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Note that the star points forward. not too the windshield! This is correct according the manuales of vehicle marking. Wolf

Hallo there, step by step: It is known, that single line brakes have a potential to fail as any mechanical system. Unfortunately: If they fail, they totally fail. No claim, no blame, it was the state of the art of technologie of the 1950's. And to change a air over hydraulic brake system to a...

Whats behind the Iowa Flag? Very simple, I had to choose a unit for my truck due I could not find out the one behond it in service. The Bumper marks were several times repainted and with carefull sanding down, nothing clearly was found. Today, I know that most probably my truck belonged to the...

Afer about 16 years with a M1009 I can state the following: inspect ALL cab mounts very carefully. Everything that looks strange to you is wrong. They just rotten away in a 20 years or more period if time. The pics clearly tell the story of repainted chassis, for for the Arms they did not see an...

Forget about the old starter type. The selenoid is a typical weekness. There is a new replacement they say ist is more reliable, # 6598N. The Army changed to that starter type about 2 or 3 years ago due to unsuffciant reliability of the previous one. Wolf

The military trailer can live with the 12 V of the recepticale due to 2 glowing wires in the military bulbes. Only one is light. The black out system is no good for 12 V, it needes some 24 V to function to suffisiant brightness (even it is not a big lot, but it needs it...). Wolf

That's rght, the naked carg box of a M101 isaabout 400 to 440 lbs or something about 200 kg. Wolf

The M101A2 trailer is a tough one, however it should not be used over 2 metric tone gross weight, even the tires and rimms carry more and the overrun head is good for 6000 lbs. However, the brakes are not good for more! 2 metric tons or 4410 lbs gives you an approximate pay load (no bows, no...

I also have some pics from the Grenzhaus Museum which is located at the Thüringern side of the former border. OP Alfha is in Hessen. I estimated to need 2 hours for all of that, however it took me 4 hours to look at all the museum stuff there. It was very interesting!. So here are the East...

Here are some pics of the former border line fences as reconstucted. The autoritiers did not allow to keep them in the original shape, so they had to be rebuilt in 2008 for demonstration and rememberence. Wolf

On the way back home I made a little detour of about a 100 miles and visited OP Alpha. Thanks to the soldiers who served on that outpost to East Germany for many years just at the borderline to keep the western world free of the influance of the eastern doctrines. Here are some pics from the...

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Hallo there, some pics from the Eastern Meeting in Hepstedt. it was a small meeting, however a nice one , some 25 vehicles and a lot of old friends, very relaxing. Here some pics. Wolf

After propper brake in the engine is good for a very long live time, 300,000 to 500,000 km or 200,000 to 300,000 miles. You have to care for regular oil change and the propper spec. of the oil. Than it runs well also on long distances between 2700 and 3200 rpm if the noise does not disturb you...

To my knowledge it should be the same as the M543. Has it SAE or metric assys on the hoses. SAE means max 10 Mpa, metric up to 30Mpa. Pumps are most the time 60 GPM. Wolf

In general, the old pre chamber Diesel engines with relatively low injection pressure (about 12.5 to 19 MPa) have no problem with using Bio Diesel of any kind from the engine side of view. The more modern engines (after 1995) get into trouble due to some problems: The injection nozzles should be...

There is an other diode between the positive and negative connector rail on the dash. This diode is to cut down voltage peaks between gen1 and gen 2, in German called Löschdiode. Hope this helps. Wolf

AC Delco plugs are in Germany arround 10 Euro or 14 bucks each. Livetime is, if you do not exceed the glowing time, close to unlimited. Those with registor beforehand are 2.8 Volt plug without regulator built in. The 24 Volt plug, which do not fit to the connecting shoes of the CUCV series...

Did you check your diode plates and regulators in Gen 2? Maybe blown! Had years ago a simelar problem. Wolf

The actual colour seems to be desert CARK, as you can see may vehicles in Germany rotaiting to and from Irak. On the sides on the doors there are some black open tirangle markings for identification (tip up). Unit codes and vehicles regs in relatively small caracters in black (something between...