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That looks like the first stinger crane ever made. Almost certainly was not mounted on the GMC chassis during military service. I learned the hard way that trucks like the one pictured that served extensive civilian careers are often not the best to restore back military. Too many mods to...
Ah but not on the airdrop. You fold over the window frame, drop the glass down the channels in the door, and attach to the regulator with a pair of metric cap screws. Easy peasy.
Ebay vendor equipmentpartssales had one for me. Maybe they have more.
If you decide to pull the 5200 lb HMMWV on the 2200 lb uhaul trailer with your 4000 lb Japanese truck, let us all know when so we can stay off your route that day.
Well after reading/scanning 39 pages of that thread, I wouldn't touch a 802A with a TEN FOOT POLE. If I need a quiet generator, I will build a box over my 002 or run the PE-95 on natural gas.
Restoring these is a labor of love. Say you are $10 k into each after logistics, and you sell for $50k. That leaves $40k, $10k for blasting, paint, machine work, consumables, leaves $30k for you for 6 months hard work. Better off flipping burgers.
I routinely bend lock rings back into shape that are too spiraled. You have to bend it way past where you want it so when it snaps back it will be in the right spot. So in your case, introduce a spiral, put one end of the ring in a huge vise, pull the other end with vise grips etc, until the C...
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