you are responsible for should be maintained as if is your own because if it breaks guess who is walking home or whose mission is in the wind. The key to success...

Remember if you increase the circumference of the tire and thus the distance from the spindle to the edge of the tire this has an adverse effect on the performance of the brakes. So now that it will go faster it will not stop faster.

The receiver is obviously non military. The issue pintle hook and trailer light plug are missing. Receiver looks to be "farmer installed."

Post 231: I stand corrected. Loco in Franklin Institute is Baldwin # 60000 designed by the redoubtable Samuel Vauclain.

I believe that is Baldwin's 50000 locomotive. It is a 3 cylinder compound loco that Baldwin built as a demonstrator and could burn coal or oil. Alas I did not generate any orders and after a nationwide tour was trucked off to the Franklin Institute.

Post 43: got a short somewhere ? Sounds like flasher is trying to flash the whole truck. Does this occur in both directions ?

Consider finding an excavator or someone with a dump truck with a tag along trailer long enough for your truck to se if you can get a better rate.

Reference the drum lock: Naturally it is stuck in the engaged position. Remove the handle and used the appropriate wrench to turn the lock's body out of the winch housing. Soak in WD40, brake fluid or what ever your potent for frozen stuff is until the plunger operates freely then reinstall...

They must be charging you $5.00/mile BOTH ways. The loaded move should pay $4-500.00 for 100 miles. Need to tell the carrier if this has to be loaded from the ground or are there loading docks at both ends of the trip. Does the truck run well enough to drive on the trailer, because if they have...

The pictures in post 36 illustrate the dog clutch in the engaged and disengaged positions on a CCKW and a 3/4t Dodge where the dogs are exposed. These parts are concealed on a 2 1/2t or 5t Garwood winch.

Also the dog clutch on the winch will be difficult to operate if there is any load on the dogs such as the cable being wound too tight. Try getting the winch to spool out (rearmost position on PTO lever) a little to get any tension off the cable. Obviously make sure the drum lock is released...

You have to move up to a M123 or M911 to get a fuel cross over line and eliminate the transfer pump or, as in a M816, M817, or M 818 have a valve under the handbrake handle to switch from one tank to the next.

As a truck like you have has two fuel tanks without a cross over line there are TWO electric fuel pumps. The engine runs of the left tank and there is a fused transfer pump there to pump the fuel to the engine when the electric switch is on. There is a second pump in the right tank to pump the...

The knuckle boom and hoist, while being worthy add ons will also deprive you of 20% of your off road capacity and 10% of your on road capacity which are not insignificant numbers for a truck this small. I am always intrigued by posts from volunteer fire departments that want to put 1200 gallons...

As I am sure you know putting knuckle booms and dump hoists on increases the tare eight and proportionally reduces the payload even further. After you make these additions think about taking the finished vehicle to a scale and get its true weight so you can figure out how much to put in it...

Post 6 is right on with the weight. 175 tons at 2.5 tons per load is 70 loads. And hand bomb it off ? I hope you have a lot of good neighbors for this. An Army dump truck has an adjustable tail gate, and if chained to open at say 3" will lay a nice strip of gravel by itself.

I measured the body on the M35 here and figure, level with the top of the steel sides, loaded level it holds 3.83 yards. If we go with the Army's number of 2970#/yd that would indicate a load of 11,397# which overloads the truck for highway use and doubles the off road load. The Army used to put...

The transfer pump uses a "slow blow" fuse. Check applicable parts book TM 9-2320-209-20 for a part number. This is not Army unique so Auto Zone should have them. Don't make a move without the pubs: operator's manual, organization repair manual and parts book, and a lubrication order. A M35WOW...

On a M35 the vin# is stamped on the left frame rail between the front spring hangers. At least on mine it is. The truck was made in 1971 as described in post 9 and the registration number that was originally stenciled on both sides of the hood as pictured in post 4 is now stenciled on the inside...