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There's an exhaust leak and it appears to hesitate when you open the throttle. It is hitting on all 6. When you drive it, it should accelerate briskly to 2600 rpm and move right on out.
Looks like someone took a 1992 1 ton 4x4 dually cab and chassis and grafted a M886 body on to it. Firewall, front and rear axles gives this away. Unfortunately, the ambulance body is beyond economic repair.
Does anyone know if the civilian 250 has piston cooling? The 250 was a predominant engine in American trucking all through the 1960's. How did it survive hour long maximum horsepower pulls up high elevation roads like Raton Pass at 7800 ft elevation? "Dispatch, made it to the top but melted...
That plate will be unimaginably difficult to find. You have a rare truck, and the USMC tends to rebuild trucks frequently, upgrading to the 465 engine and becoming an A2.
The aliphatic polyurethanes have huge amounts of silica flattener in them (70% by volume) and that is where the roughness comes from. Nothing to do with "overspray". The waterborne CARCs are smooth.
That's some of the atomic body panel glue that AM General's robots squirt on the panel edges before assembly. Who knows what it really is. Avoid silicone as that can mess up future paint jobs.
Welcome. That screw is indeed the idle mixture adjustment. When you rebuilt it, did the check ball or balls (forgot quantity) go back in the right places?
I have only seen the AN/UYK-128 mounted in HMMWVs. Putting a LEO B300 mount in a CUCV is possible, but it will interfere with the transfer shifter. Huge B300 fan here, been using a ex-USMC unit for going on 8 years now as my main platform at home, it is indestructible. The Gamber Johnson B300...
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