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Took a drive down to Tower Park today and these are a few of the vehicles I saw while there. The event runs from the 13th to the 20th but doesn't get started good until today or tomorrow. Tower Park has a KOA campground there and the military vehicles and the display and vendor's tables pretty...

Hate to show my ingorance but when is/was Tower Park this year?

Just taking a poll here. I'm to the re-wiring stage of the baby HEMTT project and am thinking that circuit breaker protection is a good idea, but more of them than just the one like's on the deuce firewall. I've run from the hot terminal on the starter to a split circuit breaker box and from...

About a week ago there was a discussion about battery tray adapters to let you run Optima batteries in the tray designed for 6TLs. Is there enough need/interest in running Optimas to be worth pursuing? These trays are designed to only accept the Optimas so they wouldn't help if you just wanted...

I know the Solargizers have been talked about in previous posts but I haven't seen an answer to this particular question. The Solargizers will trickle charge a good battery to keep it up but their chief benefit is for desulfating the plates. I'm running two Optima batteries which are a gel-cell...

Anybody got any detail shots of the side hinges on a drop-side bed?

The Problem: You can find 24v headlight bulbs but with the standard three-prong base, not the mil. spec. connectors. Or, you've converted your MV over to 12v but don't want to hack up the G.I. wiring harness at the headlights. The Solution: Acme Headlight Adapters. Get a pair of these NAPA...

The baby HEMTT has such specialized cab to chassis wiring harness connectors that I want to go with a much more common Cannon plug arrangement. Anybody out there have any wiring harnesses that are mostly frayed wire but with good ends? I need two firewall bulkead connectors and their companion...

Any intereest in a catalog of the Mil. Spec. Cannon plugs with a breakdown of the part numbers decoding; shell size, type of mount and configuration, orientation, number of pins and their relative wire sizes? I have it in .pdf

We've had several posts on the M-900 series transfer cases cracking when in low range and reverse gear is used. Our own Joaquin Suave gets the credit for determining why. In shopping for an Allison for his project truck he ran across some specs. for the Allisons in the 900s. He sez that those...

I've decided to run BUSSMAN (Buss Fuses) blade type circuit breakers instead of the one-time-use ATC or ATO fuses and so was given a bag of them to play with. Going through them I'm noticing that there are some marked 24V 10A, or 20A, or whatever-- and some marked 12V 10A, or 20A, or whatever...

HEMTTs aren't exactly little so it's odd the see this one in convoy, looking smaller than the cargo behind it. Must be some kind of optical delusion?

Problem: Venting axles and gearboxes. At some point the military came up with a positive pressure system to exclude water from entering axles and gearboxes during fording operations. Effective but complicated and prone to clogging and air leaks; and sometimes a vehicle just doesn't need that...

We just got another heads-up bulletin so I thought I'd pass it along. "Reverse Movements In M900 Series Trucks -- Do NOT back up M900 series trucks with the transfer case in low range. This WILL damage the transfer case up to and including breaking the case body casting; deadlining the vehicle"...

For those of you who want to move up from that cute little 5 tonner; here's one to check out. eBay item number 160137643353

To heck with the CONVOY AHEAD and CONVOY FOLLOWS signs... or even those spiffy Delineation Plates; I want a pair of these for the baby HEMTT!

OK Guys, here's a topic to debate. Got a 5 ton power steering system and the L.O. for it calls for HDO 10w (10 weight motor oil); and a power steering pump that runs with power steering fluid. How close are 10w and ATF? I don't want to hurt the pump by running 10w through it and I don't want to...

When locking hubs are installed on a deuce or larger, are there any additional lube considerations? i.e. Gear lube, wheel bearing grease or special additive to keep the hub alive when in freewheel position?

I came up with this stamped brass emblem some years ago and just ran across it again in my hunt for something completely different. Anybody shed some light on it's original application?

Getting drivelines on the baby HEMTT together and I'm bothered by what I think is excessive play in the third member. The axles I'm using are the full air brake M-900 series Rockwells and I have (I think) too much rotation at the rear axle driveshaft flange; close to a quarter of a turn. The...