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This was my first time in years driving a MV in a parade, and my first time driving my truck in one! My family and friends rode in the back. I had the tarp rolled up so they were in the shade getting a breeze while I was just in the shade getting little breeze :ROFLMAO:

Inspired by a recent thread about a concerning drivetrain noise at 3rd gear and higher, I took a hard look at a diagram out of the maintenance TM for the Spicer 3053A. I am by no means a transmission expert, so this has been a bit of a learning experience. Whoever designed the very first...

As I'm driving my truck more I've been more conscious about carrying a usable spare tire on board. I have the original still mounted on its holder - an old Michelin 14.5R20 XL that still holds air, but it's smaller than the 395s I currently have mounted. I don't really want to use that for a...

According to the PMCS, I need to make sure the brake fluid reservoir on my truck is filled to a "bottom ring". I'm just not sure what that "ring" is. Is it one of the casting loop seams on the top of the reservoir? Something I'm missing where the reservoir caps go on? I've always made sure...

My wife and I have talked about getting a back-up generator to provide single-phase power our house during a lengthy outage. Also, I want a generator to provide 208V 3-phase power for my ~1950 5-horsepower Federal Signal Model 5 air raid siren, and any other sirens that I might acquire (a...

I just bought an assorted nozzle size kit from Creality for my Ender 5 Plus. It came with two nozzles each of: 0.2 mm 0.3 mm 0.5 mm 0.6 mm 0.8 mm 1.0 mm And it came with twelve 0.4 mm nozzles, probably because they make twelve times more of those than the other sizes :p I started off with a...

One of the kids really thinks my deuce is cool, so I wanted to make a toy version of a military 6x6 to play with that scales with the Melissa & Doug wooden trucks and cars they play with. I chose an M813 for the template since that's one of my dream 5-tons. I mean, it's a really, really big...

I posted a video on YouTube describing the process I developed to use a hot acetone vapor bath to smooth 3D prints made with ABS and ASA plastic. I developed this process while working on my smoke grenade control box blank.

I completed a blank version of this box which can be seen here. Holes can be drilled into the blank to fit whichever switches, buttons, cannon plugs, etc. are desired. This was a request from a member here. This is a control box for a vehicle smoke grenade launcher. My references are only...

I noticed that my M35A3 has extra rear "support hooks" bolted on to the bed below the tailgate. It looks like they were installed over the bumper numbers stickers. Would this have been an Army addition, or something done by one of the previous owners? Other pictures I've seen of A2 and A3...

I'm a fan of The Transformers - though not so much the live-action films. I'm more into the old cartoon of the '80s and the comics. But the first live-action Transformer film, released to theaters in 2007, featured a Decepticon character that turned into a Buffalo MRAP. That character is...

I'm looking for a new oil pressure gauge for my M35A3 and came across Federal Military Parts. I've never heard of them before and they advertise as a HMMWV parts and accessories vendor. Does anyone here have experience with them?

I'm trying to figure out if my oil pressure gauge is shot. The last drive during cooldown the gauge was reading under what idle pressure should be. Prior to that the gauge was reading properly with the truck parked and driving. I thought the truck was idling lower than usual, which could've...

I've pondered this ever since I looked at an old tractor wrecker with a bad Continental motor - has anyone done an LS swap with a 5-ton gasser? I think the Chevy 6.0L Vortec has the same or better horsepower and torque than the old Continental motors. I'd consider trying this if I found a...

This is the first time I've performed drive hub maintenance on anything bigger than a Chrysler 200, so it's been a fun learning experience! On my second hub I got unlucky struggling to get the axle shaft seated in the differential (I got it on the first hub I did but had no clue how :p ). I...

This fellow wasn't wrong when he said packing the M35A3's inner wheel bearings in this manner was time-consuming, so I printed a tool to speed up the process. My tool forces grease into the ~1.5 mm gap between the cage and inner race, forcing all the old gunk out from above the rollers and...

Has anyone measured how much oil drains out of the rear drive axle tube when removing the drive flange? I'm trying to figure out how much gear oil to buy for my wheel seal project. I'm thinking it's going to be somewhere between 2 and 3 quarts per wheel but I really have no idea. I was going...

I've been using Autodesk CAD products for years - vanilla AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Inventor, and most recently Fusion 360. In the past few years I've been 3D printing, Fusion 360 has been my go-to software for designing practical parts and trinkets alike. I've decided to share my experience...

I'm always on the lookout for more information about the ESP and the projects that were related to it for both the deuces and the 5-tons. Today while skimming the Facebook Marketplace for military trucks, I found what a NJ seller calls an M35E3C. It was built in 1985, serial #0006. It's...

I just bought a GMC Savana 3500 extended frame passenger van. It's located at a yard in Delta, OH and has the following dimensions: Transport Dimensions: 238" L x 96" W x 80" H Shipping Weight: 7000 lbs It needs to be transported to a residential address about a half-hour south of Rochester...