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They are troop seats. Stakebeds do exist as homemade units. With the troop seats up, you can use them as stakebed as long as you only haul light stuff, perhaps branches or firewood. Anything else will probably damage the troop seats.

Aside from me being a sucker for visible open flames in any sort of fire place (it makes me feel warmer by just looking at the fire) I suggest that the option of having water heating coils with this unit is quite attractive. It means that you have heat and hot water by just burning Diesel and...

I second the "be careful with the propane heater". I have been around the block in emergency services and responded to dead truck drivers in their sleepers, dead people in all sorts of enclosed spaces, that had used one type of combustion space heater or another. I realise that the product you...

What regularly amazes me on this site are the things I don't even know I don't know. Vices are different sizes and, presumably, crappy if from China. That was the extent of my knowledge. Now I know that there are specialised outdoor models and people can spot them. Incredible.

Don't listen to them! The colour looks very good on the truck. It appears that your research, patience and pulling the trigger quickly when it counted netted you a very clean and complete truck.

Yes, this is being done at home. I do not have time to search for you this morning, but a guy used two PVC pipes that slide into each other. He placed them on the inside between the front and the back of the tires (measured twice) and marked the distance with a marker. That way, he had a...

:popcorn:waiting for the cranking sound and a refreshed multi coughing to life

Hi there! A little far from Ottawa, ON to your place!

I'm curious how many people actually drive their Deuces on winter roads. By that I mean plowed and salted roads, not the nice scenic salt-less excursions into the back 40 acres. Ontario, Canada is salt-**** for vehicles. I work on my family's vehicles and what the salt environment does to them...

For us starter-technology challenged, could you elaborate? The usual Deuce starter is direct drive, right? I am sure, the manufacturer and part number of your starter would be of interest, too!

Lol - and guess where the very next car parked!!

My timing is quite good this year! Put Queen Lola into storage yesterday, and today the white stuff happened: I will miss her until May!! She has seen road salt only one time and I 'm not starting her on it now! Storage is in a heated, locked former factory; reasonable price and I can even work...

Getting her washed at the fire station, PM, and getting her ready for winter storage :-(

I just showed your post to my wife! I am quite obviously not the only one that uses the Deuce as an after-work stress reliever. I have not managed nearly your mileage in one day, though.

Is there any update to this story?

3/4 inch breaker bar. No need to damage your ratchet with ridiculous pipe extensions. Murphy says: if the bolt does not budge, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

Military mechanics would often put excessive grease into the hubs ("empty" space between the front and back wheel bearings). The thinking was that if you had to clean and re-pack your bearings in the field, as an emergency measure after prolonged fording or mud-baths, you'd have a ready supply...

We are now at or just below freezing here, especially over night. Starting the Deuce means cranking with the pedal to the floor for about 5 seconds before she coughs to life; ease up on pedal as she fires, as to not revv the engine over 1000 rpm. It feels as if the engine needs a few...

Have you considered switching to spin-ons? No more messing with upside-down canisters.

I hear you...the initial work to get a new-to-you truck up to snuff is a lot of small things that simply need to be done. After that, the upkeep is not so bad anymore. Just try not to break stuff! :-)