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Packing wick for air pack piston Finally, I have time and all missing parts and new parts together to re-assemble the air pack. Question about the "packing wick", which is part of the air pack piston assembly. My original air pack has a very thin packing wick, the kit has a wick about 2...

This is a great idea. One suggestion: make this announcement not only a sticky but glue it permanently to the top of the Today's Posts thread and to the top of the forum section it is in now. I found this post only after the second time running through Today's Post and would have missed it...

Update: 41 M39 SNs found in VIN threads 2008 - 2012 I now completed the Vin threads from 2008 through 2012. Included also are some trucks offered for sale and SN provided to me by PM from SteelSoldiers owners. I now have SNs and date of manufacturing of 41 M39 5-tons. SN with less than nine...

You probably are right, but they could run parallel for some time, one or two years maybe. Kaiser would start with the first 800s and still have their contract for the M39 to fulfill. However, by the time they were taken over in the early 1970s by AMC it would definitely have stopped already...

serial number comparison wasn't close to the truck yet, hopefully I can check tomorrow. And now for something interesting. I checked the VIN Info threads for 2009 and 2010 completely, and 2012 partly. And some 5-tons offered for sale where the SN was mentioned. I found 28 M39 5-tons, and...

A form of "sudden death"; the first who get a vote wins? Anyway, lets enjoy the winner; still a lot of months and years left for all of us to try again and vote again. Or maybe a "runner up" competition for all those that got second during the year? :drool:

Do you have a pic from this so I know where to look and how it looks? In some other threads, I read that what I call serial number also in some of the 5-tons could contain information about original production year and body type. And that the serial numbers of the older trucks are actually...

And probably you need a fuel trailer behind you at all times. That beast is 17 inch over max size in Europe.

Come on people, two more vote for bigmike's Indian, we cannot stop now.

I am not sure the truck was in Europe before 1986. According the hood number from 1973 to 1986, the truck belonged to the 368th Engineer Battalion with headquarters in Londonderry, New Hampshire. I don't have complete information yet but I did not find reference to them being in that time in Europe.

It was probably twice overhauled. Once for sure in early 1973, once maybe in 1988 before or after arrival in the Netherlands, since it disappears from the archives around that date for that hood-unit number.

Never heard about that, will check when I am back home tomorrow or Thursday.

While writing this, I saw that Floridian's offer worked, its a draw again. But to save Papabear and Patracy the worries of a draw decision, let's make it a firm win for the bike

Only 1000 841's were made as test, unfortunately it never got further. That would have been a beast. https://youtu.be/z4kdonwP86s One of the very few things I still keep aua aua is that I ever sold my 1955 BMW R67/3 with Steip sidecar. The Steip my brother bought and I have it back in...

My 1973 M51A2 indeed a lot older than I was told when I bought it. Both the engine and the truck itself have tag shields mentioning "overhauled 1973". The name of the truck is given as Kaiser Jeep Corporation, which was active only from 1963 to 1970, after that it became AMC. CARNAC was able...

Did the military dedicated Indians came with the logo or were they delivered in OD directly without ornaments? One more vote needed for a draw, so we need two more votes for Bigmike's Indian.

OK two more votes for Bigmike's Disclaimer: the logo is probably not time-correct, and I got it from the web.

I know my brother contemplated buying a brand new one in pieces in a create here in the Netherlands in the early 1970s, as surplus, for 750 guilders (about 1 500 US $ in today's currency), but decided against it. A lot of them were sold of in the Netherlands and German as surplus in the...

Did you count how many wagons?

I started with an M51A2 and made it into an swapable M51 to M52 and back. I have the full description somewhere, but am on the road now without time to look for the papers. It should work out without too much problems.