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Starting with a good body is super important with these, otherwise you end up with a Philippines body which to me is lame. All the gingerbread stuff can be found here and there. Speaking of which, looks like two of your coffin handles are up on top of your homemade Arctic enclosure.

More pics! These are fun to analyze. All I see so far is a vacant engine compartment and lots of scabbed on plate on the front frame horns.

How cool is that! Sounds like an adventure. Carefully review the Matson rules, I think no dripping leaks and no mud. Remember most of these trucks blow the cab latch and air over hyd pumps with the first use, resulting in dripping leaks. Bring kits for these.

Are you planning on flying over there and doing everything yourself? There are several threads on here about shops that can prep FMTVs for the ride on Matson.

You still have air in the system.

What’s going on with the vacuum pump? Could you have a ruptured diaphragm which is causing the low vacuum?

Where is “beyond the terminal”? What voltages are you seeing at the PDP?

What year is your truck?

You can use a M151 ignition switch with some pigtails. Don’t forget about the M37’s propensities to vapor lock when hot.

Suggest you “hot waire” the ign switch leads together to eliminate that possibility

Time to run some numbers. Even when you can find usable, not rusted, not bent, not lug hole wallered out wheels, you will still have to blast them and pay shipping which these days is horrendous. Kaiserwillys has DOT approved new production wheels for 200 shipped. Ouch I know ….

You will see some soot normally. A carb flood is very distinctive, will be running fine then acts like you pull the choke. Did you do the fuel delivery check into a bucket yet? Needs to have full flow for a least a half a gallon.

Yes you can. MIL did on the M880 Dodge trucks. The switch has a self resetting circuit breaker inside that I believe is rated at around 20 amps.

Looks like someone has put a lot of effort into it already. I”d be losing the 6.00s, mutt wheels and roll bar right off. Good luck!

Update: I did acquire the unit last week. Its a bit weathered so I disassembled it for paint. Today a goodie box arrived from Eastern with all the parts to bring her back to life. Eastern was able to acquire the inventory from Saturn Surplus, who was the go-to supplier for these generator...

Nice! I suspect it does not have a pto or 3 point attachment since it’s the industrial model?

Cool tractor! Lots of pics on the net. Corps would have used them for pulling rollers or sweepers. Ordnance would use for pulling wagons around depots. Hope you restore it!

When it’s sputtering are you getting black smoke? Maybe this is the carburetor flooding. Hard to detect this since you can’t see down the throat of the Holley.

No way you are licked. This 302 has to be one of the simplest engines to work on, the only thing going against you is that everything is 74 years old. Back to the basics, fuel and spark.

Suggest you remove the fuel line at the carb and route into a bucket, power on the ignition and see if you have continuous flow for a few mins.