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I had a long, stressful and rough week this week. So this morning, I jumped in the 71 General Products Division and set off to the flint hills. It was great to get away! Among the places I visited was Pillsbury Crossing, the crossing is a natural low water crossing of Deep Creek. The area is...

The fall leaves are yellow and the plum thickets, poison ivy and sumac are showing their reds. I stopped by the river on the way home and snagged a couple of photos. I thought maybe some of you guys with real colors could do the same. I should have been driving the sand deuce, it would have...

My son was supposed to go help me today, we had everything loaded into the pickup. The plan was to go to Riley, check out Jason and Jeremy's 5 tons, hook one up behind the other and go home. My son came home grumpy last night, was up all night, so I grabbed the tow bar, threw it in the 68 and...

I hope this goes better this time, I typed this all up and it crashed.... I will fill in later, do not care to blow the 20 minutes again. Glen

One of my co-workers decided to take his life in a different direction after 17 years, so last night we had a going away get together for John. One fine young man and I wish him only the best. There was another young man that was wandering around outside the fence, it was easy to tell that he...

Jay contacted me with some questions about Riley and concerns about his A3, so I told him if he could go Thursday, I would just meet him there. He got back with me and said he had a 0830 to 0900 appointment. I had told him we could tow it to Salina or down to Saginaw Missouri if needed, I...

A few months? ago I popped off in a thread about seeing a Command Car and somebody asked for photos. It took me a while, but I was back in the promised land today. It was parked here after a parade in 1962. Glen

The old deuce and I have been making smoke this week, burning up the Interstate between Salina and Riley, Old US 40 too... Tuesday the 7th, I took my Labor Day Holiday to go help recover an A3 with Steve from Florida. That truck fired right up, fluids looked great, I thought anybody could have...

I had a no charging issue on one of my trucks. I went out and pulled an alternator off of a M813. The problem with my old one was pretty obvious, somebody had routed the small wire under the cover in the corner of the cover and the sharp edge vibrated through until the wire shorted. It burned...

I was going to post this little event Monday night, but I did not get any photos and you know how this crowd is. If you do not have a picture, then it did not happen... okay, maybe we are not quite that bad.... Monday night my telephone rings, whomever it was hung up before I could answer. That...

My 71 is not charging. We have a 813 with a huge hole in the block. At first glance, the alternators look the same, just on different mounting brackets. Do any of you guys with experience know for sure if they interchange? Thanks! Glen

My EUC cleared this week and today was the only day available due to conflicts at work until the second week in September. I have been needing a deuce since I foolishly sold my old one. I bought a 68 Kaiser Jeep M35A2 W/W and a 71 General Products Division M35A2 W/W. Either I missed it when I...

One of our deuces has a 1992 rebuild tag on a 1978 engine block. The truck is a 1970 model. The engine oil look new... clearer than new Rotella. I have driven the truck about five miles. The only logical explanation I can think of is that it never got driven after the overhaul.... Hauled to a...

At the end of June, first week of July, we bought three deuces at Riley. I managed to get two running. http://www.steelsoldiers.com/deuce/73763-revived-another-one-1966-m35a2-i-think.html http://www.steelsoldiers.com/deuce/73495-1967-deuce-recovery-temporary-driver.html When I went to get one...

The first week in July we picked up three deuces at Riley. I recovered one and have everything fixed except the fuel gauge. Today I got the second one rolling around town! I hate to admit this, but am going to share as it may save somebody else grief down the line. They cut the instrument...

Recently I sold my two deuces, being without one was rougher than I would have dreamed. We bought three rough looking deuces around the first of July and I recovered one last Thursday, the 4th of August. Here is the post I dropped in the How Cold is it thread.... It was 90 degrees with 55...

The last three trips I made to Riley I was told I had 15 minutes to preview my item. Yesterday I was told I am only allowed to preview one item a day. 130 miles a day makes for an expensive preview if I have a dozen or so to look at. It is kind of frustrating. Half of the preview time is burned...

My 1972 M35A2 just left, a new owner at the wheel. What a wonderful truck he got. I hope he treats it well and it does the same for him. She will be headed for Oklahoma, close to the Texas panhandle. Other than an alternator and axle seals, it was a trouble free truck. I just hope I can find one...

The boys and I have been cooped up for a while with the hot weather, work schedules, running family members back and forth to Missouri and the recoveries lately. When I got off work today, they had that wander lust look, so we loaded up and drove the 30 miles or so to the lake. They roamed...

I won a M35A2C from Ft Riley a couple of weeks ago. My friend, Karl Kostman, from the big city of Fargo ND was actually going to drive his Corvette to Salina and go with me on the recovery. What a guy! He offered to drive 601 miles one way, just to tag along. I did not preview the truck prior...