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Can you recommend any? I'm only familiar with the classic 12 V Battery Tender.

Where I live, the trucks sit all winter without starting until the spring. We don't use them mainly because of the road salt, and mine needs a going-over for next year. Having seen this done for years on jeeps and 3/4 tons, I don't think there's much harm in letting them sit for a few months...

I would love to have a multifuel in my life at some point! I'd love to have an M35A2 as a truck show companion for my A3 and as a place to dump WMO in!

I love the red nose you put on its grill! I've thought about using mine for summer charity events, like a fill the truck campaign or something...

I didn't do any fab work at all. The batteries more or less sit there. I could probably figure out a way to strap them down without modifying the battery box, but I don't drive the truck hard enough to the point the batteries would be bouncing around anyway.

I run a pair of group 34 batteries in my deuce. I don't think you really need more than 600 CCA per battery because the starter doesn't pull that many amps, unless it's old and tired I suppose.

I'll have to get this checked out now. Although my jerk may be different from the other guy's jerk. Probably best for me to get it checked out at the local Allison shop and have them do the ATF conversion as well!

You could use M35A2 bearings on an M35A3, but you wouldn't be able to use the CTIS then. That's what makes the A3 bearings special. I'm not concerned about spare parts being hard to find as the A3 still has a ton of parts in common with the A2. I'm only concerned about cost of said parts...

The MLVW predates the M35A3 by about 10 years, and seemed to address the same improvements the DoD wanted. I think the only thing it doesn't have that the M35A3 has is CTIS.

I considered a MLVW myself and came to the same conclusion. Bombardier seemed to cheap out on the steel used in the trucks. I think they even had a recall regarding the rear axle suspension assemblies corroding to pieces!

Are you talking about Canadian M35A2s or MLVWs?

Totally true! The M35A3s all came with cab heaters with windshield defrost dampers. That's not to say you can't install some kind of heater kit in an A2 or just get one of those 12V ceramic space heaters to wire into your truck. OP, have you considered a LMTV? I'm not entirely sure how much...

If you want a deuce with an automatic like your M928A1 along with super singles, dual-circuit brakes, and air-assisted steering, an M35A3 comes with all of that stuff installed from the factory instead of you having to mess with installing all of that stuff yourself. I guess it depends on how...

Having recently bought an M35A3 myself, I started looking at it like any other potential car purchase. The main stipulation my wife gave me was that she had to be able to take a ride in it the day I brought it home. So I was looking for a truck that could start, stop, drive, and pass a vehicle...

Nice! If I had a winch-equipped truck I'd want the A-frame for it too! In the manuals I've read, it seems the cab top needs to be removed for the A-frame cables going to the rear of the truck. Having not seen this setup in-person, can that be adjusted so the cab top can be left on?

It is my understanding that this is normal behavior for the 545 transmission. My truck and another owner's do the same thing. It just clunks into 4th gear, and the tranny takes its time shifting into third. I almost thought it was going into another gear between where it felt second and third...

I saw this posted in the 1545 failure poll and was surprised to see it wasn't repeated here:

I feel like you should make that picture of your tool family into one of those rear window family stickers you see on people's cars all over the place ;)

I've seen geared torque multipliers mentioned a few times in this topic. It seems like an interesting tool, but I'm not familiar with it. Is there any case where someone would be better off with a geared torque multiplier instead of an impact wrench?

As I've been doing some last-minute Black Friday shopping, I've found a couple tool review sources saying that nut-busting torque, or break-away torque, is fairly meaningless and is more of a marketing number than anything. For an example, the DeWalt DCF899M1 description says it has a...