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Good plan. Some other useful info: oil pressure should be 10-15 psi at idle at 200°f, 50-75 psi at cruising speed (2100 rpm) 200°f. Engine coolant temp should not exceed 220. Your gear ratio is 6.72:1, you're going to be running between 130 and 150hp, downshifts are your friends, speed doesn't...

Not necessarily, you will have to jack the truck up enough to wiggle the wheel back and forth and in and out. There's good tutorials for checking them on YouTube, probably a couple good threads on here as well.

Beautiful truck. Definitely map your route with clearance in mind, mine has a nice tag inside which reads 13'2, and I don't have a van body. Keep an eye on the coolant temp and oil pressure, and I strongly recommend test driving at night before you try to cover any distance. Maybe it's just...

I can't say enough about the deuce. I wanted one for years, just wasn't "practical", until it was, now I kick myself for waiting so long 😆. This is my first MV, first diesel, and largest vehicle I've driven. Shift pattern takes a little getting used to, and it's slow in stock form, but you will...

I like those. I'm trying to look without budget in mind, compile a list of results, then sort by budget from there.

If the truck runs and drives normally after starting, fuel delivery is not the issue. Some trucks were designed to start with the accelerator pedal pressed, depending on the layout of the dashboard (source is the tm from 1981, starting procedure shows two methods, depending on layout). I'm...

Exactly! Where I am literally anyone regardless of license type can jump in a class A pusher with air brakes and enough power to pull a hotel behind it and drive it anywhere. 5 ton pickup? Class B CDL. M36? Class A CDL. M998 hmmvw? Not road legal. 40ft Monaco with 600hp, tow package, quad slide...

See we have (or are supposed to have) a constitutional amendment to protect us from such things in the U.S. I read here recently that M998s are restricted to off-road use only, because they don't meet highway safety standards or epa highway regulations, but in my state you can get a permit to...

I Understand completely if this post gets removed, it's on the fringe of the TOU, but this has to be said. It seems like a lot of us are fighting to get these vehicles titled, insured, and down the road, and why? What ever happened to the constitutional right to travel uninhibited and...

Any update?

I know EXACTLY what you mean. There are many others like it, this one is mine

Oh yes. I had a wish list for it before it was home 😆

Oh man...... Now it's practical............time to study some TMs.....

Ok......but.......if you put one of those wild looking square track systems around the wings and used a small (at least 4cyl?) Engine to drive the ring gear and tied it all together, so long as it's an open diff, not locked, it would go down the road....... And if you used the right drive system...

Hello all, had an idea for storage and filtering, wanna run it by some of you first before i get too carried away. I plan on cleaning out a 90gal marine gas tank and using it as my own fuel fill station, filling it with wmo and atf, and mixing that mixture 75/25 waste fuel to pump diesel. I have...

That would explain why the forward battery needed replacement, well that and it was a 7 year old everstart that was too small for the truck to begin with (750cca and 850@32°). Definitely getting an equalizer before I put brand new batteries in, but for now there's higher priority items. Thanks...

Update: charged one of the batteries for 12.5 hrs, discarded the second one and replaced it with an old napa I had, hooked everything back up, cranked and about unhinged my jaw from smiling so hard. After sitting in the "cold" for a week, 5 cranks and she fired. Runs great, smokes a little white...

I chose a 1969 M35A2 as my first MV and looking at everything I've read and what I've done to it so far, they are excellent firsts. Simple, straightforward and overall pretty cheap to maintain in comparison.

If you crank it with your foot on the throttle, does it change anything? Or if you pull the throttle lock, say, 3-5 clicks out? Seems like crud would have worked it's way through by now, to me it sounds like either low compression or throttle cable misadjustment. Can't hurt to try at this point

I don't mean to be "that guy", but why hide a beautiful piece of history like that? I mean, it's a truck, it's not going to bite anyone. If you feel you must and money isn't an issue have it painted like a Monaco, or Winnebago or whatever's popular out/around there, essentially hide it in plain...