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When it comes to truck tires you will never do enough of them to get good at it. If you do enough of them and get good at changing them that is not good either.

One thing to watch out for is the space between the steering wheel and the back of the cab some seats are thicker than others and really limit the space for the driver.

Your Truck looks great. Sandblasting gets sand everywhere I have done it with a pressure washer works better it will take off what is already coming off. I rebuilt a m211 it had orange paint over the green. I first went through the brakes and wheel bearings then I sandblasted the frame and...

I have seen many military truck campers in the KOA just north of Albuquerque NM. It's no problem. It is a great place to stay and full hookups.

Some times it takes two hammers one on each side of the sleeve that the taped pin go through.

I never had any luck with completely sealing oil leaks around the filters till I installed the spin-on filters.

On hills Chaining up the outside tire front or rear axle will cause the tires with the chain to dig out the ice and not touch the ground because all the weight is sitting on the other tires without the chain and are spinning on the ice on a steep enough hill the truck will be slipping down the...

This disc brake is in a 1943 White something like this with a maxi chamber in it would make a better park brake than the one that was put on these trucks ,

I was able to make a mechanical linkage for my M52A2 it works good

The NDT tires marked with OZ on the side wall are different from other tires they seem to have better rubber .

legally they need replaced adding a tube dose not change anything the tire is coming apart .

Every state is different . I have use Progressive with 2 trucks $ 89 a month includes 2 trailers and a weight of 80.000 . other Companys would insure the trucks and print a 10.000 pound limit on the id cards .

In 82 I bought a new Chevrolet 3/4 ton 4x4 with a 6.2 and a manual transmission it was great no problems .

What I have found on my M211 is the mechanical linkage on the transfer case that pulls the rail out or let the spring pull the rail back in can not be adjusted enough before it interferes with something else . The linkage need to pull the rail out maybe 2 inches but the linkage will only...

The trailer torque arms are just a little shorter then the ones that go on the trucks other then that they are the same . some times I have used a chain and load binder or a come long to do the pulling to get the end aligned . With the tapered surface on these end some time a good vibration...

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I ran in to this one time on a drilling rig when a new gasket was no where a round . Sprayed some kind of aluminum rust spray paint on both side a couple of layers let it dry and put it back together and torqued it down just a little higher . I went back a day later and retorqued it .

This is what it looks like when you use brake cleaner to remove the foam and cover the holes and paint .

When gear oil was not around I have used STP oil treatment as lube and a rag with duct tape or electrical tape to patch the broken plastic . Some caps don't have plastic disks that can be changed out the whole thing has to be replaced . When I came across a trailer with a old hard rubber...

Picture hanging wire works and I don't know if its necessary or not it dose keep any bolts from being lost . Silicon works on the out side of the zipper nothing on the inside . I have always taken the wheel off . The more of them you change out the easier they get .