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It was a water truck for a long time at a local hay company that is a long time customer of my family's machine and welding shop, and then was used to water down horse corrals and an arena for long time friends of my grandparents. We bought it and took the tank off and made it into a trailer. My...

I was at TDS with dezert ratt (the next day). I had just gotten done swapping the center diff in my ex civvy water truck deuce(see sig). I got spare parts from a neighboring shop yard with a few parts deuces, and the guys there have been around forever. They said back in the day when they were...

So about the only thing electrical that works on my the '62 M35A1 I am rebuilding is the solenoid and starter, and the wiring for that has been replaced because the original rotted away, as has the rest of the wiring. The starter is the A1 LDS-427 style with the foot button on the floor...

I've actually been meaning to look into finding a harsh chemical I can use to strip the old grease, dirt, oil, mud, and hopefully the civvy paint while I'm at it...

Ordered a water pump (good price, Walker Truck Parts I think on fleabay) and intake and exhaust gaskets from TNJ Murray. Gonna pull the radiator (repair leaks), water pump, and manifolds off (has exhaust leak) and clean the heck out of the cooling system.

We sell control cables here at work and I think they are similar. I can probably rob one from somewhere... I was referring to the stud pulling on one side of the handle and twisting it. If I put a clevis on it, will still align with the hole (I think) but will pull on both sides of the handle.

The cleaning tub is nice, throw nasty stuff in, walk away and work on something else. Have a coarse and fine blaster too...and a booth...all I need is lots of time and a little money and she'll be good as new. I might be able to get some of my guys on board with helping, which would go a long ways.

I haven't checked to see which end is which yet. I read in a thread around here the other day about soaking it(Kroil is good), tapping along the length to free them up and working it back and forth. I didn't have to tap on mine, just lots of soaking and muscling it back and forth in a vise...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKHrX4YwiyU

Score! Found my parking brake cable in my truck's toolbox. Never looked close enough before. It was all rusted up, ran it in the vibrating ceramic media/solvent parts cleaner and then in a buckt of oil overnight. It's the good old style with the grease fitting. Got it loosened up and working, woot.

Keep us updated.

I tried it briefly once and got frustrated. Admittedly, I didn't give it much of a chance. I can upload straight from the phone, just the pics get posted sideways sometimes.

Thanks! I am using the built in uploader deal where you link out to the url, not just "cold-posting" the url with img wraps. I will play with it some more with new info.

Late, dark, tired, in a hurry, forgot to move the bucket from the deuce rear sump before I backed out. Have a laugh at my expense. :mrgreen: This one I sent from phone to computer, then uploaded to photobucker from computer, then linked from the URL deal here on SS. I think most of my...

Been working on it some more, got a phbckt tech guy to help by email, photos post fine to a couple other forums... I guess there is the original photo version and the linked out version...maybe since this forum uses the direct link instead of photobucket's img link, SS "sees" the original...

Very cool, thank you! Mine being a '62 (I think based off the serial), I wonder if my "big" dash is original or not. Need to compare pictures. I wish I could just walk around your truck and look. I guess I need to get back to Jack's. I think his exhaust is intact. I could make the exhaust if...

Thanks, stb! I found telltale ubolt plate marks on the bottom of my frame, matching the positions of the ones in your pics. Looks like they put the plates on before the truck was painted OD. Your last picture shows an exhaust hanger with two rivets or bolts by the unused bed mount, my frame...

It helps if you're on hard dirt and don't have a bed on the truck! ;-D

Real quick as I'm trying to get the trans buttoned back up today and have other stuff going on, pulled the PTO, good idea. Dumped the ^&%*&^% inside on myself in the process, stupid. It was leaking real bad because the shaft is flopping around, probably how the trans got low on oil. Gonna have...