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    Need Advice on Draining Brake Lines

    I have been waiting for years for the mixture of 3 and 5 to cause me a problem... the culprit of course is water....if ya keep that out you are in Vegas..
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    Bow wood, who has them?

    jatonka@telenet.net was the email.. he has been too busy to talk even to his friends lately... building a barn or sumpin.
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    Who made it / what year is it?

    Can you see grind marks? You have to be a real detective to find it sometimes...and Kaiser is spelled Kaiser...However typicallly Kaiser Jeep would be the MFR.. If someone has gone to all the trouble to remove all the data plates and grind off the vin from the frame you are not in...
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    816 VS 819

    RE: Can someone please help me. All 800 series have the Cummins NHC 250. A M62 will have a 6602 Continental Gas Engine and a Austin Western Crane.. The M819 is a Truck Tractor Wrecker... longer boom and a fifth wheel to haul a recovery trailer, using 5th wheel, for downed aircraft, etc...
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    M1009 rear window...a dumb question?

    Just go to any glass place and ask them to check...should be easy enough to do, they have the interchanges... or just go to a Chebby dealer and ask them.. the puter will tell all....or even LMC truck...
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    M35 Power steering choices

    Unless you are handicapped, there is no need for PS on any MV.
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    M211 Carb rebuild problem

    This 60 year old technology is getting frightening.. Cork was born in water, and it expands in water for sure...because when it is dehydrated, it shrinks...
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    keyway question

    there is... And you can use cut up Wild Turkey Bourbon corks for the keyway seals... for free..
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    Testing the alternator on the deuce

    Are you leaving your dash lights on? Ya gotta remember to shut the master light switch off as part of your shutdown sequence.
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    5 ton Transfer Case Ops

    take me back to the old days... one lever, shift on the fly, double clutch no electronics, all new stuff is too complicated and break prone.
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    Wisconsin allegedly cancelling Military vehicle titles.

    RE: title Oh good, only 49 states and a few territories to revisit. Folks have to start doing their own homework...instead of starting the flamethrowers ....
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    looking for door .........

    Check with Pops GMC in NH
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    Deuce Transfer case case???

    RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Deuce Transfer case case??? Check your Ebrake for sympathetic vibration...
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    Brake line coils at master cylinder

    The valve under your RAD is the Valve, Brake, Combination (compensation) and for the D1 is GM 25515635 and the D3 is GM 1257203... and I believe it is used for giving different pressures to the front discs versus the rear drums. you can make the tubing coils with a handy tubing bender from...
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    Newbie needs help with fuel system

    yup and get the 209 series of manuals and the other pertinent ones for the MF, etc and read read read. Don't forget that there are essentially 4 filters on your truck... The screen on the bottom of the intank pump is #1, the pre filter under your alternator is #2 and the "secondary" is #3 and...
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    Deuces still in use?

    VT NG is converting the last of their M35 series stuff this year.. About 65 Deuces left..most are kinda rusty. The FMTVs, rebuilt Hummers and 900 series 5 tons are coming in for replacements.
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    M36 cargo covers

    I always thought the M36 had a 16 foot bed...
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    Air stoplight switch

    Ah, the old switcheroo... of course that is a new version... and would not be correct for an authentic M34 or 35 as mfg...starting in 1950
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    HEMTT radiator

    I have a new one for the PLS version (5 axle)...you need to be sure of the application as they are not all the same...on Hemtts...part #s and call Oshkosh engineering for actual application...been there.
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    Time to replace the doors....

    Remember if they look too good they will not be authentic military... take a look at some of the stuff still being used to get my gist....
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