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then you won't want to know about an untouched complete M215 (and a few others of the type) plus loads of parts sitting just 20 minutes south of me :( .. owner/collector died, his son can't decide what to do with it all, overwhelmed If i were 30 or 40yrs younger they would be in my yard

back when i was a highway super we had a very-nice 1967 Cat 12F grader with a turbocharged big & deep 4-cylinder .. The machine was a powerhouse compared to the I6 non-turbo sitting in their previous grader .. After i left they sold it to a junkyard (for maintaining a mile of driveway and the...

Your excellent posts make me feel (almost) brave enough to buy back "my" XM211 :ROFLMAO:

ummmm,,, I am already falling apart and disintegrating without any help :ROFLMAO:

This post made me remember i have a nice little 2-cyl Yanmar diesel removed from a tractor-truck's EPU .. I had hoped a simple remagnetizing would fix it and mount it underneath the M109A3 machine-shop van.. But nope. Since then, been wanting to hook the engine up to something else for a long...

the few i've had to replace were 1/8"NPT straight fitts .. my memory has not retained whether there's any smaller-thread ones or where exactly all the 45's and 90's are, but most of the fitts are straight .. Best bet is for you to get on your creeper and start rolling around with a couple...

Bought an old 3/4-yard excavator and went to change the hyd filter , the can was about 10 inches across.. It wouldn't budge and a visegrip-type chain wrench i had at the time wasn't long enough. Using a small chisel and hammer at its thick rolled lip was not working, and impaling it to twist it...

"26001# AND UP" are the magic federal words. (some states misinterpret the cutoff as 26000) .. The M35A3's gvw is around 24k, thus with hyd brakes you are fine without CDL .. Keep in mind if you ever haul a trailer, the trailer GVW is additive to the truck's GVW and may put you over Med Card...

was there any gentle persuasive language associated with the removal? :LOL:

they sure were Hungry hungry Hippo's .. what size were the gennies?

MASSTER ! . i always preferred that camo design over MERDC

back when i was running my gravel pit / topsoil operation i ran into a few who thought their total rear axle rating meant they could put that amount in the bed :ROFLMAO:

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1: my winters are spent 3 hours to the south of home but unfortunately it lands me on top of a mountain range, so no, it's not warmer, especially with the wind chill effect happening almost 24 hours a day.. But the stoves are comfortable despite what's blowing outside 2: the fording pipe...

I spent uncountable hours with those , about 3 years worth fueling tracks and M48's, M60's etc... The windup rope-start pumps were a pain to start sometimes, but when they failed to start we could at least gravity/siphon the product , which was real slow, but at least fuel was flowing while you...

the cast-iron exhaust manifold elbow is large as you indicate, close to 4" .. I have two of them NOS but they (and the truck too) are nowhere close to where i winter, thus I cannot measure them.. As you can see in below pic, the exhaust pipe to the muffler is smaller than the cast-iron manifold...

1: not all trucks have the slave cable receptacle .. If you choose to have one , the 2-pin type with knurled cap is period-correct 2; the cab inlet vents are same regardless whether it's a gas or mf .. The gassers do NOT have a round hole in the right-hand engine bay door below the hood...

with that kind of performance your truck clearly has a Zenith carb, which superceded the original (and ornery) holley .. you've won the battle of performance/economy with that engine without having to suffer ;)

T&P = "Tank & Pump" .. sometimes lazily written as TNP for "tank-n-pump" I have written some posts on here detailing field ops with these trucks with a heavy armor battalion throughout the 1980s