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Florida, I see what you mean and that was a situation I had not considered. Even worse would be if a flat towed 5ton were aired up as designed for brakes, the forward sprague would be engaged. And when backed up.....not good, unless the front driveshaft were removed. Any help on my air leaking...

Florida, you have far more experience than I do, and I totally agree about the piston seals being the problem. After reading about the field modification to the 5tons (was it the Marines?), I did the mod and verified that the front drive was indeed in neutral. By the way, I tried to change the...

Ok, the 809 series transfer case spragues are air actuated by the poppet valves on the transmission. Reverse is one valve and Neutral and all forward gears are the other valve. As designed it is one or the other. A field modification was to add a deuce front axle switch to cut the air supply to...

Fred, very sorry about you health problems. We wondered why you weren't at the summer rally. Here is wishing you a full recovery and to get back to work so you can have plenty of money for your toys! Sidenote, have you heard from Pegasus (Jerry)? We missed him too.

September dates should be fine with me, hopefully less chance of a repeat of last falls mud-Armageddon!

Another welcome from Cincinnati! You have found the support group for green iron junkies. I used to work right by the CSX yard in Cincy on Springrove ave. What is your engineers screen name?

No details yet but usually happens in October. It's a newer rally with a pretty small attendance, but it keeps growing. Last fall there was maybe 15? MVs. We'll start a thread and set up a poll as to which weekend is best for everyone. It falls near the large Georgia rally, so we are Not trying...

Welcome back nefarious! Awesome rig! Djones, glad you got your truck too! Hope to see both of you at the fall rally!

Sorry again this is shakey, I don't know why. I'll try to fix and repost http://youtu.be/-NvE2viSsCo

Sorry this is shakey, I'll work on it and repost !http://youtu.be/2nq3zCpkmS0

Steve, I sure hope the Cat drove your 813 there! Put Sparkys genset next to shelter and leave 'er runnin' that'll clear out the shelter! My planned arrival is Thursday afternoon, depending on work load.

I totally agree, everybody is cruising along fine when ferro tries some dukes of hazard stunt in the woods and the front trucks continue on and miss the excitement (hence the t-shirt). A little communication would help a lot. Also often a trail ride will head out before someone is ready and...

That sounds reasonable Mike, put me down for 2 (I guess you mean) 2 per truck. Eventually putting a deuce bed on my tractor, so that should be what I need right?

Ha ha Spark, hopefully it won't be that bad, but a chainsaw might be handy if some wayward Dead tree limb threatens our various MV protrusions!

Looks like the weather is going to cooperate nicely for our rally, highs in the 80s lows in the 60s. Rob, we gotta find some new trails to squeeze army trucks through!

What are you getting for the 5 ton mudflaps and brackets?

Hey Fred, I sure Jerry is coming with you. I'm wondering if Shawn (sevin7) is joining us this year?

Very sorry you won't be coming Adam, best wishes on your move.

Always happy to share the ride, only 1 extra seat in mine though! It gets real cozy with two passengers....lol! Some day it'll get a deuce bed.........

So glad you'll be there David, is Djones sister (photog!)going to make it this time?