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I found a few pages in my TM collection that might help you out. They might be a little too close-up in detail as I can't quite figure out where the components in some of the pictures are located. Please find the PDF attached. When you're done with your model, please share some pictures :)

I think many multifuel owners here have deliberately removed their FDC. I think I've even seen MWO stickers indicating the military removed them. I guess they're pretty problematic (I have no first-hand knowledge of that since I don't have a multifuel truck). It seems like a neat device to...

I'm just thinking about all the posts I've read here in the past about everyone and their dog wanting a whistler turbo. Look how far we've come :ROFLMAO: I guess I've never experienced a loud turbo. The turbo that came with the Cat 3116 in my deuce has a pleasant whine to it, but definitely...

I think the pistons look alright. I don't see any surface cracks or edge damage. I'd run it too.

You should be wearing hearing protection anyway, right? :p One of these days I'll get one of the old multifuel trucks and experience the noise :driver:

How resistant are the multifuel and straight-diesel motors to rod bearing damage? My Savana 3500 spun a bearing on a 350 Vortec and trashed the motor. It's amazing it ran well enough to get it on a rollback on its way to an engine replacement o_O

Yeah, the deuces only have space for two batteries in the box under the passenger-side door.

Add no-rear-hub-flip required for singles and some longer service intervals to that list! The 5-tons are definitely more truck than the deuce, especially in the durability department. But I guess they aren't as practical to take grocery shopping, as much as I might take a wrecker out for a...

My A3 shows air on the gauge about 2 or 3 minutes after startup. Once the compressor cuts off, the air dryer discharges. The air dryer discharges every time the compressor cuts off. I find it odd your gauge isn't working right. It's building air and blowing the safety and you're showing zero...

I'll see if I can help and learn something at the same time. I really should get more familiar with the air system on my M35A3. Are you getting a warning buzzer with zero air pressure at the gauge? Or is the buzzer not sounding at all?

When running singles on the back of a deuce hub flipping prevents additional wear and damage to the wheel bearings. The M44 trucks (M35A3 and related included) came from the factory with the rear hubs flipped to run singles. The 5-tons can have their hubs flipped too but it's not necessary. I...

Even though the torque multipliers are made of Chinese cast iron, they've done the job for me. I used them to set torque on my A3 rim clamp rings (450 ft-lbs), using a 1/4-in torque wrench and doing the gear ratio math and accounting for about 15% slop (which I verified with a torque meter)...

Great find! Now you need an A1 and A0 so you have all four flavors of power :driver:

Welcome to the site! And nice truck :cool: If I got a bedless deuce I'd consider putting a LMTV bed on it. Sometimes dropsides are a nice thing to have!

Fortunately the maintenance TMs for the trucks go into great detail in how to do the job. Be prepared to carefully handle the hub and brake drum - they're pretty heavy, so you want to face the assembly straight-on and carefully pull it off the spindle and set it on something like 2x4 boards...

Fortunately I had no Privates to worry about directing traffic here :D I had one of two military trucks at the lineup. The other one was the MRAP owned by the county's sheriff's department. I think it's an International M1224.

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:

I made a video showing how CTIS was added to the original 2 1/2-ton axles and how it gets air to the tires:

I'm betting you can find someone on here to trade your M36s for M35s, maybe even bobbed ones. I wouldn't cut them up. I'm still sad the farmer across the street cut up their three or four gasser M36s, even if they no longer had the cargo beds on them.

I meant 3rd through 5th gear by that. I think I understand what you're saying now. I originally thought that shift collar stayed engaged after 3rd gear and never considered it beingin a neutral position. I wonder then if the noise starts in 3rd gear if that shift collar is related to that...