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Unless you plan to break down more than once a year, that sounds like a pretty lousy rate. I had a heavy-truck recovery vehicle come to my shop to move some armor and it was something like $175/hr. Since I'm in California, I just assume that's a high number.

Many years ago, I used a M35 as a daily-driver for much of 3 years. I think I had to walk home a time or two but mostly it was fine. Now, this was a very tired gasser-deuce and I was young and while mechanically-inclined I didn't know what maintenance I should have been doing so there's no good...

Suffering focuses the mind and that trip was VERY focused. I think the best one from that trip was when an unsecured battery bounced up into the metal seat frame. Did I mention all my title and import paperwork was safely stored under that seat and that paperwork is flammable... ah, good...

Well, I did learn to drive in a 1953 Dodge truck. Not an M37 but Navy surplus, so it can be done and if you do it you will forever be able to use a manual transmission. The total lack of climate-control would be pretty rough in my opinion, no insulation, all the door and window seals leak...

You have a few issues and it's time to at least yank the head. The compression is too varied. You need a valve job or rings. The top speed should be 50+MPH The knock... if your oil pressure is good, almost certainly a wrist-pin or what it ties to (piston/rod). that can be checked when you pull...

EUC wait times I get not having control over but I feel that it's a bit disingenuous to be taking someone's money for something you can't even predict when you would be able to actually release to buyer. If you know it's going to sell, if I were a vendor I'd get a release so I could actually...

Well, yes and no...it's complicated. The pertinent information is: I'm a lucky guy in that the woman I love is willing to look at my toys as assets, at least as long as they don't get paid for out of the shared account. The relationship does cut deeply into the schedule, I'd have at least one...

Six months and counting. Back in May I posted the below. Jwade reached out, which I very much appreciated, and informed me that this truck needed a radiological survey before they would even start on the EUC and said survey hadn't even begun to be scheduled! He added that due to the delay and...

It's been a while since anybody chimed in and since I've had both progress and setbacks of late I thought I'd throw something out here. I've had a pair of CVR(T) recon vehicles for coming up on two years now... Well perhaps had isn't quite right since it took almost the first year to buy them...

I remember a gate I tig'd up from thick solid copper... talk about getting hot! I've got a water-cooled torch and a bottle of He so I'm set there. What I'm still totally lacking is any clue where to find a repair panel. What did you use for those M113 sponsons?

Do we have a place for them? I've got some British ones from my CVR(T) projects.

Any good experiences welding Al armor here? The rear sponson on my CVR(T) was so badly damaged, somebody patched it with some 6061 or something and the patch just rotted out in a most impressive manner. I wound up cutting it off entirely. Now I need to find some compatible material for a...

I think a FV432 might be a bit roomier, it's sure a lot cheaper than the M113 and way more comfortable to live in that a CVR(T) Spartan!

I haven't worked on a M114 but from my reading heat on torsion bars is a very bad idea, be super careful with the exterior surface of the bars as well. The bars for the CVR(T) are wrapped in thick tape because any nick on the outside could cause failure. Tempered, then shot-peened, then bent...

Yep, it's as Mkcoen said "how deep your pockets are". Halftracks are pretty cool and very available but if you are hankering for full-tracked you have many, many options right up to a low mileage T72! I went with the CVR(T) platform since they fit in a container or regular garage. You can have...

Cannon pointed to the rear is correct, you just have to have your passenger fire-reload as quickly as possible so the reaction thrust gets you some speed.

So are these pads something they had in stock, something they had made in the past and run batches, or something they cooked-up just for you?

Nope, not with any honesty you can't. They are a lot of truck for the money but it's a volatile market and A LOT of things can go expensively wrong. If you were trying to get something that was more likely to hold or increase in value and had to buy a vehicle to do it I'd suggest either WWII...

Not to complain or brag but I do have some buyer's remorse because I bought a M109A3 back in early December 2015 and am still waiting on my EUC. I'd like to point out that it only took a bit over a month to get a permit from the BATF to import tracked armor. Yes, some of it my fault as the...

I have nothing but good things to say about my ISSPro combo gauge and my experience with the company. I bought a vehicle with it installed perhaps 20 years ago and was thinking the EGTs were low so perhaps decades of heat had affected the thermocouple. I called the company and the fellow was...