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Welcome. No real suppliers of reproduction steel bed patch panels. Most of us just have a local sheet metal shop fab up what is required. Which generation bed are you working with? I think there are 4 versions that addressed the steel shortage, adding wood pieces.

Please view the thread on these cabs. If you don't go yourself and inspect before loading, you may end up with junk.

Well I apologize for poisoning your thread, I assure you the neighborhood protection cops are not trolling Steelsoldiers looking for trucks to write up. In the military we call it "situational awareness", you must always be aware of what might be coming your way and plan for it. I did not, and...

Am I the only one that thinks it's just a matter of time before the city "neighborhood protection" squad comes and puts a big red sticker on the truck and sends you a certified letter? (I would not know anything about this subject personally)

Back in the day when I was in a similar situation to you, to remove the hydramatic, I placed a heavy pipe from the back of the cab to the middle of the dash and ran a comealong off it, lowering it to the ground. Then to pull the engine, I removed the manifolds, head, and all engine accessories...

See post #39, if you can't find the Niehoff parts, or are not convinced about a civilian option, go with the readily available HMMWV units.

All military batteries with "6" in the nomenclature are the same size (6TL etc). If you desire AGM batteries, the military Hawkers are perfect, I'm running 8 of them currently using a BatteryMinder tender. Sure you can use only two batteries on the FMTV trucks, connecting them properly is...

No sir that is incorrect. That number is the registration number.

Yes, that is where the M1015 EW carrier has the generator drive attached. That's the only answer I know. My 1015 still has all that attached.

I say yes. Looks like heat shrink tubing, which few civilians have access to. A typical civilian repair would be black electrical tape or worse.

I think you are going down the right path. The water dribble into the crankcase should be very obvious once you pressurize the coolant jackets. My money is on liner orings. Sounds like the engine was run without coolant.

Absolutely. The 5 ton is intended to pull the M172A1, but not at the full 25 ton trailer capacity. There should be a data plate on the trailer listing the derate trailer capacity.

That thread will tell you the LAST unit your truck was assigned to. It could have been assigned to dozens of units before that and been deployed all over the globe in any conflict or base location since it was made.

Sounds like the common 60 amp alternator runaway voltage failure. Burns up the gauges. See what your system voltage is engine running and off and report back.

Just reading up on this myself, the mfgr standard lubrication interval for wedge brake components is 160000 km or 12 months, whichever comes first. Use NLGI grade 1 grease.

I don't think the air side of the brake system is what froze up, rather the pushrod and wedge within the wedge brake actuators (all of them).

Well did you win it? 6 grand for a truck with a plethora of expensive to fix issues. Not coming home to me unfortunately.

Given the temps in Austin are below freezing today, I suspect all of the brake actuators are frozen.

CTIS valve pack.

Here you go: https://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?151962-Question-assistance-converting-air-park-emergency-valves-to-single-unit&highlight=valve