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The left hand door lock on my truck has stopped working correctly. I purchased the necessary replacement parts and want to get the same swapped out. It looks pretty straight forward, but it appears that the window hardware and glass has to come out before you can get to it to replace. Is that...
I had a person who would know tell me that the 813's and 817's were getting grabbed off of the bases by the State Department and sent over to "friendly???" middle east (arab) countries, where there is apparently high demand for these 5 tons. For whatever reason there must not be the same level...
I received my M813A1 from GL the other day and need help with determining the year of manufacture of the truck for title purposes.
It is an American General and the ID# is as follows: NL08C2 C329-10216
Seems to be a great truck. My eleven year old son was driving it (with a little...
M818's going home from Stout Field
I was there picking up my M105a2 trailer. They were both great looking M818's. Enjoy. They had several 100 trucks and trailers in the lot. Several good looking dump trucks also. One 900 series dump truck painted sand that was outstanding. I took a bunch of...
I received my M813a1 the other day and it appears to be a great truck. The only issue I had was batteries (dead) which I am solving with new batteries. I have been going through the truck while it is running checking switches, etc, and have cleaned up the starter, etc.
Now to my questions...
Anybody Get a truck in teh sale today.
My brother bought one of the M35's in Topeka. He was also looking at the truck in Granite City IL, it looked to be a good truck but I don't think he bid.
I saw what was described as a M796 Bolster Trailer for sale. It was tandem axle, with pintle and was kind of odd looking. I was wondering what the Army used or uses this trailer for? Thank you.
Hate to admit it, but I bought one on eBay. Crane Technology Inc., has got one advertised on their web site but they want in excess of $2,000, plus shipping. That hurts.
Military Batteries and Optimas
After looking at this site, and thee company's lack of interest in civilian sales, is the military starting to use optima batteries in their MV's in lieu of the traditional batteries. I have used them (optimas) in the past in cars and 4x4's and like them, although...
This is a link, (I hope), to an adapter that lets you use optima batteries in place of military batteries in MV. I contacted the company on these, but they didn't seem interested in civilian sales. Here is the link:
http://www.milbatteries.com/accessories/index.html