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If it goes away when warming up, it's likely valve lash adjustment or parts waiting for oil to get to them. The last few knock vids concerning starting in cold weather sound just like every Deuce I've ever been around to include my own. Don't ever buy a CUCV, HMMWV or 6.2 or 6.5 Diesel GM...

oh, the job payed more than I paid for the truck!!!! I drove the truck home so it must not have been too hard on it!!! I've done worse! Pull trees over, pull the stump ball, insanity but a paying job is good! I put a GPS in the window, 65 mph on 11's, Firestone's. Maybe I'll have a good...

Pulling trees down for a buddy by the creek is a good use for a Deuce. Sorry, no pics but the root ball on the trees were bigger than me and the Deuce handled them with relative ease with the front axle engaged.

TNJ has $9.00 battery terminals that you can get for $2.00 at NAPA, possibly same part number. Don't get too wrapped up in that, just know you can find a heater kit NOS for well under half.

I should have added, if you can get ahold of a towbar or if you already have one, you can sell everything but the axles and tires and just tow it to the scrap pile, course the axles could be worth the price you paid for the truck to the rock crawling and mudding community. Most scrappers have...

That turbo is a C or whistler, you should have heard that thing whistling while driving it. The heater fan would work better with a ground wire, mine's grounded to the mount and only has 1 wire going to it. The plate behind the seat is a cab re-enforcement plate, truck may have had a machine...

I don't own a Mack, I just get to drive "Proud American" for Papabear on occasion and it's Mack Powered. Mack's are rare as the Army decided to go to "multi's" for everthing about as soon as the Mack conversion was approved. I read somewhere that only about 2,500 were ever converted to Macks...

a very good workout. Your crane can't lift the front end and you'd have a heck of a time towing that thing behind you with 4 steer tires and 6 straight tires on the ground. Not to mention the whole 70,000 pound of truck to try and move. I caught hades trying to move 23,000 pound trucks (5...

Only contribution I have on this topic is that when a Mack powered A1 has good power steering, IT WORKS TOO WELL. Very good for low speeds but past about an 1/8 of a turn and it tries to turn the wheels for you. I actually fight it at road speeds when I drive one and it scares the heck out of...

That's a pretty cool truck. I've been to Oshkosh to train on the LVSR MKR 16 Wrecker. It's about a 70,000 pound truck and lift towed another 70,000 pound truck behind it as part of that training. The MKR 16 is the replacement for the MK48/16 wrecker currently used for lift tow of heavy...

I'm glad this issue was brought up this go around as I missed it the other times it was brought up. I've learned something that I did not know as well. I've got a 5 ton tractor out here with a sticking sprag and I didn't have a clue what was wrong. Every now and then when you first take off...

Cylinder's are loading up on fuel. Here's an experiment to try. Partially block off the air supply at idle until it's idling very low, say 300 rpm, due to the lack of air. Wait about 10 seconds or so till you start to see some black smoke and then remove the restriction. It'll rev up with no...

Jeff, After our last little spout, I just wanted to raise your eyebrows a little. I've got no problem with you, just pushing buttons a little:driver:

Nice Score, The M900's are nice but like a CUCV when compared to a Deuce, something you'd like to have but really have no use for.

they hate lugging in 5th, they like to be run at normal operating temp, and mostly above 2K on the tach. Many on here stress that multi's want to be babied but that's just not their nature. I've read the threads about blowing holes in the block from 1 or 2 of about a million trucks. I run...

Most of these heaters have a bleed valve on top of it. When I installed my heater, I started the truck with the radiator cap off and cracked the bleeder till it had coolant coming out and all has been fine. Depending on who installed the heater, it could be tied into the wrong passages on the...

Batteries are low, starter solenoid doesn't like that. Second go around, it heated up some and made a connection. Charge the batts, clean the connections and you should be good to go. I've got lots of experience in the National Guard with trucks that have sat a while with low batteries...

I've not read any of the thread, however a muffler thread does come up from time to time on the Deuce. I put a big Donaldson 3 inch in and out on my truck, cut the pipes so stack height would be same as stock and rotated to go perpendicular to the cab. Very good difference at idle, slight...

Better late than never, he's my contribution to the picture thread. I had a great time and want to especially thank Squirt Truck and Dumpster for the trail riding fun, Papabear for the opportunity to drive "Proud American" again and treating Atomic and myself as if we were his own misguided...

The tractor version of the MTVR, the Mk-31 does have rear steering as well as a fully hydraulic suspension on the back axles. It doesn't have a spare tire and it makes up for it by being able to lift 1 side of the intermediate axle (not really accurate, it's independent suspension all the way...