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I haven't found anything recently worthy of photographs let alone sending to you.....yet. We might see the buried trucks by the end of the week so I will share what we find. Every so often I do that search for "military surplus cab heater" and they don't show up all the time. This was one I...

Here it is. These guys are funny. A little better picture of the wrecker. It's good to have a sense of humour around the Legend. This is how we dug out the G749 crate engines. Can you see that little box hanging maybe 20 feet off the end of the fork extension extension extension. Full...

Thank you AA. It's so nice to see another persons teeth knowing they are laughing and not getting ready to bite someone. Life is short brother. I was going to swing this over to the MV spotted thread but there is enough G749 preservation mixed with Yellow USMC iron we'll put it here. That...

Could you extort me out of the rod bolts instead? Getting conned just makes a fella look weak but being extorted takes skill so I would feel less gullible. I think we can set you up. Most Rod bolts are still in the connecting rods but we have some spare parts. As per Rusty and the rest of the...

Engine 3 is a RCEME https://rcemecorpsgemrc.ca/ rebuild from 1969 and the half circle molded in the pan sludge gave away the problems. These guys had a great reputation for quality rebuilds so it's curious why we couldn't find the nuts to the bolts that were supposed to hold the bearing on. DId...

Once you and Keppy laid it out I knew the cam had to come out and a press was best for removing the cam gear if we need to. Thanks fellas! It's just an oil pump, and it almost outsmarted me. Depending on where the engines are seized and where the crank sits, access to the oil pump bolt BD/BC...

Welcome aboard. This is your first time posting here and the greeting crew often brings lobster so grab a plate. You're surrounded by support and books have been written to guide the process. On the Maple leaf up link you'll find Rob Love and maybe Brian Asbury. I ask these local fellas about...

I gotta admit Keppy I'm guilty of loaning the books out and really needed the lead....thank you. At one point 9-8025 was not available online but JATONKA has it up there........it's just labelled wrong. http://www.jatonkam35s.com/jatonkaM135-211sTMdownloadpage.htm...

Got three of the best engines ready for stripping but keep getting chased out by the rain. Jumped on it today and saw some real clean guts inside what appears to be an original block with an original plate. I'm a stripper! How does the oil pump come off? All I see in the book are two...

We made engine tear down life faster by pulling out the generator and using modern tools. Pulley pulling tools that can pull their weight around the G749 farm are a bonus. This stuff under the heads is also a bonus. When the head looks like this...... ....the top of the piston looks like...

We're almost certain we found a shiny cam among the neglected piston rust! Did some more tear down on the 302 crop to thin out the rows. If the plugs were pulled back in the day and some preservative oil spilled on top of the pistons, these things might have survived 40 years of storage...

That square body beast is the Light Support Vehicle Wheeled. LSVW. I guess Wheeled light support vehicle WLSV and Light Support Wheeled Vehicle LSWV were taken........or we blended some French language in there. LSVW just sounds better with or without the French accent...

Rusty, ........ I see MV's on the parade routes in Alberta. Quebec just battled the injustice of MV's being 'banned' and won....... British Columbia sucked some garbage info out of the AAMVA and is trying it on the crowd out west so we're watching that gong show. So far even the B.C. MV folks...

Thanks much Rusty. Some of us are fortunate enough to have good parents we can miss for twenty years. We were lucky. Good to see you....or read your typing. The 350 hooked to the GM Hydromatic would be awesome. Pulling hills with anything more than the 302 is a bonus. Re-engineering the...

Welcome to the round nose jimmy club. That's a great northern rescue story. It's tough working between break-ups, rain, too much snow and snowmobiles packing trails. We have 100 good days in a year to get things done and you did it. That one looks and sounds like a keeper. Where is that ol girl...

That's likely the o ring that went bad on Goose. The bell housing kept filling with fluid so we'd drain it before a tour and she was fairly good about not leaving stains behind at a show. The joke started about "How much fluid does a bell housing hold on the M135 ". I looked for a flywheel...

We so much appreciate the kind words fellas. She rides with us forever. Using the trucks as a distraction is helpful and when someone needs parts, it makes it even better. I had a chance to peak at another 'take-out' engine that sat outside at a local wrecker for 40 years. I don't think we...

There is so much going on if I don't catch up with you folks we will all miss the boat. Check out the new Canadian museum info at the bottom. These two are together again. With the incredibly good humoured Grandmaster of the G749 farm passing away at the end of March in 2018, he set us up...

I can see the grin on that truck from here. You sent it home with a hooker.

Can't offer much on the truck but I like Chevys and can welcome both you and the photos to the knowledge of Steel Soldiers. They'll all come along shortly to sort out what that beautiful 1 ton is. Welcome to the green, military or not. The only other photo I could dig up of a 1 ton dually was...