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I am impressed with the bed on that Mog, very nice work and looks super. Well done sir! Cheers

Carnac, is this the same type as your armoured car above? If so, it is a KM900, license built version of the Italian Fiat/Oto Melara 6614. Cheers .

M35A3 seatbelts I put the stuff about the A3 deuce back into the original post. Here are a few more shots of the M35A3 seat belt installation. Looks to me to be a standard cab strengthening plate with the seat belt stuff bolted to it. Correct? I definitely would like to put a set in my M813...

Very nice. Now post more please! :razz: What kind of bed do you have on that Mog (which looks like a former fire vehicle)? Cheers

Thanks 54. Belted sounds stronger and longer lasting. The good thing is that a couple of big truck barns are about to go up, one on Sarge's place and one on mine, to get everything out of the sun, so new hinges should last. Very appropriately, we are using an old deuce auger truck to put...

Cool, thanks.

Dave, check out this thread about completely repainting a truck, basic tools out in the open. Uses the Gillespie paint from Rapco suggested above. http://www.steelsoldiers.com/5-ton-up/13942-sarge-paints-his-m820.html

Okay, here is the picture. It is not great because it is a photo of a photo in my album, and the original wasn't particularly good to start with. But it does show what we were talking about, a 383 camo Marine M1009. Note the Merdec M880 in front of it. Photo was taken somewhere around...

Rubber hinges??? :roll: I'll bet that is what the strap is for then, rubber and the Texas sun don't seem to get along, and I noted that the rubber seals on the sides were pretty trashed.

Standard tire size is 14.00-20. One of the V owners has tried the various military 14.00s, all fit with no clearance issues. The later V150s had 14.50-21s on them.

Green or camo depended a lot on who used them. When I was infantry on Camp Pendleton, almost all our vehicles were camo, started out with Merdec, then the 383 when it was introduced (that dates my service time, eh??:razz:). When I was in the Airwing, a lot of our 'tactical' vehicles were just...

It isn't hooked to the truck at all, it is filled from the outlet under the dash via a hose, has a regulator on it. It goes along with whatever truck Sarge is driving at the time. Simple but useful, I'll get him to post the details (or getthem and post them myself, he procrastinates when it...

For those who have made suggestions on improving my internet speed, here and in PM, I thank you. I am not good at understanding that stuff, but got some good suggestions. Hoopsoft, it is only about 85 miles one-way going down, but the return trip was actually around 112 because we took the...

I just bought the M1009 in the attached pic. As can be seen, it desperately needs to be repainted! Does anyone have pictures of Marine 1009s in the 383 camo? I am looking specifically for how the markings were applied, particularly on the sides. Actually, painted in tan would work too...

Recovering Sarge's SGPRSMD Yep, unfortunately dialup is all I can get here in boonieland at the moment. Hopefully I will have something better in the near future as 20th century technology is slowly catching up. Anyway, all the pics are up now. Can someone tell me how to edit the title of...

Patience lads! I am on dinosaur dialup, so it takes me a while to upload them. I have to post the text first, then come back and put the pics in. Some are now on, I'm uploading the rest. And I just figured out you can only attach ten per post, so I am splitting post 2 and continuing it here-...

On the other side of the fence was the stuff they wouldn’t let us have! Edit- Earlier I removed some text and pictures that I didn't realize pertained to an active auction. That auction ended Thursday, so I'm putting this bit back in: Since I am one of the few who actually like these...

And of course we all love photos, so- Pic 2- The tach hovers around 2150 (on the upward side of the swing here) Pic 3- While speedo shows 55mph, GPS shows 57 Pic 4- Sarge in a typically bad mood. I don't know why he has an nametag that says Arnold on it... Pic 5/6- The new toy Pics...

Recovering Sarge's SGPRSMD If you have a tractor, you have to have something to pull with it, right? In the finest traditions of “No new OD for Sarge in 2009” he made his 6th buy of the year, an SGPRSMD, also known as Shop Equipment, General Purpose Repair, Semi-trailer Mounted, at Ft Sam...

Yep, I have an extra. Stolly should get us there! I'm alive, but turns out the reason I felt crappy on the trip was because I had pneumonia. The cold/wet didn't help any (doh!). But, as the infamous Monty Python line goes "I'm getting better!". Cheers