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They ALL have that damage...well most of them. I was looking for the missing intake cover and the slight ding on the tail gate. The beast starts and runs, bet it is the only one on there and they needed it to transport something. You need to watch those DRMO guys :x.

Shoot, might as well spill the beans. DRMO has MOVED your truck, it is SOMEWHERE on the lot so it starts and has brakes. But since I only had the lot and item numbers and SOMEONE pulled these off, I couldn't find it. Rest assured, it runs and brakes are serviceable. I am starting to...

Well, today was the day to get this now repaired M35A2 off the DRMO lot and to its new motor pool, some 100 miles to the south. It started fine with a M1009 jump, brakes worked and tires topped off to 50 PSI. It was a double day as I assisted mkcoen get his new deuce off the same lot, only...

Patience, grasshopper. I now have to work to get YOU into a working M35. It will happen, quit beating yourself up :wink:

Well, Andy is still on the road back to home but I got back (from another member's house, fixing his MEP003A) so I guess I can spread the great news and gloat :razz:. I got to DRMO around 0745 with parts from Home Depot. This was a 25' length of 1/4" polyethylene tube, a 1/8 NPT 1/4"...

It is called adjusting the brakes. It sets the minimum the retract spring will pull the shoes from the brake drums, there is a "snail adjuster" on the forward and aft parts of the backing plate. The wheel is elevated on jack stand and transmission is placed in neutral. All other wheels...

Ok, had a brainstorm session while fishing...since I think I got a good bleed job but still a soft pedal, the brakes could be horribly out of adjustment. With too much distance, the displacement of the MC is insufficient to cause the WC to extend and make contact. What if I were to put a few...

Sweet. Just got back from DRMO at Ft. Sam to help Andy. MC was bone dry, a pint filled it with lots of bubbles, I bled the booster, then each WC, some were clogged. The truck had the yellow silicone brake fluid sticker but the stuff bled out was yellow. Passed the taste test for silicone...I...

Bad idea. Brakes will be sluggish, even if hydraulics and shoes are in perfect order. Tow bar or do not do it. The correct tow bar is a heavy beast, attaching to the shackle pads on the front of the towed vehicle and to the pintle hook on the towing vehicle. And turning the pair will be...

The part that is probably leaking is the little cup. It is rubber, prone to wear and aging...rubber gets hard then the cup won't seal...when they are soft and new, the pressure makes them seal even tighter. This cup only travels over a short length of the cylinder, normally. But if the brakes...

The seal in the master cylinder is a simple cup, the return force on the pedal is from the wheel cylinder brake shoe return springs. There is a spring in the air booster/valve unit (for the air brake system) but these are all simple air-boosted hydraulic brakes. I will have to drag out my...

I should be up and running when Andy returns next week, been fighting a nasty sinus infection and couldn't be at DRMO...although it has been a few years since I worked alongside 63Bs in the motor pool, I think I can get the brakes working again. Sounds like the master cylinder plunger seals are...

This is sounding like that time on I-95 back in 1988 when we had a M35 with failed master cylinder/brakes and the soldier behind the wheel tries to slow down with engine braking. That did something really bad with the engine as he jammed it into 2nd doing about 25 MPH. He got it stopped, then...