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Nice dedicated effort making those old transmissions work again. Years ago, I inherited a M211 with no power pak, so I retrofitted a Caddy 501 V8 and a turbo-400 with the extra low first gear. I'd seen it done on several used in field harvesting. Mine worked fine both on and off road, but...

No relay used in tactical air horn setups...

Stock spring mounts. No need to worry 'bout it, they were made that way on all G-741 chassis trucks.

True that... Severeal times I've offered to help out local organizations for free when needs arised. More than once they accepted, then some connected guy got bent out of shape at me. Turned out he had an under-the-table $ deal, and I "screwed" that up. Fuk 'em.

MV's mark their territory like a dog...

I'd check the torque on those H2O manifold bolts... Then again, check every one you can see...

I have many single and 3 phase demands on the property running just fine on 208V rather than 240V. Our grid service is WYE configured 120/208, so is the backup DRASH genset. Have no worries, guy.

Power transformers have an Impedance factor to deal with, and essentially that is a tax on the current flowing thru them. You'd be better off at just using the output of the genset as is, with approximately balancing the single-phase load across the legs.

Are you trying to step it up to 480V? Trying to get 240V? Curious as to what is your target result.

I flashed beck to Cheech & Chong's "Nice Dreams"...

Cool. Somehow, the phrase "new bumper hole" conjures up a totally different meaning...

I always thought 5-ton bumpers were rather flimsy compared to the rest of the truck. Suppose it was easier for a unit to just replace them, as a sacrificial item meant to save more complex things behind it. Not that it was easy to bend one up...

It's Gama. One M, after Robert Gamaunt the designer of the articulated joint between the 2 sections. DO NOT run any oil other than 40WT DELO 100, or you'll coke up the rings faster than you can say damn! Nothing else available has the Detroit Diesel required low ash requirement.

A suitably-sized Diesel repower can be a nice asset for any G741. That B series Cummins 6 is too much grunt for the little truck, IMO. All the extra HP will do is make highway driving faster, potentially increasing the danger level without considering tires, brakes and steering as well. Back...

Are the one-piece ones silicone rubber?

Welcome from the Northern Sonoran Desert! Sorry for the thread hijack, but... Back in late '83, I started restoring an armored M966 TOW missile carrier for a client in Prescott, AZ. It was one of the original 24 test bed trucks from AMG, S/N 00024. Several of them were sold as excess by the...

The 90's F700 parts would work fine for the GVW of the M35. There will be no "bolt up" way, until someone makes and markets an adapter kit to go along with those parts.

The deal on those kits is the bracketry to support the caliper, and machining the hub to allow a welded flange to mount the rotor on. Any good machinist can build those parts to fit whatever caliper/rotor you find that will take the load OK. I have a Ford F700, and the disc setups on it look...

Used to be one could soak rubber stuff like that in DOT3 for a while. It really lubes it up. Another thing used on rubber things is carb cleaner in the gallon can. It makes rubber really 'loose', and just about the only way to get the pedal floor seals on without destroying them. The...

If you mean the part that folds down on the hood, garage door bottom seal is a pretty good sub. If you mean that which goes around the flip-up glass, that is best ordered from an MV parts dealer. A hint--it is the same on G744 series 5-tons and M35 2.5 tons.