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Early 1951 M-51 dump truck, fresh restoration wearing cargo cover and troop seats

Been working on getting the M-51 ready for painting. Mad dash just a couple of weeks to get it done for the Portland Indiana MVPA show. Got them all lined up along the tracks so I have room to start painting next week. Nevermind the bobcat and the bucket truck lol

These lights are the omnivolt models and should be good for 12-24 volts without any mods. Just make u a pigtail adapter for military to civilian truck and they work just fine

Definitely doing an oil and filter change, ordered vented caps for the fillers to hopefully remedy the situation from happening again. I will pull plugs to take a look and fog them to replace lubrication washed off my the gasoline. Thank you for the insights

M51 with new fuel tank on it, came to find it today with a ton of pressure on it from thermal expansion. Had a vent hooked up to the top of the tank, a non-vented cap. Found it had pushed a ton of fuel into the engine oil pan talking gallons. Drained everything, checked vent with a vacuum pump...

Now that's a herd of goats

www.taticaltruck.com I talked to him at Findlay show. Jeff symanski

Someone at the Findlay show I talked to told me they had some of those. Let me see if I can find his contact info

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Round 4. Great show very nice venue. Lots of friendly people, great meeting new friends and catching up with old ones

Round 3

Round 2

Here's some Findlay show pics. Thank you my photographer Joely

Thank you, we had a great time with the show well worth all the hard work getting the truck ready

Good day, good trip up, lots of networking and parts gathering and enjoying the day. Darn green disease it's running rampant here lol

Well boys somehow we managed to get this circus finished enough to go to the show. They're loaded and now strapped down. Just one wake up left and we're Findlay show bound

I'm interested in the lifting cable sling if it's available

Coming right along, hopefully I can get the little details back on and touch up painting finished. Got a little work to do on the gooseneck trailer yet but looking forward to Findlay.....

Is anyone coming to Findlay from out east? Ideally around pa that can pick up and bring a 5 ton gasser truck fuel tank from eastern equipment? Looking for a cheaper shipping option. I checked with eastern and they're not going to be able to make the show

Yet another late night in the paint booth tent today, nevermind the brief thunderstorm that about removed the booth from the chat lol. Good first coat of green on. Gotta love the Gillespie coatings paint from my friend in Texas at Rapco this batch we saved on shipping by stopping by when my...