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For what you want to do, why not get an LMTV? That would do all the things you need without as much work and probably for the same amount of money needed to do all the things you want to with an old deuce. It's already a 4x4 so you don't even have to worry about bobbing it. Full air brakes...
Does anyone know if there are any high-lift jacks available that could support cargo truck beds? I think it would be easier to jack a bed up and then drive the truck out from under it.
Or buy a 5-ton wrecker? :p
I believe another option for you is to not replace the electric fuel pump. The truck's IP should be able to suck fuel out of the tank just fine - I remember reading some posts about M35A2 owners who had dead in-tank pumps and didn't know it. None of the A3s were built with in-tank pumps.
But...
If it's the transmission safety switch, I believe you should still hear a click every time you turn the engine start switch. A couple times I've had to shift my truck out of neutral to a different gear then back to neutral to get it to turn over. I think my transmission safety switch might be...
Quite a few projects start with being ugly! I was fortunate to get my truck from someone who took care of it and gave it a new coat of paint while they had it. It will need another coat at some point in the next few years.
Painted and reinstalled glovebox for the first time in about 2 years - heater core repair will have to wait a bit longer! At least the flow to it is reliably shut off.
Next up: Either reinstall wheel valve stone covers or paint gladhand dummy couplings.
I'm a fan of The Transformers - though not so much the live-action films. I'm more into the old cartoon of the '80s and the comics. But the first live-action Transformer film, released to theaters in 2007, featured a Decepticon character that turned into a Buffalo MRAP. That character is...
There's that too, also done in the US. The power utilities actually have dogs trained to smell for oil leaks during substation PMCS since they're not all obvious.
That was an engineer's response if I ever read one. What's the Reynolds number of oil running through a deuce cooling system? :p (Just kidding!)
That was a good explanation of why oil isn't a practical coolant for this application. (y) I believe oil is only really used as a coolant for...
Because there are more lefty deuces than righty ones?
Makes me wonder what happened to all the right-side extensions. You'd think they'd all be used up in pairs...