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$1.30 a mile ? What is your freight ? In this day and age it costs at least $3.00 a mile plus tolls to move a full size truck. However: a M35 is not a full load so you can economize if you can get more than onme vehicle starting and ending in about the same place at the same time. See attached.

Make sure you check out the part in the TM about the top or main section of the canvas: there is one front and one top so it, if correctly installed, only fits one way. If you have a geniune Army spec tarp that is.

You can admit aiir through the towing gladhands under the front bumper but the emergency line behind the cab or the rear of the chassis are supposed to be protectyed by check valves which will not allow you to fill the resevior from those points.

Apparantly our friend Plym49 abobe dopes not have a five or six axle truck. While there are no tolls on Long Island don't foreget the Hudson River Port Authority levies and the Triboro Bridge & Tunnel authority tolls between the Bronx and LI. If you do not have easy pass then you better have...

The solution to affordable freight rates is don't buy anything on Long Island as there are $150.00 in tolls to factor in just to get in and out and then we figure milage and time after that. Depending on where to freight is on Long Island it can take a whole day just to go and and get back to...

If you can get the truck cheap enough to offset the cost of transportation and you want to trailer it let me know. Remember there will be about $150.00 in tolls plus milage so this will not be real cheap a load to do: anything on Long Island is pricey because of the tolls.

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Proper winch cable has one strand of rope weaved into the steel to act as a wick. Luberication is accomplished by pouring motor oil over it with an absorbant pad on the ground to catch the run off. Chassis grease is not recommended as it attracts dirt and sand to adhere to the cable and damage it.

If you can get the end of the ramps behind the fifth wheel under the front lip of the trailerand you are not on ice or muid the tractor will scoop up the trailer. Everything has to be level side to side. In service we would relay trailers brought up with M915s and dropped to the field with M818s...

A 3/4" breaker bar with a cheater pipe should generate enough torque to tighten the nuts. A torque wrench is the most reliable way to insure enough and even torque on all six lugs. If you do not have the dual path budd socket a 1 1/2" and 13/16" square socket will suffice. I recommend 3/4" or...

That might be an Erie 870 wheel which is also used by Rogers.

Don't overload it. This is easy to do as water is heavier than petroleum. I recall the NFPA has determined the number one cause of firefighter fatalities attributed to vehicular accidents is tanker roll overs.

I am mosyt happy to see you removed the backing plate and brake assembly without breaking the brake line and then necessating the bleeding of the brakes. The applicable section of the -20 does not address this point as then the last phase of the project will be to replace the frozen bleeders...

M123s were not for the faint of heart. Once they put retarders, i.e. Williams exhaust brakes on them you could really drive them. They would wiggle into places with a M747 trailer that M911s feared to go. We also found out who the hackers and the non-hackers were in the heavy haul platoon. Like...

The windshield halves are hinged at the top and locked with a center latch on the botton. The windshield can b e held out on adjuystable arms and secured in place with large wingnuts attached. This, like everything else on the truck should be lubricated. Get the pubs: a opperators manusl...

The bumper number on a deuce would be displayed, on the driver's side in 3" stencil, in RVN the bumper would be the native green and the numbers painted in white. The unit owning the vehicle had their designation also in white on the passenger's side. Facing the rear the unit id was on the left...

If you think $5.00 a mile is excessive wait until diesel fuel hits $5.00 per gallon this summer.

I do not have a LO for the M916, but the 809 series with the NH Cummins call for 10 weight motor opil for the power steering. Did you use the correct fluid for this truck ?

M123s have two tanks: the engine feeds from the left and returns to the right. A cross over line at the bottom is provided to allow the tanks to equalize. If the cross over line valves are closed, then, as someone noted, it is possible to overfill the right tank.

I remember when the military started issueing radial tires the top end did not change because the tires were still 11:00X20 but the rolling resistance was sufficiently reduced you went up hills usually one gear higher than with bias tires.