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  1. ranchhopper

    Purple signals?

    Those are pretty old the glass could have turned an amethyst color from exposure to the sunlight or they could have been red at one time and turned that color from sun fade.I know a bunch of old bottle and antique insulator collectors who look for the clear glass that turned amethyst over many...
  2. ranchhopper

    started the BOB today

    I used the 105 trailer springs on only one of the deuces I bobbed I built leveling blocks for it they were 3 inches tall.I used one inch thick stock beveled welded and then welded the wedge from a set of deuce front springs to the bottom of the block on both sides for the proper drive line...
  3. ranchhopper

    Power steering

    I used this steering box from a ford F700 in my bobbed truck its powered from the pump on the 3208 cat thats in the truck now. The vickers pump in that powers the steering in that five ton will bolt to your deuce multifuel but I have recentered HEMTT rims on the truck the backspacing on the rims...
  4. ranchhopper

    NEW type of CARC

    Thats why I just bought 10 gallons of the 383 green stage one CARC the good stuff. My friend painted his 818 with gillespie no complaints but he just bought a couple gallons of 383 green from me to paint his deuce.
  5. ranchhopper

    fat guy in a little truck

    Most bigger guys I know opt for the box style seat found in earlier trucks not as comfy but gives a bit more room.
  6. ranchhopper

    M818 Recovery success.

    I have four extra 831s on ten bolt rims just got them yesterday with 12 other goodyears.
  7. ranchhopper

    Will 89' blazer tailgate fit 85' m1009?

    I think the sheetmetal on blazers and suburbans is the same from 81-90.
  8. ranchhopper

    Got my 1031s

    They used a pick axe to drain the fuel tank in a 1009 I bought down in georgia.
  9. ranchhopper

    v8 swap in deuce

    I put a V8 in mine but its diesel.
  10. ranchhopper

    Looking for Rear CUCV bumper

    There is a guy in marshfield wisconsin had a pile of them a few months ago PM me and I will give you his number.
  11. ranchhopper

    Pinzgauers for sale somewhere ???

    Looks like its working. Half the time lately I think guys are doing it just to get a reaction.
  12. ranchhopper

    Need a SS member close to pineville LA

    OK sounds good to me I have a guy I use all the time too he is about the same rate sometimes they cut the rate a bit if they haul more than one from the same location.
  13. ranchhopper

    Need a SS member close to pineville LA

    Against my better judgement I bought a 1009 out of pineville today looks like a nice truck but if someone here lives close I will make it worth their while to get it off the base for me after the EUC clears.I bought three of them from there a few years ago and thet were pretty cobbled together...
  14. ranchhopper

    Bought A M1009 Turn In Won't Start Help

    Check the 10GA purple wire going to the starter check the ring terminal where it bolts to the starter for power I think its the S terminal. Have someone turn the key to the start position if no power check the wire where it goes into the terminal I had two that had power to the terminal but none...
  15. ranchhopper

    B17G Flying Fortress

    One of my parents friends who grew up in holland said the squadrons of bombers went over their house at night on the way to bomb germany she told me the sound of them flying is something she never forgot.Last summer a B17 was flying around the area for a few days when the air show was near this...
  16. ranchhopper

    Where M1009's issued with mud guards?

    Civi trucks had those splash shields put on them from the factory too.
  17. ranchhopper

    Old types still at auctions?

    Just a month or so a 57 utica bend and another studebaker went through GL at a site in south carolina this week a 62 studebaker went through GL at the same site I got mine from.
  18. ranchhopper

    Old types still at auctions?

    Just bought a 1953 studebaker from GL in louisana nice truck completely sandblasted and repainted and upgraded to a multifuel as well.
  19. ranchhopper

    shaking at 50mph

    I pick the rear of my trucks up with a big loader at work to check them I guess any way to get the axle up in the air so you can try to move it back and forth would work.
  20. ranchhopper

    I think my dog has fleas

    Ticks were really bad here this year two of my brittanies tested positive for lyme disease I had to get all three vaccinated this year.Its surprising the ticks were the big dog ticks and not the small deer ticks that usually carry lyme disease.
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