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Anybody that has a pickle forklift with the 4BT upgrade, be advised the fuel solenoid is 12 volts, I put 24 to it and nearly caught the thing on fire when the solenoid and harness burned up. EDIT: BAD INFO above, the solenoid is 24 volts, stupid me jumped the pull in wire to constant volts...

Where at Ft Hood?

Nope not a RRAD install. Remember when during the Gulf Wars, the army came out with a version of the Red Dot HMMWV A/C unit for the 915s. It was 100% 24 volt including those two pancake fans. DUH that promptly burned out all the transformer/rectifier alternators on these trucks and led to the...

I thought that A/C unit was another RRAD disaster?

That is the chassis vent, all the gear cases and axles vent to that point, and yes, supposed to have filter material in there. I just looked at the LO and nothing real special about it, 85W90 gear oil in the axles and transfer, good EP grease in the zerks and wheel bearings.

Most every FMTV gremlin has been dealt with on this forum, the two you REALLY want to pay attention to are the old style fan rubber fan mount, which comes apart and sends the fan into the radiator; and driveshaft play at the spline joint, vibration from which causes the accessories to be shed...

Welcome. As long as you have a pretty good body, 715s are about as easy to restore as they come, and still fit in your garage. I love mine.

Kinda looks like a civi tagalong that someone put a XL tongue on.

Yup seems to.

Check the filter capacitor at the bottom of the regulator, maybe it has no continuity. They are old.

55 mph in second gear? Don't think that is possible. The poor 6.5 is approaching 3000 rpm in 3rd at 60.

Soak them in Varsol, they will be ok.

Most states have some kind of 72 hour permit paper tag that you can purchase inexpensively from the DMV with only a VIN number.

Yup spiking is advance warning of about to catch fire. You can remove the transformer rectifier box and be left with a perfectly good and reliable 12 volt alternator.

Be careful that pos box hanging off the back of the alternator will catch fire.

Congratulations on your purchase. The lube order “LO” calls for OE30 (OE means oil engine) for the engine, which translates to 10W30. Most of us use Dexron ATF in the transmission, which is 10 weight oil with additives needed by automatic transmissions.

Welcome Our Murphy. Yup these trucks are 40 years old and lots of parts are at the end of shelf life. Once you debug all these systems you will have a reliable truck.

Since the brake system is not much different than any dual circuit light truck, I would “bench bleed” the master cyl to make sure no air is trapped in there.

Wes has a want ad for a 900 series front axle, probably not miss 6x6 for long ...

Looks like a HMMWV one that took a blue pill