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Congratulations on your new deuce! You might find someone here who'd want to trade you a cargo truck for that. I understand wanting a cargo truck - the utility of the cargo box was one way I was able to justify the purchase!

Like some have already mentioned, just remove the valves and wheel weights from the wheel and insert Schrader/tank valves into the wheel's valve stem. If you like the look of your stone guards, you can re-install those probably without worrying about them throwing the wheel off balance. I plan...

Meanwhile, Canada ordered AWD Navistar trucks with 8-9-person crew cabs for their army :p I think that would be neat in a collection! I like the idea of a crew cab but I have the feeling that crew cab money could go toward a 4-seat HMMWV or another truck to pal around with. Kinda like...

It sounds like you need a new axle seal and a boot. I consider boots consumable. They aren't really meant to keep the grease in and the water out - they're more like dust covers than anything, but they do help with keeping greasy mess off the insides of your wheels :p Both of the boots on...

Congratulations! What do you plan to do with it? Are you going to try to find a wrecker body to put on the back? A cargo box?

Were the nuts already installed? Otherwise I wouldn't consider them new :p

Were wreckers the only trucks with the extra marker light on the driverside fender? I'm thinking that might've been an M62A2. Also, what's with the rest of the marker lights? Is that a European retrofit? That looks like it's going to be a ton of work. "Ran when parked in the brush" is...

I'm glad it wasn't the head gasket! From what I've read about doing a head gasket on the multifuel it looks a bit more complex than doing one on a flathead gasser. Doesn't the multifuel have two head gaskets?

From the pictures the studs don't look rusty enough :p That looks like a great project! Maybe my next place will have a proper shop🤞

About 50 mph. I don't go higher than 50 in mine even with 395s mounted.

I wouldn't put tracks on it unless I was using it off-road a lot. Tracks tend to require more maintenance than wheels. I'd think most people looking to buy a HMMWV would prefer wheels for simplicity, plus I imagine it would be easier to source tires than tracks for something like that. I...

It's a good thing metal 3D printing has come a long ways. That'll probably be the future of many restoration and upgrade projects like ours. Awhile back I got in touch with a guy who runs a 3D printing shop that prints metal replicas of body and mechanical parts for antique car restoration...

I checked the slop in the torque multiplier I used against my big 3/4" drive torquemeter because I was wondering if I was off on my gear train slop estimate when tightening the clamp ring since a wheel I finished was losing air. I was originally assuming 15% slop, which is what to assume with...

I'd think the torque spec would account for the resistance of the distorted nuts. I'm not sure how much a difference oil makes because I've read the labels on the anti-seize bottles and directions for things like engine head bolts saying that the torque spec doesn't need to be adjusted to...

I have the tire TM (TM-9-2610-200-14) dated 1 September 2000 and it has the same torque values as mentioned for the M939A1 series bolt-together rims: The M35A3 trucks were built between 1995 and 1998, but maybe the rim design is older than that. It definitely seems less refined compared to...

That torque is a little over half what's specified for the M35A3 bolt-together rims! Why super singles for a 2-1/2 ton truck need so much more torque than a 5-ton I have no clue :unsure: And the A3 rims are limited to only 4000 lbs per wheel. Talk about an inefficient design compared to the...

That's some serious air there for your house shop o_O

Could it be that the trucks in-service just got more TLC than in their private lives? I'm assuming that air line maintenance was regularly done in the service. Otherwise I'd be concerned about how the system is getting that much excess moisture. That's not to say that air dryers and alcohol...

Welcome to the site! That's great that you've been into the restoration work for a bit. You'll need bigger tools for the deuces and larger trucks if you don't already have them, like 3/4" drives and a torque multiplier. I agree with everyone else here, that guy is asking too much for that...

I was just looking at the specs for the 2018 Ford F-650, and if they're anything like the model we see here, the rollback is probably pushing its max GVWR, which is 29000 lbs on the 2018 diesel model. That said I haven't seen many rollbacks this big around here anyway. The biggest one I...